HP Contracts in the Thames Valley

HP
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 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 93 102
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 +31
Contract jobs citing HP 22 34 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.32% 1.45% 1.54%
As % of the Vendors category 2.33% 2.96% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 28
10th Percentile £358 £205 £148
25th Percentile £372 £213 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £590 £360
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% +63.89% -28.00%
75th Percentile £541 £608 £519
90th Percentile £575 - £588
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £350
% change year-on-year -4.76% +50.00% -26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.19 -
South East median hourly rate £103.57 £16.97 -
% change year-on-year +510.30% - -

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 943 1,148 1,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 56.70% 48.91% 50.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 665 975
10th Percentile £300 £255 £263
25th Percentile £403 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £663 £716 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 54 52
10th Percentile £14.02 £14.50 £14.23
25th Percentile £14.20 £18.91 £18.08
Median hourly rate £18.87 £48.79 £38.65
Median % change year-on-year -61.32% +26.23% +134.24%
75th Percentile £44.33 £61.60 £64.88
90th Percentile £69.75 £67.93 £69.78
South East median hourly rate £19.46 £57.35 £46.25
% change year-on-year -66.08% +24.00% +137.18%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +4 20 £450 -25.00% 13
Buckinghamshire +2 2 £425 +33.33% 1
HP
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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) Azure
1 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (4.55%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) SAN
2 3 (13.64%) Firewall
3 2 (9.09%) DHCP
3 2 (9.09%) DNS
3 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) SoapUI
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Administrator
2 9 (40.91%) Backup Administrator
2 9 (40.91%) Storage Administrator
2 9 (40.91%) Storage and Backup Administrator
3 5 (22.73%) HP Storage Administrator
3 5 (22.73%) Senior
4 4 (18.18%) Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Consultant
4 4 (18.18%) QA Consultant
4 4 (18.18%) Senior Consultant
4 4 (18.18%) Test Analyst
5 3 (13.64%) Lead
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) Network Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Test Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) RFC 2544
2 1 (4.55%) SOAP
2 1 (4.55%) XML
2 1 (4.55%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 4 (18.18%) HP Storage
3 2 (9.09%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Linux
1 10 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (40.91%) Windows
3 6 (27.27%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
6 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) ITIL
2 7 (31.82%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
5 4 (18.18%) CMMI
5 4 (18.18%) Process Improvement
5 4 (18.18%) Test Management
5 4 (18.18%) TMMi
6 3 (13.64%) Agile
6 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (13.64%) High Availability
6 3 (13.64%) Manual Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Migration
6 3 (13.64%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Software Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (13.64%) Test Scripting
6 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
6 3 (13.64%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.55%) Bash
2 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 13 (59.09%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) ISEB
4 1 (4.55%) ISEB Practitioner
4 1 (4.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) QA
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) NetBackup
2 8 (36.36%) HP ALM
3 4 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (4.55%) Ansible
4 1 (4.55%) yum
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) 3PAR
1 10 (45.45%) Red Hat
1 10 (45.45%) Veritas
2 7 (31.82%) Dell
2 7 (31.82%) NetApp
2 7 (31.82%) Nimble Storage
3 3 (13.64%) Cisco
3 3 (13.64%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) Aruba
4 1 (4.55%) Compaq
4 1 (4.55%) F5
4 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.55%) JDA
4 1 (4.55%) Juniper
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Terracotta
4 1 (4.55%) webMethods