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 17 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
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 82 102
Rank change year-on-year +3 +20 +17
Contract jobs citing HP 20 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.25% 0.35% 0.24%
As % of the Vendors category 2.78% 0.72% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £150 £82 £190
25th Percentile £166 £135 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £224 £388
Median % change year-on-year -10.61% -42.26% -13.89%
75th Percentile £215 £312 £434
90th Percentile £272 £365 £459
England median daily rate £270 £440 £400
% change year-on-year -38.64% +10.00% -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £16.14 - -
25th Percentile £16.57 - -
Median hourly rate £17.64 - -
75th Percentile £19.76 - -
90th Percentile £20.39 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £24.00
% change year-on-year +4.01% +0.75% +0.38%

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 719 558 735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 44.94% 48.78% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 233 416
10th Percentile £185 £221 £213
25th Percentile £363 £350 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £695 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 110 104
10th Percentile £16.04 - £14.00
25th Percentile £17.46 £15.62 £14.44
Median hourly rate £19.91 £16.69 £41.06
Median % change year-on-year +19.29% -59.35% +58.67%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £85.00 £83.05
England median hourly rate £23.69 £31.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -23.58% -31.43% +73.88%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

HP job vacancy trend in the East of England

HP
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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in the East of England

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

HP
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 17 December 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 -14 8 £350 - 3
Cambridgeshire - 7 £185 - 7
Essex - 2 - - 1
Bedfordshire -3 1 £220 -1.68% 2
Norfolk - 1 - -
Suffolk - 1 - -
HP
England

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.00%) IaaS
2 1 (5.00%) PaaS
2 1 (5.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DHCP
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (5.00%) NAS
2 1 (5.00%) RTP
2 1 (5.00%) SAN
2 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (20.00%) Finance
5 3 (15.00%) Legal
6 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Break Fix Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Junior
3 4 (20.00%) Hardware Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Computer Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Field Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Field Hardware Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Field Service Hardware Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Test Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) FHIR
1 1 (5.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.00%) CMDB
3 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.00%) CentOS
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Customer Service
1 7 (35.00%) Time Management
2 6 (30.00%) Break/Fix
3 4 (20.00%) ITSM
3 4 (20.00%) Logistics
3 4 (20.00%) Service Management
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (5.00%) Business Continuity Planning
6 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (5.00%) Epics
6 1 (5.00%) High Availability
6 1 (5.00%) Open Source
6 1 (5.00%) Proactive Maintenance
6 1 (5.00%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (5.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (5.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Bash
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.00%) Python
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) HL7
2 1 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.00%) Firmware
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) ServiceCenter
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (5.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (5.00%) HP ALM
2 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Dell
2 4 (20.00%) SAP
2 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (10.00%) Apple
3 2 (10.00%) Canon
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.00%) Aruba
4 1 (5.00%) Cerner
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Citrix
4 1 (5.00%) Dialogic
4 1 (5.00%) MEDITECH
4 1 (5.00%) Metaswitch
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Progress
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.00%) Veeam
4 1 (5.00%) Veritas