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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 92 129
Rank change year-on-year -19 +37 -19
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 37 20 23
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.04% 1.06% 0.74%
As % of the System Software category 10.85% 8.13% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 17
10th Percentile £280 £513 £398
25th Percentile £456 £531 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £470
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +25.00% +4.44%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £564
90th Percentile £698 £800 £599
England median daily rate £475 £494 £474
% change year-on-year -3.80% +4.17% +5.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £26.00 - -
25th Percentile £60.91 - -
Median hourly rate £91.91 - -
75th Percentile £100.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £200.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year -68.43% +740.34% +19.00%

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 341 246 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.61% 13.01% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 193 313
10th Percentile £208 £203 £213
25th Percentile £400 £341 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £600
90th Percentile £670 £695 £672
England median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 5 20
10th Percentile £13.65 £16.34 £37.40
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.13 £40.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £65.00 £58.63
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% +10.87% -2.13%
75th Percentile £69.67 £78.70 £85.00
90th Percentile £88.01 £79.48 £85.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £34.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +59.42% +55.76% -46.63%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 - 14 £683 - 6
Wiltshire -16 7 £560 -2.70% 4
Bristol -15 6 £550 -17.76% 4
Devon - 4 £490 - 1
Dorset -6 2 - -
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 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.41%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) Azure
2 12 (32.43%) AWS
3 5 (13.51%) Entra ID
3 5 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.11%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.70%) GCP
5 1 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 25 (67.57%) DNS
2 23 (62.16%) DHCP
3 15 (40.54%) Firewall
4 14 (37.84%) TCP/IP
5 6 (16.22%) VSAN
6 5 (13.51%) SAN
7 3 (8.11%) VoIP
7 3 (8.11%) WAN
8 2 (5.41%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (5.41%) Network Security
8 2 (5.41%) Skype
8 2 (5.41%) SSH
9 1 (2.70%) Calico
9 1 (2.70%) Kerberos
9 1 (2.70%) NAS
9 1 (2.70%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (2.70%) RIP
9 1 (2.70%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (2.70%) VLAN
9 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Git
1 1 (2.70%) GitLab
General
1 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Legal
2 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Law
3 2 (5.41%) Police
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Senior
3 6 (16.22%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Administrator
4 5 (13.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (10.81%) Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Support Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Technical Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Wintel Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Support
7 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) IT Administrator
7 2 (5.41%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) IT Systems Administrator
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Wintel Support
7 2 (5.41%) Wintel Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) LDAP
2 1 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.70%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 14 (37.84%) PKI
2 6 (16.22%) Data Centre
3 4 (10.81%) Clustering
4 3 (8.11%) Fat Client
4 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
4 3 (8.11%) Smartcard
4 3 (8.11%) Thin Client
5 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.41%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (78.38%) Windows
2 16 (43.24%) Linux
3 14 (37.84%) Windows Server
4 5 (13.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.41%) Windows 10
5 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.70%) CentOS
6 1 (2.70%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (2.70%) Rocky
6 1 (2.70%) SUSE
6 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (43.24%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (29.73%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (29.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (29.73%) Systems Engineering
4 10 (27.03%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
5 9 (24.32%) DevSecOps
5 9 (24.32%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (21.62%) Containerisation
6 8 (21.62%) Customer Requirements
6 8 (21.62%) Mentoring
7 7 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (18.92%) SIEM
8 6 (16.22%) Converged Infrastructure
8 6 (16.22%) Network Virtualisation
8 6 (16.22%) Privileged Access Management
9 5 (13.51%) IT Strategy
9 5 (13.51%) Storage Management
9 5 (13.51%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (45.95%) PowerShell
2 12 (32.43%) Bash
2 12 (32.43%) Python
3 1 (2.70%) SQL
3 1 (2.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (78.38%) Security Cleared
2 20 (54.05%) DV Cleared
3 14 (37.84%) SC Cleared
4 5 (13.51%) Degree
5 4 (10.81%) VCAP
6 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.70%) CCSK
7 1 (2.70%) CCSP
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.70%) CISM
7 1 (2.70%) CISSP
7 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
7 1 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.70%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.70%) NCSC
1 1 (2.70%) NIST
1 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (78.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (75.68%) Active Directory
3 12 (32.43%) Docker
4 8 (21.62%) VMware NSX
4 8 (21.62%) vSphere
5 4 (10.81%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (8.11%) KVM
6 3 (8.11%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (5.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (2.70%) NFS
8 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (37.84%) Ansible
2 13 (35.14%) Kubernetes
2 13 (35.14%) Terraform
3 6 (16.22%) VxRail
4 3 (8.11%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (8.11%) WSUS
5 2 (5.41%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (2.70%) Grafana
6 1 (2.70%) Istio
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.70%) Nagios
6 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.70%) SCCM
6 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (83.78%) VMware
2 12 (32.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.51%) Cisco
3 5 (13.51%) CyberArk
3 5 (13.51%) McAfee
4 3 (8.11%) Red Hat
4 3 (8.11%) Thales
5 2 (5.41%) NetApp
6 1 (2.70%) Adobe
6 1 (2.70%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (2.70%) BMC
6 1 (2.70%) Citrix
6 1 (2.70%) Dell
6 1 (2.70%) Netskope
6 1 (2.70%) Remedy
6 1 (2.70%) Samsung
6 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.70%) Splunk