HP Contracts in England

HP
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 28 August 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 363 348
Rank change year-on-year +54 -15 -6
DemandTrendContract jobs citing HP 209 169 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.76% 0.51% 0.65%
As % of the Vendors category 1.61% 1.16% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 121 210
10th Percentile £150 £160 £198
25th Percentile £300 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £615 £608 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £409 £450
% change year-on-year +10.09% -9.17% +5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 9 3
10th Percentile £18.51 £17.14 £19.56
25th Percentile £18.87 - £20.51
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.13 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.72% -22.85% -1.71%
75th Percentile - £23.80 £25.26
90th Percentile - £24.79 £25.86
UK median hourly rate £25.11 £18.13 £18.33
% change year-on-year +38.51% -1.06% -23.36%

All Vendors
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 England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,001 14,513 19,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.18% 43.74% 43.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,229 9,103 12,738
10th Percentile £274 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £615 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £731 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 644 687 592
10th Percentile £14.71 £13.00 £15.27
25th Percentile £17.49 £15.62 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% -27.50% +77.78%
75th Percentile £47.50 £63.75 £61.41
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £27.86 £40.77
% change year-on-year -9.73% -31.67% +85.32%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing HP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for HP in England

HP
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HP

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in England over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in England

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing HP

HP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HP in England over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in England

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DemandTrendContract 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 within the England region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +34 77 £500 +42.86% 16
South East +1 34 £500 -4.76% 27
Midlands -2 31 £150 -66.67% 19
South West +42 28 £200 -42.86% 4
North of England -7 28 £420 -20.00% 3
West Midlands +1 18 £150 -50.00% 8
Yorkshire -2 13 £390 -29.09% 2
East Midlands -2 13 - - 11
North West -4 11 £450 +12.50% 1
East of England -3 5 £350 -26.32% 7
North East - 4 - -
HP
UK

HP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (11.00%) Confluence
2 13 (6.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.91%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.96%) IIS
4 2 (0.96%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) nginx
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 22 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.87%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (6.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.91%) BASE24
2 4 (1.91%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.48%) PORTIA
4 1 (0.48%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.48%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.48%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 32 (15.31%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (11.96%) Azure
3 16 (7.66%) IaaS
3 16 (7.66%) PaaS
4 15 (7.18%) GCP
5 13 (6.22%) AWS
6 10 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (4.78%) OpenShift
7 8 (3.83%) SaaS
8 7 (3.35%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.35%) PowerApps
9 5 (2.39%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.91%) OCI
11 3 (1.44%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.96%) Google Workspace
13 1 (0.48%) Cohesity
13 1 (0.48%) Entra ID
13 1 (0.48%) GitHub
13 1 (0.48%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.96%) Firewall
1 25 (11.96%) SAN
2 15 (7.18%) VPN
2 15 (7.18%) Wireless
3 14 (6.70%) DHCP
3 14 (6.70%) DNS
3 14 (6.70%) SSL
4 12 (5.74%) WAN
5 9 (4.31%) SMTP
6 8 (3.83%) LAN
7 7 (3.35%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (2.39%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.91%) ATM
9 4 (1.91%) Wireshark
10 3 (1.44%) NAS
10 3 (1.44%) Network Security
10 3 (1.44%) VLAN
11 2 (0.96%) DWDM
11 2 (0.96%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.96%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.78%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (4.31%) Big Data
3 8 (3.83%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.87%) NonStop SQL
5 4 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.48%) MySQL
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 50 (23.92%) JIRA
2 7 (3.35%) TestRail
3 6 (2.87%) Zephyr
4 4 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.91%) Selenium
5 3 (1.44%) Git
6 2 (0.96%) GitLab
6 2 (0.96%) TestNG
7 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.48%) JMeter
7 1 (0.48%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.48%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.48%) VersaTest
General
1 64 (30.62%) Social Skills
2 38 (18.18%) Finance
3 29 (13.88%) Banking
4 24 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 23 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (5.26%) Retail
7 7 (3.35%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.91%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Marketing
9 3 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.96%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.96%) Aviation
10 2 (0.96%) Electronics
10 2 (0.96%) Front Office
10 2 (0.96%) Law
10 2 (0.96%) Legal
10 2 (0.96%) Local Government
10 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (18.18%) Support Engineer
2 21 (10.05%) IT Engineer
2 21 (10.05%) Senior
3 20 (9.57%) Architect
4 18 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (8.13%) Desktop Support
6 15 (7.18%) Test Manager
7 14 (6.70%) Analyst
7 14 (6.70%) Desktop Engineer
7 14 (6.70%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 11 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 11 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support
8 11 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 11 (5.26%) Administrator
8 11 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
9 10 (4.78%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.78%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 10 (4.78%) Backup Administrator
9 10 (4.78%) ServiceNow Architect
9 10 (4.78%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.66%) REST
2 15 (7.18%) JSON
3 14 (6.70%) AngularJS
3 14 (6.70%) SOAP
4 13 (6.22%) Apache Camel
4 13 (6.22%) HTML
4 13 (6.22%) HTML5
4 13 (6.22%) JDBC
4 13 (6.22%) jQuery
4 13 (6.22%) LDAP
4 13 (6.22%) ODBC
4 13 (6.22%) RabbitMQ
4 13 (6.22%) SAML
4 13 (6.22%) Web Services
5 7 (3.35%) Middleware
6 2 (0.96%) pytest
6 2 (0.96%) RFC 2544
6 2 (0.96%) XML
7 1 (0.48%) Kafka
7 1 (0.48%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 43 (20.57%) Driving Licence
2 39 (18.66%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.78%) Clustering
3 10 (4.78%) Enterprise Storage
3 10 (4.78%) PKI
4 9 (4.31%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.87%) HP Storage
7 5 (2.39%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.39%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.39%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.91%) EMV
8 4 (1.91%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.91%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.91%) Tandem
9 3 (1.44%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.44%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.44%) Replication
9 3 (1.44%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 67 (32.06%) Windows
2 35 (16.75%) Linux
3 20 (9.57%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.22%) Android
5 12 (5.74%) Mac OS
5 12 (5.74%) Windows 10
6 11 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (2.87%) Unix
8 4 (1.91%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.91%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.96%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.96%) Solaris
9 2 (0.96%) Windows 8
9 2 (0.96%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.48%) AIX
10 1 (0.48%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (19.62%) DevOps
2 40 (19.14%) Agile
3 30 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (13.88%) ITIL
5 27 (12.92%) Test Management
6 25 (11.96%) Test Strategy
7 24 (11.48%) Asset Management
8 23 (11.00%) Customer Service
8 23 (11.00%) Test Automation
9 22 (10.53%) Scrum
10 21 (10.05%) User Acceptance Testing
11 20 (9.57%) Ticket Management
12 19 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 19 (9.09%) ITSM
13 18 (8.61%) Microservices
14 17 (8.13%) Defect Management
14 17 (8.13%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (8.13%) Test Planning
15 16 (7.66%) Migration
15 16 (7.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.61%) PowerShell
2 13 (6.22%) JavaScript
2 13 (6.22%) SQL
3 11 (5.26%) Python
4 7 (3.35%) Shell Script
5 5 (2.39%) Bash
5 5 (2.39%) COBOL
6 4 (1.91%) C
7 3 (1.44%) C++
8 2 (0.96%) Java
9 1 (0.48%) C#
9 1 (0.48%) Perl
9 1 (0.48%) VB
9 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 91 (43.54%) Security Cleared
2 80 (38.28%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.05%) DV Cleared
4 17 (8.13%) Degree
5 10 (4.78%) Dell Certification
6 7 (3.35%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.96%) CCNP
8 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.96%) MCITP
8 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.96%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.96%) PMP
8 2 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.48%) CCSE
9 1 (0.48%) HP ASE
9 1 (0.48%) ISEB
9 1 (0.48%) ISEB Practitioner
9 1 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.88%) SLA
2 12 (5.74%) QA
3 5 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.91%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.96%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.48%) COBIT
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 22 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.13%) Hyper-V
3 12 (5.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (4.78%) BitLocker
4 10 (4.78%) Microsoft App-V
4 10 (4.78%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (4.31%) Docker
5 9 (4.31%) Terminal Services
6 4 (1.91%) vSphere
7 2 (0.96%) Firmware
7 2 (0.96%) XenApp
8 1 (0.48%) GPFS
8 1 (0.48%) SRDF
8 1 (0.48%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 43 (20.57%) HP ALM
2 18 (8.61%) Ansible
3 13 (6.22%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (5.74%) Puppet
5 10 (4.78%) Kubernetes
5 10 (4.78%) Nagios
5 10 (4.78%) NetBackup
5 10 (4.78%) vCenter Server
6 9 (4.31%) vMotion
7 5 (2.39%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (1.91%) SCOM
8 4 (1.91%) Terraform
9 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.96%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.96%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.96%) Norton AntiVirus
10 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.96%) vRealize
11 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 82 (39.23%) Dell
2 53 (25.36%) Microsoft
3 42 (20.10%) Cisco
4 29 (13.88%) VMware
5 19 (9.09%) Citrix
6 18 (8.61%) ServiceNow
7 15 (7.18%) Apple
8 14 (6.70%) Remedy
9 13 (6.22%) BMC
9 13 (6.22%) IBM
9 13 (6.22%) Ivanti
9 13 (6.22%) Oracle
10 12 (5.74%) 3PAR
10 12 (5.74%) NetApp
10 12 (5.74%) Red Hat
10 12 (5.74%) Veritas
11 11 (5.26%) Google
11 11 (5.26%) Symantec
12 10 (4.78%) SAP
13 8 (3.83%) Aruba