HP ALM Contracts

HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring HP ALM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP ALM over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 572 662
Rank change year-on-year +77 +90 +105
Contract jobs citing HP ALM 24 28 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.064% 0.085%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.52% 0.54% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 39
10th Percentile £358 £343 £231
25th Percentile £425 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +23.53%
75th Percentile £1,125 £519 £588
90th Percentile - £563 £628
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £513 £530
% change year-on-year -12.20% -3.30% +32.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +51.82% - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.50 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +51.82% - -

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 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

HP ALM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HP ALM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HP ALM in the UK

HP ALM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HP ALM.

Daily rate trend for HP ALM in the UK

HP ALM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP ALM over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP ALM in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HP ALM.

Hourly rate trend for HP ALM in the UK

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Top 10 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +69 22 £500 -1.23% 6
London +41 12 £1,050 +110.00% 2
UK excluding London +54 10 £450 -12.20% 5
Work from Home +46 9 £475 +18.75% 6
Midlands +26 5 £463 +8.82% 2
West Midlands +18 5 £463 +8.82% 2
North of England +30 3 £346 -
North West +13 3 £346 -
South East +39 1 - - 2
East of England +33 1 £600 +17.07%

HP ALM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (8.33%) Aladdin
2 2 (8.33%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (4.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
1 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
1 4 (16.67%) PowerApps
2 3 (12.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Converged Networks
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 18 (75.00%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) Selenium
3 1 (4.17%) TestRail
3 1 (4.17%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Banking
2 5 (20.83%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Test Manager
1 7 (29.17%) Tester
2 5 (20.83%) Lead
2 5 (20.83%) Test Leader
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Transformation Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Asset Management Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Desktop Manager
4 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Test Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Applications Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Programme Test Manager
5 1 (4.17%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) SAP Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) SAP Test Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Supply Chain Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) UAT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Middleware
2 1 (4.17%) RFC 2544
2 1 (4.17%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (20.83%) SCADA
3 4 (16.67%) FMCG
4 3 (12.50%) Low-Code
5 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.17%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) Test Management
2 16 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 14 (58.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 12 (50.00%) Agile
5 10 (41.67%) Defect Management
6 9 (37.50%) Test Automation
7 7 (29.17%) Scrum
8 6 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
8 6 (25.00%) Test Assurance
8 6 (25.00%) Test Planning
8 6 (25.00%) User Stories
9 5 (20.83%) Integration Testing
9 5 (20.83%) ITSM
9 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (20.83%) System Integration Testing
9 5 (20.83%) Systems Engineering
10 4 (16.67%) Change Management
10 4 (16.67%) ITIL
10 4 (16.67%) Software Testing
10 4 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) ISTQB
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) GxP
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) HP
2 6 (25.00%) SAP
3 5 (20.83%) MuleSoft
3 5 (20.83%) Oracle
4 4 (16.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (8.33%) SimCorp
6 1 (4.17%) Avaloq
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco
6 1 (4.17%) Micro Focus
6 1 (4.17%) Snow