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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 79 136
Rank change year-on-year -34 +57 -8
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 28 32 16
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.83% 1.91% 0.50%
As % of the System Software category 8.89% 11.55% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 30 12
10th Percentile £357 £519 £394
25th Percentile £493 £544 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £606 £521
Median % change year-on-year -13.40% +16.31% +15.83%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £599
90th Percentile £600 £775 £600
England median daily rate £460 £513 £463
% change year-on-year -10.24% +10.81% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
75th Percentile £49.27 - -
90th Percentile £63.23 - -
England median hourly rate £45.57 £200.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year -77.22% +740.34% +25.26%

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 315 277 368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.34% 16.55% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 224 274
10th Percentile £205 £206 £171
25th Percentile £385 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £590
90th Percentile £663 £699 £675
England median daily rate £500 £521 £500
% change year-on-year -4.08% +4.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 4 32
10th Percentile £13.65 £16.05 -
25th Percentile £23.41 £17.38 £40.00
Median hourly rate £60.33 £48.48 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +24.46% -29.49% +14.58%
75th Percentile £67.25 £79.03 £86.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.61 £90.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £28.71 £22.00
% change year-on-year +82.89% +30.48% -56.92%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 £575 - 2
Wiltshire -16 5 £525 -8.70% 2
Bristol -18 5 £525 -10.64% 3
Devon - 4 £490 -
Dorset -4 2 - - 4
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 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.14%) Skype for Business
3 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) GCP
3 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (10.71%) IaaS
4 3 (10.71%) PaaS
5 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Stack
6 1 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 13 (46.43%) DHCP
1 13 (46.43%) DNS
2 7 (25.00%) Firewall
3 4 (14.29%) VPN
4 3 (10.71%) WAN
5 2 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (7.14%) LAN
5 2 (7.14%) Network Security
5 2 (7.14%) SAN
5 2 (7.14%) Skype
5 2 (7.14%) SSH
5 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.57%) EIGRP
6 1 (3.57%) ICMP
6 1 (3.57%) L2TP
6 1 (3.57%) NAS
6 1 (3.57%) RIP
6 1 (3.57%) SNMP
6 1 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (3.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Law
3 2 (7.14%) Police
4 1 (3.57%) Electronics
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) Administrator
2 10 (35.71%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Wintel Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) IT Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) IT Systems Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Wintel Support
5 2 (7.14%) Wintel Support Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Administrator
6 1 (3.57%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Keycloak
2 1 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.57%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
1 3 (10.71%) PKI
2 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (78.57%) Windows
2 19 (67.86%) Windows Server
3 4 (14.29%) Linux
3 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.57%) CentOS
5 1 (3.57%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.57%) Rocky
5 1 (3.57%) SUSE
5 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (21.43%) Business Continuity
4 6 (21.43%) Configuration Management
4 6 (21.43%) High Availability
4 6 (21.43%) ITIL
5 5 (17.86%) Change Management
5 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 4 (14.29%) Storage Management
6 4 (14.29%) Zero Trust
7 3 (10.71%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
7 3 (10.71%) Cost Management
7 3 (10.71%) Network Design
7 3 (10.71%) SIEM
7 3 (10.71%) Software Testing
7 3 (10.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.71%) Bicep
3 2 (7.14%) Python
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) SQL
4 1 (3.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (67.86%) Security Cleared
2 13 (46.43%) SC Cleared
3 11 (39.29%) DV Cleared
4 5 (17.86%) Degree
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
6 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (3.57%) CCSK
7 1 (3.57%) CCSP
7 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (3.57%) CISM
7 1 (3.57%) CISSP
7 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.57%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.57%) NCSC
1 1 (3.57%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (60.71%) Active Directory
1 17 (60.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (17.86%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (10.71%) Docker
3 3 (10.71%) KVM
3 3 (10.71%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (7.14%) VMware NSX
4 2 (7.14%) vSphere
5 1 (3.57%) NFS
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Terraform
2 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.71%) Ansible
3 3 (10.71%) SCCM
3 3 (10.71%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (10.71%) VxRail
4 2 (7.14%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (3.57%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (3.57%) Grafana
5 1 (3.57%) Istio
5 1 (3.57%) Nagios
5 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (75.00%) VMware
2 14 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.29%) NetApp
4 3 (10.71%) BeyondTrust
4 3 (10.71%) Dell
4 3 (10.71%) Google
4 3 (10.71%) Thales
5 2 (7.14%) Cisco
5 2 (7.14%) Citrix
5 2 (7.14%) McAfee
6 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.57%) Netskope
6 1 (3.57%) SAP
6 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.57%) Splunk
6 1 (3.57%) Veeam