HP Contract Job Trends in Reading

HP
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 3 November 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
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 89 55
Rank change year-on-year +25 -34 +29
Contract jobs citing HP 7 6 37
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.07% 0.56% 3.43%
As % of the Vendors category 1.61% 1.10% 6.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 34
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £358 £513 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £525 £210
Median % change year-on-year -30.48% +150.00% -58.00%
75th Percentile £474 £608 £218
90th Percentile £535 - £386
Berkshire median daily rate £395 £525 £210
% change year-on-year -24.76% +150.00% -58.00%

All Vendors
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 434 545 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 66.26% 50.60% 51.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 311 367
10th Percentile £313 £363 £213
25th Percentile £457 £475 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £582 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +7.78% +3.35%
75th Percentile £613 £660 £625
90th Percentile £650 £723 £699
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 10
10th Percentile £14.55 £14.50 £54.56
25th Percentile £14.75 £20.75 £61.04
Median hourly rate £27.50 £58.49 £63.40
Median % change year-on-year -52.98% -7.74% +47.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.60 £67.42
90th Percentile £79.20 £72.21 £75.42
Berkshire median hourly rate £20.79 £58.30 £61.79
% change year-on-year -64.34% -5.65% +43.88%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

HP job vacancy trend in Reading

HP
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing HP

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in Reading over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in Reading

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing HP

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Advertising
2 2 (28.57%) Marketing
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Administrator
1 3 (42.86%) Backup Administrator
1 3 (42.86%) Storage Administrator
1 3 (42.86%) Storage and Backup Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) HP Storage Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Marketing Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (28.57%) HP Storage
1 2 (28.57%) Social Media
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) B2B
1 2 (28.57%) Content Marketing
1 2 (28.57%) Creative Marketing
1 2 (28.57%) Direct Marketing
1 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
1 2 (28.57%) Marketing Strategy
1 2 (28.57%) Performance Measurement
1 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (28.57%) Process Management
1 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (14.29%) Test Management
2 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) NetBackup
2 1 (14.29%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) 3PAR
1 2 (28.57%) Dell
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 2 (28.57%) Veritas
2 1 (14.29%) Aruba
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Juniper
2 1 (14.29%) NetApp
2 1 (14.29%) Nimble Storage
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle