HP Contracts in the Midlands

HP
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 20 May 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 121 109
Rank change year-on-year +34 -12 +60
Contract jobs citing HP 32 13 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.60% 0.48% 1.46%
As % of the Vendors category 3.47% 1.17% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 26
10th Percentile £147 £304 £191
25th Percentile £150 £343 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £494 £275
Median % change year-on-year -55.44% +79.55% -22.54%
75th Percentile £413 £588 £397
90th Percentile £478 £589 £475
England median daily rate £438 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +25.00% -17.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - £13.19
25th Percentile - - £16.10
Median hourly rate £18.51 - £18.24
75th Percentile £18.87 - £19.38
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.87 £21.88 £18.84
% change year-on-year -13.74% +16.11% -21.20%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 923 1,115 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 46.03% 41.53% 49.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 720 1,087
10th Percentile £200 £206 £205
25th Percentile £323 £344 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £651 £698 £688
England median daily rate £523 £517 £538
% change year-on-year +1.16% -3.81% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 80 53
10th Percentile £13.76 £10.93 £12.82
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £15.61 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -24.63% +21.79%
75th Percentile £19.63 £26.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £31.76 £42.94 £65.80
England median hourly rate £26.18 £22.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +19.00% -38.89% +68.22%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for HP in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HP in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for HP in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HP in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for HP in the Midlands

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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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +25 26 £185 -42.19% 15
East Midlands +8 6 £358 -37.74% 12
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (3.13%) IIS
1 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.25%) Azure
2 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.13%) AWS
3 1 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) NetScaler
2 2 (6.25%) DNS
2 2 (6.25%) LAN
2 2 (6.25%) SSL
2 2 (6.25%) VPN
2 2 (6.25%) WAN
3 1 (3.13%) ATM
3 1 (3.13%) Converged Networks
3 1 (3.13%) DHCP
3 1 (3.13%) HTTP
3 1 (3.13%) Modbus
3 1 (3.13%) SMTP
3 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.13%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.13%) Introscope
2 1 (3.13%) LoadRunner
General
1 5 (15.63%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Finance
2 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Automotive
4 1 (3.13%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Electronics
4 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.13%) Marketing
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Tester
2 4 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Test Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Administrator
4 2 (6.25%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Applications Tester
5 1 (3.13%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Desktop Support
5 1 (3.13%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Developer
5 1 (3.13%) IT Support
5 1 (3.13%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (3.13%) IT Technician
5 1 (3.13%) Support Technician
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Support Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) Middleware
2 2 (6.25%) Software Packaging
3 1 (3.13%) .NET
3 1 (3.13%) HTML
3 1 (3.13%) J2EE
3 1 (3.13%) Web Services
3 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (40.63%) Driving Licence
2 6 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 6 (18.75%) SCADA
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.13%) APACS
4 1 (3.13%) Clustering
4 1 (3.13%) PKI
4 1 (3.13%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 16 (50.00%) Windows
2 9 (28.13%) Windows 10
3 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.25%) Android
4 2 (6.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.13%) AIX
5 1 (3.13%) Unix
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Agile
2 7 (21.88%) Scrum
3 6 (18.75%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (18.75%) Test Strategy
3 6 (18.75%) User Stories
4 5 (15.63%) Asset Management
4 5 (15.63%) Defect Management
4 5 (15.63%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (15.63%) Systems Engineering
4 5 (15.63%) Test Assurance
4 5 (15.63%) Test Management
4 5 (15.63%) Ticket Management
5 4 (12.50%) Change Management
5 4 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (6.25%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (6.25%) ITIL
7 2 (6.25%) Remote Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.38%) Python
3 2 (6.25%) Perl
4 1 (3.13%) C
4 1 (3.13%) C++
4 1 (3.13%) COBOL
4 1 (3.13%) Java
4 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (53.13%) SC Cleared
1 17 (53.13%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Dell Certification
3 1 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) SLA
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) vSphere
2 1 (3.13%) XenApp
2 1 (3.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) HP ALM
2 2 (6.25%) SCCM
3 1 (3.13%) CA Wily
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (68.75%) Dell
2 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
3 6 (18.75%) Oracle
4 5 (15.63%) MuleSoft
5 2 (6.25%) Cisco
5 2 (6.25%) IBM
5 2 (6.25%) Micro Focus
5 2 (6.25%) Progress
5 2 (6.25%) VMware
6 1 (3.13%) AppDynamics
6 1 (3.13%) Citrix
6 1 (3.13%) Computacenter
6 1 (3.13%) Google
6 1 (3.13%) SAP
6 1 (3.13%) Splunk