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 2 January 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
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 108 124
Rank change year-on-year -6 +16 +31
Contract jobs citing HP 19 16 23
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.79% 0.79% 0.78%
As % of the Vendors category 1.99% 1.74% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 18
10th Percentile £171 £206 £341
25th Percentile £193 £220 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £326 £465
Median % change year-on-year -6.51% -29.84% -2.11%
75th Percentile £477 £475 £553
90th Percentile £562 £580 £591
England median daily rate £210 £400 £375
% change year-on-year -47.50% +6.67% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile £18.22 £18.26 -
25th Percentile - £18.36 -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £18.51 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.86 £24.18 £24.00
% change year-on-year -9.58% +0.75% +0.38%

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 955 921 1,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 39.50% 45.73% 40.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 561 785
10th Percentile £225 £220 £224
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -3.67% +3.81%
75th Percentile £619 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £700
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 42 121
10th Percentile £14.92 £12.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.51 £46.39
Median hourly rate £23.83 £62.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -61.88% +10.64% -13.09%
75th Percentile £43.11 £69.69 £69.62
90th Percentile £70.88 £74.94 £76.25
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -20.58% -34.61% +69.93%

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

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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 2 January 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 2 January 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
Bristol -2 10 £210 -53.33% 1
Somerset -2 3 £450 -
Devon +9 2 - - 3
Gloucestershire -5 2 £171 -22.27% 4
Wiltshire -19 2 £375 +10.29% 3
HP
England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (5.26%) SSL
1 1 (5.26%) WebEx
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (15.79%) Analyst
1 3 (15.79%) Field Engineer
1 3 (15.79%) Support Analyst
2 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Break Fix Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Developer
2 2 (10.53%) Field Hardware Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Hardware Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Installations Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) IT Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) IT Technician
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Migration Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Camel
1 1 (5.26%) HTML
1 1 (5.26%) HTML5
1 1 (5.26%) JDBC
1 1 (5.26%) jQuery
1 1 (5.26%) JSON
1 1 (5.26%) LDAP
1 1 (5.26%) ODBC
1 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (5.26%) REST
1 1 (5.26%) SAML
1 1 (5.26%) SOAP
1 1 (5.26%) Web Services
1 1 (5.26%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) Driving Licence
2 2 (10.53%) Chip and PIN
3 1 (5.26%) FMCG
3 1 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Asset Management
1 10 (52.63%) Ticket Management
2 4 (21.05%) Time Management
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.53%) Agile
4 2 (10.53%) Customer Service
4 2 (10.53%) Migration
5 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.26%) Configuration Management
5 1 (5.26%) Defect Management
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 1 (5.26%) ITSM
5 1 (5.26%) Operational Stability
5 1 (5.26%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (5.26%) Scrum
5 1 (5.26%) Server Management
5 1 (5.26%) Task Automation
5 1 (5.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) Security Cleared
2 12 (63.16%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Dell Certification
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) AirWatch
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (5.26%) HP ALM
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) Puppet
2 1 (5.26%) SCCM
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Dell
2 5 (26.32%) Computacenter
3 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco
4 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.26%) Apple
5 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
5 1 (5.26%) BMC
5 1 (5.26%) Citrix
5 1 (5.26%) Ivanti
5 1 (5.26%) Remedy
5 1 (5.26%) SAP
5 1 (5.26%) VMware