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 14 December 2025, 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 362 270
Rank change year-on-year +45 -92 +56
Contract jobs citing HP 282 204 393
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.59% 0.88%
As % of the Vendors category 1.63% 1.29% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 125 297
10th Percentile £154 £164 £148
25th Percentile £170 £250 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -31.76% +6.25% -6.10%
75th Percentile £450 £538 £513
90th Percentile £561 £600 £592
UK excluding London median daily rate £290 £350 £295
% change year-on-year -17.14% +18.64% -26.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 19 14
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.24 £18.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.80 £20.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £23.88
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +1.28% -0.15%
75th Percentile - - £28.56
90th Percentile £26.41 - £30.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £24.00
% change year-on-year -21.96% +0.75% +45.59%

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 17,267 15,769 20,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.39% 45.60% 45.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,977 9,400 12,797
10th Percentile £293 £283 £255
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £499 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.20% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 871 477 663
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.50 £14.59
25th Percentile £18.09 £19.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% -34.83% +73.08%
75th Percentile £44.84 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% -39.04% +97.78%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 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 +31 254 £280 -36.36% 120
UK excluding London +9 177 £290 -17.14% 118
London +25 91 £370 -15.98% 29
Midlands -8 45 £210 -11.58% 26
South East -6 44 £375 -9.09% 28
North of England -24 31 £215 -60.91% 16
Work from Home +4 29 £450 -10.89% 46
West Midlands -18 28 £297 -0.92% 12
East of England -7 19 £200 -10.61% 17
East Midlands -7 17 £158 -10.00% 14
South West -2 16 £400 +22.61% 17
Wales +10 13 £290 +81.25% 3
North West -16 13 £188 -65.12% 6
Yorkshire -36 13 £290 -47.27% 10
Scotland -8 8 £400 +6.67% 17
North East -9 5 £175 -68.18%
Northern Ireland -7 1 £500 -

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 31 (10.99%) Confluence
2 18 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.42%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 68 (24.11%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.84%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (6.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.13%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (1.77%) assyst
4 3 (1.06%) BASE24
4 3 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.06%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.71%) PORTIA
5 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.35%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.35%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 81 (28.72%) Microsoft 365
2 57 (20.21%) Azure
3 22 (7.80%) AWS
4 12 (4.26%) Datadog
4 12 (4.26%) GCP
5 11 (3.90%) OCI
6 10 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.84%) SaaS
8 7 (2.48%) IaaS
8 7 (2.48%) PaaS
9 3 (1.06%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.71%) Tricentis Tosca
11 1 (0.35%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.35%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.35%) Veeva
11 1 (0.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 49 (17.38%) Wireless
2 23 (8.16%) Wi-Fi
3 20 (7.09%) SAN
4 17 (6.03%) Firewall
5 13 (4.61%) SSL
6 10 (3.55%) VSAN
7 7 (2.48%) WAN
8 6 (2.13%) DNS
8 6 (2.13%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.13%) VLAN
9 5 (1.77%) DHCP
9 5 (1.77%) LAN
10 2 (0.71%) VoIP
11 1 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.35%) FTP
11 1 (0.35%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.35%) NAS
11 1 (0.35%) RTP
11 1 (0.35%) VPN
11 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.13%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.77%) NonStop SQL
3 3 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.06%) OLTP
4 1 (0.35%) Big Data
4 1 (0.35%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.35%) MySQL
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.35%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (18.44%) JIRA
2 11 (3.90%) TestRail
3 5 (1.77%) Selenium
4 3 (1.06%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.35%) Gatling
5 1 (0.35%) Git
5 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.35%) JMeter
5 1 (0.35%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.35%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.35%) NUnit
5 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.35%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 85 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.79%) Finance
3 44 (15.60%) Banking
4 40 (14.18%) Organisational Skills
5 39 (13.83%) Public Sector
6 27 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (9.22%) Marketing
7 26 (9.22%) Telecoms
8 24 (8.51%) Manufacturing
9 23 (8.16%) Electronics
10 15 (5.32%) Retail
11 13 (4.61%) Legal
12 10 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.77%) Local Government
15 4 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.42%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.71%) Advertising
16 2 (0.71%) Billing
16 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 52 (18.44%) Break Fix Engineer
2 45 (15.96%) Analyst
3 37 (13.12%) IT Support
4 32 (11.35%) Desktop Support
5 29 (10.28%) Support Engineer
6 28 (9.93%) Junior
7 24 (8.51%) Field Engineer
8 23 (8.16%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 23 (8.16%) 2nd Line Support
8 23 (8.16%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
9 22 (7.80%) IT Engineer
10 21 (7.45%) Hardware Engineer
10 21 (7.45%) Senior
10 21 (7.45%) Support Analyst
11 16 (5.67%) Field Hardware Engineer
12 14 (4.96%) Administrator
12 14 (4.96%) Architect
13 13 (4.61%) IT Support Engineer
13 13 (4.61%) Lead
13 13 (4.61%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.32%) REST
1 15 (5.32%) SOAP
2 14 (4.96%) LDAP
2 14 (4.96%) Web Services
3 13 (4.61%) AngularJS
3 13 (4.61%) Apache Camel
3 13 (4.61%) HTML
3 13 (4.61%) HTML5
3 13 (4.61%) JDBC
3 13 (4.61%) jQuery
3 13 (4.61%) JSON
3 13 (4.61%) ODBC
3 13 (4.61%) RabbitMQ
3 13 (4.61%) SAML
4 10 (3.55%) Middleware
5 4 (1.42%) XML
6 1 (0.35%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.35%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.35%) XML Messaging
6 1 (0.35%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 51 (18.09%) Data Centre
2 26 (9.22%) Driving Licence
3 18 (6.38%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (3.19%) Enterprise Storage
6 8 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.77%) HP Storage
8 4 (1.42%) CMDB
8 4 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.42%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.42%) Tandem
9 3 (1.06%) Clustering
9 3 (1.06%) EMV
9 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.71%) Chip and PIN
10 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 77 (27.30%) Windows
2 56 (19.86%) Mac OS
3 53 (18.79%) Android
4 31 (10.99%) Linux
5 23 (8.16%) Windows 10
6 11 (3.90%) Windows Server
7 9 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (2.13%) Unix
9 4 (1.42%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.35%) AIX
10 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.35%) CentOS
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.35%) Solaris
10 1 (0.35%) SUSE
10 1 (0.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.35%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (18.09%) Break/Fix
2 50 (17.73%) Agile
3 49 (17.38%) Customer Service
4 44 (15.60%) Time Management
5 43 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (9.57%) DevOps
7 26 (9.22%) ITSM
7 26 (9.22%) Test Management
8 25 (8.87%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (8.16%) Digital Marketing
9 23 (8.16%) Programme Management
9 23 (8.16%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (7.80%) ITIL
10 22 (7.80%) Test Strategy
10 22 (7.80%) User Acceptance Testing
11 21 (7.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 20 (7.09%) Asset Management
12 20 (7.09%) Scrum
13 18 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (6.38%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (6.74%) SQL
2 16 (5.67%) JavaScript
3 7 (2.48%) Shell Script
4 5 (1.77%) C
4 5 (1.77%) Python
5 4 (1.42%) COBOL
6 3 (1.06%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.06%) VB
7 2 (0.71%) Bash
7 2 (0.71%) Java
7 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.35%) C#
8 1 (0.35%) C++
8 1 (0.35%) Perl
8 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 98 (34.75%) Security Cleared
2 91 (32.27%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.09%) DV Cleared
4 16 (5.67%) Degree
5 11 (3.90%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.42%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.06%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.71%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.71%) ISEB
8 2 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.71%) MCITP
8 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.35%) HP APS
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.35%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.16%) SLA
2 17 (6.03%) QA
3 6 (2.13%) COBIT
4 3 (1.06%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.35%) HL7
6 1 (0.35%) NIST
6 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 31 (10.99%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.90%) vSphere
4 8 (2.84%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.13%) Firmware
6 4 (1.42%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.35%) Docker
7 1 (0.35%) GPFS
7 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 37 (13.12%) HP ALM
2 14 (4.96%) SCCM
2 14 (4.96%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (3.90%) vRealize
4 10 (3.55%) VxRail
5 9 (3.19%) NetBackup
6 8 (2.84%) Ansible
7 7 (2.48%) Terraform
8 5 (1.77%) FortiGate
8 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.06%) HP Quality Center
9 3 (1.06%) ServiceCenter
10 2 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.71%) Kubernetes
10 2 (0.71%) SCOM
11 1 (0.35%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.35%) Grafana
11 1 (0.35%) HP Operations Orchestration
11 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 108 (38.30%) Dell
2 76 (26.95%) Apple
3 70 (24.82%) Cisco
4 47 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 34 (12.06%) SAP
6 27 (9.57%) ServiceNow
6 27 (9.57%) VMware
7 20 (7.09%) Oracle
7 20 (7.09%) Remedy
8 19 (6.74%) IBM
9 17 (6.03%) MobileIron
10 13 (4.61%) AppDynamics
10 13 (4.61%) BMC
10 13 (4.61%) Ivanti
11 12 (4.26%) Commvault
11 12 (4.26%) SolarWinds
12 11 (3.90%) Veritas
13 10 (3.55%) F5
14 9 (3.19%) 3PAR
14 9 (3.19%) NetApp