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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 635 501 537
Rank change year-on-year -134 +36 +81
Contract jobs citing HP ALM 32 51 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.060% 0.16% 0.072%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.54% 1.12% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 29 19
10th Percentile £430 £294 £340
25th Percentile £463 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.05% -5.00% -3.71%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £538
90th Percentile £810 £660 £570
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £83.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £83.50 -

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 5,885 4,561 4,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.00% 13.89% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,926 2,974 3,214
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £420 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 77 72
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.05
25th Percentile £30.56 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.31 £30.00 £36.83
Median % change year-on-year +111.03% -18.55% -34.52%
75th Percentile £71.00 £63.75 £61.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £79.22 £74.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £57.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +10.76% +45.22% -15.01%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -148 23 £537 +13.05% 4
UK excluding London -125 14 £500 - 2
London -82 12 £570 +20.00% 1
Work from Home -73 9 £537 +7.40%
West Midlands -58 4 £500 +17.65%
Midlands -59 4 £500 +17.65%
North of England -59 3 - -
South East -64 3 £450 -14.29%
North East - 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 £525 -
East of England - 1 - - 2

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 5 (15.63%) SAS
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.13%) Aladdin
2 1 (3.13%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (3.13%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (3.13%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 18 (56.25%) Azure
2 17 (53.13%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (15.63%) AWS
4 3 (9.38%) SaaS
5 2 (6.25%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) OCI
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.13%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (12.50%) PowerCenter
2 4 (12.50%) Star Schema
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.13%) Base SAS
3 1 (3.13%) Big Data
3 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.13%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (3.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 29 (90.63%) JIRA
2 10 (31.25%) Selenium
3 5 (15.63%) REST Assured
4 4 (12.50%) Zephyr
5 3 (9.38%) Bugzilla
5 3 (9.38%) Cucumber
5 3 (9.38%) Cypress.io
5 3 (9.38%) TestRail
6 2 (6.25%) Postman
7 1 (3.13%) Appium
7 1 (3.13%) HP UFT
7 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
7 1 (3.13%) JMeter
7 1 (3.13%) LoadRunner
7 1 (3.13%) MSTest
7 1 (3.13%) Ranorex
7 1 (3.13%) SoapUI
7 1 (3.13%) TestDirector
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 13 (40.63%) Finance
3 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Banking
5 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.25%) Billing
6 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (6.25%) General Ledger
6 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.25%) Private Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
7 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Tester
2 10 (31.25%) Test Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Automation Tester
3 4 (12.50%) ERP Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Lead
3 4 (12.50%) Test Leader
4 3 (9.38%) Business Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Programme Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Programme Test Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Test Programme Manager
4 3 (9.38%) UAT Manager
5 2 (6.25%) ERP Implementation Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Implementation Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Software Test Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Finance Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle HRMS Tester
6 1 (3.13%) Test Automation Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Validation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Middleware
2 3 (9.38%) Node.js
2 3 (9.38%) Playwright
2 3 (9.38%) WireMock
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (3.13%) .NET
4 1 (3.13%) OAuth
4 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 4 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 3 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.25%) SCADA
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.13%) Life Science
4 1 (3.13%) LIMS
4 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) Defect Management
1 20 (62.50%) Test Management
2 19 (59.38%) User Acceptance Testing
3 18 (56.25%) DevOps
3 18 (56.25%) System Integration Testing
3 18 (56.25%) Test Automation
4 15 (46.88%) Test Strategy
5 14 (43.75%) End-to-End Testing
5 14 (43.75%) Regression Testing
6 13 (40.63%) Agile
7 12 (37.50%) Migration
8 11 (34.38%) Data Migration
8 11 (34.38%) Integration Testing
8 11 (34.38%) Waterfall
9 10 (31.25%) Validation
10 9 (28.13%) ERP
10 9 (28.13%) Scenario Testing
10 9 (28.13%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) SQL
2 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 3 (9.38%) Bash
3 3 (9.38%) Python
3 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.13%) C#
4 1 (3.13%) Java
4 1 (3.13%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Degree
1 7 (21.88%) ISTQB
2 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (46.88%) QA
2 8 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 1 (3.13%) GAMP
3 1 (3.13%) GxP
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.13%) Control-M
Vendors
1 32 (100.00%) HP
2 14 (43.75%) Oracle
3 4 (12.50%) Informatica
4 3 (9.38%) Infor
4 3 (9.38%) SAP
5 2 (6.25%) Avaloq
5 2 (6.25%) Micro Focus
5 2 (6.25%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.13%) Agilent
6 1 (3.13%) Charles River
6 1 (3.13%) Guidewire
6 1 (3.13%) IFS
6 1 (3.13%) JD Edwards
6 1 (3.13%) LabVantage
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.13%) OpenText
6 1 (3.13%) SGI
6 1 (3.13%) Siemens
6 1 (3.13%) SimCorp