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 21 September 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
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 357 363
Rank change year-on-year -166 +6 -56
Contract jobs citing HP 158 213 207
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.65% 0.54%
As % of the Vendors category 0.70% 1.37% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 108 137
10th Percentile £150 £150 £138
25th Percentile £195 £270 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £538
90th Percentile £675 £610 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £313 £395 £425
% change year-on-year -20.89% -7.06% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 56 23
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.36 £17.70
25th Percentile £18.33 £18.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £19.33 £25.11 £23.59
Median % change year-on-year -23.03% +6.45% +24.62%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £24.02
90th Percentile - - £24.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £23.59
% change year-on-year +2.44% -20.01% +33.13%

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 22,669 15,501 17,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.71% 47.46% 44.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,851 9,502 10,192
10th Percentile £310 £275 £286
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,287 795 671
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.62 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.13 £25.15 £30.41
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -17.30% -30.63%
75th Percentile £60.78 £43.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.75 £21.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +22.62% -30.00% -29.12%

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 21 September 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 21 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the UK

HP
Top 15 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 21 September 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 -156 147 £426 -9.36% 242
UK excluding London -131 103 £313 -20.89% 162
London -108 41 £500 - 78
Work from Home -72 29 £500 +5.26% 96
South East -72 27 £210 -58.00% 47
North of England -66 26 £395 -12.22% 38
South West -37 24 £426 +6.50% 28
North West -46 13 £475 +5.56% 22
Midlands -62 13 £250 +13.64% 25
West Midlands -52 10 £238 +7.95% 12
East of England -22 9 £150 -57.14% 10
Yorkshire -43 9 £339 -29.79% 15
Scotland -31 4 £450 +96.72% 9
North East -38 4 £200 - 1
East Midlands -24 3 £500 - 13

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 8 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.80%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.16%) Confluence
4 4 (2.53%) SAS
5 2 (1.27%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (12.03%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.53%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) BASE24
1 2 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.27%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.63%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.63%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.63%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.63%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (0.63%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 38 (24.05%) Azure
2 16 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (8.86%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (7.59%) AWS
5 8 (5.06%) Entra ID
6 7 (4.43%) OpenShift
7 6 (3.80%) OneDrive
8 5 (3.16%) GCP
9 3 (1.90%) GitHub
9 3 (1.90%) IaaS
9 3 (1.90%) PaaS
9 3 (1.90%) SaaS
10 2 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.27%) OCI
11 1 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.63%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.63%) Siteimprove
11 1 (0.63%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.86%) Firewall
2 12 (7.59%) DHCP
2 12 (7.59%) DNS
3 10 (6.33%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (5.70%) LAN
4 9 (5.70%) WAN
5 8 (5.06%) Skype
5 8 (5.06%) SNMP
6 7 (4.43%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.80%) SAN
7 6 (3.80%) VPN
8 4 (2.53%) BGP
8 4 (2.53%) Network Security
8 4 (2.53%) OSPF
8 4 (2.53%) VLAN
9 3 (1.90%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.90%) SMTP
10 2 (1.27%) PCoIP
10 2 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (1.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.80%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.53%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (2.53%) PowerCenter
2 4 (2.53%) Star Schema
3 3 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.90%) Big Data
3 3 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.90%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 29 (18.35%) JIRA
2 13 (8.23%) Selenium
3 7 (4.43%) Cucumber
4 5 (3.16%) HP UFT
5 4 (2.53%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.90%) Bugzilla
6 3 (1.90%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.90%) TestRail
7 2 (1.27%) GitLab
7 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.27%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.27%) MSTest
7 2 (1.27%) Postman
7 2 (1.27%) Ranorex
7 2 (1.27%) TestDirector
7 2 (1.27%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.63%) Appium
8 1 (0.63%) JMeter
8 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.63%) Toad
General
1 38 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.46%) Finance
3 13 (8.23%) Banking
4 11 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.16%) Legal
7 4 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.53%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.90%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.27%) Billing
9 2 (1.27%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.27%) Law
9 2 (1.27%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Retail
10 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (15.82%) Hardware Technician
2 12 (7.59%) Tester
3 11 (6.96%) Field Service Technician
4 10 (6.33%) Analyst
4 10 (6.33%) IT Engineer
4 10 (6.33%) Network Engineer
4 10 (6.33%) Senior
5 9 (5.70%) Break Fix Engineer
5 9 (5.70%) Consultant
6 8 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (5.06%) Lead
6 8 (5.06%) Management Consultant
6 8 (5.06%) Support Engineer
7 7 (4.43%) Field Engineer
7 7 (4.43%) Test Leader
7 7 (4.43%) Test Manager
8 6 (3.80%) Desktop Support
8 6 (3.80%) Hardware Engineer
8 6 (3.80%) Support Analyst
8 6 (3.80%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.59%) REST
2 6 (3.80%) Middleware
3 4 (2.53%) Kafka
4 3 (1.90%) Node.js
4 3 (1.90%) Playwright
4 3 (1.90%) Terraform
4 3 (1.90%) WireMock
5 2 (1.27%) .NET
5 2 (1.27%) OpenGL
5 2 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.27%) Qt
5 2 (1.27%) SOAP
6 1 (0.63%) JSON
6 1 (0.63%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.63%) Web Services
6 1 (0.63%) XML
6 1 (0.63%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.13%) Data Centre
2 15 (9.49%) Driving Licence
3 12 (7.59%) Virtual Team
4 9 (5.70%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.16%) iPhone
6 5 (3.16%) PKI
7 4 (2.53%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.90%) Clustering
8 3 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.90%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.27%) BYOD
9 2 (1.27%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.27%) iPad
9 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.27%) SCADA
9 2 (1.27%) Tandem
9 2 (1.27%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 48 (30.38%) Windows
2 30 (18.99%) Linux
3 18 (11.39%) Windows 10
4 17 (10.76%) AIX
5 14 (8.86%) Android
6 13 (8.23%) Windows Server
7 12 (7.59%) Unix
8 9 (5.70%) Solaris
9 8 (5.06%) HPUX
10 7 (4.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (3.80%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (3.80%) SUSE
12 3 (1.90%) Apple iOS
13 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.63%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (15.82%) Customer Service
4 24 (15.19%) DevOps
5 23 (14.56%) Agile
6 22 (13.92%) Asset Management
7 21 (13.29%) Test Automation
8 20 (12.66%) ITIL
9 19 (12.03%) Migration
10 16 (10.13%) Break/Fix
10 16 (10.13%) Defect Management
10 16 (10.13%) Test Management
10 16 (10.13%) User Acceptance Testing
10 16 (10.13%) Validation
11 15 (9.49%) Root Cause Analysis
12 14 (8.86%) System Integration Testing
12 14 (8.86%) Test Strategy
13 12 (7.59%) Change Management
13 12 (7.59%) CI/CD
13 12 (7.59%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (13.29%) PowerShell
2 18 (11.39%) SQL
3 16 (10.13%) Python
4 8 (5.06%) Java
4 8 (5.06%) Shell Script
5 7 (4.43%) Search Processing Language
6 5 (3.16%) Bash
6 5 (3.16%) C#
7 3 (1.90%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.27%) C
8 2 (1.27%) C++
9 1 (0.63%) COBOL
9 1 (0.63%) Lisp
9 1 (0.63%) Perl
9 1 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 41 (25.95%) Security Cleared
2 29 (18.35%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.86%) Degree
4 12 (7.59%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.06%) ISTQB
6 5 (3.16%) CISSP
6 5 (3.16%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (3.16%) RHCE
7 4 (2.53%) CCNP
7 4 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.53%) HP APS
8 3 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.49%) QA
1 15 (9.49%) SLA
2 6 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.16%) GRC
4 2 (1.27%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.63%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (10.13%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.06%) Firmware
4 7 (4.43%) Docker
4 7 (4.43%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.16%) BitLocker
5 5 (3.16%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.16%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.90%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.90%) vSphere
7 2 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.27%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.63%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (19.62%) HP ALM
2 11 (6.96%) Nagios
3 10 (6.33%) Ansible
3 10 (6.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (5.70%) Tivoli
5 8 (5.06%) Netcool
5 8 (5.06%) OpenView
5 8 (5.06%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 8 (5.06%) ZABBIX
6 7 (4.43%) SCCM
7 6 (3.80%) vCenter Server
8 5 (3.16%) HP Quality Center
8 5 (3.16%) Kubernetes
8 5 (3.16%) vMotion
9 4 (2.53%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.90%) Puppet
11 2 (1.27%) Grafana
11 2 (1.27%) Packer
11 2 (1.27%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.63%) MobiControl
Vendors
1 40 (25.32%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.19%) Dell
3 19 (12.03%) Oracle
4 17 (10.76%) Apple
5 16 (10.13%) VMware
6 13 (8.23%) IBM
7 12 (7.59%) Cisco
7 12 (7.59%) Splunk
8 8 (5.06%) BMC
8 8 (5.06%) SolarWinds
9 5 (3.16%) Red Hat
9 5 (3.16%) Zscaler
10 4 (2.53%) F5
10 4 (2.53%) Informatica
10 4 (2.53%) NetApp
10 4 (2.53%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.53%) Veeam
10 4 (2.53%) Veritas
11 3 (1.90%) Aruba
11 3 (1.90%) EMC