HP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 1 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
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 110 128
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 +18
Contract jobs citing HP 9 14 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.53% 0.67% 0.78%
As % of the Vendors category 1.06% 1.50% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 21
10th Percentile £406 - £205
25th Percentile £472 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +42.21% -17.65% -4.23%
75th Percentile £541 - £480
90th Percentile £598 - £538
Central London median daily rate £498 £350 £388
% change year-on-year +42.21% -9.68% -12.68%

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 847 935 1,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.88% 44.42% 41.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 589 812
10th Percentile £325 £324 £319
25th Percentile £413 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 9
10th Percentile £18.43 £18.70 £16.05
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £71.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +216.67% +9.76%
75th Percentile £56.75 £118.38 £52.50
90th Percentile £64.11 £137.50 £57.90
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £50.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -49.06% +140.96% +1.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

HP job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing HP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing HP

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing HP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing HP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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