Hyper-V Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Hyper-V
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 156 106
Rank change year-on-year -15 -50 +147
Permanent jobs citing Hyper-V 122 93 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.89% 1.38% 2.65%
As % of the System Software category 15.42% 10.70% 17.30%
Number of salaries quoted 98 84 376
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +2.56%
75th Percentile £50,563 £57,813 £52,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £73,375 £65,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 791 869 2,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.80% 12.85% 15.29%
Number of salaries quoted 607 670 2,005
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,375 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +18.28% -1.59%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £50,860 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.53% +10.00% -9.09%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in the South East

Hyper-V
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Hyper-V.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in the South East over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Hyper-V in the South East

Hyper-V
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hyper-V within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
Thames Valley -8 43 £41,250 +10.00% 11
Kent -22 23 £47,500 +43.94%
Berkshire +1 20 £62,500 +38.89% 4
Hampshire -33 20 £40,000 -20.00% 18
Surrey -24 19 £50,000 +25.00% 2
Buckinghamshire -13 16 £39,500 +12.86% 6
Sussex -2 9 £31,500 +3.28%
Oxfordshire -10 7 £35,000 - 1
West Sussex -18 4 £32,500 +6.56% 1
East Sussex - 4 £40,000 - 4
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 26 (21.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (11.48%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.64%) IIS
4 1 (0.82%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 93 (76.23%) Azure
2 77 (63.11%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (31.97%) AWS
4 25 (20.49%) Entra ID
5 18 (14.75%) GCP
6 10 (8.20%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.64%) SaaS
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.82%) IaaS
8 1 (0.82%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.82%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 55 (45.08%) Firewall
2 43 (35.25%) VPN
3 40 (32.79%) DNS
4 39 (31.97%) DHCP
5 25 (20.49%) VLAN
6 16 (13.11%) TCP/IP
7 15 (12.30%) Wireless
8 14 (11.48%) WAN
9 13 (10.66%) LAN
10 11 (9.02%) Remote Desktop
10 11 (9.02%) VoIP
11 7 (5.74%) NAS
12 4 (3.28%) BGP
12 4 (3.28%) IPsec
12 4 (3.28%) SAN
13 1 (0.82%) HTTP
13 1 (0.82%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.82%) PBX
13 1 (0.82%) SMTP
13 1 (0.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.92%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Git
1 1 (0.82%) JIRA
General
1 43 (35.25%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (8.20%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (4.10%) Retail
4 5 (4.10%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.64%) Law
5 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.82%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.82%) Aviation
6 1 (0.82%) Finance
6 1 (0.82%) Health Technology
6 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.82%) Legal
Job Titles
1 37 (30.33%) IT Support
2 25 (20.49%) Support Engineer
3 22 (18.03%) 2nd Line Support
3 22 (18.03%) 3rd Line Support
4 21 (17.21%) IT Engineer
5 15 (12.30%) IT Support Engineer
6 13 (10.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (10.66%) Infrastructure Support
6 13 (10.66%) Software Engineer
6 13 (10.66%) Support Technician
7 10 (8.20%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 10 (8.20%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 10 (8.20%) 2nd Line Support Technician
7 10 (8.20%) Consultant
8 9 (7.38%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 8 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) IT Consultant
10 7 (5.74%) Senior
11 6 (4.92%) 3rd Line Technical Support
11 6 (4.92%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.48%) Distributed Systems
1 14 (11.48%) Driving Licence
2 13 (10.66%) Client/Server
3 11 (9.02%) Data Centre
3 11 (9.02%) Replication
4 10 (8.20%) Public Cloud
5 8 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (5.74%) Enterprise Storage
6 7 (5.74%) Onboarding
6 7 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (4.92%) iSeries
8 4 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.82%) Clustering
9 1 (0.82%) Life Science
9 1 (0.82%) PKI
9 1 (0.82%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.82%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 77 (63.11%) Windows
2 67 (54.92%) Windows Server
3 21 (17.21%) Linux
4 11 (9.02%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.82%) Android
6 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.82%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.82%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.82%) OpenBSD
6 1 (0.82%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (29.51%) Disaster Recovery
2 33 (27.05%) ITIL
3 30 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (23.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 27 (22.13%) Customer Service
6 24 (19.67%) Mentoring
7 21 (17.21%) Cybersecurity
8 20 (16.39%) Business Continuity
8 20 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (13.11%) ITSM
10 15 (12.30%) Test Automation
11 14 (11.48%) Coaching
11 14 (11.48%) Computer Science
11 14 (11.48%) Software Engineering
12 13 (10.66%) Code Quality
12 13 (10.66%) High Availability
12 13 (10.66%) System Testing
13 12 (9.84%) Service Delivery
13 12 (9.84%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 11 (9.02%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 28 (22.95%) PowerShell
2 15 (12.30%) Python
3 13 (10.66%) C
3 13 (10.66%) C++
3 13 (10.66%) Rust
4 5 (4.10%) SQL
5 4 (3.28%) Bash
6 1 (0.82%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 17 (13.93%) Degree
2 14 (11.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.56%) CCNA
3 8 (6.56%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.46%) MCSA
4 3 (2.46%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.64%) MCSE
6 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.82%) CCIE
6 1 (0.82%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.82%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.82%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.75%) SLA
2 14 (11.48%) QA
3 4 (3.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 4 (3.28%) GxP
4 3 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.64%) NIST
6 1 (0.82%) GDPR
6 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 87 (71.31%) Active Directory
2 61 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (11.48%) KVM
4 7 (5.74%) Firmware
5 4 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.64%) Docker
6 2 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.64%) vSphere
7 1 (0.82%) pfSense
7 1 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (13.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (7.38%) Backup Exec
2 9 (7.38%) Terraform
3 7 (5.74%) Ansible
4 2 (1.64%) Grafana
5 1 (0.82%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.82%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.82%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.82%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.82%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.82%) Puppet
5 1 (0.82%) SCCM
5 1 (0.82%) SCOM
5 1 (0.82%) WSUS
5 1 (0.82%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 80 (65.57%) Microsoft
2 74 (60.66%) VMware
3 32 (26.23%) Veeam
4 21 (17.21%) Citrix
5 15 (12.30%) HP
6 11 (9.02%) Cisco
7 10 (8.20%) Dell
8 8 (6.56%) Dell Compellent
8 8 (6.56%) Nimble Storage
9 7 (5.74%) Commvault
10 6 (4.92%) EMC
10 6 (4.92%) IBM
11 5 (4.10%) Google
11 5 (4.10%) SonicWALL
12 4 (3.28%) Fortinet
12 4 (3.28%) Juniper
12 4 (3.28%) Meraki
12 4 (3.28%) Palo Alto
12 4 (3.28%) QNAP
12 4 (3.28%) Synology