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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 469 528
Rank change year-on-year -104 +59 +55
Contract jobs citing HP ALM 26 42 18
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.058% 0.15% 0.051%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.43% 1.00% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 15
10th Percentile £391 £416 £340
25th Percentile £444 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% -2.44% -3.30%
75th Percentile £583 £569 £544
90th Percentile £815 £762 £563
UK median daily rate £530 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.90% - -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £25.13 - -
25th Percentile £25.33 £81.75 -
Median hourly rate £25.80 £83.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -69.10% - -
75th Percentile £26.43 £85.25 -
90th Percentile £26.72 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.80 £83.50 -
% change year-on-year -69.10% - -

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 5,978 4,206 4,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.33% 15.43% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,081 2,789 3,331
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £420 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £603 £613 £625
90th Percentile £691 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £508 £518
% change year-on-year +1.48% -2.03% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 54 81
10th Percentile £20.09 £21.39 £17.72
25th Percentile £35.22 £27.06 £22.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +85.00% -45.45%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.88 £53.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £82.07 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £58.62 £39.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +50.30% +25.81% -46.09%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -70 11 £537 +13.05%
Midlands -49 7 £475 +8.57%
West Midlands -55 7 £475 +8.57%
North of England -72 4 - -
South East -77 3 £575 +9.52%
North East - 3 - -
East of England -22 1 - -
North West -49 1 - -
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 2 (7.69%) Confluence
1 2 (7.69%) SAS
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (3.85%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) Azure
2 12 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) AWS
4 3 (11.54%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.85%) GCP
5 1 (3.85%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
2 1 (3.85%) Base SAS
2 1 (3.85%) Big Data
2 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.85%) PowerCenter
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.85%) SAS Data Integration Studio
2 1 (3.85%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 1 (3.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (88.46%) JIRA
2 9 (34.62%) Selenium
3 4 (15.38%) REST Assured
3 4 (15.38%) Zephyr
4 3 (11.54%) Bugzilla
4 3 (11.54%) Cucumber
5 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
5 2 (7.69%) JMeter
5 2 (7.69%) TestRail
6 1 (3.85%) Appium
6 1 (3.85%) HP UFT
6 1 (3.85%) LoadRunner
6 1 (3.85%) MSTest
6 1 (3.85%) Postman
6 1 (3.85%) Ranorex
6 1 (3.85%) TestDirector
General
1 10 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Banking
4 3 (11.54%) Automotive
4 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.69%) Billing
5 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (7.69%) Private Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) General Ledger
6 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Tester
2 6 (23.08%) Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) Test Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Automation Tester
3 4 (15.38%) Test Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Business Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
4 3 (11.54%) Test Leader
4 3 (11.54%) UAT Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle HRMS Tester
5 1 (3.85%) SAS Developer
5 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Software Test Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Test Automation Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Testing Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) UAT Test Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) UAT Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Middleware
2 3 (11.54%) Node.js
2 3 (11.54%) WireMock
3 1 (3.85%) .NET
3 1 (3.85%) ADO
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.85%) Playwright
3 1 (3.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.85%) SCADA
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Test Management
2 15 (57.69%) User Acceptance Testing
3 14 (53.85%) Defect Management
4 13 (50.00%) Agile
4 13 (50.00%) DevOps
4 13 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 10 (38.46%) System Integration Testing
5 10 (38.46%) Waterfall
6 9 (34.62%) Scenario Testing
6 9 (34.62%) Test Strategy
7 8 (30.77%) End-to-End Testing
7 8 (30.77%) Integration Testing
7 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (30.77%) Regression Testing
7 8 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (26.92%) Software Testing
8 7 (26.92%) Test Planning
9 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (23.08%) Test Scripting
9 6 (23.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) SQL
2 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 3 (11.54%) Bash
3 3 (11.54%) Java
3 3 (11.54%) Python
3 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.69%) VB
5 1 (3.85%) C
5 1 (3.85%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.85%) SAS Macro
5 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) ISTQB
2 8 (30.77%) Degree
3 3 (11.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) ISEB
5 1 (3.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (42.31%) QA
2 5 (19.23%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.85%) Control-M
Vendors
1 26 (100.00%) HP
2 8 (30.77%) Oracle
3 2 (7.69%) Avaloq
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) Guidewire
4 1 (3.85%) Informatica
4 1 (3.85%) Micro Focus
4 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.85%) OpenText
4 1 (3.85%) Remedy
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) Siemens