HP ALM Contract Job Trends in the South East

HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring HP ALM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 171 192
Rank change year-on-year +12 +21 +64
Contract jobs citing HP ALM 10 5 13
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.28% 0.12% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.82% 0.82% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 13
10th Percentile £480 £434 -
25th Percentile £500 £484 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year - +2.24% +20.83%
75th Percentile £559 £541 £560
90th Percentile £571 £547 £582
England median daily rate £475 £500 £528
% change year-on-year -5.00% -5.21% +11.05%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

HP ALM falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 548 613 711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.29% 14.38% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 452 491
10th Percentile £254 £275 £206
25th Percentile £393 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £638
90th Percentile £619 £688 £713
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 27
10th Percentile £18.87 £26.90 £24.20
25th Percentile £19.00 £31.00 £44.20
Median hourly rate £20.00 £36.17 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.70% -34.25% +22.22%
75th Percentile £69.00 £45.50 £74.36
90th Percentile £89.63 £54.80 £76.53
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -9.33% -28.57% +119.57%

HP ALM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

HP ALM job vacancy trend in the South East

HP ALM
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HP ALM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HP ALM

HP ALM
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HP ALM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HP ALM

HP ALM
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP ALM within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Thames Valley +22 8 £513 -2.38%
Berkshire +16 7 £525 -
Hampshire +5 3 £569 +5.76%
Buckinghamshire - 1 £500 -
HP ALM
England

HP ALM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (30.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) OCI
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Consultant
1 4 (40.00%) QA Consultant
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
1 4 (40.00%) Senior Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Test Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Test Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Network Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Test Management
2 4 (40.00%) CMMI
2 4 (40.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Process Improvement
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (40.00%) TMMi
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Defect Management
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Technology Transformation
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Test Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) HP
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) JDA