HP Contract Job Trends in Manchester

HP
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 14 October 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
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 84 100
Rank change year-on-year +9 +16 +31
Contract jobs citing HP 10 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.99% 0.085% 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 2.04% 0.21% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile - - £460
25th Percentile £170 - £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £488 - £541
90th Percentile £645 - £550
North West median daily rate £270 - £500

All Vendors
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 490 486 665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 48.28% 41.36% 40.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 272 476
10th Percentile £305 £363 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £495 £478
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% +3.66% -2.55%
75th Percentile £604 £575 £582
90th Percentile £725 £675 £688
North West median daily rate £471 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 18 27
10th Percentile £13.36 £15.89 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £23.63 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.32 £31.75 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -29.72% +79.18% -56.78%
75th Percentile £31.40 £41.56 £42.50
90th Percentile £32.78 £64.13 £50.13
North West median hourly rate £22.63 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -36.00% +1.03% +45.92%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

HP job vacancy trend in Manchester

HP
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing HP

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in Manchester

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing HP

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 3 (30.00%) IaaS
2 3 (30.00%) PaaS
2 3 (30.00%) SaaS
3 2 (20.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Wireless
2 3 (30.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) DWDM
3 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) Internet
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) MPLS
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (40.00%) Electronics
3 4 (40.00%) Manufacturing
3 4 (40.00%) Marketing
3 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (30.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
1 4 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 4 (40.00%) Desktop Support
1 4 (40.00%) IT Support
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (20.00%) SAP Manager
3 2 (20.00%) SAP Test Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Test Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (30.00%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (30.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Android
1 4 (40.00%) Mac OS
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Unix
2 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
2 4 (40.00%) Programme Management
3 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
4 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Functional Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Test Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Traceability Matrix
4 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) SAP
2 5 (50.00%) Cisco
3 4 (40.00%) Apple
3 4 (40.00%) Dell
4 3 (30.00%) Citrix
4 3 (30.00%) F5
4 3 (30.00%) IBM
4 3 (30.00%) Oracle
4 3 (30.00%) VMware
5 1 (10.00%) Aruba