HP Contracts in the North of England

HP
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 173 177
Rank change year-on-year +40 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing HP 35 12 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.06% 0.26% 0.73%
As % of the Vendors category 2.10% 0.61% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 26
10th Percentile £324 £248 £260
25th Percentile £358 £338 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £475 £469 £500
90th Percentile £488 £560 £581
England median daily rate £425 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +21.43% -17.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £18.51 - -
25th Percentile £18.69 - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 - -
75th Percentile £19.94 - -
90th Percentile £46.70 - -
England median hourly rate £18.87 £21.88 £18.84
% change year-on-year -13.74% +16.11% -21.20%

All Vendors
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,670 1,959 2,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 50.39% 42.27% 40.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,147 1,512
10th Percentile £230 £264 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.38% -3.65% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 215 70
10th Percentile £13.84 £10.95 £15.57
25th Percentile £18.60 £12.53 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.58 £15.17 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +94.96% -51.46% +72.51%
75th Percentile £60.00 £24.15 £44.73
90th Percentile £86.00 £45.88 £52.22
England median hourly rate £26.33 £22.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year +19.67% -35.29% +59.10%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for HP in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HP in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for HP in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HP in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for HP in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HP in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 19 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
North West +23 14 £425 +6.25% 3
Yorkshire +22 14 £378 +0.67% 14
North East 0 7 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (5.71%) IIS
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (8.57%) AWS
2 3 (8.57%) Azure
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.71%) Nutanix
3 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Cloudflare
4 1 (2.86%) GCP
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) SAN
2 4 (11.43%) Firewall
3 3 (8.57%) DHCP
3 3 (8.57%) Network Security
3 3 (8.57%) VPN
4 2 (5.71%) DNS
4 2 (5.71%) DWDM
4 2 (5.71%) Ethernet
4 2 (5.71%) Internet
4 2 (5.71%) LAN
4 2 (5.71%) MPLS
4 2 (5.71%) SD-WAN
4 2 (5.71%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (5.71%) WAN
4 2 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (5.71%) Wireless
5 1 (2.86%) NAS
5 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) JIRA
1 4 (11.43%) Selenium
2 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.71%) Git
3 2 (5.71%) TestNG
4 1 (2.86%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (14.29%) Finance
1 5 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (11.43%) Banking
3 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Financial Institution
4 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) IT Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) IT Security Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Network Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Backup Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Desktop Support
6 2 (5.71%) Field Service Technician
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Storage and Backup Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) pytest
1 2 (5.71%) REST
1 2 (5.71%) Software Packaging
2 1 (2.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (14.29%) Driving Licence
3 2 (5.71%) Clustering
3 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.71%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.86%) iPhone
4 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) Linux
1 8 (22.86%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Android
2 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.71%) CentOS
2 2 (5.71%) Windows 10
2 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
2 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.86%) HPUX
3 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 5 (14.29%) Data Protection
2 5 (14.29%) Information Security
2 5 (14.29%) Information Security Management
2 5 (14.29%) ISMS
2 5 (14.29%) Security Management
2 5 (14.29%) Ticket Management
2 5 (14.29%) Zero Trust
3 4 (11.43%) Break/Fix
3 4 (11.43%) Change Management
3 4 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (11.43%) Network Architecture
3 4 (11.43%) Problem Management
3 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (11.43%) Storage Management
3 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
4 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (8.57%) Test Management
5 2 (5.71%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.71%) Bash
2 2 (5.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) CCNP
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) Dell Certification
3 1 (2.86%) HP ASE
3 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.57%) SLA
3 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.57%) Firmware
2 3 (8.57%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Ansible
2 4 (11.43%) Terraform
3 3 (8.57%) HP ALM
3 3 (8.57%) NetBackup
3 3 (8.57%) SCCM
4 2 (5.71%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (5.71%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.71%) Nagios
4 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.71%) Puppet
4 2 (5.71%) vRealize
4 2 (5.71%) ZABBIX
5 1 (2.86%) SCOM
5 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (42.86%) Cisco
2 14 (40.00%) Dell
3 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
4 9 (25.71%) VMware
5 7 (20.00%) Brocade
5 7 (20.00%) EMC
6 5 (14.29%) Fortinet
6 5 (14.29%) IBM
6 5 (14.29%) Veeam
7 3 (8.57%) Aruba
8 2 (5.71%) 3PAR
8 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
8 2 (5.71%) SolarWinds
8 2 (5.71%) Veritas
9 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
9 1 (2.86%) Citrix
9 1 (2.86%) Computacenter
9 1 (2.86%) NetApp
9 1 (2.86%) Sun
9 1 (2.86%) Unisys