HP Contract Job Trends in the South West

HP
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 134 143
Rank change year-on-year +43 +9 -23
Contract jobs citing HP 24 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.22% 0.26% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 2.94% 0.59% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £171 £213 £283
25th Percentile £186 - £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £220 £425
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -48.24% +6.25%
75th Percentile £504 £475 £514
90th Percentile £564 - £572
England median daily rate £463 £450 £440
% change year-on-year +2.78% +2.26% +3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £18.22 - -
25th Percentile £18.51 - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £18.13 £23.50
% change year-on-year +38.72% -22.85% -1.71%

All Vendors
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 815 1,193 1,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 41.27% 44.87% 38.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 719 844
10th Percentile £220 £224 £263
25th Percentile £350 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £614 £636 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 97 91
10th Percentile £13.67 £15.50 £19.00
25th Percentile £18.51 £61.25 £46.22
Median hourly rate £21.98 £70.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -68.60% +23.92% +4.61%
75th Percentile £53.61 - £69.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.18 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -24.93% -23.58% +83.33%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for HP in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in the South West over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in the South West

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

HP
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Wiltshire +20 9 £375 - 7
Bristol +15 6 - - 6
Somerset - 5 £450 - 8
Gloucestershire +17 2 £171 -22.27% 6
Devon - 2 - - 5
HP
England

HP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) BASE24
2 1 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) ATM
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (4.17%) SSL
2 1 (4.17%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) VersaTest
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) IT Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Support Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Desktop Support
3 4 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) BASE24 Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Installations Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Service Desk Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Service Desk Support
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Camel
1 1 (4.17%) HTML
1 1 (4.17%) HTML5
1 1 (4.17%) JDBC
1 1 (4.17%) jQuery
1 1 (4.17%) JSON
1 1 (4.17%) LDAP
1 1 (4.17%) ODBC
1 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (4.17%) REST
1 1 (4.17%) SAML
1 1 (4.17%) SOAP
1 1 (4.17%) Web Services
1 1 (4.17%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (58.33%) Driving Licence
2 3 (12.50%) EMV
3 2 (8.33%) Chip and PIN
4 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.17%) FMCG
4 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.17%) Tandem
4 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
2 4 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Asset Management
1 10 (41.67%) Ticket Management
2 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 4 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 3 (12.50%) Agile
4 3 (12.50%) DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) Migration
5 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (8.33%) Regulatory Change
5 2 (8.33%) Scrum
5 2 (8.33%) Time Management
6 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (4.17%) Integration Patterns
6 1 (4.17%) Operational Stability
6 1 (4.17%) Project Delivery
6 1 (4.17%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (4.17%) Server Management
6 1 (4.17%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) COBOL
2 1 (4.17%) C
2 1 (4.17%) C++
2 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (70.83%) Security Cleared
2 16 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) Dell Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) SLA
2 2 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) ISO 8583
3 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.17%) AirWatch
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (4.17%) HP ALM
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.17%) Puppet
2 1 (4.17%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (70.83%) Dell
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) Computacenter
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco
4 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) Apple
5 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.17%) BMC
5 1 (4.17%) Citrix
5 1 (4.17%) Ivanti
5 1 (4.17%) Remedy
5 1 (4.17%) SAP
5 1 (4.17%) VMware