Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in Reading

Microsoft Hyper-V
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 57 83
Rank change year-on-year -24 +26 -12
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 8 2 16
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.79% 0.34% 1.36%
As % of the System Software category 10.53% 2.86% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 14
10th Percentile £582 £416 -
25th Percentile £602 £450 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £563 £605
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% -7.02% -13.57%
75th Percentile £677 £638 £608
90th Percentile £691 £649 -
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £506 £605
% change year-on-year -6.17% -16.32% -10.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.20 - -
25th Percentile £73.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.50 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile £85.40 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £79.50 - -

All System Software Skills
Reading

Hyper-V falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 76 70 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 7.55% 11.90% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 48 132
10th Percentile £401 £285 £205
25th Percentile £413 £499 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £650 £605
Median % change year-on-year -19.62% +7.44% +8.76%
75th Percentile £602 £700 £613
90th Percentile £671 - £675
Berkshire median daily rate £465 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -9.31% -10.83% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £75.63 - -
25th Percentile £81.44 - -
Median hourly rate £87.00 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £98.75 - -
90th Percentile £102.75 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £87.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +18.18%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in Reading

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Hyper-V.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in Reading over the 6 months to 4 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in Reading

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Hyper-V.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DHCP
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) DMVPN
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) MPLS
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) TETRA
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
General
1 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
1 1 (12.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Senior
3 4 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (37.50%) Citrix Engineer
4 3 (37.50%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) SIEM
2 4 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (37.50%) Feasibility Study
3 3 (37.50%) IT Strategy
3 3 (37.50%) Systems Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Bash
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) Avaya
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) IBM