HP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 339 387
Rank change year-on-year +10 +48 -95
Contract jobs citing HP 289 440 598
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.74% 0.67%
As % of the Vendors category 1.57% 1.72% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 308 419
10th Percentile £174 £200 £163
25th Percentile £213 £275 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £441 £415
Median % change year-on-year -17.85% +6.33% -2.35%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £516
90th Percentile £638 £638 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £425 £395
% change year-on-year -11.76% +7.59% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 44
10th Percentile £22.18 £15.78 £11.10
25th Percentile £23.71 £18.02 £15.19
Median hourly rate £23.80 £18.84 £21.45
Median % change year-on-year +26.33% -12.17% +47.93%
75th Percentile £30.00 £19.88 £23.91
90th Percentile £40.00 £22.41 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £18.24 £16.41
% change year-on-year +64.52% +11.10% +13.19%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HP in the UK

HP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HP.

Daily rate trend for HP in the UK

HP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HP in the UK

HP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HP.

Hourly rate trend for HP in the UK

HP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the UK

HP
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +49 260 £350 -17.84% 137
UK excluding London +18 191 £375 -11.76% 106
South East +45 111 £285 -36.67% 27
London +49 78 £350 -26.32% 31
Work from Home +51 75 £420 -11.58% 54
South West +40 29 £700 +57.75% 26
Midlands -8 19 £438 +68.27% 17
North of England +2 14 £425 -0.23% 22
Scotland +10 13 £410 -17.17% 5
West Midlands +13 10 £360 +10.77% 11
East Midlands +3 8 £575 +142.11% 6
North West +6 7 £425 -0.23% 12
Yorkshire +8 5 £375 -11.76% 10
East of England +4 4 £550 +15.79% 5
North East +11 2 £600 +4.35% 1
Wales +6 1 £135 -18.18%
Northern Ireland - 1 £190 - 5

HP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 32 (11.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (10.38%) Confluence
3 5 (1.73%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.38%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (1.38%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (1.04%) nginx
6 2 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.69%) IIS
7 1 (0.35%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 49 (16.96%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.08%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (1.04%) Sage X3
3 3 (1.04%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.69%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.35%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.35%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 53 (18.34%) Azure
2 36 (12.46%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (6.57%) AWS
4 17 (5.88%) SaaS
5 14 (4.84%) OCI
6 12 (4.15%) GCP
6 12 (4.15%) Rubrik
7 11 (3.81%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (3.81%) IaaS
8 10 (3.46%) Nutanix
8 10 (3.46%) PaaS
9 8 (2.77%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.38%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.04%) GitHub
13 2 (0.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 1 (0.35%) BrowserStack
14 1 (0.35%) Power Automate
14 1 (0.35%) Power Platform
14 1 (0.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 70 (24.22%) SAN
2 54 (18.69%) Firewall
3 39 (13.49%) LAN
4 34 (11.76%) DNS
5 32 (11.07%) DHCP
6 24 (8.30%) WAN
7 18 (6.23%) NAS
8 17 (5.88%) TCP/IP
9 14 (4.84%) VPN
10 12 (4.15%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (3.81%) VLAN
12 9 (3.11%) Kerberos
12 9 (3.11%) Wireless
13 7 (2.42%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (2.08%) Fibre Channel
14 6 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
15 4 (1.38%) Network Security
15 4 (1.38%) SD-WAN
15 4 (1.38%) WLAN
16 2 (0.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.73%) MySQL
3 4 (1.38%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (1.38%) NonStop SQL
3 4 (1.38%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.35%) DB2
5 1 (0.35%) Power BI
5 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (15.57%) JIRA
2 33 (11.42%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 22 (7.61%) Bitbucket
4 14 (4.84%) Selenium
5 11 (3.81%) Git
6 8 (2.77%) TeamCity
7 7 (2.42%) LoadRunner
8 6 (2.08%) ClearCase
8 6 (2.08%) ClearQuest
8 6 (2.08%) JMeter
8 6 (2.08%) Postman
8 6 (2.08%) SoapUI
8 6 (2.08%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.38%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.38%) HP UFT
9 4 (1.38%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (1.04%) Appium
10 3 (1.04%) Rational Performance Tester
10 3 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 143 (49.48%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.15%) Organisational Skills
3 37 (12.80%) Finance
4 31 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.57%) Banking
6 18 (6.23%) Aerospace
7 16 (5.54%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.11%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.77%) Legal
9 8 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.08%) Back Office
11 5 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.04%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.04%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.69%) Retail
14 1 (0.35%) Advertising
14 1 (0.35%) Electronics
14 1 (0.35%) Front Office
14 1 (0.35%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 45 (15.57%) Support Engineer
2 34 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 32 (11.07%) Hardware Engineer
4 23 (7.96%) Desktop Support
5 22 (7.61%) Desktop Engineer
6 21 (7.27%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 20 (6.92%) Analyst
7 20 (6.92%) Developer
8 18 (6.23%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
9 16 (5.54%) Network Engineer
10 15 (5.19%) Server Engineer
11 13 (4.50%) Consultant
11 13 (4.50%) Senior
11 13 (4.50%) Storage Engineer
12 11 (3.81%) Lead
12 11 (3.81%) Test Analyst
13 10 (3.46%) Data Centre Engineer
14 8 (2.77%) Break Fix Engineer
15 7 (2.42%) Hardware Support Engineer
15 7 (2.42%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.61%) .NET
1 22 (7.61%) .NET Core
2 11 (3.81%) LDAP
3 6 (2.08%) SOAP
4 5 (1.73%) XML
5 3 (1.04%) EDI
5 3 (1.04%) Playwright
6 2 (0.69%) Redfish
6 2 (0.69%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.69%) WebdriverIO
7 1 (0.35%) Ajax
7 1 (0.35%) CSS
7 1 (0.35%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.35%) HTML
7 1 (0.35%) Middleware
7 1 (0.35%) REST
7 1 (0.35%) RESTful
7 1 (0.35%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.96%) Driving Licence
2 47 (16.26%) Data Centre
3 25 (8.65%) Video Conferencing
4 16 (5.54%) Clustering
5 11 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.77%) Replication
8 7 (2.42%) HP Storage
8 7 (2.42%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.42%) PKI
9 5 (1.73%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.38%) Blackberry
10 4 (1.38%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.38%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.04%) CCTV
11 3 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.04%) iPad
11 3 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (1.04%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 150 (51.90%) Windows
2 81 (28.03%) Linux
3 67 (23.18%) Windows 10
4 47 (16.26%) Windows Server
5 43 (14.88%) Windows 7
6 39 (13.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 37 (12.80%) Windows Server 2012
8 24 (8.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 20 (6.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (6.57%) Unix
11 18 (6.23%) Solaris
12 16 (5.54%) Windows XP
13 8 (2.77%) Oracle Linux
14 7 (2.42%) Mac OS
15 6 (2.08%) AIX
15 6 (2.08%) Windows Server 2003
15 6 (2.08%) Windows Server 2008
16 5 (1.73%) Android
17 4 (1.38%) Mac OS X
18 3 (1.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (32.18%) ITIL
2 88 (30.45%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (20.76%) Customer Service
4 42 (14.53%) Disaster Recovery
4 42 (14.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 34 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
6 33 (11.42%) Agile
6 33 (11.42%) Deployment Automation
7 29 (10.03%) Configuration Management
8 28 (9.69%) OO
9 27 (9.34%) Performance Tuning
9 27 (9.34%) Software Testing
10 25 (8.65%) DevOps
10 25 (8.65%) Task Automation
11 24 (8.30%) Break/Fix
11 24 (8.30%) OOP
12 23 (7.96%) Customer Requirements
12 23 (7.96%) Project Management
12 23 (7.96%) Software Deployment
12 23 (7.96%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (20.42%) PowerShell
2 36 (12.46%) Python
3 18 (6.23%) SQL
4 11 (3.81%) Bash
5 7 (2.42%) C
5 7 (2.42%) Java
5 7 (2.42%) Shell Script
6 5 (1.73%) C++
7 3 (1.04%) C#
7 3 (1.04%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.69%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.69%) Perl
9 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 122 (42.21%) Security Cleared
2 66 (22.84%) DV Cleared
3 63 (21.80%) SC Cleared
4 47 (16.26%) Degree
5 16 (5.54%) CCNP
5 16 (5.54%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (5.19%) CCNA
7 8 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.08%) Dell Certification
8 6 (2.08%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.38%) MCSE
10 3 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.04%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 3 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.04%) MCP
10 3 (1.04%) MCSA
11 2 (0.69%) ISEB
11 2 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.35%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.69%) SLA
2 9 (3.11%) GDPR
2 9 (3.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 8 (2.77%) QA
4 3 (1.04%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 74 (25.61%) Active Directory
2 39 (13.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (10.38%) Hyper-V
4 24 (8.30%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (6.92%) Firmware
6 13 (4.50%) vSphere
7 8 (2.77%) Docker
8 5 (1.73%) BitLocker
9 4 (1.38%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.04%) KVM
10 3 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 80 (27.68%) SCCM
2 36 (12.46%) Ansible
3 27 (9.34%) EMC NetWorker
4 24 (8.30%) HP ALM
4 24 (8.30%) NetBackup
5 22 (7.61%) PowerCLI
6 21 (7.27%) SCOM
7 18 (6.23%) vCenter Server
8 15 (5.19%) WSUS
9 14 (4.84%) Kubernetes
10 13 (4.50%) Terraform
11 8 (2.77%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (2.77%) Netcool
11 8 (2.77%) Tivoli
11 8 (2.77%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 7 (2.42%) AirWatch
12 7 (2.42%) HP Quality Center
13 6 (2.08%) HP Data Protector
14 5 (1.73%) Dell DRAC
15 4 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 108 (37.37%) Microsoft
2 100 (34.60%) Dell
3 71 (24.57%) Cisco
4 56 (19.38%) VMware
5 44 (15.22%) Oracle
6 43 (14.88%) EMC
7 32 (11.07%) Citrix
8 30 (10.38%) ServiceNow
9 24 (8.30%) Aruba
10 22 (7.61%) Atlassian
10 22 (7.61%) Symantec
11 18 (6.23%) 3PAR
11 18 (6.23%) Red Hat
12 17 (5.88%) Veeam
13 16 (5.54%) Avaya
13 16 (5.54%) IBM
14 15 (5.19%) CheckPoint
14 15 (5.19%) Juniper
15 14 (4.84%) Palo Alto
16 13 (4.50%) Extreme Networks