HP Contracts in the Thames Valley

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South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 54 123
Rank change year-on-year -24 +69 +11
Contract jobs citing HP 24 94 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.59% 3.50% 0.96%
As % of the Vendors category 3.02% 7.30% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 91 18
10th Percentile £218 - £250
25th Percentile £431 £205 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £225 £438
Median % change year-on-year +133.33% -48.57% -
75th Percentile £558 £519 £520
90th Percentile £635 £608 £600
South East median daily rate £525 £285 £450
% change year-on-year +84.21% -36.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £24.66 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.80% - -
South East median hourly rate £24.18 £30.00 -
% change year-on-year -19.40% - -

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 794 1,287 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 52.55% 47.92% 48.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 799 975
10th Percentile £350 £205 £300
25th Percentile £441 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.75% +3.90%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £619
90th Percentile £695 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 71 47
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.59 £23.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.03% +7.14% +276.92%
75th Percentile £46.30 £61.60 £66.21
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing HP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for HP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HP in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for HP in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HP in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for HP in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire -28 19 £532 +147.21% 7
Buckinghamshire +11 4 £215 -2.46% 3
Oxfordshire +2 1 £475 +5.56% 9
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (20.83%) IIS
2 3 (12.50%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (50.00%) DNS
2 8 (33.33%) SMTP
3 7 (29.17%) DHCP
4 5 (20.83%) NetScaler
5 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
6 3 (12.50%) FTP
6 3 (12.50%) tcpdump
6 3 (12.50%) Telnet
7 1 (4.17%) Firewall
7 1 (4.17%) VPN
7 1 (4.17%) WAN
7 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 3 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.17%) Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Electronics
3 1 (4.17%) Legal
3 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Administrator
1 5 (20.83%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Desktop Support
4 1 (4.17%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Network Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Network Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Support
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Test Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) LDAP
2 1 (4.17%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 5 (20.83%) Clustering
2 5 (20.83%) PKI
3 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
5 1 (4.17%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Windows
2 9 (37.50%) Linux
2 9 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (8.33%) Mac OS
5 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
6 1 (4.17%) AIX
6 1 (4.17%) Android
6 1 (4.17%) CentOS
6 1 (4.17%) HPUX
6 1 (4.17%) Solaris
6 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) ITIL
2 5 (20.83%) High Availability
2 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.67%) DevSecOps
3 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
3 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 3 (12.50%) Migration
4 3 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (12.50%) Server Migrations
5 2 (8.33%) Break/Fix
5 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (4.17%) Data Centre Operations
6 1 (4.17%) Hardware Maintenance
6 1 (4.17%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 1 (4.17%) Security Patching
6 1 (4.17%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
1 5 (20.83%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 15 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Dell Certification
3 1 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.83%) vSphere
2 5 (20.83%) XenApp
2 5 (20.83%) XenDesktop
3 3 (12.50%) NFS
3 3 (12.50%) Samba
4 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (20.83%) Ansible
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Clustering
2 5 (20.83%) WSUS
3 4 (16.67%) NetBackup
3 4 (16.67%) yum
4 1 (4.17%) HP ALM
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.17%) Puppet
4 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Dell
1 14 (58.33%) VMware
2 9 (37.50%) Red Hat
3 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
4 5 (20.83%) Citrix
5 4 (16.67%) 3PAR
5 4 (16.67%) Cisco
5 4 (16.67%) Veritas
6 2 (8.33%) Apple
7 1 (4.17%) F5
7 1 (4.17%) IBM
7 1 (4.17%) McAfee
7 1 (4.17%) SAP
7 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow