HP Contracts in the UK excluding London

HP
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 171 217 231
Rank change year-on-year +46 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing HP 183 190 252
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.43% 0.91% 1.05%
As % of the Vendors category 2.94% 2.14% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 170 182
10th Percentile £150 £180 £189
25th Percentile £171 £213 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% -11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £539 £588 £538
90th Percentile £588 £700 £613
UK median daily rate £421 £375 £443
% change year-on-year +12.27% -15.27% +5.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 4 4
10th Percentile - £25.54 £13.19
25th Percentile £18.51 £28.41 £16.10
Median hourly rate £19.94 £30.00 £18.24
Median % change year-on-year -33.55% +64.52% +8.38%
75th Percentile £24.18 £36.25 £19.38
90th Percentile £25.12 £47.50 -
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £23.80 £18.84
% change year-on-year -11.76% +26.33% -12.37%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,222 8,861 10,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.74% 42.66% 44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 5,339 7,359
10th Percentile £215 £205 £205
25th Percentile £369 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 940 476
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.79 £14.31
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%
75th Percentile £58.63 £58.70 £63.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing HP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for HP in the UK excluding London

HP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for HP in the UK excluding London

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in the UK excluding London

HP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for HP in the UK excluding London

HP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the UK excluding London

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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 within the UK excluding London 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
South East -1 60 £525 +84.21% 79
South West +57 40 £326 -53.39% 42
North of England +37 32 £413 -2.94% 45
Midlands +28 25 £175 -60.00% 56
West Midlands +24 20 £150 -58.33% 34
Scotland +18 18 £189 -53.90% 11
North West +25 15 £425 - 21
East of England +35 9 £525 -4.55% 30
Yorkshire +12 9 £378 +0.67% 18
North East +6 8 £550 -8.33% 6
East Midlands +7 5 £358 -37.74% 15
Wales +2 2 - - 7
Northern Ireland -8 1 - - 2
HP
UK

HP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (6.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.92%) IIS
3 3 (1.64%) Apache
4 1 (0.55%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (7.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.64%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.55%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (3.83%) BASE24
2 3 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.55%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (6.56%) Azure
3 11 (6.01%) AWS
4 9 (4.92%) GCP
5 8 (4.37%) IaaS
5 8 (4.37%) OpenShift
5 8 (4.37%) PaaS
6 3 (1.64%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.09%) Apple Pay
7 2 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.09%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.55%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.55%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 29 (15.85%) DNS
2 22 (12.02%) DHCP
3 18 (9.84%) Firewall
4 17 (9.29%) SMTP
4 17 (9.29%) VPN
5 8 (4.37%) NetScaler
5 8 (4.37%) SAN
6 7 (3.83%) ATM
7 6 (3.28%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.28%) Wireless
8 4 (2.19%) Network Security
8 4 (2.19%) SSL
8 4 (2.19%) WAN
9 3 (1.64%) FTP
9 3 (1.64%) Internet
9 3 (1.64%) LAN
9 3 (1.64%) tcpdump
9 3 (1.64%) Telnet
10 2 (1.09%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (4.37%) Big Data
1 8 (4.37%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (3.83%) NonStop SQL
3 3 (1.64%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.37%) JIRA
2 4 (2.19%) Git
2 4 (2.19%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.19%) Selenium
3 2 (1.09%) TestNG
3 2 (1.09%) VersaTest
4 1 (0.55%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.55%) GitLab
4 1 (0.55%) Introscope
4 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.55%) Zephyr
General
1 42 (22.95%) Finance
1 42 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.39%) Public Sector
3 16 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.92%) Banking
4 9 (4.92%) Telecoms
5 8 (4.37%) Electronics
5 8 (4.37%) Manufacturing
5 8 (4.37%) Marketing
6 6 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.73%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.09%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.09%) Legal
9 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (24.59%) Support Engineer
2 30 (16.39%) IT Engineer
3 26 (14.21%) Desktop Support
4 23 (12.57%) Desktop Engineer
4 23 (12.57%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 23 (12.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (8.74%) Server Engineer
6 11 (6.01%) Break Fix Engineer
7 9 (4.92%) Deployment Engineer
7 9 (4.92%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
8 8 (4.37%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 8 (4.37%) 3rd Line Support
8 8 (4.37%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 8 (4.37%) Administrator
9 7 (3.83%) Architect
9 7 (3.83%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 7 (3.83%) IT Support
9 7 (3.83%) Network Engineer
9 7 (3.83%) Server Support
9 7 (3.83%) Server Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.83%) Middleware
2 3 (1.64%) LDAP
2 3 (1.64%) Web Services
3 2 (1.09%) pytest
3 2 (1.09%) REST
3 2 (1.09%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.55%) .NET
4 1 (0.55%) CSS
4 1 (0.55%) HTML
4 1 (0.55%) J2EE
4 1 (0.55%) Redfish
4 1 (0.55%) RESTful
4 1 (0.55%) RFC 2544
4 1 (0.55%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (27.87%) Driving Licence
2 39 (21.31%) Data Centre
3 16 (8.74%) Clustering
3 16 (8.74%) PKI
4 7 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.73%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (2.73%) SCADA
6 5 (2.73%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (2.19%) EMV
7 4 (2.19%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.64%) Replication
8 3 (1.64%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.09%) Blackberry
9 2 (1.09%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (1.09%) iPhone
9 2 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.09%) Tandem
10 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 60 (32.79%) Windows
2 38 (20.77%) Linux
3 26 (14.21%) Windows Server
4 18 (9.84%) Windows 10
5 17 (9.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.92%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (3.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (2.73%) Ubuntu
9 4 (2.19%) HPUX
9 4 (2.19%) Mac OS
9 4 (2.19%) Solaris
10 3 (1.64%) Android
10 3 (1.64%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.64%) CentOS
10 3 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (1.09%) AIX
11 2 (1.09%) Unix
12 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.55%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (14.75%) Customer Service
2 26 (14.21%) Break/Fix
2 26 (14.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (13.11%) Asset Management
4 23 (12.57%) Customer Experience
4 23 (12.57%) Mathematics
4 23 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (12.02%) Ticket Management
6 15 (8.20%) Agile
6 15 (8.20%) ITIL
7 13 (7.10%) Change Management
8 11 (6.01%) DevOps
8 11 (6.01%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (6.01%) High Availability
8 11 (6.01%) ITSM
9 10 (5.46%) Migration
9 10 (5.46%) Software Deployment
9 10 (5.46%) Test Management
10 8 (4.37%) Digital Marketing
10 8 (4.37%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (12.02%) PowerShell
2 8 (4.37%) Python
3 6 (3.28%) Shell Script
4 5 (2.73%) COBOL
5 4 (2.19%) Bash
5 4 (2.19%) C++
6 2 (1.09%) C
6 2 (1.09%) Groovy
6 2 (1.09%) Perl
7 1 (0.55%) C-shell
7 1 (0.55%) Java
7 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (50.82%) Security Cleared
2 80 (43.72%) SC Cleared
3 28 (15.30%) Dell Certification
4 15 (8.20%) DV Cleared
5 13 (7.10%) Degree
6 4 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.09%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.09%) CCNA
7 2 (1.09%) HP APS
7 2 (1.09%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.55%) CCNP
8 1 (0.55%) HP ASE
8 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.55%) MCP
8 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (22.40%) SLA
2 9 (4.92%) QA
3 5 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.64%) ISO 8583
4 3 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (16.94%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.01%) Hyper-V
3 11 (6.01%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (4.37%) BitLocker
4 8 (4.37%) Docker
4 8 (4.37%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (4.37%) Terminal Services
5 7 (3.83%) vSphere
6 6 (3.28%) XenApp
6 6 (3.28%) XenDesktop
7 5 (2.73%) Firmware
8 3 (1.64%) NFS
8 3 (1.64%) Samba
9 2 (1.09%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.55%) Xen
Systems Management
1 19 (10.38%) Ansible
2 14 (7.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (7.10%) SCCM
4 12 (6.56%) Puppet
5 11 (6.01%) Nagios
6 10 (5.46%) HP ALM
7 9 (4.92%) vCenter Server
8 8 (4.37%) Kubernetes
8 8 (4.37%) NetBackup
8 8 (4.37%) vMotion
9 7 (3.83%) WSUS
10 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Clustering
11 4 (2.19%) Terraform
11 4 (2.19%) yum
12 3 (1.64%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (1.64%) HP Data Protector
12 3 (1.64%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.09%) Cisco Prime
13 2 (1.09%) FortiGate
13 2 (1.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 106 (57.92%) Dell
2 66 (36.07%) Microsoft
3 38 (20.77%) VMware
4 27 (14.75%) IBM
5 25 (13.66%) Cisco
6 15 (8.20%) Citrix
7 13 (7.10%) Red Hat
8 9 (4.92%) Google
8 9 (4.92%) SAP
9 8 (4.37%) Brocade
9 8 (4.37%) EMC
9 8 (4.37%) ServiceNow
9 8 (4.37%) Symantec
10 7 (3.83%) Veritas
11 6 (3.28%) 3PAR
11 6 (3.28%) Apple
11 6 (3.28%) Fortinet
11 6 (3.28%) Oracle
12 5 (2.73%) Aruba
12 5 (2.73%) Veeam