HP Contract Job Trends in the East of England

HP
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 87 105
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 +7
Contract jobs citing HP 4 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.31% 0.60% 0.43%
As % of the Vendors category 0.63% 1.45% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £152 £391
25th Percentile - £312 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £556 £494
90th Percentile - £568 £528
England median daily rate £463 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +2.78% +5.88% -0.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.55 £26.25 £22.09
Median hourly rate £17.60 £27.50 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -36.02% +13.75% +12.44%
75th Percentile £17.64 £28.75 £26.26
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £18.13 £23.50
% change year-on-year +38.72% -22.85% -1.71%

All Vendors
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 631 620 742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 49.03% 41.06% 39.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 243 432
10th Percentile £219 £220 £189
25th Percentile £425 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 193 82
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.55
25th Percentile £16.45 £15.00 £15.37
Median hourly rate £22.63 £16.23 £38.40
Median % change year-on-year +39.43% -57.73% +82.86%
75th Percentile £59.00 £35.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £83.93
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +77.75%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing HP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for HP in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing HP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing HP

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing HP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing HP

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Hertfordshire +2 3 £350 -36.36% 4
Cambridgeshire - 1 - - 2
HP
England

HP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (25.00%) NAS
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Logistics
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Aruba
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Veeam
2 1 (25.00%) Veritas