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 28 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
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 116 109
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 +43
Contract jobs citing HP 8 6 24
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.42% 0.32% 0.99%
As % of the Vendors category 0.88% 0.75% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 24
10th Percentile £472 - £243
25th Percentile £487 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year +41.57% - -
75th Percentile £497 - £480
90th Percentile £499 - £568
Central London median daily rate £496 £350 £350
% change year-on-year +41.57% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.77 - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 - -

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 907 795 1,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 48.12% 42.60% 42.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 483 746
10th Percentile £350 £304 £312
25th Percentile £417 £463 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.31%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £766 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 8
10th Percentile £20.02 £20.25 £15.73
25th Percentile £20.50 £33.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £77.25 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -66.64% +272.29% +1.22%
75th Percentile £41.85 £112.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £44.16 - £57.38
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £42.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -40.07% +123.68% -7.78%

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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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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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) BASE24
2 1 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (12.50%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (25.00%) IaaS
2 2 (25.00%) PaaS
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (12.50%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) TestRail
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Break Fix Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) APACS
1 1 (12.50%) EMV
1 1 (12.50%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Android
3 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Change Management
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (12.50%) Break/Fix
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Fintech
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Release Management
3 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) User Experience
3 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C
2 1 (12.50%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (25.00%) MCITP
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO 8583
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) HP ALM
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Dell
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Apple
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Workday