HP Contracts in the UK excluding London

HP
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Hewlett-Packard Company.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 220 247
Rank change year-on-year -9 +27 -37
Contract jobs citing HP 173 237 312
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.83% 1.04% 1.02%
As % of the Vendors category 1.96% 2.32% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 170 215
10th Percentile £147 £179 £163
25th Percentile £207 £250 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £591 £524 £488
90th Percentile £700 £624 £554
UK median daily rate £350 £428 £425
% change year-on-year -18.22% +0.71% -0.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 25
10th Percentile £16.61 £12.54 £10.91
25th Percentile £18.03 £14.49 £13.00
Median hourly rate £18.13 £17.72 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% -5.49% +33.93%
75th Percentile £22.67 £18.55 £55.00
90th Percentile £27.09 £19.04 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £18.84 £23.91
% change year-on-year -3.77% -21.20% +67.79%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

HP is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,817 10,226 12,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.33% 44.89% 40.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,306 6,990 8,424
10th Percentile £208 £205 £189
25th Percentile £365 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £657
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 985 438 638
10th Percentile £12.00 £14.25 £11.29
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.71 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £59.50 £60.61 £37.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £56.39
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing HP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for HP in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for HP in the UK excluding London

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HP in the UK excluding London

HP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for HP in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
South East +18 87 £285 -32.94% 39
South West +24 28 £700 +64.71% 8
Scotland +21 22 £148 -70.20% 6
Midlands -5 14 £500 +73.91% 13
North of England -6 11 £400 -8.57% 17
East Midlands +8 9 £556 +145.86% 5
Wales +7 5 £128 -22.73% 2
Yorkshire +6 5 £375 +7.14% 8
North West +6 5 £400 -12.33% 7
East of England -2 5 £550 +15.79% 12
West Midlands -10 5 £320 -14.67% 8
North East +10 1 £600 +75.18% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £190 -
HP
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (12.72%) Confluence
2 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.73%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.16%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.58%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 34 (19.65%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.31%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (2.31%) SystmOne
2 3 (1.73%) SAP EWM
2 3 (1.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.58%) MFGPRO
3 1 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.58%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 24 (13.87%) Azure
2 23 (13.29%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (8.67%) OCI
4 7 (4.05%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.16%) SaaS
7 1 (0.58%) AWS
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.58%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.58%) Commercetools
7 1 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.58%) GCP
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.58%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 35 (20.23%) SAN
2 25 (14.45%) Firewall
3 22 (12.72%) LAN
4 19 (10.98%) DNS
5 18 (10.40%) DHCP
6 10 (5.78%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (5.20%) WAN
8 6 (3.47%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (3.47%) VPN
9 4 (2.31%) NAS
10 3 (1.73%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (1.73%) TCP/IP
11 2 (1.16%) Network Security
11 2 (1.16%) Wireless
12 1 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
12 1 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.58%) FTP
12 1 (0.58%) Internet
12 1 (0.58%) SMTP
12 1 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.89%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.73%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.58%) MySQL
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 29 (16.76%) JIRA
2 23 (13.29%) Jenkins
3 22 (12.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 22 (12.72%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.89%) ClearCase
4 5 (2.89%) ClearQuest
5 3 (1.73%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (1.16%) Git
6 2 (1.16%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.16%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.58%) JMeter
7 1 (0.58%) Postman
7 1 (0.58%) Selenium
7 1 (0.58%) Zephyr
General
1 101 (58.38%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.76%) Organisational Skills
3 24 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.40%) Aerospace
5 14 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.36%) Finance
7 8 (4.62%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.47%) Legal
9 4 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.73%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.16%) Advertising
11 2 (1.16%) Electronics
11 2 (1.16%) Marketing
11 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.58%) Back Office
12 1 (0.58%) Banking
12 1 (0.58%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (15.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (14.45%) Support Engineer
3 20 (11.56%) Desktop Support
3 20 (11.56%) Hardware Engineer
4 18 (10.40%) Desktop Engineer
4 18 (10.40%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 18 (10.40%) Developer
5 13 (7.51%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
5 13 (7.51%) Network Engineer
5 13 (7.51%) Storage Engineer
6 10 (5.78%) Server Engineer
7 9 (5.20%) Analyst
7 9 (5.20%) Data Centre Engineer
8 8 (4.62%) Break Fix Engineer
9 6 (3.47%) IT Engineer
9 6 (3.47%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (3.47%) Support Technician
9 6 (3.47%) Unix Engineer
9 6 (3.47%) Unix Linux Engineer
10 5 (2.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.72%) .NET
1 22 (12.72%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.58%) LDAP
2 1 (0.58%) Redfish
2 1 (0.58%) SOAP
2 1 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (21.39%) Driving Licence
2 33 (19.08%) Data Centre
3 16 (9.25%) Video Conferencing
4 12 (6.94%) iPhone
5 10 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.47%) HP Storage
7 5 (2.89%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.31%) Clustering
9 3 (1.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.73%) NHS
9 3 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.16%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.16%) iPad
10 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.58%) PDA
11 1 (0.58%) PKI
11 1 (0.58%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 89 (51.45%) Windows
2 61 (35.26%) Windows 10
3 53 (30.64%) Linux
4 28 (16.18%) Windows 7
5 24 (13.87%) Windows Server
6 21 (12.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 18 (10.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (9.83%) Windows Server 2012
9 15 (8.67%) Windows XP
10 14 (8.09%) Unix
11 11 (6.36%) Solaris
12 6 (3.47%) AIX
13 5 (2.89%) Mac OS
14 4 (2.31%) Apple iOS
15 3 (1.73%) Android
16 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2003
17 1 (0.58%) HPUX
17 1 (0.58%) Mac OS X
17 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (41.04%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (39.88%) ITIL
3 43 (24.86%) Customer Service
4 26 (15.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 25 (14.45%) OO
6 24 (13.87%) Configuration Management
7 23 (13.29%) Break/Fix
7 23 (13.29%) Continuous Integration
8 22 (12.72%) CI/CD
8 22 (12.72%) Deployment Automation
8 22 (12.72%) Infrastructure Automation
8 22 (12.72%) OOP
8 22 (12.72%) Task Automation
9 20 (11.56%) Performance Tuning
10 18 (10.40%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (9.25%) Customer Requirements
11 16 (9.25%) Performance Monitoring
11 16 (9.25%) Project Management
11 16 (9.25%) Server Management
12 15 (8.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (24.28%) PowerShell
2 24 (13.87%) Python
3 8 (4.62%) SQL
4 4 (2.31%) C
5 3 (1.73%) Bash
5 3 (1.73%) C++
6 1 (0.58%) Java
6 1 (0.58%) Perl
6 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 101 (58.38%) Security Cleared
2 58 (33.53%) SC Cleared
3 51 (29.48%) DV Cleared
4 37 (21.39%) Degree
5 15 (8.67%) CCNP
5 15 (8.67%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (8.09%) CCNA
7 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.89%) Dell Certification
9 3 (1.73%) MCP
9 3 (1.73%) MCSE
10 2 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.58%) MCSA
11 1 (0.58%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.58%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.40%) SLA
2 2 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.16%) QA
3 1 (0.58%) GDPR
3 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (16.76%) Active Directory
2 26 (15.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (13.87%) Hyper-V
4 22 (12.72%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (7.51%) Firmware
6 3 (1.73%) vSphere
7 2 (1.16%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.58%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.58%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.58%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 46 (26.59%) SCCM
2 27 (15.61%) Ansible
3 22 (12.72%) PowerCLI
4 21 (12.14%) NetBackup
5 20 (11.56%) EMC NetWorker
6 19 (10.98%) SCOM
7 17 (9.83%) vCenter Server
8 15 (8.67%) WSUS
9 7 (4.05%) HP ALM
9 7 (4.05%) HP Quality Center
10 6 (3.47%) HP Data Protector
10 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (2.89%) AirWatch
11 5 (2.89%) Kubernetes
11 5 (2.89%) Rancher
11 5 (2.89%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (2.89%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 1 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.58%) Terraform
12 1 (0.58%) vMotion
Vendors
1 69 (39.88%) Dell
2 64 (36.99%) Microsoft
3 39 (22.54%) Cisco
4 35 (20.23%) VMware
5 24 (13.87%) Oracle
6 22 (12.72%) Atlassian
6 22 (12.72%) Symantec
7 20 (11.56%) EMC
8 15 (8.67%) 3PAR
8 15 (8.67%) Palo Alto
8 15 (8.67%) Veeam
9 14 (8.09%) Aruba
9 14 (8.09%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (8.09%) Juniper
9 14 (8.09%) ServiceNow
10 9 (5.20%) Citrix
10 9 (5.20%) Samsung
11 7 (4.05%) Apple
11 7 (4.05%) Red Hat
11 7 (4.05%) SAP