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 1 June 2026, 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
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 76 126
Rank change year-on-year -38 +50 +27
Contract jobs citing HP 27 38 28
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.80% 2.21% 0.86%
As % of the Vendors category 2.66% 4.88% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 25
10th Percentile £269 - £375
25th Percentile £290 £153 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £168 £700
Median % change year-on-year +85.22% -76.07% +64.71%
75th Percentile £489 £420 -
90th Percentile £711 £563 -
England median daily rate £283 £450 £375
% change year-on-year -37.22% +20.00% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 0
10th Percentile £18.51 £18.48 -
25th Percentile £18.99 £18.51 -
Median hourly rate £19.33 £18.69 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.42% - -
75th Percentile £24.28 £18.87 -
90th Percentile £25.75 £19.08 -
England median hourly rate £20.09 £18.87 £21.90
% change year-on-year +6.47% -13.84% +15.69%

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 1,015 779 1,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.97% 45.34% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 475 841
10th Percentile £263 £213 £200
25th Percentile £381 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £588 £613 £638
90th Percentile £675 £675 £725
England median daily rate £505 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -2.88% +0.97% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 81 186
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.13 £13.77
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.87 £36.25
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.92% -31.58% -21.29%
75th Percentile £58.75 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.05 £70.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.75 £23.80
% change year-on-year +21.50% +12.39% -39.82%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

HP job vacancy trend in the South West

HP
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 1 June 2026.

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 1 June 2026. 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 -3 14 £313 -37.40%
Bristol -17 10 £210 +35.48% 8
Devon -27 3 - - 1
HP
England

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 13 (48.15%) SNMP
2 5 (18.52%) Skype
3 1 (3.70%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) NonStop SQL
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Consultant
2 11 (40.74%) Management Consultant
3 5 (18.52%) IT Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Break Fix Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Computer Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Field Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Field Hardware Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) BASE24 Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Field Service Technician
5 1 (3.70%) IT Technician
5 1 (3.70%) Lead
5 1 (3.70%) Service Desk Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (48.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Virtual Team
2 4 (14.81%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 20 (74.07%) Windows
2 13 (48.15%) AIX
2 13 (48.15%) Linux
3 7 (25.93%) Android
3 7 (25.93%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Dashboard Development
2 7 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (18.52%) Customer Experience
4 4 (14.81%) Asset Management
4 4 (14.81%) Break/Fix
4 4 (14.81%) Ticket Management
5 2 (7.41%) Customer Service
5 2 (7.41%) Migration
5 2 (7.41%) Project Delivery
5 2 (7.41%) Time Management
6 1 (3.70%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (3.70%) ITIL
6 1 (3.70%) ITSM
6 1 (3.70%) System Integration Testing
6 1 (3.70%) Workflow
6 1 (3.70%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) PowerShell
1 13 (48.15%) Python
1 13 (48.15%) Search Processing Language
1 13 (48.15%) SQL
2 1 (3.70%) C
2 1 (3.70%) C++
2 1 (3.70%) COBOL
2 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (81.48%) Security Cleared
2 19 (70.37%) SC Cleared
3 7 (25.93%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 13 (48.15%) Nagios
1 13 (48.15%) Netcool
1 13 (48.15%) OpenView
1 13 (48.15%) Tivoli
1 13 (48.15%) Tivoli Monitoring
1 13 (48.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) BMC
1 13 (48.15%) SolarWinds
1 13 (48.15%) Splunk
2 12 (44.44%) IBM
3 7 (25.93%) Apple
3 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
4 4 (14.81%) Dell
5 1 (3.70%) Computacenter