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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 67 136
Rank change year-on-year -51 +69 +13
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 20 47 17
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.66% 2.79% 0.53%
As % of the System Software category 6.31% 14.60% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 41 11
10th Percentile £463 £400 £394
25th Percentile £500 £525 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% +19.40%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £562
90th Percentile £585 £825 £663
England median daily rate £475 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.54 - -
England median hourly rate £72.54 £200.00 £22.28
% change year-on-year -63.73% +797.87% +11.38%

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 317 322 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.54% 19.11% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 264 252
10th Percentile £208 £213 £170
25th Percentile £413 £413 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £711 £724
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 4 30
10th Percentile £13.04 £16.05 £37.43
25th Percentile £46.00 £17.38 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.63 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -39.59% +12.08%
75th Percentile £68.57 £68.05 £77.56
90th Percentile £138.25 £74.44 £90.00
England median hourly rate £48.72 £28.41 £22.15
% change year-on-year +71.49% +28.26% -44.63%

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 28 March 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
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 28 March 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 -6 7 £575 -29.23% 2
Devon - 5 £490 - 1
Bristol -27 3 £525 -10.64%
Wiltshire -33 3 £520 -9.57%
Dorset 0 1 - - 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 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.00%) Skype for Business
3 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (15.00%) IaaS
4 3 (15.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) DHCP
1 7 (35.00%) Firewall
2 5 (25.00%) DNS
2 5 (25.00%) VPN
3 4 (20.00%) WAN
4 2 (10.00%) LAN
4 2 (10.00%) Skype
4 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.00%) EIGRP
5 1 (5.00%) ICMP
5 1 (5.00%) L2TP
5 1 (5.00%) NAS
5 1 (5.00%) OSPF
5 1 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (5.00%) RIP
5 1 (5.00%) SAN
5 1 (5.00%) SNMP
5 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (5.00%) VLAN
5 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Electronics
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.00%) Marketing
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Administrator
2 5 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Wintel Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) Wintel Support
4 2 (10.00%) Wintel Support Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) CMDB
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (85.00%) Windows
2 14 (70.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (15.00%) Linux
5 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (30.00%) Business Continuity
3 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (25.00%) ITIL
4 4 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (20.00%) Change Management
4 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 4 (20.00%) SIEM
4 4 (20.00%) SOAR
4 4 (20.00%) Zero Trust
5 3 (15.00%) Cost Management
5 3 (15.00%) High Availability
5 3 (15.00%) Network Design
5 3 (15.00%) Operational Stability
5 3 (15.00%) Runbook
6 2 (10.00%) Agile
6 2 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (20.00%) Bicep
3 2 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (30.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (5.00%) KVM
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) SCCM
2 3 (15.00%) VxRail
3 2 (10.00%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (5.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (70.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) BeyondTrust
3 3 (15.00%) Dell
3 3 (15.00%) Google
3 3 (15.00%) Thales
4 2 (10.00%) Citrix
4 2 (10.00%) McAfee
4 2 (10.00%) NetApp
5 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.00%) Netskope
5 1 (5.00%) SAP
5 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.00%) Veeam