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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 536 607
Rank change year-on-year +14 +71 +167
Contract jobs citing HP ALM 46 23 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.060% 0.089%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.88% 0.44% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 15 34
10th Percentile £291 £340 £414
25th Percentile £421 £478 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.71% +15.39%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £615
90th Percentile £648 £580 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.28% +19.18%

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 5,215 5,226 7,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.83% 13.57% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,422 3,543 5,142
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £410 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £685 £701 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 61 176
10th Percentile £13.75 £20.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £34.25
Median hourly rate £28.25 £38.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.62% -30.00% +130.03%
75th Percentile £62.69 £60.00 £75.13
90th Percentile £67.23 £74.00 £78.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £39.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.50% -15.01% +114.79%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 +38 40 £475 -5.00% 5
UK excluding London +5 23 £475 -5.00% 4
Work from Home +38 17 £475 -13.71% 3
London +33 17 £475 -5.00% 2
South East +24 10 £525 - 2
West Midlands -6 6 £425 +41.67%
Midlands -14 6 £425 +6.25%
North of England -10 5 £270 -
North West -11 5 £270 -
South West - 1 £450 - 2
Wales - 1 - -

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 5 (10.87%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (6.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (2.17%) PORTIA
3 1 (2.17%) Sage X3
3 1 (2.17%) SAP ERP
3 1 (2.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (2.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) Azure
1 13 (28.26%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (13.04%) Power Platform
3 6 (13.04%) PowerApps
4 4 (8.70%) Power Automate
5 3 (6.52%) OCI
6 2 (4.35%) SaaS
6 2 (4.35%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.17%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.17%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) LAN
1 5 (10.87%) WAN
2 4 (8.70%) Wireshark
3 2 (4.35%) Firewall
4 1 (2.17%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 32 (69.57%) JIRA
2 8 (17.39%) TestRail
3 5 (10.87%) Zephyr
4 4 (8.70%) Selenium
5 2 (4.35%) Cypress.io
General
1 27 (58.70%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.91%) Finance
3 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Telecoms
5 4 (8.70%) Banking
6 3 (6.52%) Manufacturing
6 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.17%) Back Office
8 1 (2.17%) Front Office
8 1 (2.17%) Legal
8 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Test Manager
2 10 (21.74%) Analyst
3 8 (17.39%) Test Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Lead
4 6 (13.04%) Test Leader
5 5 (10.87%) Network Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Test Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Consultant
6 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365 Manager
6 4 (8.70%) QA Consultant
6 4 (8.70%) Senior
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Consultant
6 4 (8.70%) Tester
6 4 (8.70%) Transformation Manager
7 3 (6.52%) SAP Manager
7 3 (6.52%) UAT Tester
8 2 (4.35%) Business Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Network Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.70%) Low-Code
3 4 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.35%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (4.35%) Reinsurance
4 2 (4.35%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.17%) Derivative
5 1 (2.17%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.17%) Pharmacovigilance
5 1 (2.17%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Windows
2 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (63.04%) Test Management
2 23 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 20 (43.48%) User Acceptance Testing
4 19 (41.30%) DevOps
4 19 (41.30%) Test Automation
5 17 (36.96%) Agile
6 16 (34.78%) Defect Management
7 14 (30.43%) Test Planning
8 13 (28.26%) End-to-End Testing
9 11 (23.91%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (21.74%) ITIL
10 10 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (19.57%) Test Scripting
11 9 (19.57%) Validation
12 7 (15.22%) Defect Tracking
12 7 (15.22%) Integration Testing
13 6 (13.04%) Manual Testing
13 6 (13.04%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.87%) SQL
2 1 (2.17%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) ISTQB
2 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.17%) SCCM
2 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (100.00%) HP
2 7 (15.22%) Cisco
2 7 (15.22%) SAP
3 6 (13.04%) Micro Focus
4 5 (10.87%) Oracle
4 5 (10.87%) Progress
5 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.17%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.17%) Calypso
6 1 (2.17%) Charles River
6 1 (2.17%) JDA
6 1 (2.17%) Sage
6 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.17%) SimCorp
6 1 (2.17%) Sparx