Microsoft Hyper-V
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Hyper-V skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Hyper-V over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 201 256 433
Rank change year-on-year +55 +177 -191
Permanent jobs citing Hyper-V 1,511 1,370 1,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 1.47% 0.85%
As % of the System Software category 12.51% 9.56% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,298 937 1,138
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,081 14,334 31,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.14% 15.40% 18.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,274 9,622 15,577
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,625 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,698
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,294 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Hyper-V in the UK

Hyper-V
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Hyper-V in the UK

Hyper-V
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hyper-V within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +69 1,430 £40,000 -5.88% 253
UK excluding London +33 1,355 £39,000 -2.50% 220
Work from Home +114 505 £42,500 -10.53% 98
South East +78 378 £40,000 -5.88% 59
North of England +28 316 £37,500 - 72
Midlands +31 261 £40,750 +1.49% 29
South West -10 178 £41,500 +10.67% 34
West Midlands +79 164 £41,500 +10.67% 16
East of England +32 162 £37,500 -11.76% 19
Yorkshire +49 160 £40,000 +14.29% 26
London -71 138 £52,500 - 36
North West +5 119 £37,500 -11.76% 37
East Midlands -33 97 £40,000 -23.81% 13
Scotland -71 39 £42,500 +6.25% 5
North East +5 37 £32,500 -18.75% 11
Wales +3 15 £41,500 -27.83% 6
Northern Ireland -2 4 £40,000 -20.00% 1
Isle of Man - 2 £50,000 -

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
1 429 (28.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 267 (17.67%) SharePoint
3 34 (2.25%) IIS
4 33 (2.18%) OpenStack
5 16 (1.06%) SharePoint 2010
5 16 (1.06%) SharePoint 2013
6 9 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2013
7 8 (0.53%) CMS
8 7 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
9 5 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2007
10 4 (0.26%) CloudStack
10 4 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2003
11 3 (0.20%) Apache
11 3 (0.20%) WordPress
12 2 (0.13%) Confluence
12 2 (0.13%) SAS
12 2 (0.13%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.066%) JOnAS
13 1 (0.066%) nginx
Applications
1 163 (10.79%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.13%) CATIA
3 2 (0.13%) NASTRAN
4 1 (0.066%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.066%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.26%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) Epicor Tropos
4 2 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.066%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 913 (60.42%) Azure
2 881 (58.31%) Microsoft 365
3 266 (17.60%) AWS
4 253 (16.74%) Entra ID
5 78 (5.16%) SaaS
6 74 (4.90%) OneDrive
7 72 (4.77%) GCP
8 46 (3.04%) OpenShift
9 35 (2.32%) IaaS
10 32 (2.12%) Google Workspace
11 29 (1.92%) Mimecast
11 29 (1.92%) Serverless
12 28 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
13 24 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (1.59%) Power Automate
14 22 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
14 22 (1.46%) Power Platform
15 21 (1.39%) PaaS
16 20 (1.32%) Nutanix
17 14 (0.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 619 (40.97%) Firewall
2 408 (27.00%) DNS
3 392 (25.94%) DHCP
4 277 (18.33%) WAN
5 237 (15.68%) TCP/IP
6 226 (14.96%) LAN
7 219 (14.49%) VPN
8 211 (13.96%) SAN
9 172 (11.38%) VLAN
10 120 (7.94%) VoIP
11 99 (6.55%) Wi-Fi
12 96 (6.35%) Wireless
13 71 (4.70%) NAS
14 67 (4.43%) Remote Desktop
15 62 (4.10%) MPLS
16 57 (3.77%) SD-WAN
17 39 (2.58%) HTTP
17 39 (2.58%) Network Security
18 36 (2.38%) Internet
19 33 (2.18%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (6.95%) SQL Server
2 91 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 19 (1.26%) MySQL
6 11 (0.73%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.60%) DB2
8 8 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (0.53%) Power BI
9 7 (0.46%) Redis
10 6 (0.40%) Big Data
11 5 (0.33%) InfluxDB
11 5 (0.33%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.13%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.13%) TimescaleDB
13 1 (0.066%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.066%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (2.71%) Jenkins
2 40 (2.65%) Git
3 15 (0.99%) JIRA
4 10 (0.66%) Trac
5 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.26%) Hudson
6 3 (0.20%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.20%) git-flow
6 3 (0.20%) GitLab
6 3 (0.20%) JUnit
6 3 (0.20%) Selenium
6 3 (0.20%) Subversion
6 3 (0.20%) TestNG
6 3 (0.20%) Travis CI
7 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.066%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 462 (30.58%) Social Skills
2 103 (6.82%) Finance
3 99 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (5.63%) Telecoms
5 56 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
6 53 (3.51%) Manufacturing
7 52 (3.44%) Public Sector
8 49 (3.24%) Legal
9 41 (2.71%) Aerospace
10 36 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
11 32 (2.12%) Law
12 31 (2.05%) Retail
13 20 (1.32%) Marketing
14 18 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (1.06%) Games
16 12 (0.79%) Back Office
17 11 (0.73%) Automotive
18 10 (0.66%) Electronics
19 8 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
20 7 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 369 (24.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 317 (20.98%) Support Engineer
3 280 (18.53%) IT Engineer
4 239 (15.82%) IT Support
5 216 (14.30%) Senior
6 164 (10.85%) IT Support Engineer
7 134 (8.87%) 3rd Line Support
8 121 (8.01%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 115 (7.61%) 2nd Line Support
10 86 (5.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 84 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
12 83 (5.49%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 74 (4.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 69 (4.57%) Lead
15 65 (4.30%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 64 (4.24%) Analyst
17 57 (3.77%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 57 (3.77%) Network Engineer
18 55 (3.64%) IT Technician
19 53 (3.51%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (1.46%) AngularJS
2 22 (1.46%) Apache Camel
2 22 (1.46%) Node.js
2 22 (1.46%) REST
2 22 (1.46%) Spring
2 22 (1.46%) Spring Boot
2 22 (1.46%) Web Services
3 20 (1.32%) JSON
4 19 (1.26%) XML
5 8 (0.53%) .NET
5 8 (0.53%) Middleware
6 6 (0.40%) LAMP
7 4 (0.26%) Flask
7 4 (0.26%) LDAP
8 3 (0.20%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.20%) SAML
9 2 (0.13%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (0.13%) jQuery
9 2 (0.13%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 144 (9.53%) Driving Licence
2 122 (8.07%) Data Centre
3 58 (3.84%) Public Cloud
4 54 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 54 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 53 (3.51%) Clustering
6 50 (3.31%) Replication
7 42 (2.78%) Onboarding
8 32 (2.12%) Operational Technology
9 28 (1.85%) IoT
10 24 (1.59%) Enterprise Storage
11 22 (1.46%) Client/Server
12 21 (1.39%) iPad
13 19 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
14 17 (1.13%) CCTV
14 17 (1.13%) PKI
14 17 (1.13%) Smartphone
15 16 (1.06%) SCADA
16 14 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
16 14 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,104 (73.06%) Windows
2 804 (53.21%) Windows Server
3 280 (18.53%) Linux
4 230 (15.22%) Windows 10
5 182 (12.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 153 (10.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 138 (9.13%) Windows Server 2012
8 64 (4.24%) Mac OS
9 54 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 50 (3.31%) Windows 7
10 50 (3.31%) Windows 8
11 43 (2.85%) Apple iOS
12 41 (2.71%) Windows Server 2008
13 33 (2.18%) Unix
14 32 (2.12%) Android
15 18 (1.19%) Windows XP
16 17 (1.13%) VMS
17 15 (0.99%) Mac OS X
18 14 (0.93%) CentOS
18 14 (0.93%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (29.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 317 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
3 282 (18.66%) ITIL
4 238 (15.75%) Customer Service
5 148 (9.79%) Cybersecurity
6 125 (8.27%) Project Management
7 113 (7.48%) DevOps
8 109 (7.21%) Disaster Recovery
9 85 (5.63%) Agile
10 82 (5.43%) Migration
11 77 (5.10%) Mentoring
12 75 (4.96%) Server Management
13 68 (4.50%) Project Delivery
14 66 (4.37%) Incident Management
14 66 (4.37%) Presales
15 64 (4.24%) Time Management
16 62 (4.10%) Proactive Monitoring
17 59 (3.90%) Mobile Device Management
18 58 (3.84%) Line Management
19 56 (3.71%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 301 (19.92%) PowerShell
2 169 (11.18%) SQL
3 103 (6.82%) Python
4 69 (4.57%) Java
5 59 (3.90%) Bash
6 24 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 15 (0.99%) C#
8 12 (0.79%) VBScript
9 6 (0.40%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.33%) Perl
11 3 (0.20%) C
11 3 (0.20%) R
12 2 (0.13%) C++
12 2 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.13%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.066%) Bicep
13 1 (0.066%) Go
13 1 (0.066%) VB
Qualifications
1 187 (12.38%) Security Cleared
2 165 (10.92%) Degree
3 156 (10.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 126 (8.34%) SC Cleared
5 117 (7.74%) Cisco Certification
6 112 (7.41%) CCNA
7 86 (5.69%) DV Cleared
8 83 (5.49%) MCSE
9 53 (3.51%) Azure Certification
10 40 (2.65%) MCP
11 27 (1.79%) AWS Certification
11 27 (1.79%) MCSA
11 27 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 23 (1.52%) A+ Certification
12 23 (1.52%) MCITP
13 22 (1.46%) DBS Check
14 18 (1.19%) CCNP
15 16 (1.06%) APMP
15 16 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
15 16 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.10%) SLA
2 58 (3.84%) Cyber Essentials
3 43 (2.85%) GDPR
4 17 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.60%) COSHH
6 7 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (0.46%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.46%) QA
7 4 (0.26%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.26%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.20%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.066%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.066%) NCSC
9 1 (0.066%) NIST
9 1 (0.066%) PMO
System Software
1 909 (60.16%) Active Directory
2 811 (53.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 109 (7.21%) Docker
4 104 (6.88%) VMware ESXi
5 73 (4.83%) Virtual Machines
6 72 (4.77%) XenApp
7 71 (4.70%) XenDesktop
8 54 (3.57%) vSphere
9 41 (2.71%) VirtualBox
10 22 (1.46%) pfSense
10 22 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
11 17 (1.13%) NFS
12 16 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
13 15 (0.99%) Terminal Services
13 15 (0.99%) VMware Workstation
14 14 (0.93%) Firmware
15 12 (0.79%) KVM
16 11 (0.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 9 (0.60%) Forefront TMG
18 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 248 (16.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 153 (10.13%) SCCM
3 112 (7.41%) Ansible
4 99 (6.55%) Kubernetes
5 57 (3.77%) WSUS
6 56 (3.71%) FortiGate
7 55 (3.64%) Puppet
8 52 (3.44%) Terraform
9 48 (3.18%) SCOM
10 36 (2.38%) Failover Clustering
11 25 (1.65%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 22 (1.46%) Grafana
13 21 (1.39%) vCenter Server
14 19 (1.26%) Autotask
14 19 (1.26%) NetBackup
14 19 (1.26%) SmoothWall
14 19 (1.26%) ZABBIX
15 17 (1.13%) EMC NetWorker
15 17 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
16 16 (1.06%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 1,049 (69.42%) VMware
2 871 (57.64%) Microsoft
3 244 (16.15%) Cisco
4 218 (14.43%) Citrix
5 203 (13.43%) Veeam
6 152 (10.06%) HP
7 122 (8.07%) Dell
8 82 (5.43%) Google
9 70 (4.63%) Aruba
10 64 (4.24%) Meraki
10 64 (4.24%) Red Hat
11 56 (3.71%) Fortinet
12 54 (3.57%) Sophos
13 48 (3.18%) Juniper
14 46 (3.04%) Apple
15 43 (2.85%) Datto
15 43 (2.85%) SonicWALL
16 41 (2.71%) Symantec
17 31 (2.05%) McAfee
17 31 (2.05%) Oracle