Hyper-V Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Hyper-V
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Hyper-V skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 123 126
Rank change year-on-year +16 +3 +34
Permanent jobs citing Hyper-V 104 31 179
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.42% 1.17% 2.05%
As % of the System Software category 21.89% 7.97% 14.95%
Number of salaries quoted 41 26 157
10th Percentile - £30,375 £31,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £40,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -18.37% +30.67%
75th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £57,500 £57,500
England median annual salary £41,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -3.53% +6.25% -5.88%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 475 389 1,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.47% 14.64% 13.73%
Number of salaries quoted 323 276 1,013
10th Percentile £27,275 £29,750 £27,370
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,750 £62,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £94,389 £78,628
England median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% -9.09%

Hyper-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Hyper-V relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Hyper-V job vacancy trend in the South West

Hyper-V
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Hyper-V.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Hyper-V

Hyper-V
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hyper-V in the South West over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Hyper-V in the South West

Hyper-V
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hyper-V within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wiltshire +20 38 £48,750 +52.34% 2
Somerset -10 26 £41,000 +2.50% 3
Gloucestershire -10 15 £42,500 -22.73% 2
Bristol -19 12 £61,250 +53.13%
Devon -16 6 £32,500 - 2
Dorset -12 5 £35,000 -5.41% 1
Cornwall -8 2 £32,000 - 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 63 (60.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (11.54%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.92%) Confluence
4 1 (0.96%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 87 (83.65%) Azure
2 81 (77.88%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (20.19%) Entra ID
4 10 (9.62%) OneDrive
5 8 (7.69%) AWS
6 5 (4.81%) IaaS
7 2 (1.92%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.92%) PaaS
7 2 (1.92%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.92%) Rubrik
7 2 (1.92%) Serverless
8 1 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 80 (76.92%) DNS
2 73 (70.19%) DHCP
3 16 (15.38%) WAN
3 16 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (14.42%) VPN
5 14 (13.46%) LAN
6 13 (12.50%) Firewall
7 12 (11.54%) TCP/IP
8 9 (8.65%) VLAN
9 7 (6.73%) Network Security
9 7 (6.73%) VoIP
10 5 (4.81%) IPsec
11 3 (2.88%) VSAN
12 2 (1.92%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.96%) NAS
13 1 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.96%) SAN
13 1 (0.96%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (53.85%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.92%) Power BI
2 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.96%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.96%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.96%) MySQL
3 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.81%) GitLab
2 3 (2.88%) Git
3 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
General
1 72 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 57 (54.81%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.81%) Advertising
3 5 (4.81%) Finance
4 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (1.92%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.96%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.96%) Electronics
5 1 (0.96%) Law
5 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.96%) Marketing
5 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (54.81%) Systems Engineer
2 18 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (15.38%) Support Engineer
4 10 (9.62%) IT Engineer
4 10 (9.62%) IT Support
4 10 (9.62%) IT Support Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) Senior
6 7 (6.73%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (6.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.81%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) ICT Support
7 5 (4.81%) ICT Support Technician
7 5 (4.81%) ICT Technician
7 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) Support Technician
8 4 (3.85%) Analyst
8 4 (3.85%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.88%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (2.88%) Keycloak
2 2 (1.92%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 57 (54.81%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.81%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.81%) Driving Licence
3 3 (2.88%) YubiKey
4 2 (1.92%) BYOD
4 2 (1.92%) Replication
5 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 93 (89.42%) Windows
2 84 (80.77%) Windows Server
3 69 (66.35%) Linux
4 60 (57.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (9.62%) Windows 10
6 5 (4.81%) Android
6 5 (4.81%) Apple iOS
6 5 (4.81%) Mac OS
7 4 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.88%) CentOS
9 2 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.96%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (68.27%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (63.46%) Customer Service
3 59 (56.73%) Kalman Filter
4 57 (54.81%) Email Filtering
4 57 (54.81%) Migration
4 57 (54.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 57 (54.81%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 57 (54.81%) Web Filtering
5 56 (53.85%) Customer Experience
6 19 (18.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (11.54%) ITIL
8 11 (10.58%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (9.62%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (5.77%) Agile
12 5 (4.81%) Asset Management
12 5 (4.81%) Cloud Security
12 5 (4.81%) Collaborative Culture
12 5 (4.81%) Mentoring
12 5 (4.81%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.42%) PowerShell
2 5 (4.81%) Bash
2 5 (4.81%) Python
3 4 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (66.35%) Security Cleared
2 58 (55.77%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 5 (4.81%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.96%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.96%) Degree
7 1 (0.96%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (63.46%) Cyber Essentials
2 56 (53.85%) PCI DSS
3 10 (9.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.85%) GDPR
5 3 (2.88%) NIST
6 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 85 (81.73%) Active Directory
2 56 (53.85%) Terminal Server
3 25 (24.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.96%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.96%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (14.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.85%) Ansible
2 4 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.85%) SCVMM
3 3 (2.88%) McAfee ePO
3 3 (2.88%) NetBackup
3 3 (2.88%) VxRail
4 2 (1.92%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.92%) SCCM
5 1 (0.96%) Nessus
5 1 (0.96%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 92 (88.46%) VMware
2 87 (83.65%) Microsoft
3 63 (60.58%) Veeam
4 59 (56.73%) Splunk
5 58 (55.77%) SolarWinds
6 56 (53.85%) Brocade
6 56 (53.85%) Nimble Storage
6 56 (53.85%) Tanium
7 5 (4.81%) Cisco
7 5 (4.81%) Dell
7 5 (4.81%) HP
8 4 (3.85%) Fortinet
8 4 (3.85%) Juniper
8 4 (3.85%) NetApp
8 4 (3.85%) Red Hat
8 4 (3.85%) Tenable
9 3 (2.88%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (2.88%) McAfee
9 3 (2.88%) Qualys
10 2 (1.92%) SonicWALL