HP Contracts in the South East

HP
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 92 137
Rank change year-on-year -4 +45 +54
Contract jobs citing HP 50 107 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.69% 1.96% 1.41%
As % of the Vendors category 3.19% 4.17% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 101 64
10th Percentile £152 £203 £235
25th Percentile £180 £205 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £285 £434
Median % change year-on-year +84.21% -34.30% -3.60%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £549
90th Percentile £599 £608 £635
England median daily rate £425 £375 £425
% change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £22.39 £24.26 -
25th Percentile £24.18 £25.22 -
Median hourly rate £24.42 £26.88 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% - -
75th Percentile £25.81 £28.47 -
90th Percentile £75.59 £29.39 -
England median hourly rate £18.87 £21.88 £18.84
% change year-on-year -13.74% +16.11% -21.20%

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,565 2,565 2,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.75% 46.91% 49.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,044 1,567 1,891
10th Percentile £222 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £386 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £604
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £534
% change year-on-year +1.45% -3.09% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 182 130
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.81 £20.47
Median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%
75th Percentile £58.72 £61.30 £62.88
90th Percentile £72.25 £66.82 £75.08
England median hourly rate £26.45 £22.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +17.56% -40.00% +75.32%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing HP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for HP in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HP in the South East.

Daily rate trend for HP in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in the South East over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for HP in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HP in the South East over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the South East

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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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 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
Thames Valley -26 23 £525 +133.33% 18
Berkshire -24 19 £532 +86.49% 9
Surrey +23 15 £168 -58.52% 2
Hampshire +30 10 £575 +9.52% 15
Buckinghamshire +6 4 £215 -4.63% 1
West Sussex +14 1 - - 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (10.00%) IIS
3 2 (4.00%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.00%) AWS
1 8 (16.00%) GCP
1 8 (16.00%) IaaS
1 8 (16.00%) OpenShift
1 8 (16.00%) PaaS
2 7 (14.00%) Azure
3 4 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (40.00%) DNS
2 15 (30.00%) DHCP
2 15 (30.00%) SMTP
3 11 (22.00%) Firewall
4 10 (20.00%) VPN
5 5 (10.00%) NetScaler
6 4 (8.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (4.00%) FTP
7 2 (4.00%) tcpdump
7 2 (4.00%) Telnet
7 2 (4.00%) Wireless
8 1 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (2.00%) IP Telephony
8 1 (2.00%) VLAN
8 1 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (16.00%) Big Data
1 8 (16.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 11 (22.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (18.00%) Finance
3 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.00%) Telecoms
6 3 (6.00%) Banking
6 3 (6.00%) Electronics
6 3 (6.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (6.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) Support Engineer
2 10 (20.00%) Server Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (16.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (16.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 8 (16.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 7 (14.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (14.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Support
5 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 7 (14.00%) Server Support
5 7 (14.00%) Server Support Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Break Fix Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) Analyst
8 4 (8.00%) IT Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Lead
9 3 (6.00%) Administrator
9 3 (6.00%) Data Centre Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) IT Support
9 3 (6.00%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) LDAP
1 2 (4.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 29 (58.00%) Data Centre
2 13 (26.00%) Clustering
2 13 (26.00%) PKI
3 5 (10.00%) Driving Licence
4 4 (8.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (6.00%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (4.00%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 21 (42.00%) Windows
2 17 (34.00%) Windows Server
3 15 (30.00%) Linux
4 8 (16.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (14.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (4.00%) Mac OS
7 2 (4.00%) Windows 10
8 1 (2.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.00%) Customer Service
2 13 (26.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (24.00%) Break/Fix
4 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (16.00%) DevOps
5 8 (16.00%) Machine Learning
5 8 (16.00%) Software Deployment
6 6 (12.00%) ITIL
7 5 (10.00%) High Availability
7 5 (10.00%) Time Management
8 4 (8.00%) DevSecOps
8 4 (8.00%) Migration
8 4 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (6.00%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (6.00%) Digital Marketing
9 3 (6.00%) Programme Management
9 3 (6.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (6.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (18.00%) DV Cleared
4 8 (16.00%) Degree
5 3 (6.00%) Dell Certification
6 1 (2.00%) CCNA
6 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.00%) HP APS
6 1 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (26.00%) SLA
2 5 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 16 (32.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (18.00%) Hyper-V
2 9 (18.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (16.00%) BitLocker
3 8 (16.00%) Docker
3 8 (16.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (16.00%) Terminal Services
3 8 (16.00%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (10.00%) vSphere
4 5 (10.00%) XenApp
4 5 (10.00%) XenDesktop
5 2 (4.00%) NFS
5 2 (4.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 11 (22.00%) Ansible
2 8 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (16.00%) Nagios
2 8 (16.00%) Puppet
2 8 (16.00%) vCenter Server
2 8 (16.00%) vMotion
3 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (10.00%) WSUS
5 4 (8.00%) NetBackup
6 3 (6.00%) yum
7 2 (4.00%) HP ALM
8 1 (2.00%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (2.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (64.00%) Dell
2 22 (44.00%) VMware
3 19 (38.00%) Microsoft
4 14 (28.00%) IBM
5 13 (26.00%) Citrix
6 8 (16.00%) Google
6 8 (16.00%) Symantec
7 7 (14.00%) Cisco
7 7 (14.00%) Red Hat
8 4 (8.00%) 3PAR
8 4 (8.00%) Veritas
9 3 (6.00%) Apple
9 3 (6.00%) SAP
10 1 (2.00%) CheckPoint
10 1 (2.00%) Commvault
10 1 (2.00%) F5
10 1 (2.00%) Infoblox
10 1 (2.00%) Juniper
10 1 (2.00%) McAfee
10 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds