HP Contract Job Trends in Central London

HP
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 17 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
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 120 115
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +37
Contract jobs citing HP 9 11 27
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.44% 0.51% 1.03%
As % of the Vendors category 0.93% 1.19% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 27
10th Percentile £468 £300 £210
25th Percentile £475 - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year +41.57% - -
75th Percentile £500 - £480
90th Percentile £515 - £536
London median daily rate £298 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -40.40% +17.65% -9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.77 - -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £24.66 £21.75
% change year-on-year +1.99% +13.38% -13.00%

All Vendors
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 967 924 1,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 47.66% 42.84% 41.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 580 794
10th Percentile £339 £313 £312
25th Percentile £419 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £670 £665 £675
90th Percentile £753 £738 £754
London median daily rate £525 £542 £550
% change year-on-year -3.13% -1.46% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 9
10th Percentile £18.96 £18.32 £16.05
25th Percentile £20.08 £29.36 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -7.32%
75th Percentile £29.77 £112.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.92 £124.75 £54.50
London median hourly rate £25.77 £31.17 £32.50
% change year-on-year -17.33% -4.08% +30.00%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

HP job vacancy trend in Central London

HP
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing HP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing HP

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing HP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing HP

HP
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 17 January 2026. 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
City of London -7 9 £496 +41.57% 2
HP
London

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) BASE24
2 1 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (11.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (22.22%) IaaS
2 2 (22.22%) PaaS
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (11.11%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) TestRail
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Service Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Break Fix Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Camel
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) HTML5
1 1 (11.11%) JDBC
1 1 (11.11%) jQuery
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
1 1 (11.11%) ODBC
1 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) APACS
1 1 (11.11%) EMV
1 1 (11.11%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Android
3 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Scrum
2 2 (22.22%) Test Management
3 1 (11.11%) Break/Fix
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Fintech
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (11.11%) ITSM
3 1 (11.11%) Observability
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Release Management
3 1 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C
2 1 (11.11%) COBOL
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (22.22%) MCITP
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO 8583
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
2 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) HP ALM
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (22.22%) SCOM
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Dell
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Apple
3 1 (11.11%) BMC
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Ivanti
3 1 (11.11%) Remedy
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) Workday