Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Microsoft Hyper-V
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 27 29
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 8 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 3.79% 3.11% 0.55%
As % of the System Software category 20.00% 14.29% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £565 £501 -
25th Percentile - £525 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £275
Median % change year-on-year - +109.09% -
75th Percentile £588 £825 £288
90th Percentile £606 £848 -
South West median daily rate £550 £545 £558
% change year-on-year +0.92% -2.24% +17.37%

All System Software Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 40 35 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 18.96% 21.74% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 18 17
10th Percentile £209 £221 £139
25th Percentile £318 £250 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £535 £190
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +181.58% -66.73%
75th Percentile £575 £646 £419
90th Percentile £600 £836 £556
South West median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £46.02
25th Percentile £61.50 £12.50 £46.05
Median hourly rate £63.00 £13.00 £46.09
Median % change year-on-year +384.62% -71.79% +56.24%
75th Percentile £64.50 £15.00 £46.14
90th Percentile - £15.90 £46.16
South West median hourly rate £66.50 £37.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +79.73% -43.92% +9.97%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in Somerset

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Hyper-V
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. 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
Taunton - 2 £575 -
Hyper-V
South West

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 3 (37.50%) IaaS
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (37.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) DHCP
1 6 (75.00%) VPN
2 5 (62.50%) DNS
3 4 (50.00%) Firewall
4 2 (25.00%) LAN
4 2 (25.00%) WAN
5 1 (12.50%) NAS
5 1 (12.50%) SAN
5 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
5 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (12.50%) VLAN
5 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Electronics
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Administrator
2 3 (37.50%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Storage Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) CMDB
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (37.50%) Linux
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Business Continuity
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) ITIL
3 4 (50.00%) SIEM
3 4 (50.00%) SOAR
3 4 (50.00%) Zero Trust
4 3 (37.50%) Change Management
4 3 (37.50%) Cost Management
4 3 (37.50%) Operational Stability
4 3 (37.50%) Runbook
5 2 (25.00%) BCP
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (12.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (50.00%) Bicep
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Google
4 1 (12.50%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) NetApp
4 1 (12.50%) SAP
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
4 1 (12.50%) Veeam