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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 242 222
Rank change year-on-year -32 -20 +134
Permanent jobs citing Hyper-V 100 218 322
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 1.33% 1.48%
As % of the System Software category 8.12% 8.55% 9.18%
Number of salaries quoted 85 130 304
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,625 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.79% -
75th Percentile £50,443 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £73,375
UK median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +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 1,231 2,551 3,507
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.19% 15.59% 16.15%
Number of salaries quoted 880 1,566 3,004
10th Percentile £28,910 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,798
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £73,813
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -

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 13 January 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 24 (24.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (13.00%) SharePoint
3 6 (6.00%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.00%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 81 (81.00%) Azure
2 77 (77.00%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (35.00%) Entra ID
4 22 (22.00%) AWS
5 19 (19.00%) Google Workspace
6 10 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (10.00%) IaaS
6 10 (10.00%) PaaS
7 7 (7.00%) Azure Storage
8 6 (6.00%) OneDrive
9 5 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (4.00%) Azure Stack
11 2 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.00%) SaaS
12 1 (1.00%) Amazon S3
12 1 (1.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (1.00%) Datadog
12 1 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (1.00%) GitHub
12 1 (1.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (40.00%) Firewall
2 37 (37.00%) DNS
3 31 (31.00%) DHCP
4 29 (29.00%) WAN
5 26 (26.00%) VPN
6 19 (19.00%) TCP/IP
7 18 (18.00%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (15.00%) LAN
9 12 (12.00%) SD-WAN
10 11 (11.00%) Wireless
11 10 (10.00%) VLAN
12 9 (9.00%) VoIP
13 7 (7.00%) IP Telephony
14 6 (6.00%) SSL
15 4 (4.00%) iSCSI
16 2 (2.00%) Internet
16 2 (2.00%) IPsec
16 2 (2.00%) NAS
16 2 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
16 2 (2.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
General
1 42 (42.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (7.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (7.00%) Telecoms
3 6 (6.00%) Finance
4 5 (5.00%) Legal
5 4 (4.00%) Retail
6 3 (3.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.00%) Advertising
7 2 (2.00%) Aviation
8 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (42.00%) IT Support
2 31 (31.00%) Support Engineer
3 27 (27.00%) IT Engineer
4 23 (23.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 22 (22.00%) IT Support Engineer
6 17 (17.00%) 3rd Line Support
7 16 (16.00%) 2nd Line Support
7 16 (16.00%) Analyst
8 15 (15.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 15 (15.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 13 (13.00%) Support Analyst
10 12 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (10.00%) Consultant
11 10 (10.00%) IT Consultant
11 10 (10.00%) Support Consultant
12 7 (7.00%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (7.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (6.00%) IT Analyst
13 6 (6.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (6.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.00%) Onboarding
2 13 (13.00%) Driving Licence
3 9 (9.00%) CCTV
4 8 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (6.00%) Client/Server
5 6 (6.00%) CMDB
5 6 (6.00%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.00%) iPad
6 4 (4.00%) iPhone
6 4 (4.00%) Mobile App
6 4 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (3.00%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.00%) Digital Signage
7 3 (3.00%) Security Posture
7 3 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (2.00%) IoT
8 2 (2.00%) Replication
9 1 (1.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 82 (82.00%) Windows
2 68 (68.00%) Windows Server
3 17 (17.00%) Linux
4 15 (15.00%) Windows 10
5 13 (13.00%) Mac OS
6 12 (12.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (11.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (11.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (6.00%) Apple iOS
9 3 (3.00%) Rocky
10 1 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (34.00%) ITIL
3 22 (22.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 21 (21.00%) Customer Service
4 21 (21.00%) Mentoring
5 20 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 15 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (15.00%) Migration
7 12 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (7.00%) Analytics
9 7 (7.00%) ITSM
10 6 (6.00%) Capacity Planning
10 6 (6.00%) Collaborative Culture
10 6 (6.00%) Infrastructure Management
10 6 (6.00%) Proactive Monitoring
10 6 (6.00%) Service Delivery
10 6 (6.00%) Storage Management
10 6 (6.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 11 (11.00%) SQL
3 7 (7.00%) Bicep
4 3 (3.00%) Bash
4 3 (3.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (26.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (13.00%) Azure Certification
3 10 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 9 (9.00%) CCNA
4 9 (9.00%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (8.00%) CCNP
5 8 (8.00%) MCP
5 8 (8.00%) MCSA
6 7 (7.00%) MCSE
6 7 (7.00%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (6.00%) Degree
8 5 (5.00%) AWS Certification
8 5 (5.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (3.00%) DBS Check
9 3 (3.00%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.00%) A+ Certification
10 2 (2.00%) CISSP
10 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (7.00%) SLA
3 2 (2.00%) NIST
4 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 63 (63.00%) Active Directory
2 44 (44.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (7.00%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (2.00%) Firmware
6 1 (1.00%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.00%) Docker
6 1 (1.00%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 32 (32.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (16.00%) Terraform
3 8 (8.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 7 (7.00%) Kubernetes
5 6 (6.00%) SCOM
6 2 (2.00%) Ansible
6 2 (2.00%) SCCM
7 1 (1.00%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.00%) Kibana
7 1 (1.00%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 74 (74.00%) Microsoft
2 59 (59.00%) VMware
3 19 (19.00%) Google
4 9 (9.00%) Draytek
4 9 (9.00%) Veeam
5 7 (7.00%) Mitel
5 7 (7.00%) WatchGuard
6 6 (6.00%) Cisco
6 6 (6.00%) Meraki
6 6 (6.00%) SonicWALL
7 5 (5.00%) Dell
7 5 (5.00%) HP
8 4 (4.00%) Aruba
9 3 (3.00%) Datto
10 2 (2.00%) ConnectWise
10 2 (2.00%) Fortinet
11 1 (1.00%) Apple
11 1 (1.00%) Citrix
11 1 (1.00%) NetApp
11 1 (1.00%) New Relic