Hyper-V Contract Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Hyper-V
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 87 106
Rank change year-on-year -35 +19 +53
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 11 34 47
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.48% 1.54% 1.53%
As % of the System Software category 3.81% 9.09% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 24 16
10th Percentile £321 £408 £238
25th Percentile £325 £460 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -14.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £606
90th Percentile £673 £851 £675
England median daily rate £425 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% +1.19%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 289 374 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.60% 16.89% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 251 277
10th Percentile £220 £223 £170
25th Percentile £414 £425 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £650 £614 £663
90th Percentile £715 £725 £721
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 39
10th Percentile £61.30 £12.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £65.75 £13.25 £18.39
Median hourly rate £66.50 £37.00 £57.99
Median % change year-on-year +79.73% -36.20% -3.35%
75th Percentile £95.00 £62.88 £67.80
90th Percentile £197.50 £78.50 £76.25
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.33 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.77% -11.67% +58.42%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in the South West

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Hyper-V.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in the South West over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in the South West

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Hyper-V.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 8 December 2025. 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
Somerset -6 3 £563 -2.17% 3
Gloucestershire -15 3 £325 -30.85% 12
Wiltshire -19 2 £475 +1.06% 4
Bristol -10 1 - - 6
Devon - 1 £350 - 4
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (18.18%) IIS
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) IaaS
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) DHCP
1 5 (45.45%) DNS
2 3 (27.27%) VPN
3 2 (18.18%) Firewall
3 2 (18.18%) WAN
4 1 (9.09%) LAN
4 1 (9.09%) NAS
4 1 (9.09%) SAN
4 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
4 1 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
4 1 (9.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Electronics
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Chief Technology Officer
2 1 (9.09%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Storage Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) CMDB
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Windows Server
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
3 3 (27.27%) High Availability
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (27.27%) Patch Management
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) BCP
4 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Resource Management
4 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) SIEM
4 2 (18.18%) SOAR
4 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Bicep
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
1 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
2 1 (9.09%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Active Directory
2 8 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (18.18%) NetApp OnCommand
2 2 (18.18%) vCenter Server
2 2 (18.18%) vMotion
2 2 (18.18%) WSUS
3 1 (9.09%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) Puppet
3 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) VMware
2 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Dell
4 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
4 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
4 1 (9.09%) HP
4 1 (9.09%) Juniper
4 1 (9.09%) SAP