HP ALM Contract Job Trends

HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring HP ALM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 485 570
Rank change year-on-year -133 +85 +83
Contract jobs citing HP ALM 35 46 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.069% 0.15% 0.041%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.51% 0.96% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 13
10th Percentile £313 £425 £408
25th Percentile £419 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £542 £650 £563
90th Percentile £579 £1,002 £593
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £25.13 - -
25th Percentile £25.33 £81.75 -
Median hourly rate £25.80 £83.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -69.10% - -
75th Percentile £26.43 £85.25 -
90th Percentile £26.72 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.80 £83.50 -
% change year-on-year -69.10% - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,811 4,772 5,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.39% 15.78% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,662 3,182 3,839
10th Percentile £325 £300 £299
25th Percentile £420 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -0.52% -6.33%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 52 103
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £15.72
25th Percentile £22.11 £21.11 £20.50
Median hourly rate £55.50 £37.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.00% +19.05% -45.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £49.38
90th Percentile £76.20 £78.58 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% +37.50% -8.57%

HP ALM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

HP ALM job vacancy trend in the UK

HP ALM
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

HP ALM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP ALM over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HP ALM in the UK

HP ALM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

HP ALM
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 June 2026. 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
England -139 26 £450 -10.00% 1
UK excluding London -114 21 £475 -2.56% 1
London -75 10 £467 -11.05%
West Midlands -61 8 £450 -
Midlands -66 8 £450 -
Work from Home -66 8 £430 -14.10%
Northern Ireland - 5 £475 -
East of England -27 3 - -
South East -61 3 £575 +12.20%
North West -44 2 - -
North of England -67 2 - - 1

HP ALM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (8.57%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) SAS
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (2.86%) SAP FI-AR
1 1 (2.86%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (2.86%) SAP PM
1 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.86%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (68.57%) Azure
2 23 (65.71%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.43%) AWS
4 2 (5.71%) OCI
4 2 (5.71%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.86%) Base SAS
2 1 (2.86%) Big Data
2 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.86%) SAS Data Integration Studio
2 1 (2.86%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 29 (82.86%) JIRA
2 9 (25.71%) Selenium
3 6 (17.14%) Zephyr
4 5 (14.29%) TestRail
5 4 (11.43%) Cypress.io
5 4 (11.43%) JMeter
6 3 (8.57%) MSTest
6 3 (8.57%) Postman
7 2 (5.71%) REST Assured
7 2 (5.71%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (2.86%) Appium
8 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.86%) HP UFT
8 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
8 1 (2.86%) LoadRunner
8 1 (2.86%) Ranorex
8 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
8 1 (2.86%) TestDirector
General
1 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 15 (42.86%) Finance
3 13 (37.14%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (25.71%) Manufacturing
5 4 (11.43%) Automotive
6 3 (8.57%) Banking
7 2 (5.71%) Billing
7 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.86%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Private Banking
8 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Test Manager
2 9 (25.71%) Analyst
3 6 (17.14%) Test Analyst
4 5 (14.29%) ERP Manager
4 5 (14.29%) Tester
5 4 (11.43%) ERP Implementation Manager
5 4 (11.43%) Implementation Manager
5 4 (11.43%) Lead
5 4 (11.43%) Programme Manager
5 4 (11.43%) Programme Test Manager
5 4 (11.43%) Software Test Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Test Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Test Leader
5 4 (11.43%) Test Programme Manager
6 3 (8.57%) UAT Manager
7 2 (5.71%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.86%) Automation Tester
8 1 (2.86%) Developer
8 1 (2.86%) SAS Developer
8 1 (2.86%) UAT Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) ADO
1 3 (8.57%) Playwright
2 2 (5.71%) Middleware
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (5.71%) REST
3 1 (2.86%) .NET
3 1 (2.86%) OAuth
3 1 (2.86%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.86%) Life Science
4 1 (2.86%) LIMS
4 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (74.29%) Test Management
1 26 (74.29%) User Acceptance Testing
2 24 (68.57%) DevOps
3 22 (62.86%) Agile
4 20 (57.14%) Defect Management
4 20 (57.14%) Test Automation
5 16 (45.71%) Test Strategy
5 16 (45.71%) Waterfall
6 15 (42.86%) Integration Testing
7 14 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 14 (40.00%) Regression Testing
7 14 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
8 12 (34.29%) Software Testing
9 11 (31.43%) ERP
9 11 (31.43%) Migration
9 11 (31.43%) Scenario Testing
9 11 (31.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (28.57%) Data Migration
11 9 (25.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (25.71%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) Java
1 5 (14.29%) SQL
2 3 (8.57%) C#
2 3 (8.57%) PL/SQL
2 3 (8.57%) VB
3 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.86%) C
4 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.86%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) ISTQB
2 10 (28.57%) Degree
3 4 (11.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (8.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.86%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (60.00%) QA
2 4 (11.43%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.71%) SLA
4 1 (2.86%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (2.86%) GAMP
4 1 (2.86%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.86%) Control-M
Vendors
1 35 (100.00%) HP
2 9 (25.71%) Oracle
3 6 (17.14%) SAP
4 5 (14.29%) Infor
4 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.57%) Siemens
6 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.86%) Agilent
7 1 (2.86%) Ariba
7 1 (2.86%) Avaloq
7 1 (2.86%) Guidewire
7 1 (2.86%) IFS
7 1 (2.86%) JD Edwards
7 1 (2.86%) LabVantage
7 1 (2.86%) Micro Focus
7 1 (2.86%) OpenText
7 1 (2.86%) Remedy
7 1 (2.86%) Workday