HP Contract Job Trends

HP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of HP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP over the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Hewlett-Packard Company.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 312 263
Rank change year-on-year -31 -49 +61
Contract jobs citing HP 277 245 387
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.80% 0.88%
As % of the Vendors category 1.50% 1.72% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 132 306
10th Percentile £154 £153 £156
25th Percentile £183 £185 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +14.29% -22.22%
75th Percentile £394 £551 £538
90th Percentile £500 £625 £617
UK excluding London median daily rate £220 £325 £320
% change year-on-year -32.31% +1.56% -24.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 31 13
10th Percentile £16.11 - £20.00
25th Percentile £16.97 £18.51 £20.25
Median hourly rate £20.09 £23.59 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.84% -1.71% -4.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £30.00
90th Percentile £25.77 £24.66 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £23.59 £24.00
% change year-on-year -20.01% -1.71% +35.44%

All Vendors
UK

HP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,513 14,267 19,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.57% 46.57% 43.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,878 8,671 12,000
10th Percentile £305 £280 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £517
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.58% -1.99%
75th Percentile £604 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 917 427 953
10th Percentile £15.13 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.55 £29.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.34% +11.54% -21.80%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.50
90th Percentile £74.43 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £27.13 £25.75
% change year-on-year -16.57% +5.34% -17.14%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

HP job vacancy trend in the UK

HP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

HP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HP in the UK

HP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

HP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HP over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the UK

HP
Top 17 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 27 February 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 -51 243 £210 -47.50% 65
UK excluding London -34 203 £220 -32.31% 59
London -51 63 £250 -47.37% 17
Midlands -9 59 £200 -50.00% 7
East of England -1 37 £200 -61.90% 6
South East -53 35 £381 +35.15% 16
West Midlands -25 34 £305 -28.35% 2
North of England -62 34 £200 -52.94% 16
East Midlands -2 27 £200 +14.00% 5
Work from Home -37 23 £389 -18.13% 22
Yorkshire -54 17 £290 - 4
South West -34 13 £400 +28.00% 9
North West -35 12 £175 -58.82% 10
Scotland +1 11 £400 +107.01% 3
Wales +5 10 £290 +45.00% 1
Northern Ireland 0 6 £488 -
North East -18 5 £175 -68.18% 2

HP
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 22 (7.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.42%) Confluence
3 6 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 57 (20.58%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.89%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.17%) BASE24
2 5 (1.81%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.81%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.44%) assyst
3 4 (1.44%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.36%) PORTIA
5 1 (0.36%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.36%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 69 (24.91%) Microsoft 365
2 58 (20.94%) Azure
3 20 (7.22%) AWS
4 18 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (4.33%) Datadog
6 7 (2.53%) GCP
7 6 (2.17%) OCI
8 5 (1.81%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.08%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (0.72%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.36%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.36%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.36%) IaaS
11 1 (0.36%) PaaS
11 1 (0.36%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.36%) SaaS
11 1 (0.36%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 41 (14.80%) Wireless
2 18 (6.50%) Wi-Fi
3 13 (4.69%) Firewall
4 12 (4.33%) SAN
5 11 (3.97%) VSAN
6 7 (2.53%) DNS
6 7 (2.53%) VLAN
7 6 (2.17%) WAN
8 5 (1.81%) DHCP
8 5 (1.81%) LAN
9 4 (1.44%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.44%) VPN
10 3 (1.08%) iSCSI
10 3 (1.08%) VoIP
11 2 (0.72%) IPsec
12 1 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
12 1 (0.36%) InfiniBand
12 1 (0.36%) Multicast
12 1 (0.36%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.17%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (1.44%) OLTP
3 3 (1.08%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.72%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.36%) Big Data
5 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.36%) MySQL
5 1 (0.36%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (12.27%) JIRA
2 6 (2.17%) Selenium
2 6 (2.17%) TestRail
3 4 (1.44%) JMeter
4 3 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.72%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.72%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.72%) MSTest
5 2 (0.72%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.36%) Gatling
6 1 (0.36%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.36%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.36%) NUnit
6 1 (0.36%) Postman
6 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 83 (29.96%) Social Skills
2 64 (23.10%) Organisational Skills
3 57 (20.58%) Finance
4 32 (11.55%) Manufacturing
4 32 (11.55%) Public Sector
5 28 (10.11%) Banking
6 26 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (9.03%) Marketing
7 25 (9.03%) Telecoms
8 23 (8.30%) Electronics
9 22 (7.94%) Legal
10 8 (2.89%) Retail
11 7 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.44%) Automotive
13 4 (1.44%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.08%) Local Government
14 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.72%) Billing
Job Titles
1 69 (24.91%) Break Fix Engineer
2 48 (17.33%) Hardware Engineer
3 46 (16.61%) IT Support
4 41 (14.80%) Field Engineer
5 38 (13.72%) Analyst
6 35 (12.64%) Field Hardware Engineer
7 33 (11.91%) Desktop Support
8 28 (10.11%) Junior
9 26 (9.39%) Computer Engineer
10 23 (8.30%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
10 23 (8.30%) 2nd Line Support
10 23 (8.30%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
11 20 (7.22%) Support Engineer
12 17 (6.14%) Support Analyst
13 16 (5.78%) IT Engineer
14 13 (4.69%) Test Manager
15 12 (4.33%) Printer Engineer
16 11 (3.97%) Data Centre Engineer
16 11 (3.97%) Desktop Engineer
16 11 (3.97%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.44%) Middleware
2 3 (1.08%) ADO
2 3 (1.08%) REST
3 2 (0.72%) XML
4 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.36%) FHIR
4 1 (0.36%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.36%) LDAP
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.36%) SOAP
4 1 (0.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (16.25%) Data Centre
2 32 (11.55%) Driving Licence
3 19 (6.86%) Mobile App
4 13 (4.69%) Virtual Team
5 12 (4.33%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.17%) Tandem
7 5 (1.81%) EMV
8 4 (1.44%) CMDB
8 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.08%) Clustering
9 3 (1.08%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.08%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.72%) HP Storage
10 2 (0.72%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.72%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.72%) Social Media
10 2 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 74 (26.71%) Windows
2 48 (17.33%) Mac OS
3 42 (15.16%) Android
4 26 (9.39%) Windows 10
5 20 (7.22%) Linux
6 5 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.81%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.44%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.44%) Windows 8
8 3 (1.08%) Unix
9 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.36%) CentOS
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.36%) SUSE
9 1 (0.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.36%) VMS
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (27.80%) Customer Service
2 61 (22.02%) Time Management
3 49 (17.69%) Break/Fix
4 42 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (13.72%) Agile
6 37 (13.36%) Service Management
7 29 (10.47%) Test Management
8 26 (9.39%) User Acceptance Testing
9 25 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (8.66%) Test Automation
10 24 (8.66%) Test Strategy
11 23 (8.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (8.30%) Digital Marketing
11 23 (8.30%) Programme Management
12 21 (7.58%) DevOps
12 21 (7.58%) Migration
13 20 (7.22%) Asset Management
14 18 (6.50%) Defect Management
15 16 (5.78%) ITSM
15 16 (5.78%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.05%) SQL
2 7 (2.53%) C
3 6 (2.17%) Java
3 6 (2.17%) Python
4 5 (1.81%) COBOL
4 5 (1.81%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.81%) PL/SQL
4 5 (1.81%) VB
5 4 (1.44%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.08%) C#
6 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.36%) C++
7 1 (0.36%) Perl
7 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (29.24%) Security Cleared
2 73 (26.35%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.78%) ISTQB
4 15 (5.42%) Degree
5 10 (3.61%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 3 (1.08%) A+ Certification
8 3 (1.08%) CCNP
8 3 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.08%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.72%) ISEB
9 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.19%) SLA
2 18 (6.50%) QA
3 6 (2.17%) ISO 8583
4 4 (1.44%) COBIT
4 4 (1.44%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.36%) GDPR
5 1 (0.36%) HL7
5 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.36%) NCSC
5 1 (0.36%) NIST
5 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 32 (11.55%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.33%) vSphere
4 6 (2.17%) Firmware
5 5 (1.81%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.08%) SRDF
7 2 (0.72%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.36%) Docker
8 1 (0.36%) GPFS
8 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.36%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 35 (12.64%) HP ALM
2 18 (6.50%) SCCM
3 12 (4.33%) ServiceCenter
4 11 (3.97%) vRealize
5 10 (3.61%) VxRail
6 8 (2.89%) Ansible
7 5 (1.81%) HP Quality Center
7 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.81%) Terraform
8 3 (1.08%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.08%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.72%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.72%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.72%) Puppet
10 1 (0.36%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.36%) EMC TimeFinder
10 1 (0.36%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.36%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 119 (42.96%) Dell
2 73 (26.35%) Apple
3 64 (23.10%) Cisco
4 53 (19.13%) Microsoft
5 35 (12.64%) SAP
6 21 (7.58%) VMware
7 20 (7.22%) IBM
8 16 (5.78%) ServiceNow
9 15 (5.42%) MobileIron
10 14 (5.05%) Canon
11 13 (4.69%) AppDynamics
11 13 (4.69%) SolarWinds
12 12 (4.33%) Commvault
13 11 (3.97%) Oracle
14 6 (2.17%) CheckPoint
14 6 (2.17%) Remedy
15 5 (1.81%) Computacenter
15 5 (1.81%) Dynatrace
15 5 (1.81%) Infor
15 5 (1.81%) Palo Alto