HP Contract Job Trends in Scotland

HP
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 28 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
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 86 115
Rank change year-on-year -19 +29 +39
Contract jobs citing HP 10 26 30
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.63% 1.49% 1.25%
As % of the Vendors category 1.44% 3.92% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 20
10th Percentile £180 £138 £132
25th Percentile £230 £143 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £294 £165 £327
Median % change year-on-year +78.03% -49.46% +100.92%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £500
90th Percentile - £638 £504
UK median daily rate £290 £400 £406
% change year-on-year -27.50% -1.54% -4.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 3
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.01% +33.13% -
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £23.98 £23.75
% change year-on-year +4.90% +0.95% -0.86%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 696 664 992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 43.55% 38.03% 41.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 365 599
10th Percentile £214 £168 £200
25th Percentile £375 £348 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 41 34
10th Percentile £17.12 £13.64 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.87 £19.59 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £21.19
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% +11.35% +19.55%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £28.38 £73.05
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.42% -32.58% +73.08%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

HP job vacancy trend in Scotland

HP
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing HP

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in Scotland

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing HP

HP
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 November 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
Edinburgh -10 4 £500 +246.21% 1
Glasgow -6 2 £220 -64.80% 1
Aberdeen - 2 £294 -
West Lothian - 1 £135 - 1
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
HP
UK

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) GCP
1 4 (40.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) LAN
2 2 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Legal
2 5 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 4 (40.00%) Retail
4 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (30.00%) Retail Banking
5 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Implementation Specialist
2 3 (30.00%) Implementation Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Implementation Project Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Project Implementation Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Coordinator
4 1 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Project Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (20.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (40.00%) Dependency Management
3 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) ITIL
3 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (40.00%) Runbook
3 4 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (10.00%) Logistics
5 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) SCCM
3 1 (10.00%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (40.00%) Dell
1 4 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (40.00%) F5
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Aruba
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Apple
3 1 (10.00%) Progress
3 1 (10.00%) Remedy