HP Contracts in Berkshire

HP
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring knowledge or experience of HP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 46 98
Rank change year-on-year -28 +52 +16
Contract jobs citing HP 19 81 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.62% 4.08% 0.94%
As % of the Vendors category 3.08% 8.34% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 81 9
10th Percentile £411 - £319
25th Percentile £513 £205 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £215 £450
Median % change year-on-year +147.21% -52.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £519
90th Percentile £665 £608 £522
South East median daily rate £525 £285 £450
% change year-on-year +84.21% -36.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £24.66 - -
South East median hourly rate £24.18 £30.00 -
% change year-on-year -19.40% - -

All Vendors
Berkshire

HP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 616 971 930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 52.51% 48.94% 51.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 559 595
10th Percentile £350 £211 £350
25th Percentile £450 £359 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £644
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 46 36
10th Percentile £18.92 £17.30 £19.00
25th Percentile £25.75 £51.66 £31.31
Median hourly rate £42.78 £58.30 £60.88
Median % change year-on-year -26.63% -4.23% +21.75%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.60 £71.25
90th Percentile £84.09 £64.15 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for HP in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for HP in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for HP in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wokingham -2 13 £540 +35.00%
Reading -17 3 £353 +63.95% 2
Slough -16 2 £525 +79.49% 5
HP
South East

HP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 5 (26.32%) IIS
2 3 (15.79%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) DNS
2 8 (42.11%) SMTP
3 7 (36.84%) DHCP
4 5 (26.32%) NetScaler
5 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
6 3 (15.79%) FTP
6 3 (15.79%) tcpdump
6 3 (15.79%) Telnet
7 1 (5.26%) Firewall
7 1 (5.26%) WAN
7 1 (5.26%) Wireless
General
1 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
1 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.26%) Banking
2 1 (5.26%) Electronics
2 1 (5.26%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Legal
2 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.26%) Marketing
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Administrator
1 4 (21.05%) Lead
1 4 (21.05%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (5.26%) Analyst
2 1 (5.26%) Architect
2 1 (5.26%) Consultant
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre Technician
2 1 (5.26%) Data Technician
2 1 (5.26%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
2 1 (5.26%) IT Engineer
2 1 (5.26%) Network Analyst
2 1 (5.26%) Network Architect
2 1 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (5.26%) Procurement Consultant
2 1 (5.26%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) LDAP
2 1 (5.26%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Data Centre
2 5 (26.32%) Clustering
2 5 (26.32%) PKI
3 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (5.26%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Windows
1 9 (47.37%) Windows Server
2 8 (42.11%) Linux
2 8 (42.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (5.26%) Android
5 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) High Availability
1 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (21.05%) DevSecOps
2 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (21.05%) ITIL
2 4 (21.05%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (21.05%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (21.05%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (21.05%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (15.79%) Server Migrations
4 2 (10.53%) Break/Fix
4 2 (10.53%) Migration
4 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.26%) Business Continuity
5 1 (5.26%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (5.26%) Programme Management
5 1 (5.26%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (5.26%) Test Management
5 1 (5.26%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
1 5 (26.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) SC Cleared
1 12 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 5 (26.32%) vSphere
2 5 (26.32%) XenApp
2 5 (26.32%) XenDesktop
3 3 (15.79%) NFS
3 3 (15.79%) Samba
4 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Clustering
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (26.32%) WSUS
2 4 (21.05%) Ansible
2 4 (21.05%) NetBackup
2 4 (21.05%) yum
3 1 (5.26%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) VMware
2 12 (63.16%) Dell
3 8 (42.11%) Red Hat
4 5 (26.32%) Citrix
4 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
5 4 (21.05%) 3PAR
5 4 (21.05%) Veritas
6 3 (15.79%) Cisco
7 1 (5.26%) Apple
7 1 (5.26%) IBM
7 1 (5.26%) SAP