Hyper-V Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Hyper-V
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 133 142
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Hyper-V 49 58 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.86% 1.70% 1.56%
As % of the System Software category 17.25% 18.83% 11.27%
Number of salaries quoted 36 47 95
10th Percentile £36,000 £31,250 £24,300
25th Percentile £38,250 £33,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £37,500 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -2.60% -0.65%
75th Percentile £63,750 £47,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £54,500 £59,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £41,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +2.41% +3.75% -5.88%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 284 308 976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.98% 9.02% 13.87%
Number of salaries quoted 208 205 770
10th Percentile £29,850 £28,450 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -3.06%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Hyper-V
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Hyper-V.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Hyper-V in the Thames Valley

Hyper-V
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hyper-V within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Berkshire -3 22 £46,000 +33.33% 6
Buckinghamshire -1 18 £60,000 +60.00% 4
Oxfordshire -16 9 £35,000 -15.66% 5
Hyper-V
South East

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 10 (20.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 4 (8.16%) Confluence
4 1 (2.04%) Apache
4 1 (2.04%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 44 (89.80%) Azure
2 29 (59.18%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (57.14%) AWS
4 14 (28.57%) GCP
5 8 (16.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (16.33%) Cloudflare
6 6 (12.24%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.12%) Google Workspace
8 1 (2.04%) Mimecast
8 1 (2.04%) Nutanix
8 1 (2.04%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.04%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 24 (48.98%) Firewall
2 16 (32.65%) VPN
3 10 (20.41%) DNS
4 9 (18.37%) DHCP
5 6 (12.24%) VLAN
6 5 (10.20%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (8.16%) SSL
7 4 (8.16%) Wireless
8 3 (6.12%) VoIP
8 3 (6.12%) WAN
9 2 (4.08%) LAN
9 2 (4.08%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (2.04%) HTTP
10 1 (2.04%) HTTPS
10 1 (2.04%) Internet
10 1 (2.04%) Network Security
10 1 (2.04%) SMTP
10 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) Git
General
1 8 (16.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.16%) Manufacturing
2 4 (8.16%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Aviation
4 1 (2.04%) Finance
4 1 (2.04%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.04%) Legal
4 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) Network Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) Senior
5 6 (12.24%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) IT Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Python Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Python Software Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) 3rd Line Support
7 4 (8.16%) 3rd Line Technical Support
7 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Network Security Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Security Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Technical Support
8 3 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Exchange Support
8 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Senior IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.69%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (28.57%) Client/Server
3 9 (18.37%) PKI
4 7 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (12.24%) Driving Licence
6 4 (8.16%) Public Cloud
7 3 (6.12%) Life Science
7 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
7 3 (6.12%) Private Cloud
7 3 (6.12%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (6.12%) Virtual Team
8 2 (4.08%) Data Centre
8 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
9 1 (2.04%) Clustering
9 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (2.04%) Replication
9 1 (2.04%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 27 (55.10%) Linux
2 26 (53.06%) Windows
3 13 (26.53%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.16%) Mac OS
5 3 (6.12%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.04%) Android
6 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.04%) FreeBSD
6 1 (2.04%) OpenBSD
6 1 (2.04%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (51.02%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (36.73%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (36.73%) Test Automation
3 17 (34.69%) Computer Science
3 17 (34.69%) Software Engineering
4 14 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 14 (28.57%) System Testing
5 11 (22.45%) ITIL
6 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (18.37%) Collaborative Culture
7 9 (18.37%) Vulnerability Management
8 8 (16.33%) Customer Service
8 8 (16.33%) SIEM
8 8 (16.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 8 (16.33%) Zero Trust
9 7 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (14.29%) Task Automation
10 6 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (12.24%) Kalman Filter
10 6 (12.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 26 (53.06%) Python
2 21 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 14 (28.57%) C
3 14 (28.57%) C++
3 14 (28.57%) Rust
4 12 (24.49%) Bash
5 3 (6.12%) SQL
6 1 (2.04%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 21 (42.86%) Degree
2 17 (34.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.16%) CCNA
4 4 (8.16%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.12%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (6.12%) DBS Check
5 3 (6.12%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (4.08%) MCSA
6 2 (4.08%) MCSE
7 1 (2.04%) CCIE
7 1 (2.04%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.49%) QA
2 5 (10.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (8.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (6.12%) SOC 2
5 2 (4.08%) SLA
6 1 (2.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (63.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (46.94%) KVM
3 22 (44.90%) Active Directory
4 4 (8.16%) Docker
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (2.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (18.37%) Proxmox
2 8 (16.33%) Graylog
2 8 (16.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (16.33%) ZABBIX
3 5 (10.20%) Terraform
4 4 (8.16%) Ansible
5 3 (6.12%) Grafana
5 3 (6.12%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
5 3 (6.12%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.04%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 34 (69.39%) VMware
2 29 (59.18%) Microsoft
3 14 (28.57%) Veeam
4 8 (16.33%) Cisco
5 5 (10.20%) SonicWALL
6 4 (8.16%) IBM
7 3 (6.12%) Apple
7 3 (6.12%) Citrix
7 3 (6.12%) Datto
7 3 (6.12%) Fortinet
7 3 (6.12%) Google
8 2 (4.08%) Adobe
8 2 (4.08%) Aruba
8 2 (4.08%) Dell
8 2 (4.08%) Draytek
8 2 (4.08%) Juniper
8 2 (4.08%) Palo Alto
8 2 (4.08%) SolarWinds
8 2 (4.08%) WatchGuard
9 1 (2.04%) HP