Hyper-V Job Trends in the North of England

Microsoft Hyper-V
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 79 164
Rank change year-on-year -162 +85 +21
Permanent jobs citing Hyper-V 104 386 199
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.47% 4.01% 1.32%
As % of the System Software category 9.57% 23.90% 15.17%
Number of salaries quoted 81 118 164
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,500 £27,825
25th Percentile £30,500 £29,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £33,750 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £45,750 £47,250 £46,375
90th Percentile £58,750 £59,300 £53,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -0.98%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,087 1,615 1,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.90% 16.77% 8.70%
Number of salaries quoted 857 644 991
10th Percentile £27,650 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.78% -14.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £62,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,840 £69,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -10.71%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in the North of England

Hyper-V
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Hyper-V.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Hyper-V in the North of England

Hyper-V
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hyper-V within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -141 50 £40,000 +6.67% 17
Yorkshire -64 41 £31,000 -4.62% 6
North East -63 13 £42,500 +46.55% 8
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 22 (21.15%) SharePoint
2 21 (20.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (12.50%) IIS
4 1 (0.96%) HCL Domino
4 1 (0.96%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 80 (76.92%) Azure
2 72 (69.23%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (20.19%) Entra ID
4 18 (17.31%) AWS
5 5 (4.81%) Mimecast
6 4 (3.85%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.88%) IaaS
7 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.88%) Nutanix
7 3 (2.88%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.88%) SaaS
8 2 (1.92%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.92%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 54 (51.92%) Firewall
2 48 (46.15%) DNS
3 45 (43.27%) DHCP
4 33 (31.73%) TCP/IP
5 22 (21.15%) WAN
6 19 (18.27%) Wireless
7 18 (17.31%) VPN
8 17 (16.35%) LAN
8 17 (16.35%) VLAN
8 17 (16.35%) VoIP
9 11 (10.58%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (6.73%) SAN
11 5 (4.81%) NAS
11 5 (4.81%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (4.81%) SD-WAN
11 5 (4.81%) SNMP
12 4 (3.85%) VSAN
13 3 (2.88%) DKIM
13 3 (2.88%) DMARC
13 3 (2.88%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.62%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Git
General
1 32 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.65%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.77%) Law
5 5 (4.81%) Legal
6 4 (3.85%) Advertising
7 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.88%) Finance
7 3 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.88%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.96%) Games
8 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 43 (41.35%) Support Engineer
2 41 (39.42%) IT Support
3 33 (31.73%) IT Engineer
4 32 (30.77%) IT Support Engineer
5 27 (25.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (11.54%) Administrator
7 10 (9.62%) Senior
8 9 (8.65%) Analyst
9 7 (6.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Systems Administrator
11 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 4 (3.85%) 2nd Line Support
12 4 (3.85%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
12 4 (3.85%) IT Analyst
12 4 (3.85%) IT Manager
12 4 (3.85%) IT Support Analyst
12 4 (3.85%) Server Administrator
12 4 (3.85%) Support Analyst
12 4 (3.85%) Windows Administrator
12 4 (3.85%) Windows Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.69%) Middleware
2 5 (4.81%) SAML
3 4 (3.85%) HTML
3 4 (3.85%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.50%) Driving Licence
2 12 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (5.77%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.77%) Social Media
4 5 (4.81%) CCTV
5 4 (3.85%) PKI
6 3 (2.88%) FMCG
6 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Licensing
6 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.88%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.88%) Replication
7 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.96%) Clustering
8 1 (0.96%) CUDA
8 1 (0.96%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 91 (87.50%) Windows
2 88 (84.62%) Windows Server
3 14 (13.46%) Windows Server 2019
4 13 (12.50%) Linux
5 11 (10.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (8.65%) Windows 10
7 5 (4.81%) Android
8 4 (3.85%) CentOS
9 3 (2.88%) CoreOS
9 3 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.92%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.92%) VMS
10 2 (1.92%) Windows 7
10 2 (1.92%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.96%) Solaris
11 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 38 (36.54%) Disaster Recovery
3 36 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (28.85%) Customer Service
5 27 (25.96%) ITIL
6 22 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (21.15%) Cybersecurity
7 20 (19.23%) High Availability
8 15 (14.42%) Server Management
9 14 (13.46%) Business Continuity
9 14 (13.46%) Migration
10 12 (11.54%) Change Management
10 12 (11.54%) Server Monitoring
10 12 (11.54%) Service Delivery
11 10 (9.62%) Collaborative Culture
12 9 (8.65%) ITSM
13 8 (7.69%) Server Building
13 8 (7.69%) System Testing
14 6 (5.77%) Technical Leadership
15 5 (4.81%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (35.58%) PowerShell
2 14 (13.46%) SQL
3 5 (4.81%) Bash
4 4 (3.85%) Python
5 2 (1.92%) Bicep
6 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (13.46%) Azure Certification
2 8 (7.69%) Degree
3 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.88%) CCNA
4 3 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.88%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.88%) MCSA
5 2 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.96%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (0.96%) RHCE
6 1 (0.96%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.81%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (4.81%) SLA
2 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 62 (59.62%) Active Directory
2 57 (54.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.81%) vSphere
5 2 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.92%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.96%) Ceph
6 1 (0.96%) Docker
6 1 (0.96%) KVM
Systems Management
1 37 (35.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (5.77%) FortiGate
3 5 (4.81%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (3.85%) Proxmox
4 4 (3.85%) SCCM
4 4 (3.85%) VxRail
4 4 (3.85%) WSUS
5 3 (2.88%) cPanel
5 3 (2.88%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (2.88%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (2.88%) Plesk
5 3 (2.88%) SCVMM
6 2 (1.92%) Autotask
6 2 (1.92%) Terraform
6 2 (1.92%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.96%) Ansible
7 1 (0.96%) Avamar
7 1 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 85 (81.73%) Microsoft
2 72 (69.23%) VMware
3 20 (19.23%) Cisco
4 19 (18.27%) Veeam
5 13 (12.50%) Meraki
6 10 (9.62%) Dell
7 9 (8.65%) HP
8 8 (7.69%) SonicWALL
9 6 (5.77%) Commvault
10 5 (4.81%) Aderant
10 5 (4.81%) Datto
10 5 (4.81%) iManage
10 5 (4.81%) SolarWinds
10 5 (4.81%) Zerto
11 4 (3.85%) Red Hat
11 4 (3.85%) Tenable
11 4 (3.85%) WatchGuard
12 3 (2.88%) Apple
12 3 (2.88%) CheckPoint
12 3 (2.88%) McAfee