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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 100 99
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 +53
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 13 34 54
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.62% 1.42% 1.72%
As % of the System Software category 4.63% 8.06% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 21
10th Percentile £323 £425 £408
25th Percentile £325 £460 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £528 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% +5.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £775 £597 £575
90th Percentile £900 £825 £675
England median daily rate £400 £510 £440
% change year-on-year -21.57% +15.91% +4.76%

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 281 422 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.32% 17.61% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 277 292
10th Percentile £213 £240 £191
25th Percentile £350 £450 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £548
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -1.83% +6.83%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £632
90th Percentile £706 £675 £700
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 44
10th Percentile £60.13 - £13.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £12.50 £17.69
Median hourly rate £65.75 £16.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +310.94% -73.88% +22.50%
75th Percentile £83.75 £58.00 £69.62
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.70 £76.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £51.25 £43.75
% change year-on-year -41.46% +17.14% +86.17%

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 3 November 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 3 November 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 -5 4 £613 +30.32% 12
Wiltshire +1 3 £475 +1.06% 10
Somerset -2 2 £550 -4.35% 5
Bristol -8 2 £750 +40.19% 6
Devon +11 1 £350 -41.67% 2
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 (15.38%) IIS
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Stack
3 2 (15.38%) IaaS
3 2 (15.38%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DHCP
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 2 (15.38%) WAN
3 1 (7.69%) LAN
3 1 (7.69%) NAS
3 1 (7.69%) SAN
3 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
3 1 (7.69%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
3 3 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Electronics
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Military
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Chief Technology Officer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Architect
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Wintel Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) CMDB
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) NHS
3 1 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 8 (61.54%) Windows Server
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (15.38%) Linux
5 1 (7.69%) Solaris
5 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
5 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (23.08%) High Availability
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (23.08%) ITIL
2 3 (23.08%) Migration
2 3 (23.08%) Patch Management
2 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) BCP
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Resource Management
3 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (7.69%) SOAR
4 1 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
1 2 (15.38%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Bicep
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
3 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (7.69%) Degree
5 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
2 1 (7.69%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (7.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (15.38%) NetApp OnCommand
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
1 2 (15.38%) vCenter Server
1 2 (15.38%) vMotion
1 2 (15.38%) WSUS
2 1 (7.69%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
2 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) VMware
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Dell
4 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.69%) HP
4 1 (7.69%) Juniper
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.69%) SAP