Microsoft Hyper-V
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Hyper-V skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Hyper-V over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 201 369 292
Rank change year-on-year +168 -77 -81
Permanent jobs citing Hyper-V 934 1,091 1,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.79% 0.89% 1.25%
As % of the System Software category 10.65% 5.83% 7.06%
Number of salaries quoted 812 939 1,385
10th Percentile £30,525 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +3.66% -3.53%
75th Percentile £55,750 £55,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +8.75% +6.67% -6.25%

All System Software Skills
UK

Hyper-V is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,771 18,701 22,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.78% 15.30% 17.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,001 12,503 15,991
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,557 £49,150 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.24% +3.47% +4.97%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Hyper-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Hyper-V in the UK

Hyper-V
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Hyper-V.

Salary trend for Hyper-V in the UK

Hyper-V
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Hyper-V in the UK

Hyper-V
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hyper-V within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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
England +183 879 £45,000 +5.88% 449
UK excluding London +140 722 £43,500 +8.75% 418
Work from Home +159 289 £47,500 - 164
South East +179 200 £47,500 +18.75% 103
London +214 190 £55,000 +5.77% 51
North of England +86 160 £37,000 -12.94% 116
South West +129 156 £47,000 +25.33% 54
Midlands +138 127 £45,750 +11.59% 104
Yorkshire +76 103 £36,000 -15.29% 52
West Midlands +132 76 £42,500 +6.25% 69
East Midlands +54 50 £50,000 +11.11% 35
North West +52 46 £37,500 -6.25% 47
East of England +73 45 £40,000 - 31
Scotland +17 19 £47,103 -5.79% 9
North East +43 11 £35,000 -11.39% 20
Northern Ireland +28 11 £45,000 -10.00% 5
Wales +16 10 £40,750 +1.88% 8

Hyper-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 159 (17.02%) SharePoint
2 83 (8.89%) MS Exchange
3 13 (1.39%) OpenStack
4 10 (1.07%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (0.96%) Site Server
6 8 (0.86%) IIS
7 5 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2013
7 5 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.54%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.21%) CMS
8 2 (0.21%) nginx
8 2 (0.21%) SharePoint 2010
8 2 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 46 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.21%) Epicor Tropos
3 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 664 (71.09%) Azure
2 568 (60.81%) Microsoft 365
3 240 (25.70%) AWS
4 155 (16.60%) Entra ID
5 79 (8.46%) OpenShift
6 50 (5.35%) SaaS
7 48 (5.14%) IaaS
8 35 (3.75%) OneDrive
9 34 (3.64%) GCP
10 29 (3.10%) PaaS
11 28 (3.00%) Serverless
12 22 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (2.36%) Mimecast
13 21 (2.25%) Power Automate
14 18 (1.93%) Power Platform
15 16 (1.71%) WhatsApp
16 15 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
17 13 (1.39%) PowerApps
18 12 (1.28%) Google Workspace
19 11 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 320 (34.26%) Firewall
2 293 (31.37%) DNS
3 277 (29.66%) DHCP
4 194 (20.77%) TCP/IP
5 142 (15.20%) VPN
6 137 (14.67%) VLAN
7 119 (12.74%) WAN
8 116 (12.42%) LAN
9 115 (12.31%) SAN
10 81 (8.67%) HTTP
11 80 (8.57%) Wireless
12 71 (7.60%) Wi-Fi
13 47 (5.03%) Network Security
14 45 (4.82%) Remote Desktop
15 44 (4.71%) VoIP
16 40 (4.28%) NAS
17 27 (2.89%) Skype
18 23 (2.46%) SD-WAN
19 22 (2.36%) iSCSI
20 19 (2.03%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.49%) Amazon RDS
2 59 (6.32%) SQL Server
3 20 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (1.39%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.07%) NoSQL
6 8 (0.86%) MySQL
6 8 (0.86%) Power BI
7 6 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.54%) MariaDB
9 4 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.43%) InfluxDB
10 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.11%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.11%) Crystal Reports
12 1 (0.11%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.11%) MySQL Workbench
12 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 18 (1.93%) Jenkins
2 14 (1.50%) Git
3 9 (0.96%) JIRA
4 2 (0.21%) GitLab
4 2 (0.21%) JIRA Agile
4 2 (0.21%) Postman
4 2 (0.21%) Selenium
4 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.11%) Appium
5 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.11%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.11%) DBeaver
5 1 (0.11%) JMeter
5 1 (0.11%) JUnit
5 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.11%) Subversion
5 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.11%) TestNG
5 1 (0.11%) Travis CI
General
1 243 (26.02%) Social Skills
2 75 (8.03%) Finance
3 41 (4.39%) Aerospace
4 39 (4.18%) Telecoms
5 35 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (3.75%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
7 21 (2.25%) Law
7 21 (2.25%) Military
8 20 (2.14%) Legal
8 20 (2.14%) Manufacturing
9 17 (1.82%) Retail
10 16 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.64%) Electronics
12 6 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.54%) Marketing
14 4 (0.43%) Advertising
14 4 (0.43%) Automotive
14 4 (0.43%) Banking
Job Titles
1 274 (29.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 204 (21.84%) Support Engineer
3 168 (17.99%) Senior
4 167 (17.88%) IT Engineer
5 105 (11.24%) IT Support
6 83 (8.89%) 2nd Line Support
6 83 (8.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 80 (8.57%) IT Support Engineer
8 77 (8.24%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 76 (8.14%) 3rd Line Support
10 70 (7.49%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 59 (6.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 56 (6.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 52 (5.57%) Wintel Engineer
14 47 (5.03%) Consultant
15 46 (4.93%) Senior Wintel Engineer
16 41 (4.39%) Network Engineer
17 32 (3.43%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
18 31 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
18 31 (3.32%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.71%) JSON
2 14 (1.50%) Web Services
3 13 (1.39%) AngularJS
4 12 (1.28%) HTML
4 12 (1.28%) REST
5 11 (1.18%) Node.js
5 11 (1.18%) Spring
5 11 (1.18%) Spring Boot
5 11 (1.18%) XML
6 10 (1.07%) LDAP
7 8 (0.86%) ARM Templates
7 8 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (0.75%) Apache Camel
9 5 (0.54%) OAuth
10 4 (0.43%) .NET
10 4 (0.43%) YAML
11 3 (0.32%) WSH
12 2 (0.21%) Middleware
12 2 (0.21%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (0.21%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 73 (7.82%) Data Centre
2 56 (6.00%) Clustering
2 56 (6.00%) Driving Licence
3 45 (4.82%) Public Cloud
4 40 (4.28%) PKI
5 34 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (3.53%) Replication
7 23 (2.46%) Private Cloud
8 19 (2.03%) Life Science
9 16 (1.71%) Fat Client
9 16 (1.71%) Thin Client
10 15 (1.61%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (0.96%) Management Information System
13 8 (0.86%) Client/Server
14 7 (0.75%) CCTV
14 7 (0.75%) iPhone
15 6 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
15 6 (0.64%) Enterprise Storage
15 6 (0.64%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 732 (78.37%) Windows
2 553 (59.21%) Windows Server
3 196 (20.99%) Linux
4 158 (16.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 141 (15.10%) Windows 10
6 140 (14.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 130 (13.92%) Windows Server 2019
8 86 (9.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 35 (3.75%) Mac OS
10 28 (3.00%) Windows Server 2008
11 27 (2.89%) Windows 8
12 22 (2.36%) Windows 7
13 18 (1.93%) Apple iOS
14 17 (1.82%) Mac OS X
15 15 (1.61%) Android
16 14 (1.50%) Unix
17 12 (1.28%) VMS
18 9 (0.96%) CentOS
19 7 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
20 6 (0.64%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (34.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 192 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
3 159 (17.02%) ITIL
4 140 (14.99%) Disaster Recovery
5 110 (11.78%) Customer Service
6 91 (9.74%) Migration
7 79 (8.46%) DevOps
8 77 (8.24%) Agile
9 76 (8.14%) Actionable Insight
10 64 (6.85%) Incident Management
11 59 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
12 56 (6.00%) Collaborative Working
13 52 (5.57%) High Availability
14 46 (4.93%) Remote Monitoring and Management
15 40 (4.28%) Change Management
16 39 (4.18%) Server Management
17 38 (4.07%) Project Delivery
18 37 (3.96%) Time Management
19 33 (3.53%) Business Continuity
20 32 (3.43%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 340 (36.40%) PowerShell
2 144 (15.42%) SQL
3 115 (12.31%) Bash
4 105 (11.24%) Python
5 89 (9.53%) Java
6 13 (1.39%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.07%) C#
8 9 (0.96%) VBScript
9 6 (0.64%) Bicep
10 5 (0.54%) DataFlex
10 5 (0.54%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.43%) Perl
11 4 (0.43%) VB
12 3 (0.32%) C++
12 3 (0.32%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.11%) C
13 1 (0.11%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 194 (20.77%) Security Cleared
2 121 (12.96%) SC Cleared
3 98 (10.49%) DV Cleared
4 83 (8.89%) Degree
5 63 (6.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (4.28%) Azure Certification
6 40 (4.28%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (3.53%) CCNA
8 25 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (2.68%) DBS Check
9 24 (2.57%) MCSE
10 17 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (1.71%) CCNP
12 14 (1.50%) MCSA
13 10 (1.07%) MCP
14 8 (0.86%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.75%) A+ Certification
15 7 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 6 (0.64%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (6.75%) SLA
2 34 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 33 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 9 (0.96%) QA
6 7 (0.75%) GDPR
6 7 (0.75%) NCSC
7 5 (0.54%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.43%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.21%) NIST
9 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.21%) PMO
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.11%) RMADS
10 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 577 (61.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 566 (60.60%) Active Directory
3 100 (10.71%) Docker
4 60 (6.42%) VMware ESXi
5 52 (5.57%) vSphere
6 45 (4.82%) Virtual Machines
7 34 (3.64%) XenApp
8 29 (3.10%) Firmware
9 18 (1.93%) XenDesktop
10 17 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
11 16 (1.71%) VMware NSX
12 10 (1.07%) VirtualBox
12 10 (1.07%) VMware Workstation
13 8 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.75%) Terminal Services
15 6 (0.64%) Microsoft App-V
15 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 5 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 5 (0.54%) KVM
17 3 (0.32%) NFS
Systems Management
1 191 (20.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 142 (15.20%) SCCM
3 108 (11.56%) Ansible
4 103 (11.03%) Kubernetes
5 89 (9.53%) Puppet
6 68 (7.28%) SCOM
7 44 (4.71%) Failover Clustering
8 38 (4.07%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 38 (4.07%) Terraform
9 32 (3.43%) Microsoft Clustering
10 24 (2.57%) FortiGate
10 24 (2.57%) WSUS
11 19 (2.03%) SCVMM
12 17 (1.82%) NetBackup
13 15 (1.61%) vCenter Server
14 12 (1.28%) Grafana
15 10 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
16 9 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
17 8 (0.86%) Progress Chef
17 8 (0.86%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 747 (79.98%) VMware
2 577 (61.78%) Microsoft
3 144 (15.42%) Cisco
4 129 (13.81%) Citrix
5 107 (11.46%) Veeam
6 84 (8.99%) Red Hat
7 66 (7.07%) HP
8 49 (5.25%) Meraki
9 44 (4.71%) Google
10 43 (4.60%) Dell
11 42 (4.50%) Aruba
12 34 (3.64%) Commvault
12 34 (3.64%) Fortinet
13 33 (3.53%) Juniper
14 28 (3.00%) Palo Alto
15 27 (2.89%) NetApp
16 26 (2.78%) SolarWinds
17 25 (2.68%) Sophos
18 23 (2.46%) Kaseya
19 19 (2.03%) SonicWALL