HP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

HP
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 29 December 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
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 110 108
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +39
Contract jobs citing HP 10 10 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.55% 0.49% 0.93%
As % of the Vendors category 1.11% 1.14% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 23
10th Percentile £388 - £237
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year +41.57% - -
75th Percentile £513 - £480
90th Percentile £550 - £538
Central London median daily rate £496 £350 £350
% change year-on-year +41.57% - -

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 899 875 1,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.02% 43.17% 42.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 541 756
10th Percentile £329 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £458 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +0.09% -0.36%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 6
10th Percentile £20.02 £17.05 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £41.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £85.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.35% +309.64% +1.22%
75th Percentile £44.72 £112.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £54.00 £137.50 £63.13
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £57.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.70% +202.63% -7.32%

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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 29 December 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) BASE24
1 2 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (10.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (10.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (20.00%) IaaS
2 2 (20.00%) PaaS
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (10.00%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) TestRail
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) IT Support
1 2 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
1 2 (20.00%) Service Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Deployment Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Architect
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (20.00%) Apache Camel
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) HTML5
1 2 (20.00%) JDBC
1 2 (20.00%) jQuery
1 2 (20.00%) JSON
1 2 (20.00%) LDAP
1 2 (20.00%) ODBC
1 2 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (20.00%) REST
1 2 (20.00%) SAML
1 2 (20.00%) SOAP
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) APACS
1 1 (10.00%) EMV
1 1 (10.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Android
3 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) ITSM
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Test Management
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (10.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Release Management
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (10.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (20.00%) MCITP
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO 8583
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) HP ALM
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (20.00%) SCOM
1 2 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Apple
2 2 (20.00%) BMC
2 2 (20.00%) Ivanti
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Remedy
2 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Workday