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 with a requirement for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HP over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 234 228
Rank change year-on-year +19 -6 -31
Contract jobs citing HP 184 237 329
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.91% 1.02% 1.07%
As % of the Vendors category 2.12% 2.28% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 169 229
10th Percentile £158 £178 £163
25th Percentile £213 £250 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £488
90th Percentile £700 £625 £557
UK median daily rate £350 £440 £425
% change year-on-year -20.45% +3.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 26
10th Percentile - £13.19 £10.72
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.10 £13.03
Median hourly rate £20.94 £18.24 £18.63
Median % change year-on-year +14.83% -2.09% +28.45%
75th Percentile £25.41 £19.38 £23.56
90th Percentile £28.16 - £56.00
UK median hourly rate £19.07 £18.84 £23.91
% change year-on-year +1.19% -21.20% +64.90%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

HP is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,668 10,397 12,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.64% 44.65% 40.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,214 7,122 8,303
10th Percentile £206 £205 £188
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.90%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £575
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 964 472 654
10th Percentile £11.86 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%
75th Percentile £59.93 £62.13 £36.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £56.57
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the UK excluding London

HP
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 14 May 2024. 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 +44 107 £285 -34.30% 31
South West +25 27 £700 +57.75% 21
Scotland +18 17 £197 -60.30% 5
Midlands -6 15 £438 +59.09% 18
North of England -1 12 £400 -11.11% 23
East Midlands +7 8 £575 +142.11% 8
West Midlands +2 7 £400 +14.29% 10
North West +16 5 £400 -11.11% 11
Yorkshire +10 5 £375 -11.76% 11
East of England +5 5 £550 +15.79% 11
North East +9 2 £600 +26.32% 1
Wales +9 1 £135 -18.18% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £190 - 1
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 22 (11.96%) Confluence
2 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.63%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (1.63%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.54%) OpenEdge
4 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 43 (23.37%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.63%) SAP EWM
2 3 (1.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.54%) MFGPRO
3 1 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.54%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 25 (13.59%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (11.96%) Azure
3 15 (8.15%) OCI
4 6 (3.26%) Entra ID
4 6 (3.26%) SaaS
5 4 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.09%) AWS
7 1 (0.54%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.54%) Commercetools
7 1 (0.54%) GCP
7 1 (0.54%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (20.11%) SAN
2 28 (15.22%) LAN
3 25 (13.59%) Firewall
4 20 (10.87%) DNS
5 19 (10.33%) DHCP
6 12 (6.52%) WAN
7 10 (5.43%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (3.80%) VPN
9 6 (3.26%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (3.26%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (3.26%) TCP/IP
10 4 (2.17%) NAS
11 3 (1.63%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (1.63%) Wireless
12 2 (1.09%) Network Security
12 2 (1.09%) VLAN
13 1 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
13 1 (0.54%) Internet
13 1 (0.54%) PBX
13 1 (0.54%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.54%) MySQL
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 30 (16.30%) JIRA
2 24 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 22 (11.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 22 (11.96%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.72%) ClearCase
4 5 (2.72%) ClearQuest
5 3 (1.63%) Git
5 3 (1.63%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (1.09%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.09%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.54%) JMeter
7 1 (0.54%) Postman
7 1 (0.54%) Selenium
7 1 (0.54%) Zephyr
General
1 113 (61.41%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.57%) Organisational Skills
3 24 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.78%) Aerospace
5 13 (7.07%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.98%) Finance
7 8 (4.35%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.26%) Legal
9 4 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.63%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.09%) Advertising
11 2 (1.09%) Electronics
11 2 (1.09%) Marketing
11 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Back Office
12 1 (0.54%) Banking
12 1 (0.54%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (14.67%) Support Engineer
2 26 (14.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 24 (13.04%) Hardware Engineer
4 22 (11.96%) Desktop Support
5 20 (10.87%) Desktop Engineer
5 20 (10.87%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 18 (9.78%) Developer
7 16 (8.70%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
8 13 (7.07%) Network Engineer
8 13 (7.07%) Storage Engineer
9 12 (6.52%) Analyst
10 11 (5.98%) Server Engineer
11 10 (5.43%) Data Centre Engineer
12 8 (4.35%) Break Fix Engineer
13 7 (3.80%) Linux Engineer
13 7 (3.80%) Support Specialist
14 6 (3.26%) Technical Specialist
14 6 (3.26%) Technical Support
14 6 (3.26%) Technical Support Specialist
14 6 (3.26%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.96%) .NET
1 22 (11.96%) .NET Core
2 2 (1.09%) Redfish
3 1 (0.54%) LDAP
3 1 (0.54%) SOAP
3 1 (0.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (23.91%) Driving Licence
2 37 (20.11%) Data Centre
3 16 (8.70%) Video Conferencing
4 10 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.35%) iPhone
6 6 (3.26%) HP Storage
7 5 (2.72%) Clustering
7 5 (2.72%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (2.72%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.63%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.09%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.09%) PKI
10 2 (1.09%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.54%) BYOD
11 1 (0.54%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.54%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 96 (52.17%) Windows
2 66 (35.87%) Windows 10
3 58 (31.52%) Linux
4 36 (19.57%) Windows 7
5 23 (12.50%) Windows Server
6 22 (11.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (10.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 18 (9.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 15 (8.15%) Unix
9 15 (8.15%) Windows XP
10 11 (5.98%) Solaris
11 6 (3.26%) AIX
11 6 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (2.17%) Mac OS
13 3 (1.63%) Apple iOS
13 3 (1.63%) Mac OS X
13 3 (1.63%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (1.09%) Android
15 1 (0.54%) HPUX
15 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (42.93%) ITIL
2 78 (42.39%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (29.89%) Customer Service
4 29 (15.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 25 (13.59%) OO
6 24 (13.04%) Configuration Management
7 23 (12.50%) Break/Fix
7 23 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
8 22 (11.96%) CI/CD
8 22 (11.96%) Infrastructure Automation
8 22 (11.96%) OOP
8 22 (11.96%) Task Automation
9 20 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
9 20 (10.87%) Performance Tuning
10 18 (9.78%) Customer Requirements
10 18 (9.78%) Project Management
10 18 (9.78%) Software Deployment
10 18 (9.78%) Software Testing
11 17 (9.24%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (23.37%) PowerShell
2 25 (13.59%) Python
3 8 (4.35%) SQL
4 5 (2.72%) C
5 3 (1.63%) Bash
5 3 (1.63%) C++
5 3 (1.63%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.09%) Perl
7 1 (0.54%) Java
Qualifications
1 110 (59.78%) Security Cleared
2 62 (33.70%) DV Cleared
3 57 (30.98%) SC Cleared
4 42 (22.83%) Degree
5 15 (8.15%) CCNP
5 15 (8.15%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (7.61%) CCNA
7 6 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.72%) Dell Certification
9 3 (1.63%) MCP
9 3 (1.63%) MCSE
10 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.54%) MCSA
11 1 (0.54%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.96%) SLA
2 3 (1.63%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (1.63%) QA
3 1 (0.54%) GDPR
3 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (16.85%) Active Directory
2 26 (14.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (13.04%) Hyper-V
4 23 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (8.70%) Firmware
6 4 (2.17%) vSphere
7 3 (1.63%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.54%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.54%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 55 (29.89%) SCCM
2 27 (14.67%) Ansible
3 23 (12.50%) NetBackup
4 22 (11.96%) PowerCLI
5 20 (10.87%) EMC NetWorker
6 19 (10.33%) SCOM
7 18 (9.78%) vCenter Server
8 14 (7.61%) WSUS
9 8 (4.35%) HP ALM
10 7 (3.80%) AirWatch
10 7 (3.80%) HP Quality Center
11 6 (3.26%) HP Data Protector
12 5 (2.72%) Kubernetes
12 5 (2.72%) Rancher
12 5 (2.72%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (2.72%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.54%) Puppet
14 1 (0.54%) vMotion
Vendors
1 76 (41.30%) Microsoft
2 71 (38.59%) Dell
3 42 (22.83%) Cisco
4 35 (19.02%) VMware
5 27 (14.67%) Oracle
6 22 (11.96%) Atlassian
6 22 (11.96%) Symantec
7 20 (10.87%) EMC
8 19 (10.33%) 3PAR
9 17 (9.24%) ServiceNow
10 15 (8.15%) Aruba
10 15 (8.15%) Palo Alto
10 15 (8.15%) Veeam
11 14 (7.61%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (7.61%) Juniper
12 13 (7.07%) Citrix
13 11 (5.98%) Red Hat
14 9 (4.89%) Apple
15 7 (3.80%) SAP
16 6 (3.26%) NetApp