HP APS Contract Job Trends

HP Accredited Platform Specialist (HP APS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for HP APS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 594 540 -
Rank change year-on-year -54 - -
Contract jobs citing HP APS 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.012% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.008% 0.039% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £290 -
25th Percentile £350 £296 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £351 £300 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.83% - -
75th Percentile £351 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £300 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

HP APS falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,340 10,172 13,132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.73% 29.75% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,022 6,239 8,279
10th Percentile £313 £305 £300
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,009 485 733
10th Percentile £16.35 £19.72 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.38 £24.18 £27.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £52.31 £66.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.59 £51.90
% change year-on-year -44.83% -12.16% +16.11%

HP APS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HP APS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

HP APS job vacancy trend in the UK

HP APS
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HP APS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HP APS

HP APS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HP APS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HP APS

HP APS
Top 2 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 APS within the UK over the 6 months to 18 December 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 -41 1 £351 +16.83%
London - 1 £351 -

HP APS
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Test-First Development
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) V-Model
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft