HP Contracts in the North West

HP
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 130 141
Rank change year-on-year +25 +11 +16
Contract jobs citing HP 15 7 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.76% 0.25% 0.50%
As % of the Vendors category 1.43% 0.64% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 12
10th Percentile £316 £348 £346
25th Percentile £371 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £426
Median % change year-on-year - -0.12% +41.83%
75th Percentile £481 £550 £463
90th Percentile £488 £570 £496
England median daily rate £450 £363 £426
% change year-on-year +24.14% -14.91% +1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £23.80 £18.84
% change year-on-year -11.76% +26.33% -12.37%

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,046 1,096 1,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.15% 39.78% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 645 866
10th Percentile £250 £269 £288
25th Percentile £393 £394 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £587
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 149 57
10th Percentile £16.43 £10.95 £15.41
25th Percentile £24.46 £12.00 £22.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.39 £49.40
90th Percentile £86.00 £46.18 £54.57
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for HP in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for HP in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for HP in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester +18 5 £425 -12.82% 5
Cumbria - 5 £488 -
Cheshire +1 3 £346 +6.54% 4
Merseyside +5 2 £400 - 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (13.33%) IIS
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (13.33%) Nutanix
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) SAN
2 3 (20.00%) DHCP
2 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) Network Security
2 3 (20.00%) VPN
3 2 (13.33%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) DWDM
3 2 (13.33%) Ethernet
3 2 (13.33%) Internet
3 2 (13.33%) LAN
3 2 (13.33%) MPLS
3 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (13.33%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (13.33%) WAN
3 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (13.33%) Wireless
4 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (13.33%) Banking
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Backup Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Storage and Backup Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Storage Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Storage and Backup Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Android
2 2 (13.33%) Apple iOS
2 2 (13.33%) CentOS
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Change Management
1 5 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 5 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 4 (26.67%) Network Architecture
3 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (20.00%) Test Management
4 2 (13.33%) Defect Management
4 2 (13.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) ITSM
4 2 (13.33%) Manual Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Network Design
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Regression Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (26.67%) Firmware
3 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (13.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) NetBackup
2 3 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 3 (20.00%) HP ALM
2 3 (20.00%) HP Data Protector
2 3 (20.00%) SCCM
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) Nagios
3 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 2 (13.33%) ZABBIX
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Cisco
2 5 (33.33%) Brocade
2 5 (33.33%) Dell
2 5 (33.33%) EMC
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) Veritas
4 2 (13.33%) Aruba
4 2 (13.33%) IBM
4 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
4 2 (13.33%) VMware