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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 80 108
Rank change year-on-year -33 +28 +45
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 20 41 40
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.79% 2.12% 1.34%
As % of the System Software category 6.35% 11.58% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 33 16
10th Percentile £325 £405 £331
25th Percentile £508 £485 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £615 £554
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +11.06% +21.37%
75th Percentile £575 £775 £663
90th Percentile £585 £825 £675
England median daily rate £415 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -14.87% +8.33% +5.88%

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 315 354 379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.39% 18.29% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 253 243
10th Percentile £220 £213 £170
25th Percentile £425 £413 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £649 £625 £675
90th Percentile £715 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -7.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 44
10th Percentile £61.25 - £15.93
25th Percentile £61.50 £12.50 £35.13
Median hourly rate £66.50 £16.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +315.63% -75.75% +9.97%
75th Percentile £95.00 £58.00 £72.06
90th Percentile £197.50 £61.90 £90.00
England median hourly rate £37.97 £28.71 £43.84
% change year-on-year +32.28% -34.52% +13.87%

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 22 January 2026.

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 22 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
Somerset -1 8 £575 - 5
Wiltshire -22 5 £520 -11.49% 9
Bristol -14 3 £525 -1.87% 6
Gloucestershire -26 2 £325 -47.15% 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 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.00%) IIS
3 1 (5.00%) Confluence
3 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (30.00%) AWS
4 4 (20.00%) GCP
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (15.00%) IaaS
5 3 (15.00%) PaaS
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) DHCP
2 7 (35.00%) DNS
3 6 (30.00%) VPN
4 5 (25.00%) Firewall
5 2 (10.00%) LAN
5 2 (10.00%) WAN
6 1 (5.00%) NAS
6 1 (5.00%) SAN
6 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
6 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.00%) VLAN
6 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Electronics
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.00%) Marketing
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Administrator
2 5 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Architect
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) CMDB
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (85.00%) Windows
2 16 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.00%) Linux
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (35.00%) Business Continuity
2 7 (35.00%) ITIL
3 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (30.00%) High Availability
4 5 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 4 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (20.00%) Change Management
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
5 4 (20.00%) SIEM
5 4 (20.00%) SOAR
5 4 (20.00%) Zero Trust
6 3 (15.00%) Cost Management
6 3 (15.00%) DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) Operational Stability
6 3 (15.00%) Patch Management
6 3 (15.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (20.00%) Bicep
3 2 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.00%) Degree
5 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (45.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (15.00%) VxRail
4 2 (10.00%) Ansible
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (10.00%) NetApp OnCommand
4 2 (10.00%) SCCM
4 2 (10.00%) vCenter Server
4 2 (10.00%) vMotion
4 2 (10.00%) WSUS
5 1 (5.00%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (70.00%) VMware
3 5 (25.00%) Dell
4 3 (15.00%) BeyondTrust
4 3 (15.00%) Google
4 3 (15.00%) Thales
5 2 (10.00%) NetApp
5 2 (10.00%) SAP
6 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
6 1 (5.00%) Citrix
6 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.00%) HP
6 1 (5.00%) Juniper
6 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.00%) Veeam