HP ALM Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring HP ALM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 117 129
Rank change year-on-year -44 +12 +49
Contract jobs citing HP ALM 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.12% 0.093% 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.76% 0.87% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £421
25th Percentile £425 £463 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% +94.74%
75th Percentile £475 £488 £484
90th Percentile - - £494
England median daily rate £400 £475 £514
% change year-on-year -15.79% -7.50% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
England median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 524 231 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.79% 10.71% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 149 213
10th Percentile £213 £185 £188
25th Percentile £402 £320 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +15.29% -10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £648 £685 £670
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.76% -2.33% -8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile - £12.18 £15.34
25th Percentile £16.25 £12.94 £16.24
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.19 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +122.36% -8.63% -
75th Percentile £77.25 £17.89 £36.36
90th Percentile £77.40 £18.13 £47.54
England median hourly rate £48.36 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +82.49% -42.62% +19.95%

HP ALM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

HP ALM job vacancy trend in the Midlands

HP ALM
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing HP ALM

HP ALM
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing HP ALM

HP ALM
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 January 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
West Midlands -36 4 £450 -5.26% 1
HP ALM
England

HP ALM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) JMeter
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Workday Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Payroll Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ADO
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Defect Management
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Regression Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Data Management
3 2 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
3 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Management
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) HP
2 3 (75.00%) Workday
3 2 (50.00%) SAP
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle