HP ALM Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring HP ALM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing HP ALM 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.13% - 0.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.63% - 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £425
75th Percentile £475 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Systems Management Skills
Birmingham

HP ALM falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 158 53 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.95% 8.41% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 35 54
10th Percentile £233 £167 £238
25th Percentile £425 £271 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £458 £413
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% +10.91% -17.50%
75th Percentile £550 £541 £500
90th Percentile £608 £700 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £519 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +3.70% +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £39.98 - -
25th Percentile £45.94 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £66.94 - -
90th Percentile £73.13 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £75.00 £16.19 £55.00
% change year-on-year +363.25% -70.56% +210.38%

HP ALM
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HP ALM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

HP ALM job vacancy trend in Birmingham

HP ALM
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing HP ALM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing HP ALM

HP ALM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SAP