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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 113 88
Rank change year-on-year +2 -25 +50
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 11 27 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.56% 1.02% 2.07%
As % of the System Software category 4.47% 6.19% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 32
10th Percentile £323 £425 £364
25th Percentile £375 £460 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% +15.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £775 £581 £573
90th Percentile £900 £599 £587
England median daily rate £450 £520 £425
% change year-on-year -13.46% +22.35% +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 246 436 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.46% 16.45% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 305 300
10th Percentile £216 £208 £200
25th Percentile £305 £463 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £616
90th Percentile £695 £674 £688
England median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 46
10th Percentile £64.25 £14.90 £13.25
25th Percentile £74.38 £58.00 £18.34
Median hourly rate £85.00 £80.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +30.08% +26.86%
75th Percentile £95.00 £85.00 £70.39
90th Percentile - £90.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £47.86
% change year-on-year +50.00% -47.77% +117.56%

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
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 19 September 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 19 September 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
Wiltshire +13 5 £563 +33.14% 3
Gloucestershire +13 4 £613 +30.32% 13
Somerset +1 1 - - 2
Bristol 0 1 £750 +38.89% 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 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (18.18%) Confluence
2 2 (18.18%) IIS
2 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 2 (18.18%) Skype for Business
3 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Stack
2 2 (18.18%) IaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DHCP
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) Skype
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) LAN
3 1 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (9.09%) Unified Communications
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
3 1 (9.09%) VPN
3 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) 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%) Military
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Chief Technology Officer
1 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Design Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Wintel Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
1 2 (18.18%) PKI
1 2 (18.18%) Private Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Windows Server
3 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
6 1 (9.09%) Linux
6 1 (9.09%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) High Availability
2 3 (27.27%) ITIL
2 3 (27.27%) Patch Management
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (18.18%) Resource Management
3 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (9.09%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (9.09%) Server Management
4 1 (9.09%) Two-Factor Authentication
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
3 6 (54.55%) DV Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (18.18%) Degree
5 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) WSUS
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (18.18%) NetApp OnCommand
2 2 (18.18%) vCenter Server
2 2 (18.18%) vMotion
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) Puppet
3 1 (9.09%) SCCM
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) VMware
2 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Atlassian
3 2 (18.18%) Dell
4 1 (9.09%) Fujitsu
4 1 (9.09%) HP
4 1 (9.09%) Juniper
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 1 (9.09%) SAP
4 1 (9.09%) Veeam