HP ALM Contract Job Trends in England

HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring HP ALM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 445 529
Rank change year-on-year -104 +84 +94
Contract jobs citing HP ALM 29 22 15
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.076% 0.091% 0.040%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.52% 0.57% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 11
10th Percentile - £359 £400
25th Percentile £313 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £561 £1,003 £549
90th Percentile £585 £1,125 £563
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £25.13 - -
25th Percentile £25.33 £81.75 -
Median hourly rate £25.80 £83.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.10% +51.82% -
75th Percentile £26.43 £85.25 -
90th Percentile £26.72 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.80 £83.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -69.10% +51.82% -

All Systems Management Skills
England

HP ALM falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,537 3,858 4,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.47% 15.91% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,820 2,642 3,285
10th Percentile £313 £316 £250
25th Percentile £413 £420 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £627
90th Percentile £700 £738 £710
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 39 125
10th Percentile £20.09 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £31.58 £22.32 £17.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -54.20%
75th Percentile £68.75 £61.63 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £77.74 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.74% -11.75% -47.83%

HP ALM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

HP ALM job vacancy trend in England

HP ALM
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HP ALM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HP ALM

HP ALM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP ALM in England over the 6 months to 2 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HP ALM in England

HP ALM
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HP ALM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HP ALM

HP ALM
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP ALM within the England region over the 6 months to 2 April 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
London -59 15 £338 -45.96% 3
West Midlands -61 6 £450 -2.70% 1
Midlands -62 6 £450 -2.70% 1
East of England -30 3 - -
South East - 3 £575 -
North West -35 2 - -
North of England -69 2 - -
HP ALM
UK

HP ALM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (13.79%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) SAS
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Workday HCM
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (3.45%) PORTIA
3 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) Azure
2 14 (48.28%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (13.79%) AWS
4 3 (10.34%) Tricentis Tosca
5 2 (6.90%) GCP
5 2 (6.90%) OCI
6 1 (3.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Big Data
1 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Hive
2 1 (3.45%) Base SAS
2 1 (3.45%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 1 (3.45%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.45%) SAP BW
2 1 (3.45%) SAS Data Integration Studio
2 1 (3.45%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (86.21%) JIRA
2 10 (34.48%) Selenium
3 5 (17.24%) TestRail
3 5 (17.24%) Zephyr
4 4 (13.79%) JMeter
5 3 (10.34%) Cypress.io
5 3 (10.34%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (6.90%) MSTest
6 2 (6.90%) Postman
7 1 (3.45%) Appium
7 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.45%) LoadRunner
7 1 (3.45%) NUnit
7 1 (3.45%) REST Assured
7 1 (3.45%) SpecFlow
7 1 (3.45%) TestDirector
7 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
7 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 15 (51.72%) Social Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Finance
4 4 (13.79%) Automotive
4 4 (13.79%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Billing
5 1 (3.45%) Law
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Test Manager
2 7 (24.14%) Analyst
2 7 (24.14%) Lead
2 7 (24.14%) Test Analyst
2 7 (24.14%) Test Leader
3 4 (13.79%) Test Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Tester
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) Software Test Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Automation Tester
6 1 (3.45%) Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Lead Test Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) SAS Developer
6 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Tester
6 1 (3.45%) Test Automation Developer
6 1 (3.45%) UAT Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Workday Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) ADO
2 1 (3.45%) FHIR
2 1 (3.45%) Playwright
2 1 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (3.45%) Web Services
2 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
1 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (79.31%) Test Management
2 20 (68.97%) User Acceptance Testing
3 19 (65.52%) Agile
3 19 (65.52%) Test Automation
4 15 (51.72%) DevOps
4 15 (51.72%) Test Strategy
5 12 (41.38%) Defect Management
5 12 (41.38%) End-to-End Testing
5 12 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (41.38%) Scenario Testing
6 11 (37.93%) Integration Testing
6 11 (37.93%) Regression Testing
6 11 (37.93%) Software Testing
6 11 (37.93%) Waterfall
7 10 (34.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (31.03%) System Integration Testing
8 9 (31.03%) Test Scripting
9 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (24.14%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) SQL
2 5 (17.24%) Java
3 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
3 4 (13.79%) PL/SQL
4 3 (10.34%) C#
4 3 (10.34%) VB
5 1 (3.45%) C
5 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.45%) SAS Macro
5 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (55.17%) ISTQB
2 7 (24.14%) Degree
3 5 (17.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 4 (13.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (6.90%) ISEB
5 2 (6.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.45%) HP APS
6 1 (3.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (48.28%) QA
2 5 (17.24%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.90%) SLA
4 1 (3.45%) HL7
4 1 (3.45%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.45%) Control-M
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) HP
2 7 (24.14%) Oracle
3 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
4 4 (13.79%) SAP
5 3 (10.34%) ServiceNow
5 3 (10.34%) Workday
6 2 (6.90%) Siemens
7 1 (3.45%) Cerner
7 1 (3.45%) Charles River
7 1 (3.45%) MEDITECH
7 1 (3.45%) Micro Focus
7 1 (3.45%) OpenText
7 1 (3.45%) Remedy
7 1 (3.45%) SimCorp