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 24 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
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 305 257
Rank change year-on-year -42 -48 +58
Contract jobs citing HP 273 234 388
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.77% 0.87%
As % of the Vendors category 1.49% 1.67% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 128 306
10th Percentile £154 £153 £156
25th Percentile £173 £185 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £396 £350
Median % change year-on-year -44.37% +13.00% -22.22%
75th Percentile £388 £551 £523
90th Percentile £489 £625 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £210 £325 £313
% change year-on-year -35.38% +4.00% -26.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 27 13
10th Percentile £16.10 £18.39 £20.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.51 £20.25
Median hourly rate £20.09 £24.15 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.81% +0.63% -4.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £30.00
90th Percentile £25.77 £24.66 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £23.87 £24.00
% change year-on-year -20.95% -0.54% +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 18,290 14,047 19,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.64% 46.49% 43.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,744 8,511 12,087
10th Percentile £304 £281 £259
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +0.48% -1.89%
75th Percentile £604 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 905 415 949
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.05 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +15.38% -23.62%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £56.49
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.05% +4.33% -18.52%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP over the 6 months to 24 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HP in the UK

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HP over the 6 months to 24 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the UK

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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 24 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 -39 243 £210 -47.50% 80
UK excluding London -22 200 £210 -35.38% 72
London -52 62 £210 -56.92% 20
Midlands -13 59 £200 -50.00% 17
East of England +9 38 £200 -61.90% 6
South East -52 35 £381 +39.06% 15
West Midlands -31 34 £305 -32.33% 5
North of England -62 34 £200 -52.94% 17
East Midlands -6 27 £200 +14.00% 12
Work from Home -30 23 £389 -18.13% 28
Yorkshire -43 17 £290 - 3
South West -29 13 £400 +28.00% 10
North West -37 12 £175 -57.58% 11
Wales +6 10 £290 +45.00% 2
Scotland -2 10 £400 +107.01% 2
North East -16 5 £175 -68.18% 3
Northern Ireland +1 3 £475 -

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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 (8.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.49%) Confluence
3 6 (2.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 56 (20.51%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.56%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.20%) BASE24
2 5 (1.83%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.83%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.47%) assyst
3 4 (1.47%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.37%) PORTIA
5 1 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.37%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 69 (25.27%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (20.15%) Azure
3 21 (7.69%) AWS
4 15 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (4.40%) Datadog
6 7 (2.56%) GCP
7 6 (2.20%) OCI
8 5 (1.83%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.10%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (0.73%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.37%) IaaS
11 1 (0.37%) PaaS
11 1 (0.37%) SaaS
11 1 (0.37%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 40 (14.65%) Wireless
2 18 (6.59%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (4.40%) Firewall
3 12 (4.40%) SAN
4 11 (4.03%) VSAN
5 7 (2.56%) DNS
5 7 (2.56%) VLAN
6 6 (2.20%) WAN
7 5 (1.83%) DHCP
7 5 (1.83%) LAN
8 4 (1.47%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.10%) VoIP
9 3 (1.10%) VPN
10 2 (0.73%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.37%) InfiniBand
11 1 (0.37%) Multicast
11 1 (0.37%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.37%) VXLAN
11 1 (0.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.20%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (1.47%) OLTP
3 3 (1.10%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.73%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.37%) Big Data
5 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.37%) MySQL
5 1 (0.37%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (11.36%) JIRA
2 6 (2.20%) Selenium
2 6 (2.20%) TestRail
3 4 (1.47%) JMeter
4 3 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.73%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.73%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.73%) MSTest
5 2 (0.73%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.37%) Gatling
6 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.37%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.37%) NUnit
6 1 (0.37%) Postman
6 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 80 (29.30%) Social Skills
2 64 (23.44%) Organisational Skills
3 54 (19.78%) Finance
4 32 (11.72%) Public Sector
5 29 (10.62%) Manufacturing
6 28 (10.26%) Banking
7 26 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
8 25 (9.16%) Marketing
8 25 (9.16%) Telecoms
9 23 (8.42%) Electronics
10 21 (7.69%) Legal
11 8 (2.93%) Retail
12 7 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.47%) Automotive
14 4 (1.47%) Retail Banking
15 3 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.10%) Local Government
15 3 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.73%) Billing
Job Titles
1 69 (25.27%) Break Fix Engineer
2 47 (17.22%) Hardware Engineer
3 46 (16.85%) IT Support
4 40 (14.65%) Field Engineer
5 38 (13.92%) Analyst
6 34 (12.45%) Field Hardware Engineer
7 33 (12.09%) Desktop Support
8 28 (10.26%) Junior
9 25 (9.16%) Computer Engineer
10 23 (8.42%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
10 23 (8.42%) 2nd Line Support
10 23 (8.42%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
11 21 (7.69%) Support Engineer
12 17 (6.23%) Support Analyst
13 16 (5.86%) IT Engineer
14 11 (4.03%) Data Centre Engineer
14 11 (4.03%) Desktop Engineer
14 11 (4.03%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 11 (4.03%) Printer Engineer
15 10 (3.66%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.47%) Middleware
2 3 (1.10%) ADO
2 3 (1.10%) REST
3 2 (0.73%) XML
4 1 (0.37%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.37%) FHIR
4 1 (0.37%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.37%) LDAP
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.37%) SOAP
4 1 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (16.48%) Data Centre
2 31 (11.36%) Driving Licence
3 19 (6.96%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.40%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (4.40%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.20%) Tandem
6 5 (1.83%) EMV
7 4 (1.47%) CMDB
7 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.10%) Clustering
8 3 (1.10%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.10%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.73%) HP Storage
9 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.73%) Social Media
9 2 (0.73%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 74 (27.11%) Windows
2 48 (17.58%) Mac OS
3 42 (15.38%) Android
4 26 (9.52%) Windows 10
5 21 (7.69%) Linux
6 5 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.83%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.47%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.47%) Windows 8
8 3 (1.10%) Unix
9 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.37%) CentOS
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.37%) SUSE
9 1 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.37%) VMS
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (28.21%) Customer Service
2 61 (22.34%) Time Management
3 49 (17.95%) Break/Fix
4 42 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (13.19%) Agile
5 36 (13.19%) Service Management
6 26 (9.52%) Test Management
7 25 (9.16%) Business Intelligence
8 23 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (8.42%) Digital Marketing
8 23 (8.42%) Programme Management
8 23 (8.42%) User Acceptance Testing
9 21 (7.69%) Test Automation
9 21 (7.69%) Test Strategy
10 20 (7.33%) Asset Management
11 18 (6.59%) DevOps
11 18 (6.59%) Migration
12 16 (5.86%) ITSM
12 16 (5.86%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (5.49%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.13%) SQL
2 7 (2.56%) C
3 6 (2.20%) Java
3 6 (2.20%) Python
4 5 (1.83%) COBOL
4 5 (1.83%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.83%) PL/SQL
4 5 (1.83%) VB
5 4 (1.47%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.10%) C#
6 3 (1.10%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.37%) C++
7 1 (0.37%) Perl
7 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (29.30%) Security Cleared
2 72 (26.37%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.86%) ISTQB
4 14 (5.13%) Degree
5 10 (3.66%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 3 (1.10%) A+ Certification
8 3 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.73%) CCNP
9 2 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.73%) ISEB
9 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.37%) CCIP
10 1 (0.37%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.99%) SLA
2 15 (5.49%) QA
3 6 (2.20%) ISO 8583
4 4 (1.47%) COBIT
4 4 (1.47%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.37%) GDPR
5 1 (0.37%) HL7
5 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.37%) NCSC
5 1 (0.37%) NIST
5 1 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 32 (11.72%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.40%) vSphere
4 6 (2.20%) Firmware
4 6 (2.20%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.10%) SRDF
6 2 (0.73%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.37%) Docker
7 1 (0.37%) GPFS
7 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (11.72%) HP ALM
2 18 (6.59%) SCCM
3 12 (4.40%) ServiceCenter
4 11 (4.03%) vRealize
5 10 (3.66%) VxRail
6 8 (2.93%) Ansible
7 5 (1.83%) HP Quality Center
7 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.83%) Terraform
8 3 (1.10%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.10%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.73%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.73%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.73%) Puppet
10 1 (0.37%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.37%) EMC TimeFinder
10 1 (0.37%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.37%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 118 (43.22%) Dell
2 73 (26.74%) Apple
3 63 (23.08%) Cisco
4 52 (19.05%) Microsoft
5 34 (12.45%) SAP
6 22 (8.06%) VMware
7 20 (7.33%) IBM
8 16 (5.86%) ServiceNow
9 15 (5.49%) MobileIron
10 13 (4.76%) AppDynamics
10 13 (4.76%) Canon
10 13 (4.76%) SolarWinds
11 12 (4.40%) Commvault
12 10 (3.66%) Oracle
13 6 (2.20%) Remedy
14 5 (1.83%) CheckPoint
14 5 (1.83%) Computacenter
14 5 (1.83%) Dynatrace
15 4 (1.47%) Palo Alto
15 4 (1.47%) Workday