HP Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

HP
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 23 January 2026, 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
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 64 57
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 +22
Contract jobs citing HP 4 3 12
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.50% 0.46% 1.69%
As % of the Vendors category 0.98% 0.83% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 10
10th Percentile £162 - £260
25th Percentile £180 £165 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £170 £400
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -57.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £343 £175 £447
90th Percentile £422 - £450
West Midlands median daily rate £305 £170 £400
% change year-on-year +79.12% -57.50% +20.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £18.51 £55.00
% change year-on-year +35.87% -66.35% -12.70%

All Vendors
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 408 361 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 51.13% 55.71% 46.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 269 188
10th Percentile £260 £205 £252
25th Percentile £400 £375 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +13.51% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £600
90th Percentile £637 £731 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £512 £475
% change year-on-year -2.39% +7.84% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £17.10 £19.91 £11.34
25th Percentile £18.27 £27.28 £18.28
Median hourly rate £20.25 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +15.38% +87.39%
75th Percentile £30.50 £30.68 £32.00
90th Percentile £55.50 £42.41 £53.68
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.50 £21.80 £22.50
% change year-on-year +7.80% -3.11% +26.98%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

HP job vacancy trend in Birmingham

HP
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing HP

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in Birmingham over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HP in Birmingham

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing HP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing HP

HP
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 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
General
1 3 (75.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Break Fix Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Field Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Field Hardware Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Junior
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Time Management
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Break/Fix
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HP ALM
1 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) SAP