Hybrid/Remote Hyper-V Job Trends

Microsoft Hyper-V
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 277 196
Rank change year-on-year +4 -81 +148
Permanent jobs citing Hyper-V 123 124 522
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.69% 0.94% 1.61%
As % of the System Software category 8.60% 6.40% 11.95%
Number of salaries quoted 107 108 475
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £32,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £42,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £55,313 £55,625 £55,000
90th Percentile £61,000 £67,650 £63,750
UK median annual salary £41,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -3.53% +6.25% -5.88%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,430 1,938 4,367
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.07% 14.66% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,009 1,551 3,574
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £72,433
90th Percentile £102,650 £113,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £52,024 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% +10.00% -9.09%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Hyper-V and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Hyper-V job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Hyper-V
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hyper-V.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Hyper-V over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Hyper-V salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 37 (30.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (17.07%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.63%) IIS
4 1 (0.81%) Apache
4 1 (0.81%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (16.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 93 (75.61%) Microsoft 365
2 90 (73.17%) Azure
3 35 (28.46%) Entra ID
4 33 (26.83%) AWS
5 23 (18.70%) Google Workspace
6 8 (6.50%) OneDrive
7 5 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (4.07%) IaaS
8 4 (3.25%) PaaS
9 3 (2.44%) Mimecast
9 3 (2.44%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.63%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.63%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.63%) SaaS
11 1 (0.81%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.81%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.81%) Datadog
11 1 (0.81%) GCP
11 1 (0.81%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 53 (43.09%) Firewall
2 46 (37.40%) DNS
3 41 (33.33%) DHCP
4 33 (26.83%) WAN
5 32 (26.02%) TCP/IP
6 29 (23.58%) Wi-Fi
7 28 (22.76%) VPN
8 26 (21.14%) LAN
9 22 (17.89%) VoIP
10 9 (7.32%) VLAN
10 9 (7.32%) Wireless
11 6 (4.88%) SD-WAN
12 5 (4.07%) SAN
13 4 (3.25%) IP Telephony
13 4 (3.25%) iSCSI
13 4 (3.25%) Network Security
13 4 (3.25%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (2.44%) Internet
14 3 (2.44%) Unified Communications
15 2 (1.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.81%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.81%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.81%) MySQL
3 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Git
General
1 48 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.38%) Finance
3 8 (6.50%) Telecoms
4 4 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.25%) Legal
5 3 (2.44%) Aviation
5 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.44%) Retail
6 2 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.81%) German Language
7 1 (0.81%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.81%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 51 (41.46%) Support Engineer
2 41 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 41 (33.33%) IT Support
3 37 (30.08%) IT Support Engineer
4 28 (22.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (20.33%) 2nd Line Support
6 22 (17.89%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 22 (17.89%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 13 (10.57%) Infrastructure Support
8 11 (8.94%) 3rd Line Support
8 11 (8.94%) Analyst
9 10 (8.13%) Administrator
9 10 (8.13%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (7.32%) Consultant
10 9 (7.32%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 8 (6.50%) Senior
12 7 (5.69%) IT Administrator
12 7 (5.69%) IT Consultant
12 7 (5.69%) IT Systems Administrator
13 6 (4.88%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.38%) Data Centre
1 14 (11.38%) Driving Licence
2 10 (8.13%) Replication
3 8 (6.50%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (5.69%) Clustering
4 7 (5.69%) iSeries
5 6 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (4.07%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.07%) Security Posture
7 4 (3.25%) CCTV
7 4 (3.25%) iPad
7 4 (3.25%) iPhone
7 4 (3.25%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.25%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.44%) IoT
9 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 84 (68.29%) Windows
2 67 (54.47%) Windows Server
3 27 (21.95%) Windows 10
4 20 (16.26%) Mac OS
5 19 (15.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (13.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 16 (13.01%) Linux
8 15 (12.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (3.25%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.81%) CentOS
10 1 (0.81%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.81%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.81%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.81%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (41.46%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (24.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 26 (21.14%) Customer Service
4 25 (20.33%) Cybersecurity
4 25 (20.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (14.63%) ITIL
6 15 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (8.13%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (7.32%) Mentoring
8 9 (7.32%) Migration
9 8 (6.50%) Patch Management
9 8 (6.50%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 8 (6.50%) Service Delivery
10 6 (4.88%) Agile
10 6 (4.88%) Change Management
10 6 (4.88%) Infrastructure Management
10 6 (4.88%) ITSM
10 6 (4.88%) Project Delivery
10 6 (4.88%) Server Management
10 6 (4.88%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 28 (22.76%) PowerShell
2 16 (13.01%) SQL
3 5 (4.07%) Python
4 4 (3.25%) Bash
4 4 (3.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 24 (19.51%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (6.50%) CCNA
2 8 (6.50%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (5.69%) MCSA
4 6 (4.88%) MCSE
4 6 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.88%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.07%) CCNP
5 5 (4.07%) Degree
5 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 4 (3.25%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (3.25%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.25%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (2.44%) CISSP
7 3 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.63%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.81%) Dell Certification
9 1 (0.81%) RHCE
9 1 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.32%) SLA
2 5 (4.07%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.25%) NIST
4 2 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.81%) GDPR
5 1 (0.81%) PMO
5 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 71 (57.72%) Active Directory
2 45 (36.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.13%) Firmware
4 8 (6.50%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (4.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.44%) vSphere
7 2 (1.63%) KVM
7 2 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.81%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.81%) vCloud
8 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (30.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (13.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 8 (6.50%) Terraform
4 6 (4.88%) Ansible
5 5 (4.07%) Proxmox
6 4 (3.25%) Kubernetes
7 3 (2.44%) SCCM
8 2 (1.63%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.81%) Avamar
9 1 (0.81%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.81%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.81%) Kibana
9 1 (0.81%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.81%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.81%) VxRail
9 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 101 (82.11%) Microsoft
2 65 (52.85%) VMware
3 22 (17.89%) Google
4 21 (17.07%) Veeam
5 11 (8.94%) HP
6 10 (8.13%) Cisco
7 9 (7.32%) Draytek
8 8 (6.50%) Commvault
9 7 (5.69%) EMC
9 7 (5.69%) IBM
9 7 (5.69%) Meraki
9 7 (5.69%) WatchGuard
10 6 (4.88%) Fortinet
10 6 (4.88%) NetApp
10 6 (4.88%) SonicWALL
11 5 (4.07%) ConnectWise
11 5 (4.07%) Dell
12 4 (3.25%) Juniper
12 4 (3.25%) Mitel
13 3 (2.44%) Citrix