Hyper-V Job Trends

Microsoft Hyper-V
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 207 187
Rank change year-on-year -49 -20 +151
Permanent jobs citing Hyper-V 522 772 1,005
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.45% 1.70%
As % of the System Software category 12.26% 11.57% 11.19%
Number of salaries quoted 344 440 916
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £59,700 £70,000 £67,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -15.29% - +6.25%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,259 6,670 8,981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.99% 12.50% 15.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,991 4,011 7,390
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £73,875 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £47,557
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.14% +0.12%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in the UK

Hyper-V
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

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 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -45 469 £37,500 -16.67% 205
UK excluding London -35 430 £36,000 -15.29% 205
South West +30 134 £42,500 +21.43% 32
South East -22 104 £37,500 -16.67% 75
North of England -16 100 £32,000 -24.71% 42
Work from Home -35 99 £40,000 - 43
London -11 60 £40,000 -27.93% 23
Yorkshire -2 55 £34,000 -24.44% 18
Midlands -47 52 £31,250 -21.88% 29
East Midlands -32 28 £31,500 -2.33% 15
North West -25 25 £30,750 -26.79% 20
West Midlands -22 24 £31,000 -27.06% 13
North East +4 20 £31,500 -12.50% 5
Wales +14 16 £62,500 +13.64% 5
East of England -17 13 £38,000 -15.56% 17
Scotland -13 9 £40,000 +6.67% 5
Northern Ireland - 9 - - 4

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 229 (43.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 71 (13.60%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.68%) IIS
4 7 (1.34%) WinCC
5 4 (0.77%) Confluence
5 4 (0.77%) FactoryTalk
6 3 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.38%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 32 (6.13%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.77%) CATIA
5 3 (0.57%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.96%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.57%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.19%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 400 (76.63%) Azure
2 395 (75.67%) Microsoft 365
3 106 (20.31%) Entra ID
4 77 (14.75%) AWS
5 28 (5.36%) Google Workspace
6 27 (5.17%) IaaS
7 24 (4.60%) SaaS
8 23 (4.41%) PaaS
9 20 (3.83%) Nutanix
10 14 (2.68%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (2.68%) OneDrive
11 7 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (1.34%) Azure Storage
12 6 (1.15%) iPaaS
13 5 (0.96%) GCP
14 3 (0.57%) Azure Stack
14 3 (0.57%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.57%) Power Platform
15 2 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
15 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 292 (55.94%) DNS
2 281 (53.83%) DHCP
3 208 (39.85%) Firewall
4 121 (23.18%) TCP/IP
5 116 (22.22%) VPN
6 106 (20.31%) VLAN
7 78 (14.94%) WAN
8 61 (11.69%) LAN
9 60 (11.49%) Wi-Fi
10 51 (9.77%) VoIP
11 48 (9.20%) Wireless
12 36 (6.90%) SAN
13 29 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
14 27 (5.17%) Network Security
15 18 (3.45%) SD-WAN
16 10 (1.92%) Internet
17 9 (1.72%) NAS
18 7 (1.34%) IPsec
18 7 (1.34%) Modbus
18 7 (1.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (21.65%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (4.02%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.53%) MySQL
4 3 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.38%) Power BI
6 1 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (1.34%) JIRA
2 4 (0.77%) Git
3 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.38%) GitLab
4 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 318 (60.92%) Social Skills
2 121 (23.18%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (5.56%) Telecoms
4 28 (5.36%) Retail
5 24 (4.60%) Law
5 24 (4.60%) Manufacturing
6 19 (3.64%) Finance
7 17 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (2.87%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.30%) Advertising
10 8 (1.53%) Legal
11 7 (1.34%) Marketing
12 5 (0.96%) Police
13 4 (0.77%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.77%) Billing
13 4 (0.77%) Electronics
13 4 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.57%) Aviation
15 2 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 142 (27.20%) IT Support
2 120 (22.99%) Support Engineer
3 110 (21.07%) Systems Engineer
4 87 (16.67%) IT Engineer
5 68 (13.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 67 (12.84%) 2nd Line Support
7 65 (12.45%) IT Support Engineer
8 64 (12.26%) 3rd Line Support
9 59 (11.30%) Senior
10 47 (9.00%) Technical Support
11 46 (8.81%) Support Technician
12 44 (8.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 41 (7.85%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 29 (5.56%) IT Technician
15 27 (5.17%) IT Support Technician
15 27 (5.17%) Senior IT Support
16 25 (4.79%) Analyst
17 24 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
18 22 (4.21%) Senior Support Technician
18 22 (4.21%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.96%) FreeMarker
2 3 (0.57%) Itk
3 1 (0.19%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 104 (19.92%) Legacy Systems
2 76 (14.56%) Driving Licence
3 35 (6.70%) Onboarding
4 34 (6.51%) Data Centre
5 28 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (3.83%) Public Cloud
8 19 (3.64%) Clustering
9 18 (3.45%) Replication
10 13 (2.49%) CCTV
11 10 (1.92%) iPad
11 10 (1.92%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.72%) Client/Server
13 8 (1.53%) Operational Technology
14 7 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.34%) CMDB
14 7 (1.34%) PKI
14 7 (1.34%) SCADA
15 6 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 446 (85.44%) Windows
2 399 (76.44%) Windows Server
3 169 (32.38%) Linux
4 142 (27.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 74 (14.18%) Windows 10
6 34 (6.51%) Mac OS
7 33 (6.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (2.87%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (2.49%) Android
10 12 (2.30%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.77%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.77%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.57%) CentOS
12 3 (0.57%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.38%) Rocky
13 2 (0.38%) VMS
14 1 (0.19%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.19%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (49.81%) Problem-Solving
2 194 (37.16%) Customer Service
3 126 (24.14%) Migration
4 125 (23.95%) ITIL
5 117 (22.41%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 104 (19.92%) Kalman Filter
7 101 (19.35%) Web Filtering
8 99 (18.97%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 98 (18.77%) Email Filtering
10 97 (18.58%) Customer Experience
11 85 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 84 (16.09%) Disaster Recovery
13 83 (15.90%) Mentoring
14 58 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
15 52 (9.96%) ITSM
16 48 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (7.66%) Business Continuity
18 36 (6.90%) High Availability
18 36 (6.90%) Service Delivery
19 34 (6.51%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (17.24%) PowerShell
2 30 (5.75%) SQL
3 17 (3.26%) Python
4 10 (1.92%) Bash
5 7 (1.34%) Bicep
6 5 (0.96%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.96%) VBA
7 4 (0.77%) C++
8 3 (0.57%) C
8 3 (0.57%) Rust
8 3 (0.57%) Tcl
9 2 (0.38%) Ladder Logic
9 2 (0.38%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.19%) C#
10 1 (0.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 131 (25.10%) Security Cleared
2 117 (22.41%) SC Cleared
3 61 (11.69%) Degree
4 58 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (4.21%) Azure Certification
6 18 (3.45%) Network+ Certification
7 17 (3.26%) MCP
8 14 (2.68%) CCNA
8 14 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (2.49%) MCSA
10 12 (2.30%) AWS Certification
10 12 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (2.11%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (1.92%) DV Cleared
12 10 (1.92%) MCSE
13 9 (1.72%) DBS Check
13 9 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 8 (1.53%) CCNP
15 7 (1.34%) HND
15 7 (1.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (22.61%) Cyber Essentials
2 97 (18.58%) PCI DSS
3 29 (5.56%) SLA
4 23 (4.41%) GDPR
5 20 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.30%) QA
7 8 (1.53%) NIST
8 7 (1.34%) IEC 61508
9 6 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.96%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 409 (78.35%) Active Directory
2 251 (48.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 96 (18.39%) Terminal Server
4 23 (4.41%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (4.41%) vSphere
5 13 (2.49%) Docker
6 9 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (1.53%) vCloud
8 7 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.96%) Firmware
10 5 (0.96%) KVM
11 4 (0.77%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 2 (0.38%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.19%) pfSense
13 1 (0.19%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 102 (19.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (4.41%) Terraform
3 18 (3.45%) FortiGate
4 17 (3.26%) Kubernetes
4 17 (3.26%) SCCM
5 14 (2.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (2.11%) Ansible
7 10 (1.92%) Autotask
7 10 (1.92%) WSUS
8 9 (1.72%) Failover Clustering
9 8 (1.53%) Puppet
10 7 (1.34%) SCOM
11 5 (0.96%) SCVMM
12 4 (0.77%) McAfee ePO
13 3 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.57%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.57%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.38%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.38%) Plesk
14 2 (0.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 397 (76.05%) Microsoft
2 393 (75.29%) VMware
3 156 (29.89%) Veeam
4 112 (21.46%) Nimble Storage
5 101 (19.35%) SolarWinds
6 99 (18.97%) Splunk
7 96 (18.39%) Brocade
7 96 (18.39%) Tanium
8 55 (10.54%) Cisco
9 36 (6.90%) Dell
9 36 (6.90%) SonicWALL
10 33 (6.32%) HP
11 30 (5.75%) Google
12 21 (4.02%) Meraki
13 20 (3.83%) WatchGuard
14 17 (3.26%) Apple
15 16 (3.07%) Dell Compellent
16 15 (2.87%) Citrix
16 15 (2.87%) Fortinet
17 13 (2.49%) Palo Alto