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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 144 134
Rank change year-on-year +70 -10 -10
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 37 13 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.21% 0.41% 0.91%
As % of the System Software category 13.12% 3.63% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 11 22
10th Percentile £388 £394 -
25th Percentile £525 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £623 £576 £498
90th Percentile £775 £599 £599
England median daily rate £525 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.48
25th Percentile - - £16.81
Median hourly rate - - £18.25
75th Percentile - - £19.31
90th Percentile - - £19.43
England median hourly rate £200.00 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +788.89% +12.50% +38.60%

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 282 358 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.81% 11.19% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 266 439
10th Percentile £213 £153 £200
25th Percentile £413 £275 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £623
90th Percentile £700 £700 £720
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 32 40
10th Percentile £16.05 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.38 £40.00 £17.22
Median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%
75th Percentile £68.05 £86.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.44 £90.00 £76.19
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +33 21 £615 +29.47% 10
Wiltshire +41 13 £575 +22.34% 2
Dorset - 2 £475 - 4
Bristol +17 1 £588 +2.17% 6
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 (16.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (16.22%) SharePoint
1 6 (16.22%) Skype for Business
2 4 (10.81%) Confluence
3 2 (5.41%) IIS
4 1 (2.70%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 23 (62.16%) Azure
2 19 (51.35%) AWS
3 15 (40.54%) OpenShift
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 25 (67.57%) DNS
2 22 (59.46%) DHCP
3 16 (43.24%) TCP/IP
4 15 (40.54%) HTTP
5 6 (16.22%) Skype
6 5 (13.51%) Unified Communications
6 5 (13.51%) VPN
7 3 (8.11%) SAN
7 3 (8.11%) VLAN
8 2 (5.41%) Firewall
8 2 (5.41%) LAN
8 2 (5.41%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (5.41%) SSL
8 2 (5.41%) WAN
9 1 (2.70%) NAS
9 1 (2.70%) Network Security
9 1 (2.70%) VoIP
9 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) MySQL
2 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Bitbucket
1 4 (10.81%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
1 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Legal
4 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Wintel Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (5.41%) IT Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Server Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Administrator
5 1 (2.70%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (2.70%) Design Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Software Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) .NET
1 1 (2.70%) .NET Core
1 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
1 1 (2.70%) LDAP
1 1 (2.70%) React
1 1 (2.70%) SOAP
1 1 (2.70%) Vue
1 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) PKI
2 3 (8.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.70%) CESG
4 1 (2.70%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 36 (97.30%) Windows
2 31 (83.78%) Windows Server
3 18 (48.65%) Linux
4 15 (40.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (18.92%) Windows 10
7 6 (16.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (2.70%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (2.70%) Rocky
9 1 (2.70%) VMS
9 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (40.54%) Containerisation
2 15 (40.54%) Service Management
3 6 (16.22%) Agile
3 6 (16.22%) Incident Management
3 6 (16.22%) ITIL
4 5 (13.51%) DevOps
4 5 (13.51%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.11%) Critical Thinking
6 3 (8.11%) Information Security
6 3 (8.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 3 (8.11%) Patch Management
6 3 (8.11%) Server Building
6 3 (8.11%) System Testing
6 3 (8.11%) Task Automation
6 3 (8.11%) Two-Factor Authentication
6 3 (8.11%) Waterfall
7 2 (5.41%) Scrum
7 2 (5.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (70.27%) PowerShell
2 18 (48.65%) Python
3 16 (43.24%) Bash
3 16 (43.24%) Java
4 6 (16.22%) SQL
5 1 (2.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 32 (86.49%) Security Cleared
2 26 (70.27%) DV Cleared
3 13 (35.14%) SC Cleared
4 6 (16.22%) Degree
5 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
7 2 (5.41%) MCSE
8 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) JSP 440
1 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (64.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (48.65%) Active Directory
3 15 (40.54%) Docker
4 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (13.51%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (10.81%) vSphere
6 2 (5.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.70%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 16 (43.24%) Kubernetes
2 15 (40.54%) Ansible
2 15 (40.54%) Puppet
2 15 (40.54%) Terraform
3 6 (16.22%) WSUS
4 5 (13.51%) SCCM
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (5.41%) PowerCLI
5 2 (5.41%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.70%) NetApp OnCommand
6 1 (2.70%) vMotion
Vendors
1 26 (70.27%) VMware
2 17 (45.95%) Microsoft
3 15 (40.54%) Red Hat
4 7 (18.92%) Veeam
5 4 (10.81%) Atlassian
6 2 (5.41%) Citrix
6 2 (5.41%) HP
6 2 (5.41%) Remedy
7 1 (2.70%) Dell
7 1 (2.70%) Fujitsu
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle
7 1 (2.70%) Veritas