Hyper-V Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Hyper-V
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Hyper-V skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hyper-V over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 132 118
Rank change year-on-year +39 -14 +1
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 26 19 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.45% 0.58% 1.33%
As % of the System Software category 10.16% 4.45% 9.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 13 29
10th Percentile £488 £395 £320
25th Percentile £538 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% +11.11% -4.26%
75th Percentile £623 £588 £475
90th Percentile £775 £600 £508
England median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% +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 256 427 490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.25% 12.98% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 309 361
10th Percentile £208 £196 £200
25th Percentile £316 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +4.88% +5.13%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £623
90th Percentile £688 £672 £719
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 26 38
10th Percentile £16.34 - £13.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £40.00 £16.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% +12.08% +24.30%
75th Percentile £78.70 £85.00 £73.13
90th Percentile £79.48 £90.00 £88.25
England median hourly rate £29.50 £22.23 £50.00
% change year-on-year +32.73% -55.55% +150.00%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Hyper-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Hyper-V in the South West

Hyper-V
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hyper-V in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Hyper-V in the South West

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hyper-V in the South West

Hyper-V
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hyper-V in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Hyper-V in the South West

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 3 July 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
Gloucestershire +30 12 £615 +30.85% 26
Wiltshire +42 11 £575 +53.33% 10
Bristol +14 2 £669 +16.30% 20
Dorset - 1 £475 - 11
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (23.08%) SharePoint
1 6 (23.08%) Skype for Business
2 3 (11.54%) Confluence
3 1 (3.85%) Apache
3 1 (3.85%) IIS
3 1 (3.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) AWS
3 8 (30.77%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Stack
4 2 (7.69%) IaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.69%) PaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (57.69%) DNS
2 14 (53.85%) DHCP
3 8 (30.77%) HTTP
3 8 (30.77%) TCP/IP
4 6 (23.08%) Skype
5 5 (19.23%) Unified Communications
6 2 (7.69%) Firewall
6 2 (7.69%) LAN
6 2 (7.69%) SAN
6 2 (7.69%) VLAN
6 2 (7.69%) VPN
6 2 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Bitbucket
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Legal
4 2 (7.69%) Military
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (7.69%) Applications Specialist
3 2 (7.69%) Chief Technology Officer
3 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Design Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Server Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Technical Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Wintel Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) LDAP
1 1 (3.85%) SOAP
1 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) PKI
2 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.69%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) CESG
3 1 (3.85%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 24 (92.31%) Windows
2 20 (76.92%) Windows Server
3 10 (38.46%) Linux
4 8 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (30.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (19.23%) Windows 10
6 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (3.85%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (3.85%) Solaris
8 1 (3.85%) VMS
8 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (34.62%) Service Management
3 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
4 5 (19.23%) Agile
4 5 (19.23%) Incident Management
5 3 (11.54%) Critical Thinking
5 3 (11.54%) Information Security
5 3 (11.54%) ITIL
5 3 (11.54%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 3 (11.54%) System Testing
5 3 (11.54%) Two-Factor Authentication
5 3 (11.54%) Waterfall
6 2 (7.69%) DevOps
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (7.69%) Server Management
6 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (3.85%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) PowerShell
2 10 (38.46%) Java
3 8 (30.77%) Bash
3 8 (30.77%) Python
4 7 (26.92%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (96.15%) Security Cleared
2 23 (88.46%) DV Cleared
3 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
4 5 (19.23%) Degree
5 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
6 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (7.69%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) JSP 440
System Software
1 15 (57.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (42.31%) Active Directory
3 8 (30.77%) Docker
4 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (19.23%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (7.69%) vSphere
6 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Ansible
1 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
1 8 (30.77%) Puppet
1 8 (30.77%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) WSUS
3 3 (11.54%) SCCM
4 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (3.85%) PowerCLI
4 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (69.23%) VMware
2 14 (53.85%) Microsoft
3 9 (34.62%) Red Hat
4 7 (26.92%) Veeam
5 3 (11.54%) Atlassian
6 2 (7.69%) Oracle
7 1 (3.85%) Fujitsu
7 1 (3.85%) Veritas