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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 103 122
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 -26
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 48 14 22
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.32% 0.72% 0.81%
As % of the System Software category 13.48% 5.79% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 12 14
10th Percentile £313 £339 £425
25th Percentile £513 £509 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +22.34% +4.44%
75th Percentile £719 £658 £582
90th Percentile £727 £888 £600
England median daily rate £475 £450 £499
% change year-on-year +5.56% -9.82% +17.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £26.00 - -
25th Percentile £87.50 - -
Median hourly rate £98.82 - -
75th Percentile £99.41 - -
90th Percentile £100.00 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £30.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +125.00% +26.05% -45.60%

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 356 242 444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.76% 12.50% 16.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 179 321
10th Percentile £225 £212 £205
25th Percentile £406 £295 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -6.98% +4.88%
75th Percentile £622 £613 £600
90th Percentile £725 £693 £672
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 5 12
10th Percentile £18.69 £65.98 £18.95
25th Percentile £46.88 £78.70 £56.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £73.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +8.47% +27.18%
75th Percentile £75.75 £95.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £98.82 - £89.50
England median hourly rate £63.14 £37.50 £24.18
% change year-on-year +68.36% +55.09% -46.10%

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 1 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Hyper-V in the South West over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 September 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 -9 22 £683 - 13
Wiltshire -10 10 £575 - 2
Bristol -10 9 £550 -26.67% 4
Gloucestershire -8 2 £325 -46.94% 3
Dorset -6 1 - -
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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (37.50%) Azure
2 16 (33.33%) AWS
3 7 (14.58%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.25%) Azure Stack
5 3 (6.25%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.08%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.08%) GCP
6 1 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.08%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 32 (66.67%) DNS
2 28 (58.33%) DHCP
3 20 (41.67%) TCP/IP
4 19 (39.58%) Firewall
5 12 (25.00%) VSAN
6 5 (10.42%) SAN
7 4 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (6.25%) VoIP
9 2 (4.17%) Network Security
10 1 (2.08%) Calico
10 1 (2.08%) Kerberos
10 1 (2.08%) NAS
10 1 (2.08%) SSH
10 1 (2.08%) Structured Cabling
10 1 (2.08%) VLAN
10 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Git
1 1 (2.08%) GitLab
General
1 12 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Legal
3 3 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Finance
4 2 (4.17%) Law
4 2 (4.17%) Local Government
4 2 (4.17%) Police
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (43.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (22.92%) Principal Engineer
2 11 (22.92%) Senior
3 8 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (14.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Administrator
5 5 (10.42%) Architect
5 5 (10.42%) Consultant
5 5 (10.42%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (8.33%) Hyper-V Consultant
7 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Technical Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Virtualisation Consultant
8 2 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) IT Administrator
8 2 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) VMware Consultant
8 2 (4.17%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (39.58%) Terraform
2 2 (4.17%) LDAP
3 1 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.08%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 19 (39.58%) PKI
2 10 (20.83%) Data Centre
3 6 (12.50%) Clustering
4 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (6.25%) Fat Client
4 3 (6.25%) Private Cloud
4 3 (6.25%) Smartcard
4 3 (6.25%) Thin Client
5 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (77.08%) Windows
2 24 (50.00%) Linux
3 18 (37.50%) Windows Server
4 6 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.25%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (4.17%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.08%) CentOS
7 1 (2.08%) Rocky
7 1 (2.08%) SUSE
7 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (54.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (39.58%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (35.42%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (35.42%) Systems Engineering
4 16 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 15 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
6 13 (27.08%) CI/CD
6 13 (27.08%) DevSecOps
7 11 (22.92%) Mentoring
7 11 (22.92%) SIEM
8 10 (20.83%) Containerisation
8 10 (20.83%) Converged Infrastructure
8 10 (20.83%) Customer Requirements
9 9 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (18.75%) Network Virtualisation
9 9 (18.75%) Privileged Access Management
10 7 (14.58%) IT Strategy
10 7 (14.58%) Technology Strategy
11 6 (12.50%) Feasibility Study
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) PowerShell
2 19 (39.58%) Bash
2 19 (39.58%) Python
3 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (81.25%) Security Cleared
2 30 (62.50%) DV Cleared
3 11 (22.92%) SC Cleared
4 7 (14.58%) VCAP
5 4 (8.33%) Degree
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.08%) CCSK
7 1 (2.08%) CCSP
7 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.08%) CISM
7 1 (2.08%) CISSP
7 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) SLA
2 1 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.08%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) NCSC
2 1 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (77.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 16 (33.33%) Docker
4 12 (25.00%) vSphere
5 10 (20.83%) VMware NSX
6 6 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (6.25%) KVM
7 3 (6.25%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (2.08%) Firmware
8 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (2.08%) NFS
8 1 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (41.67%) Ansible
2 17 (35.42%) Kubernetes
3 12 (25.00%) VxRail
4 5 (10.42%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (6.25%) WSUS
6 1 (2.08%) Grafana
6 1 (2.08%) Istio
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.08%) Nagios
6 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (83.33%) VMware
2 12 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (16.67%) CyberArk
4 7 (14.58%) Cisco
5 4 (8.33%) NetApp
5 4 (8.33%) Thales
6 3 (6.25%) McAfee
6 3 (6.25%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.08%) Adobe
7 1 (2.08%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (2.08%) BMC
7 1 (2.08%) Dell
7 1 (2.08%) Remedy
7 1 (2.08%) Samsung
7 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.08%) Splunk