Microsoft Hyper-V
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Hyper-V skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Hyper-V over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 345 414
Rank change year-on-year +15 +69 -55
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 257 394 542
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.69% 0.61%
As % of the System Software category 5.60% 5.25% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 306 423
10th Percentile £250 £287 £213
25th Percentile £319 £350 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +14.12% +5.59%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £538
90th Percentile £641 £715 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £406
% change year-on-year +2.78% +10.77% +6.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 20
10th Percentile £21.99 £16.93 £12.25
25th Percentile £22.13 £17.94 £13.00
Median hourly rate £23.80 £19.50 £15.93
Median % change year-on-year +22.05% +22.41% +22.73%
75th Percentile £58.75 £20.00 £17.50
90th Percentile £75.50 - £26.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £19.00 £14.43
% change year-on-year +242.11% +31.67% +11.17%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,589 7,502 11,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.79% 13.10% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,175 5,326 8,485
10th Percentile £200 £204 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -3.65% +6.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 260 309
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.24 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +184.21% -11.63%
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.77 £57.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.18 £43.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year -56.16% +150.00% -4.21%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Hyper-V in the UK

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in the UK

Hyper-V
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Hyper-V in the UK

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Hyper-V over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Hyper-V in the UK

Hyper-V
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hyper-V within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +9 217 £463 +2.78% 324
UK excluding London -6 179 £463 +2.78% 283
South East +32 69 £538 +19.44% 66
London +65 67 £450 -17.43% 49
Work from Home +19 50 £450 -10.00% 105
North of England +33 35 £350 +7.69% 100
Scotland +52 29 £325 -39.18% 6
North West +23 23 £338 +1.89% 53
Midlands -32 23 £338 -35.71% 42
West Midlands 0 13 £275 -42.11% 22
South West -18 13 £521 +15.83% 36
Yorkshire +13 10 £371 +16.02% 38
East Midlands -11 10 £338 -47.27% 20
East of England -8 7 £550 +29.41% 34
Wales - 3 £220 - 4
North East - 2 £613 - 10

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 28 (10.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (5.45%) SharePoint
3 12 (4.67%) IIS
4 4 (1.56%) Confluence
4 4 (1.56%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.78%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.78%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
Applications
1 22 (8.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 129 (50.19%) Azure
2 65 (25.29%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (18.29%) AWS
4 22 (8.56%) Entra ID
5 16 (6.23%) PaaS
6 14 (5.45%) OCI
7 13 (5.06%) GCP
7 13 (5.06%) Nutanix
8 11 (4.28%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (3.50%) IaaS
10 8 (3.11%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.95%) SaaS
12 5 (1.95%) WhatsApp
13 4 (1.56%) OneDrive
14 3 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (1.17%) iPaaS
14 3 (1.17%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 71 (27.63%) Firewall
2 56 (21.79%) DNS
3 48 (18.68%) DHCP
4 37 (14.40%) VPN
5 35 (13.62%) SAN
6 28 (10.89%) WAN
7 27 (10.51%) LAN
8 19 (7.39%) Wireless
9 16 (6.23%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (5.06%) NAS
10 13 (5.06%) VLAN
11 11 (4.28%) VSAN
12 10 (3.89%) VoIP
13 9 (3.50%) Network Security
13 9 (3.50%) OSPF
14 8 (3.11%) Ethernet
14 8 (3.11%) TCP/IP
14 8 (3.11%) Wireless Security
15 6 (2.33%) Internet
15 6 (2.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.50%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.56%) MySQL
3 4 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.17%) Power BI
5 2 (0.78%) CouchDB
5 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.39%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Bitbucket
1 5 (1.95%) GitLab
2 4 (1.56%) Git
2 4 (1.56%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.56%) JIRA
3 3 (1.17%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.78%) Snyk
4 2 (0.78%) SonarQube
General
1 81 (31.52%) Social Skills
2 24 (9.34%) Public Sector
3 13 (5.06%) Finance
4 12 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.72%) Banking
6 6 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.33%) Marketing
7 5 (1.95%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.95%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.56%) Front Office
9 3 (1.17%) Billing
9 3 (1.17%) Electronics
10 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.39%) Advertising
11 1 (0.39%) Legal
11 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (26.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 23 (8.95%) Support Engineer
3 18 (7.00%) Server Engineer
3 18 (7.00%) Wintel Engineer
4 16 (6.23%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (6.23%) IT Engineer
5 15 (5.84%) Consultant
5 15 (5.84%) Network Engineer
5 15 (5.84%) Senior
6 13 (5.06%) Analyst
7 12 (4.67%) Architect
8 11 (4.28%) Storage Engineer
8 11 (4.28%) VMware Engineer
9 10 (3.89%) 2nd Line Support
9 10 (3.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 9 (3.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 9 (3.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 9 (3.50%) IT Support
10 9 (3.50%) Windows Engineer
11 8 (3.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.23%) .NET
2 9 (3.50%) LDAP
3 7 (2.72%) Web Services
4 5 (1.95%) JSON
5 3 (1.17%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.17%) J2EE
5 3 (1.17%) Node.js
5 3 (1.17%) React
5 3 (1.17%) Vue
6 2 (0.78%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.78%) ADSI
6 2 (0.78%) CSS
6 2 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.78%) HTML
6 2 (0.78%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.39%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.39%) Spring
7 1 (0.39%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.39%) XML
7 1 (0.39%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 51 (19.84%) Data Centre
2 22 (8.56%) Clustering
2 22 (8.56%) PKI
3 8 (3.11%) NHS
4 7 (2.72%) Driving Licence
4 7 (2.72%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.95%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.56%) Fat Client
6 4 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.56%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.17%) N-Tier
8 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.78%) Replication
8 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 168 (65.37%) Windows
2 107 (41.63%) Windows Server
3 76 (29.57%) Linux
4 43 (16.73%) Windows Server 2019
5 42 (16.34%) Windows Server 2012
6 39 (15.18%) Windows Server 2016
7 35 (13.62%) Windows 10
8 16 (6.23%) Unix
9 15 (5.84%) Windows Server 2008
10 14 (5.45%) Mac OS
10 14 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (5.45%) Windows XP
11 8 (3.11%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (2.33%) CentOS
12 6 (2.33%) Debian
12 6 (2.33%) Solaris
13 5 (1.95%) VMS
14 4 (1.56%) Ubuntu
14 4 (1.56%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (31.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 69 (26.85%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (15.18%) ITIL
4 26 (10.12%) Server Management
5 25 (9.73%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (8.56%) Migration
7 18 (7.00%) Customer Service
8 17 (6.61%) High Availability
9 16 (6.23%) Converged Infrastructure
9 16 (6.23%) Project Management
9 16 (6.23%) Storage Management
10 15 (5.84%) Computer Science
10 15 (5.84%) Performance Monitoring
11 14 (5.45%) Break/Fix
11 14 (5.45%) Decision-Making
11 14 (5.45%) Performance Tuning
11 14 (5.45%) Proactive Monitoring
12 13 (5.06%) Identity Access Management
12 13 (5.06%) Mobile Device Management
13 12 (4.67%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 70 (27.24%) PowerShell
2 19 (7.39%) Python
3 12 (4.67%) Bash
4 9 (3.50%) C#
5 8 (3.11%) Shell Script
5 8 (3.11%) SQL
6 6 (2.33%) Java
7 3 (1.17%) C++
7 3 (1.17%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.17%) PHP
7 3 (1.17%) Ruby
7 3 (1.17%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.78%) Bicep
9 1 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 86 (33.46%) Security Cleared
2 51 (19.84%) DV Cleared
3 49 (19.07%) SC Cleared
4 43 (16.73%) Degree
5 33 (12.84%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (10.51%) CCNA
7 21 (8.17%) CCNP
8 20 (7.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (6.61%) Azure Certification
10 12 (4.67%) MCSE
11 8 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (3.11%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (2.72%) DBS Check
13 6 (2.33%) MCSA
13 6 (2.33%) RHCT
13 6 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 5 (1.95%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (1.56%) A+ Certification
15 4 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.61%) SLA
2 6 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.56%) QA
4 3 (1.17%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (1.17%) PMO
5 2 (0.78%) GDPR
5 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 168 (65.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 130 (50.58%) Active Directory
3 34 (13.23%) VMware ESXi
4 20 (7.78%) KVM
4 20 (7.78%) vSphere
5 18 (7.00%) VMware NSX
6 16 (6.23%) Docker
6 16 (6.23%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (2.72%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.72%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (2.33%) Terminal Services
8 6 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.56%) NFS
9 4 (1.56%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.78%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.39%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 57 (22.18%) SCCM
2 33 (12.84%) vCenter Server
3 29 (11.28%) Kubernetes
4 27 (10.51%) SCOM
4 27 (10.51%) WSUS
5 22 (8.56%) Ansible
6 19 (7.39%) Terraform
7 16 (6.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (6.23%) NetBackup
8 14 (5.45%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (5.45%) Failover Clustering
9 11 (4.28%) vMotion
10 9 (3.50%) Red Hat Satellite
11 8 (3.11%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (3.11%) SCVMM
12 6 (2.33%) Autotask
12 6 (2.33%) vRealize
13 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Clustering
13 5 (1.95%) Rancher
13 5 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 211 (82.10%) VMware
2 124 (48.25%) Microsoft
3 41 (15.95%) Cisco
4 36 (14.01%) Dell
5 30 (11.67%) HP
6 27 (10.51%) Veeam
7 25 (9.73%) Citrix
8 24 (9.34%) Red Hat
9 19 (7.39%) Juniper
10 16 (6.23%) 3PAR
10 16 (6.23%) EMC
10 16 (6.23%) Symantec
11 15 (5.84%) Oracle
11 15 (5.84%) Palo Alto
12 14 (5.45%) Extreme Networks
13 11 (4.28%) Google
14 8 (3.11%) Datto
15 6 (2.33%) Apple
15 6 (2.33%) IBM
16 5 (1.95%) SolarWinds