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 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 208 226 232
Rank change year-on-year +18 +6 -36
Contract jobs citing HP 191 257 338
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.92% 1.07% 1.09%
As % of the Vendors category 2.16% 2.39% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 184 241
10th Percentile £181 £190 £158
25th Percentile £213 £256 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £395
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +7.59% -4.24%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £475
90th Percentile £700 £613 £560
UK median daily rate £363 £441 £415
% change year-on-year -17.85% +6.33% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 24
10th Percentile £25.54 £13.19 £10.70
25th Percentile £28.41 £16.10 £12.16
Median hourly rate £30.00 £18.24 £16.41
Median % change year-on-year +64.52% +11.10% +13.19%
75th Percentile £36.25 £19.38 £19.82
90th Percentile £47.50 - £23.48
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £18.84 £21.45
% change year-on-year +26.33% -12.17% +47.93%

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 8,859 10,751 12,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.88% 44.58% 39.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,322 7,415 8,370
10th Percentile £206 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 936 484 642
10th Percentile £11.79 £14.41 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.75 £13.89
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%

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 27 April 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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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 +45 111 £285 -36.67% 27
South West +40 29 £700 +57.75% 26
Midlands -8 19 £438 +68.27% 17
North of England +2 14 £425 -0.23% 22
Scotland +10 13 £410 -17.17% 5
West Midlands +13 10 £360 +10.77% 11
East Midlands +3 8 £575 +142.11% 6
North West +6 7 £425 -0.23% 12
Yorkshire +8 5 £375 -11.76% 10
East of England +4 4 £550 +15.79% 5
North East +11 2 £600 +4.35% 1
Wales +6 1 £135 -18.18%
Northern Ireland - 1 £190 - 5
HP
UK

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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 (11.52%) Confluence
2 9 (4.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.09%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (2.09%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (1.57%) nginx
5 1 (0.52%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 48 (25.13%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.57%) Sage X3
2 3 (1.57%) SAP EWM
2 3 (1.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.52%) MFGPRO
3 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.52%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 27 (14.14%) Microsoft 365
2 26 (13.61%) Azure
3 14 (7.33%) OCI
4 6 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (3.14%) Entra ID
4 6 (3.14%) SaaS
5 4 (2.09%) AWS
6 2 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.52%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.52%) Commercetools
7 1 (0.52%) GCP
7 1 (0.52%) GitHub
7 1 (0.52%) IaaS
7 1 (0.52%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 39 (20.42%) SAN
2 31 (16.23%) LAN
3 26 (13.61%) Firewall
4 20 (10.47%) DHCP
4 20 (10.47%) DNS
5 15 (7.85%) WAN
6 10 (5.24%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (3.66%) Cisco IOS
7 7 (3.66%) VPN
8 6 (3.14%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (3.14%) Remote Desktop
8 6 (3.14%) TCP/IP
8 6 (3.14%) Wireless
9 4 (2.09%) NAS
10 2 (1.05%) InfiniBand
10 2 (1.05%) VLAN
10 2 (1.05%) WLAN
11 1 (0.52%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.19%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.09%) MySQL
3 3 (1.57%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 32 (16.75%) JIRA
2 24 (12.57%) Jenkins
3 22 (11.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 22 (11.52%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.62%) ClearCase
4 5 (2.62%) ClearQuest
5 3 (1.57%) Git
5 3 (1.57%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (1.05%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.05%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.52%) JMeter
7 1 (0.52%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.52%) Postman
7 1 (0.52%) Selenium
7 1 (0.52%) Zephyr
General
1 123 (64.40%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.90%) Organisational Skills
3 26 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.42%) Aerospace
5 12 (6.28%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.19%) Finance
6 8 (4.19%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.66%) Legal
8 4 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.05%) Banking
10 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.52%) Advertising
11 1 (0.52%) Back Office
11 1 (0.52%) Electronics
11 1 (0.52%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.52%) Marketing
11 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (14.14%) Support Engineer
2 26 (13.61%) Hardware Engineer
3 25 (13.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (10.47%) Desktop Support
5 19 (9.95%) Desktop Engineer
5 19 (9.95%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 18 (9.42%) Developer
6 18 (9.42%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
7 13 (6.81%) Network Engineer
8 12 (6.28%) Storage Engineer
9 11 (5.76%) Analyst
9 11 (5.76%) Server Engineer
10 10 (5.24%) Data Centre Engineer
11 8 (4.19%) Break Fix Engineer
12 7 (3.66%) Lead
12 7 (3.66%) Support Specialist
13 6 (3.14%) Linux Engineer
13 6 (3.14%) Technical Specialist
13 6 (3.14%) Technical Support
13 6 (3.14%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.52%) .NET
1 22 (11.52%) .NET Core
2 3 (1.57%) EDI
3 2 (1.05%) Redfish
4 1 (0.52%) LDAP
4 1 (0.52%) SOAP
4 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (25.65%) Driving Licence
2 37 (19.37%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.76%) Video Conferencing
4 10 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.14%) Clustering
6 6 (3.14%) HP Storage
7 5 (2.62%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (2.62%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.09%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.57%) CCTV
9 3 (1.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.57%) PKI
10 2 (1.05%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.05%) iPhone
10 2 (1.05%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 97 (50.79%) Windows
2 61 (31.94%) Windows 10
3 59 (30.89%) Linux
4 41 (21.47%) Windows 7
5 25 (13.09%) Windows Server
6 22 (11.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 22 (11.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 21 (10.99%) Windows Server 2012
8 15 (7.85%) Unix
9 14 (7.33%) Windows XP
10 10 (5.24%) Solaris
11 9 (4.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (3.14%) AIX
12 6 (3.14%) Mac OS
13 4 (2.09%) Android
13 4 (2.09%) Mac OS X
13 4 (2.09%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (2.09%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (1.57%) Apple iOS
14 3 (1.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (45.03%) ITIL
2 84 (43.98%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (30.89%) Customer Service
4 30 (15.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 25 (13.09%) Configuration Management
5 25 (13.09%) OO
6 23 (12.04%) Continuous Integration
6 23 (12.04%) Deployment Automation
7 22 (11.52%) Break/Fix
7 22 (11.52%) CI/CD
7 22 (11.52%) Infrastructure Automation
7 22 (11.52%) OOP
7 22 (11.52%) Project Management
7 22 (11.52%) Task Automation
8 21 (10.99%) Software Deployment
9 20 (10.47%) Customer Requirements
9 20 (10.47%) Software Testing
10 19 (9.95%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (9.95%) Performance Tuning
11 18 (9.42%) Hardware Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 43 (22.51%) PowerShell
2 25 (13.09%) Python
3 11 (5.76%) SQL
4 5 (2.62%) C
5 3 (1.57%) Bash
5 3 (1.57%) C++
5 3 (1.57%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.05%) MATLAB
6 2 (1.05%) Perl
7 1 (0.52%) Java
Qualifications
1 113 (59.16%) Security Cleared
2 66 (34.55%) DV Cleared
3 55 (28.80%) SC Cleared
4 43 (22.51%) Degree
5 14 (7.33%) CCNP
5 14 (7.33%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (6.81%) CCNA
7 6 (3.14%) Dell Certification
7 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.57%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 3 (1.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.57%) MCP
8 3 (1.57%) MCSE
9 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.52%) MCSA
10 1 (0.52%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.52%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.52%) SLA
2 4 (2.09%) QA
3 3 (1.57%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.52%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (19.37%) Active Directory
2 24 (12.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (12.04%) Hyper-V
4 22 (11.52%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (10.47%) Firmware
6 7 (3.66%) vSphere
7 3 (1.57%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.05%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.52%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.52%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 60 (31.41%) SCCM
2 26 (13.61%) Ansible
3 22 (11.52%) NetBackup
3 22 (11.52%) PowerCLI
4 19 (9.95%) EMC NetWorker
5 18 (9.42%) vCenter Server
6 17 (8.90%) SCOM
7 14 (7.33%) WSUS
8 10 (5.24%) HP ALM
9 7 (3.66%) AirWatch
9 7 (3.66%) HP Quality Center
10 6 (3.14%) HP Data Protector
10 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (2.09%) Kubernetes
11 4 (2.09%) Rancher
11 4 (2.09%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (2.09%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 3 (1.57%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (1.57%) PaperCut
13 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 80 (41.88%) Microsoft
2 71 (37.17%) Dell
3 44 (23.04%) Cisco
4 38 (19.90%) VMware
5 27 (14.14%) Oracle
6 22 (11.52%) Atlassian
6 22 (11.52%) Symantec
7 19 (9.95%) Aruba
7 19 (9.95%) EMC
8 18 (9.42%) 3PAR
8 18 (9.42%) ServiceNow
9 17 (8.90%) Veeam
10 15 (7.85%) Red Hat
11 14 (7.33%) Citrix
12 13 (6.81%) Extreme Networks
12 13 (6.81%) Juniper
12 13 (6.81%) Palo Alto
13 9 (4.71%) Nimble Storage
14 8 (4.19%) Apple
15 7 (3.66%) SAP