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 2 November 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
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 117 127
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 +32
Contract jobs citing HP 9 15 25
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.48% 0.64% 0.83%
As % of the Vendors category 0.99% 1.46% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 24
10th Percentile £406 - £202
25th Percentile £472 - £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £350 £388
Median % change year-on-year +42.21% -9.68% -12.68%
75th Percentile £541 - £480
90th Percentile £598 - £538
London median daily rate £485 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +29.40% -16.67% +5.26%

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 911 1,027 1,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 48.98% 43.91% 41.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 657 880
10th Percentile £325 £313 £287
25th Percentile £413 £450 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% - -
75th Percentile £675 £657 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £788
London median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 10
10th Percentile £19.05 £19.10 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £50.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -49.06% +140.96% +1.22%
75th Percentile £52.16 £112.00 £51.56
90th Percentile £62.35 £137.50 £55.45
London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -1.23% +62.00%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in Central London over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in Central London

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 2 November 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
City of London -1 9 £498 +42.21% 8
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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) 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
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) TestRail
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 1 (11.11%) Front Office
4 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) IT Support
1 2 (22.22%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
1 2 (22.22%) Service Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Deployment Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Manager
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Server Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
1 2 (22.22%) Apache Camel
1 2 (22.22%) HTML
1 2 (22.22%) HTML5
1 2 (22.22%) JDBC
1 2 (22.22%) jQuery
1 2 (22.22%) JSON
1 2 (22.22%) LDAP
1 2 (22.22%) ODBC
1 2 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) SAML
1 2 (22.22%) SOAP
1 2 (22.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Android
3 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (22.22%) ITSM
3 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) E-business
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Release Management
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Supplier Management
4 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) C
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (22.22%) MCITP
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Firmware
2 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) HP ALM
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (22.22%) SCOM
1 2 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Apple
2 2 (22.22%) BMC
2 2 (22.22%) Dell
2 2 (22.22%) Ivanti
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Remedy
2 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Alteryx
3 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
3 1 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Workday