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 24 March 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
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 75 109
Rank change year-on-year +4 +34 -10
Contract jobs citing HP 41 10 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.11% 1.01% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 4.76% 1.95% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 3
10th Percentile £150 £267 £215
25th Percentile £174 £313 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -61.90% +2.44% +10.81%
75th Percentile £203 £613 £553
90th Percentile £219 £635 £574
England median daily rate £210 £421 £350
% change year-on-year -50.12% +20.29% -20.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 0
10th Percentile £16.17 - -
25th Percentile £16.97 - -
Median hourly rate £20.09 £24.66 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.09 £24.18 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.91% +0.75% +24.90%

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 862 513 758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 44.39% 51.87% 39.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 279 421
10th Percentile £191 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £366 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% +0.70% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £681 £696 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 82 167
10th Percentile £15.35 £14.99 £13.61
25th Percentile £17.59 £15.62 £14.45
Median hourly rate £20.09 £29.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year -31.90% +38.04% -2.86%
75th Percentile £24.00 £75.00 £53.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.17% +24.25% -31.56%

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 24 March 2026.

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 24 March 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
Hertfordshire -19 17 £375 -33.33% 9
Cambridgeshire +11 14 £200 -38.46% 3
Essex - 7 - - 1
Norfolk - 1 - -
Suffolk - 1 - -
Bedfordshire - 1 £220 - 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 (2.44%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.88%) Azure
1 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.44%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) DHCP
1 1 (2.44%) DNS
1 1 (2.44%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) MSTest
2 2 (4.88%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.44%) Selenium
General
1 26 (63.41%) Social Skills
2 19 (46.34%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (19.51%) Legal
4 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (12.20%) Finance
6 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Break Fix Engineer
1 13 (31.71%) Hardware Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) IT Support
2 9 (21.95%) Technical Support
3 7 (17.07%) Field Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) Field Hardware Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Computer Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Administrator
5 5 (12.20%) Junior
5 5 (12.20%) Printer Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior
7 2 (4.88%) Software Test Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Desktop Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Field Service Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) IT Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Lead
8 1 (2.44%) QA Tester
8 1 (2.44%) Senior Test Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) FHIR
1 1 (2.44%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Driving Licence
1 6 (14.63%) Virtual Team
2 3 (7.32%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.44%) CMDB
3 1 (2.44%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.44%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 11 (26.83%) Windows
2 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.44%) CentOS
3 1 (2.44%) Linux
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (56.10%) Customer Service
2 20 (48.78%) Time Management
3 12 (29.27%) Service Management
4 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (14.63%) Break/Fix
6 5 (12.20%) ITSM
6 5 (12.20%) Logistics
7 4 (9.76%) Test Automation
7 4 (9.76%) Test Scripting
7 4 (9.76%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (7.32%) Agile
8 3 (7.32%) Non-Functional Testing
8 3 (7.32%) Regression Testing
8 3 (7.32%) Test Management
9 2 (4.88%) Change Control
9 2 (4.88%) DevOps
9 2 (4.88%) Integration Testing
9 2 (4.88%) Scenario Testing
9 2 (4.88%) Software Testing
9 2 (4.88%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.88%) C#
2 1 (2.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) SC Cleared
1 9 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (39.02%) SLA
2 4 (9.76%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) HL7
3 1 (2.44%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Active Directory
1 3 (7.32%) Firmware
2 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (26.83%) ServiceCenter
2 3 (7.32%) HP ALM
2 3 (7.32%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (4.88%) SCCM
4 1 (2.44%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (56.10%) Dell
2 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
3 11 (26.83%) Apple
4 6 (14.63%) Canon
5 5 (12.20%) SAP
5 5 (12.20%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.88%) Cisco
6 2 (4.88%) Siemens
7 1 (2.44%) Cerner
7 1 (2.44%) Dialogic
7 1 (2.44%) Fiserv
7 1 (2.44%) Ingenico
7 1 (2.44%) MEDITECH
7 1 (2.44%) Metaswitch
7 1 (2.44%) Oracle
7 1 (2.44%) Progress
7 1 (2.44%) VMware