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 20 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
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 88 85
Rank change year-on-year -22 -3 +23
Contract jobs citing HP 9 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.38% 0.31% 0.58%
As % of the Vendors category 1.02% 0.63% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - £152
25th Percentile - - £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% -26.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile - - £556
90th Percentile - - £568
England median daily rate £426 £464 £450
% change year-on-year -8.14% +3.06% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £24.95 - -
25th Percentile £38.40 £17.55 £26.25
Median hourly rate £60.81 £17.60 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +245.61% -36.02% +13.75%
75th Percentile - £17.64 £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £19.33 £25.15 £18.13
% change year-on-year -23.14% +38.72% -22.85%

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 879 638 638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 37.07% 49.00% 41.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 313 254
10th Percentile £190 £213 £220
25th Percentile £350 £425 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £638
England median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.68% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 102 191
10th Percentile £14.51 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.42 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.53 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +77.54% +38.82% -63.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.69 £46.88
90th Percentile £77.25 £65.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -23.79% -24.79%

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
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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HP in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the East of England

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 20 September 2026. 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
Cambridgeshire +9 5 £150 - 5
Hertfordshire -21 4 - - 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) MSTest
2 2 (22.22%) Ranorex
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Hardware Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Break Fix Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Software Test Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Test Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Testing Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Test Leader
3 2 (22.22%) Testing Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Field Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Field Hardware Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Hardware Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support
4 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Software Testing
2 4 (44.44%) Customer Service
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Test Assurance
3 3 (33.33%) Validation
3 3 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
4 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
4 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Synthetic Environment
4 2 (22.22%) System Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Test Management
4 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
4 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) ISTQB
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) HP ALM
2 2 (22.22%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (22.22%) Siemens
3 1 (11.11%) Apple
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft