Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Microsoft Hyper-V
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 79 69
Rank change year-on-year -39 -10 +47
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 12 4 33
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.61% 0.42% 1.79%
As % of the System Software category 3.81% 2.53% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 30
10th Percentile £324 - £307
25th Percentile £325 £263 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £313 £373
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.11% +14.62%
75th Percentile £375 £350 £395
90th Percentile £450 £351 £493
England median daily rate £415 £484 £450
% change year-on-year -14.21% +7.50% +5.88%

All System Software Skills
Yorkshire

Hyper-V falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 315 158 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.00% 16.49% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 105 235
10th Percentile £190 £193 £185
25th Percentile £325 £263 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £413
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% +6.67% -2.94%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £559
90th Percentile £573 £625 £623
England median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -8.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile £26.81 - £13.97
25th Percentile £27.65 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £29.68 - £15.84
Median % change year-on-year - - -41.87%
75th Percentile £31.08 - £21.02
90th Percentile £31.55 - £26.00
England median hourly rate £37.97 £29.00 £40.13
% change year-on-year +30.93% -27.73% +4.22%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hyper-V relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Hyper-V.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in Yorkshire

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Hyper-V.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hyper-V within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Yorkshire - 5 £424 - 5
North Yorkshire 0 3 £350 -0.07% 2
West Yorkshire -19 2 £393 +42.73% 5
East Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 3
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) CICS
1 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (8.33%) FCoE
2 1 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (8.33%) iSCSI
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) Multicast
2 1 (8.33%) NAS
2 1 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre Technician
2 2 (16.67%) Data Technician
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) LDAP
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Clustering
2 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Solaris
2 2 (16.67%) VMS
2 2 (16.67%) zOS
3 1 (8.33%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Model Validation
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (8.33%) Server Virtualisation
4 1 (8.33%) Storage Virtualisation
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (8.33%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (33.33%) Bash
4 2 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) SQL
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (50.00%) KVM
3 5 (41.67%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (25.00%) Firmware
5 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
6 1 (8.33%) NFS
6 1 (8.33%) SRDF
6 1 (8.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (8.33%) vSphere
6 1 (8.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) PowerCLI
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
3 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) EMC
3 2 (16.67%) F5
3 2 (16.67%) NetApp
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) IBM
4 1 (8.33%) Pure Storage