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 16 September 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
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 110 114
Rank change year-on-year -23 +4 +24
Contract jobs citing HP 7 11 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.31% 0.62% 0.72%
As % of the Vendors category 0.70% 1.28% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 11
10th Percentile - £420 -
25th Percentile £200 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £496 £350
Median % change year-on-year +26.14% +41.57% -24.73%
75th Percentile £638 £525 -
90th Percentile - £595 -
Central London median daily rate £625 £496 £350
% change year-on-year +26.14% +41.57% -22.22%

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 995 862 921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 44.18% 48.92% 44.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 704 575 598
10th Percentile £333 £323 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.14% -1.65%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £745 £768
Central London median daily rate £538 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £23.16 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.16% +28.33% +30.12%
75th Percentile £31.00 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.65 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £31.58 £27.00
% change year-on-year -20.62% +16.94% +30.12%

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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 16 September 2026.

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 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
1 3 (42.86%) IaaS
1 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
1 3 (42.86%) PaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DHCP
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) SMTP
1 3 (42.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (42.86%) Big Data
1 3 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Deskside Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Deskside Support
3 2 (28.57%) Deskside Support Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Desktop Support
3 2 (28.57%) Hardware Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Hardware Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) iPhone
2 3 (42.86%) Clustering
2 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 3 (42.86%) PKI
3 2 (28.57%) Fat Client
3 2 (28.57%) iPad
3 2 (28.57%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) AI
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
1 3 (42.86%) Software Deployment
2 2 (28.57%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) BitLocker
2 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (42.86%) Terminal Services
2 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Nagios
1 3 (42.86%) Puppet
1 3 (42.86%) vCenter Server
1 3 (42.86%) vMotion
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Citrix
2 3 (42.86%) Google
2 3 (42.86%) Symantec
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Apple