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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 490 571
Rank change year-on-year -125 +81 +68
Contract jobs citing HP ALM 37 49 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.071% 0.15% 0.058%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.53% 0.98% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 18
10th Percentile £365 £425 £385
25th Percentile £425 £456 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.23% -4.48%
75th Percentile £570 £613 £547
90th Percentile £695 £809 £574
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +2.39%
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 7,001 4,999 5,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.45% 15.71% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,787 3,316 3,860
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £423 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -0.97% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £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 171 61 102
10th Percentile £18.25 £13.75 £16.30
25th Percentile £21.75 £20.25 £22.08
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -7.69% -43.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -7.27% +37.50% -13.38%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -121 27 £534 +6.80% 1
UK excluding London -117 22 £475 -5.00% 1
London -89 10 £552 +10.40%
Midlands -60 8 £450 -
West Midlands -63 8 £450 -
Work from Home -68 7 £534 +6.80%
Northern Ireland - 5 £475 -
East of England -26 3 - -
North of England -69 3 - - 1
South East -71 3 £575 +9.52%
North West -43 2 - -
North East - 1 - - 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 2 (5.41%) Confluence
1 2 (5.41%) SAS
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (2.70%) SAP FI-AR
1 1 (2.70%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (2.70%) SAP PM
1 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (62.16%) Azure
2 22 (59.46%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (10.81%) AWS
4 2 (5.41%) OCI
4 2 (5.41%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.70%) GCP
5 1 (2.70%) GitHub
5 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.70%) Base SAS
2 1 (2.70%) Big Data
2 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.70%) PowerCenter
2 1 (2.70%) SAS Data Integration Studio
2 1 (2.70%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 1 (2.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (83.78%) JIRA
2 10 (27.03%) Selenium
3 6 (16.22%) Zephyr
4 4 (10.81%) Cypress.io
4 4 (10.81%) JMeter
4 4 (10.81%) TestRail
5 3 (8.11%) MSTest
5 3 (8.11%) Postman
5 3 (8.11%) REST Assured
6 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
6 2 (5.41%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (2.70%) Appium
7 1 (2.70%) Bugzilla
7 1 (2.70%) HP UFT
7 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
7 1 (2.70%) LoadRunner
7 1 (2.70%) Ranorex
7 1 (2.70%) SoapUI
7 1 (2.70%) TestDirector
General
1 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 16 (43.24%) Finance
3 13 (35.14%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (24.32%) Manufacturing
5 4 (10.81%) Automotive
5 4 (10.81%) Banking
6 2 (5.41%) Billing
6 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.41%) Private Banking
6 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.70%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Test Manager
2 8 (21.62%) Analyst
2 8 (21.62%) Tester
3 5 (13.51%) ERP Manager
3 5 (13.51%) Test Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) ERP Implementation Manager
4 4 (10.81%) Implementation Manager
4 4 (10.81%) Lead
4 4 (10.81%) Programme Manager
4 4 (10.81%) Programme Test Manager
4 4 (10.81%) Software Test Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Test Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Test Leader
4 4 (10.81%) Test Programme Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) UAT Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Automation Tester
7 1 (2.70%) Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Testing Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) UAT Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) ADO
1 3 (8.11%) Middleware
1 3 (8.11%) Playwright
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (5.41%) REST
3 1 (2.70%) .NET
3 1 (2.70%) Node.js
3 1 (2.70%) OAuth
3 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.70%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.70%) Life Science
3 1 (2.70%) LIMS
3 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (72.97%) User Acceptance Testing
2 26 (70.27%) Test Management
3 23 (62.16%) DevOps
4 22 (59.46%) Defect Management
4 22 (59.46%) Test Automation
5 21 (56.76%) Agile
6 18 (48.65%) Test Strategy
7 16 (43.24%) Regression Testing
7 16 (43.24%) System Integration Testing
7 16 (43.24%) Waterfall
8 15 (40.54%) Integration Testing
9 14 (37.84%) End-to-End Testing
10 12 (32.43%) Migration
11 11 (29.73%) Data Migration
11 11 (29.73%) ERP
11 11 (29.73%) Scenario Testing
11 11 (29.73%) Software Testing
11 11 (29.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (27.03%) Test Scripting
13 9 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) SQL
2 5 (13.51%) Java
3 3 (8.11%) C#
3 3 (8.11%) PL/SQL
3 3 (8.11%) VB
4 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.70%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) C
5 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.70%) Python
5 1 (2.70%) SAS Macro
5 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (40.54%) ISTQB
2 10 (27.03%) Degree
3 4 (10.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (8.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (2.70%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (56.76%) QA
2 5 (13.51%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.41%) SLA
4 1 (2.70%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (2.70%) GAMP
4 1 (2.70%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.70%) Control-M
Vendors
1 37 (100.00%) HP
2 10 (27.03%) Oracle
3 6 (16.22%) SAP
4 5 (13.51%) Infor
4 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.11%) Siemens
6 2 (5.41%) Avaloq
7 1 (2.70%) Agilent
7 1 (2.70%) Ariba
7 1 (2.70%) Guidewire
7 1 (2.70%) IFS
7 1 (2.70%) Informatica
7 1 (2.70%) JD Edwards
7 1 (2.70%) LabVantage
7 1 (2.70%) Micro Focus
7 1 (2.70%) OpenText
7 1 (2.70%) Remedy
7 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.70%) Workday