HP ALM Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring HP ALM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 352 387
Rank change year-on-year -6 +35 +93
Contract jobs citing HP ALM 26 10 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.058% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.02% 0.44% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 21
10th Percentile £269 £300 £413
25th Percentile £425 £375 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.53% +19.30%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £545
90th Percentile £561 £541 £560
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +22.09%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

HP ALM falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,541 2,294 2,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.97% 13.31% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,707 1,507 1,996
10th Percentile £231 £253 £273
25th Percentile £381 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.82% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £613
90th Percentile £638 £651 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 36 120
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.57 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £33.00
Median hourly rate £21.39 £37.08 £47.01
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% -21.11% +113.66%
75th Percentile £63.68 £54.13 £74.53
90th Percentile £79.25 £74.22 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £36.17 £55.00
% change year-on-year -28.11% -34.25% +130.03%

HP ALM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HP ALM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

HP ALM job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

HP ALM
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HP ALM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HP ALM

HP ALM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP ALM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP ALM in the UK excluding London

HP ALM
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HP ALM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing HP ALM

HP ALM
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP ALM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
South East +12 10 £525 - 3
Midlands -8 8 £425 +6.25%
West Midlands -12 8 £425 +41.67%
North West -8 5 £270 -
North of England -23 5 £270 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 -
South West - 1 £450 - 1
Wales - 1 - -
HP ALM
UK

HP ALM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (7.69%) Workday HCM
3 1 (3.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
1 7 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (11.54%) OCI
3 2 (7.69%) SaaS
3 2 (7.69%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) LAN
1 5 (19.23%) WAN
2 4 (15.38%) Wireshark
3 2 (7.69%) Firewall
4 1 (3.85%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 13 (50.00%) JIRA
2 4 (15.38%) TestRail
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Telecoms
3 5 (19.23%) Finance
4 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Test Manager
2 5 (19.23%) Network Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Test Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Consultant
3 4 (15.38%) QA Consultant
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Consultant
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
4 3 (11.54%) Test Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Test Leader
4 3 (11.54%) Tester
4 3 (11.54%) UAT Tester
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Network Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) SAP Manager
5 2 (7.69%) SAP Test Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Workday Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.69%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) SCADA
3 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
1 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Test Management
2 12 (46.15%) DevOps
2 12 (46.15%) Test Strategy
3 9 (34.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (34.62%) Test Automation
3 9 (34.62%) Test Scripting
3 9 (34.62%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (30.77%) Defect Management
4 8 (30.77%) End-to-End Testing
5 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (23.08%) Integration Testing
6 6 (23.08%) System Integration Testing
6 6 (23.08%) Test Planning
7 5 (19.23%) Agile
7 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (19.23%) Regression Testing
7 5 (19.23%) Remote Testing
8 4 (15.38%) Process Improvement
8 4 (15.38%) SDLC
8 4 (15.38%) TMMi
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) ISTQB
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.85%) SCCM
2 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (100.00%) HP
2 7 (26.92%) Cisco
3 5 (19.23%) Micro Focus
3 5 (19.23%) Progress
4 3 (11.54%) Oracle
5 2 (7.69%) SAP
5 2 (7.69%) Workday
6 1 (3.85%) JDA
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.85%) Sparx