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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 354 415
Rank change year-on-year +20 +61 -57
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 252 393 537
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.69% 0.61%
As % of the System Software category 5.51% 5.25% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 308 419
10th Percentile £250 £286 £213
25th Percentile £319 £347 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +12.94% +5.92%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £547
90th Percentile £643 £715 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £450 £414
% change year-on-year +1.39% +8.76% +8.88%
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 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.05% +20.00% +25.19%
75th Percentile £58.75 £20.00 £19.00
90th Percentile £75.50 - £50.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £19.00 £15.86
% change year-on-year +242.11% +19.80% +22.19%

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 4,571 7,489 11,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.74% 13.11% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,147 5,323 8,425
10th Percentile £200 £203 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
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 230 260 305
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £54.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.52% +170.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £40.75
90th Percentile £78.20 £75.77 £60.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.18 £41.88 £18.12
% change year-on-year -54.21% +131.16% -0.85%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -17 210 £450 - 296
UK excluding London -8 174 £456 +1.39% 266
London +65 67 £450 -17.43% 39
South East +26 64 £525 +16.67% 57
Work from Home +30 50 £450 -10.00% 138
North of England +23 36 £350 +9.38% 80
Scotland +60 31 £381 -28.65% 6
North West +26 24 £338 +3.85% 46
Midlands -18 23 £338 -35.71% 50
West Midlands -2 13 £275 -42.11% 28
South West -8 11 £500 +11.11% 34
Yorkshire +13 10 £371 +17.86% 27
East Midlands -14 10 £338 -47.27% 22
East of England -8 6 £488 +14.71% 37
Wales - 3 £220 - 4
North East - 2 £613 - 8

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 29 (11.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 12 (4.76%) IIS
4 4 (1.59%) Confluence
4 4 (1.59%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Applications
1 22 (8.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 130 (51.59%) Azure
2 65 (25.79%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (18.65%) AWS
4 24 (9.52%) Entra ID
5 16 (6.35%) PaaS
6 14 (5.56%) OCI
7 13 (5.16%) GCP
7 13 (5.16%) Nutanix
8 12 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (3.57%) IaaS
10 8 (3.17%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.98%) SaaS
12 5 (1.98%) WhatsApp
13 4 (1.59%) OneDrive
14 3 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (1.19%) iPaaS
14 3 (1.19%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 71 (28.17%) Firewall
2 58 (23.02%) DNS
3 50 (19.84%) DHCP
4 38 (15.08%) VPN
5 34 (13.49%) SAN
6 28 (11.11%) WAN
7 27 (10.71%) LAN
8 19 (7.54%) Wireless
9 16 (6.35%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (4.76%) NAS
10 12 (4.76%) VLAN
11 11 (4.37%) VSAN
12 10 (3.97%) VoIP
13 9 (3.57%) Network Security
13 9 (3.57%) OSPF
14 8 (3.17%) Ethernet
14 8 (3.17%) Wireless Security
15 7 (2.78%) TCP/IP
16 6 (2.38%) Internet
16 6 (2.38%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.59%) MySQL
3 3 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.19%) Power BI
4 2 (0.79%) CouchDB
4 2 (0.79%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Bitbucket
1 5 (1.98%) GitLab
2 4 (1.59%) Git
2 4 (1.59%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.59%) JIRA
3 3 (1.19%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.79%) Snyk
4 2 (0.79%) SonarQube
General
1 83 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 22 (8.73%) Public Sector
3 13 (5.16%) Finance
4 12 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.78%) Banking
6 6 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.38%) Marketing
7 5 (1.98%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.98%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.59%) Front Office
9 3 (1.19%) Billing
9 3 (1.19%) Electronics
10 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.40%) Advertising
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (26.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (8.33%) Support Engineer
3 17 (6.75%) Server Engineer
4 16 (6.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (6.35%) IT Engineer
5 15 (5.95%) Network Engineer
5 15 (5.95%) Senior
5 15 (5.95%) Wintel Engineer
6 14 (5.56%) Consultant
7 13 (5.16%) Analyst
8 12 (4.76%) Architect
9 11 (4.37%) Storage Engineer
9 11 (4.37%) VMware Engineer
10 10 (3.97%) 2nd Line Support
10 10 (3.97%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 9 (3.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 9 (3.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 9 (3.57%) IT Support
12 8 (3.17%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 8 (3.17%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.35%) .NET
2 10 (3.97%) LDAP
3 7 (2.78%) Web Services
4 5 (1.98%) JSON
5 3 (1.19%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.19%) J2EE
5 3 (1.19%) Node.js
5 3 (1.19%) React
5 3 (1.19%) Vue
6 2 (0.79%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.79%) ADSI
6 2 (0.79%) CSS
6 2 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.79%) HTML
6 2 (0.79%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.40%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.40%) Spring
7 1 (0.40%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.40%) XML
7 1 (0.40%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 52 (20.63%) Data Centre
2 23 (9.13%) Clustering
3 22 (8.73%) PKI
4 8 (3.17%) NHS
5 7 (2.78%) Driving Licence
5 7 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.98%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.19%) Fat Client
8 3 (1.19%) N-Tier
8 3 (1.19%) Thin Client
9 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.79%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.79%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.79%) Replication
9 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.40%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 165 (65.48%) Windows
2 106 (42.06%) Windows Server
3 76 (30.16%) Linux
4 43 (17.06%) Windows Server 2019
5 41 (16.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 37 (14.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 34 (13.49%) Windows 10
8 16 (6.35%) Unix
9 15 (5.95%) Windows Server 2008
10 14 (5.56%) Mac OS
10 14 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (5.56%) Windows XP
11 10 (3.97%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (2.38%) CentOS
12 6 (2.38%) Debian
13 5 (1.98%) Solaris
13 5 (1.98%) VMS
14 4 (1.59%) Ubuntu
14 4 (1.59%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (31.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 68 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (15.87%) ITIL
4 26 (10.32%) Server Management
5 25 (9.92%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (8.73%) Migration
7 19 (7.54%) Customer Service
8 18 (7.14%) High Availability
9 17 (6.75%) Project Management
10 16 (6.35%) Computer Science
10 16 (6.35%) Converged Infrastructure
10 16 (6.35%) Storage Management
11 15 (5.95%) Performance Monitoring
12 14 (5.56%) Break/Fix
12 14 (5.56%) Decision-Making
12 14 (5.56%) Identity Access Management
12 14 (5.56%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (5.56%) Proactive Monitoring
12 14 (5.56%) Project Delivery
13 13 (5.16%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (26.98%) PowerShell
2 18 (7.14%) Python
3 12 (4.76%) Bash
4 9 (3.57%) C#
5 8 (3.17%) Shell Script
6 6 (2.38%) Java
6 6 (2.38%) SQL
7 3 (1.19%) C++
7 3 (1.19%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.19%) PHP
7 3 (1.19%) Ruby
7 3 (1.19%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.79%) Bicep
9 1 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 80 (31.75%) Security Cleared
2 49 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 47 (18.65%) DV Cleared
4 44 (17.46%) Degree
5 33 (13.10%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (10.71%) CCNA
7 21 (8.33%) CCNP
8 20 (7.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (6.75%) Azure Certification
10 12 (4.76%) MCSE
11 9 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (3.17%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (2.78%) DBS Check
14 6 (2.38%) MCSA
14 6 (2.38%) RHCT
14 6 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 5 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (1.98%) Network+ Certification
16 4 (1.59%) A+ Certification
17 2 (0.79%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.75%) SLA
2 7 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.59%) QA
4 3 (1.19%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (1.19%) PMO
5 2 (0.79%) GDPR
5 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 160 (63.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 128 (50.79%) Active Directory
3 36 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
4 20 (7.94%) KVM
5 19 (7.54%) vSphere
6 17 (6.75%) VMware NSX
7 16 (6.35%) Docker
7 16 (6.35%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (3.17%) BitLocker
8 8 (3.17%) Microsoft App-V
9 7 (2.78%) Terminal Services
9 7 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (1.59%) NFS
10 4 (1.59%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.79%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.40%) vCloud
12 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 56 (22.22%) SCCM
2 35 (13.89%) vCenter Server
3 29 (11.51%) Kubernetes
4 27 (10.71%) SCOM
5 25 (9.92%) WSUS
6 22 (8.73%) Ansible
7 19 (7.54%) Terraform
8 16 (6.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (6.35%) NetBackup
9 14 (5.56%) EMC NetWorker
10 13 (5.16%) Failover Clustering
11 12 (4.76%) vMotion
12 9 (3.57%) Red Hat Satellite
13 8 (3.17%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (3.17%) SCVMM
14 6 (2.38%) Autotask
14 6 (2.38%) vRealize
15 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Clustering
15 5 (1.98%) Rancher
15 5 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 205 (81.35%) VMware
2 123 (48.81%) Microsoft
3 41 (16.27%) Cisco
4 36 (14.29%) Dell
5 31 (12.30%) HP
6 27 (10.71%) Veeam
7 26 (10.32%) Citrix
8 23 (9.13%) Red Hat
9 19 (7.54%) Juniper
10 17 (6.75%) Symantec
11 16 (6.35%) 3PAR
11 16 (6.35%) EMC
12 15 (5.95%) Palo Alto
13 14 (5.56%) Extreme Networks
13 14 (5.56%) Oracle
14 11 (4.37%) Google
15 8 (3.17%) Datto
16 6 (2.38%) Apple
16 6 (2.38%) IBM
16 6 (2.38%) Infoblox