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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 502 543
Rank change year-on-year -136 +41 +70
Contract jobs citing HP ALM 32 49 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.061% 0.15% 0.074%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.46% 0.95% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 29 20
10th Percentile £420 £294 £345
25th Percentile £481 £410 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.05% -5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £598 £550 £541
90th Percentile £731 £660 £566
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.30 £81.75 -
Median hourly rate £26.61 £83.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -68.14% - -
75th Percentile £26.91 £85.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.61 £83.50 -
% change year-on-year -68.14% - -

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 6,977 5,169 5,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.20% 15.71% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,740 3,411 3,703
10th Percentile £326 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £690 £688 £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 191 75 75
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £20.20
25th Percentile £30.63 £19.56 £23.99
Median hourly rate £63.14 £37.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.36% +15.38% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.58 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.22 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +14.79% +40.13% -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 4 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 12 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 4 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 -127 22 £537 +13.05% 5
UK excluding London -109 15 £513 +2.50% 4
London -68 10 £554 +16.53% 1
Work from Home -64 8 £554 +10.70% 1
Midlands -54 5 £500 +17.65% 2
West Midlands -59 5 £500 +17.65% 2
North of England -60 4 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £525 -
North East - 3 - - 1
South East -74 2 - -
North West -56 1 - -
East of England - 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 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 1 (3.13%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (3.13%) SAP FI-AR
1 1 (3.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (3.13%) SAP PM
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (50.00%) Azure
2 15 (46.88%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (12.50%) AWS
4 3 (9.38%) SaaS
5 2 (6.25%) OCI
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.13%) GCP
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 28 (87.50%) JIRA
2 10 (31.25%) Selenium
3 5 (15.63%) REST Assured
3 5 (15.63%) Zephyr
4 3 (9.38%) Bugzilla
4 3 (9.38%) Cucumber
4 3 (9.38%) Cypress.io
4 3 (9.38%) TestRail
5 2 (6.25%) Postman
6 1 (3.13%) Appium
6 1 (3.13%) HP UFT
6 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
6 1 (3.13%) JMeter
6 1 (3.13%) LoadRunner
6 1 (3.13%) MSTest
6 1 (3.13%) Ranorex
6 1 (3.13%) SoapUI
6 1 (3.13%) TestDirector
General
1 13 (40.63%) Finance
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Manufacturing
4 4 (12.50%) Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Automotive
5 2 (6.25%) Billing
5 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.25%) Private Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) General Ledger
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Tester
2 9 (28.13%) Test Manager
3 5 (15.63%) Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Automation Tester
5 3 (9.38%) Business Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) ERP Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Lead
5 3 (9.38%) Test Leader
5 3 (9.38%) UAT Manager
6 2 (6.25%) ERP Implementation Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Implementation Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Programme Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Programme Test Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Software Test Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Test Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Test Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Test Programme Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Oracle HRMS Tester
7 1 (3.13%) Test Automation Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Validation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) 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 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.13%) Life Science
3 1 (3.13%) LIMS
3 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) SCADA
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) User Acceptance Testing
2 20 (62.50%) Test Management
3 19 (59.38%) Defect Management
4 18 (56.25%) Test Automation
5 17 (53.13%) System Integration Testing
6 16 (50.00%) DevOps
7 14 (43.75%) Test Strategy
8 13 (40.63%) End-to-End Testing
8 13 (40.63%) Migration
8 13 (40.63%) Regression Testing
9 12 (37.50%) Agile
9 12 (37.50%) Integration Testing
10 11 (34.38%) Data Migration
10 11 (34.38%) Waterfall
11 10 (31.25%) Scenario Testing
11 10 (31.25%) Validation
12 8 (25.00%) ERP
12 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 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 8 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 7 (21.88%) Degree
3 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
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 12 (37.50%) Oracle
3 4 (12.50%) Informatica
4 3 (9.38%) Infor
4 3 (9.38%) SAP
5 2 (6.25%) Avaloq
6 1 (3.13%) Agilent
6 1 (3.13%) Ariba
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%) Micro Focus
6 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.13%) OpenText
6 1 (3.13%) Siemens