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 17 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
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 312 278
Rank change year-on-year -27 -34 +57
Contract jobs citing HP 270 225 375
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.74% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 1.50% 1.59% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 126 293
10th Percentile £154 £153 £151
25th Percentile £176 £186 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £376 £350
Median % change year-on-year -41.41% +7.29% -22.22%
75th Percentile £388 £540 £500
90th Percentile £488 £625 £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £210 £306 £285
% change year-on-year -31.43% +7.46% -33.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 25 13
10th Percentile £16.15 £18.33 £20.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £20.25
Median hourly rate £20.09 £24.18 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +0.75% -2.04%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £30.00
90th Percentile £25.77 £24.66 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £24.17 £24.00
% change year-on-year -21.91% +0.69% +31.62%

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 17,996 14,131 19,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.75% 46.39% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,531 8,441 12,170
10th Percentile £300 £275 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -0.94%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £710 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 891 400 925
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.91
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +12.02% -18.85%
75th Percentile £57.25 £63.75 £58.48
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.29 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.82% +4.33% -11.26%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -37 241 £210 -47.50% 88
UK excluding London -27 197 £210 -31.43% 89
London -37 62 £210 -55.79% 19
Midlands -11 59 £200 -50.00% 24
East of England +7 37 £200 -38.46% 6
West Midlands -25 34 £306 -27.94% 10
South East -46 34 £381 +39.06% 23
North of England -54 33 £188 -55.88% 14
East Midlands 0 27 £200 +14.00% 14
Work from Home -50 21 £389 -18.13% 29
Yorkshire -40 15 £290 - 3
South West -27 13 £425 +36.00% 10
North West -31 13 £175 -57.58% 8
Wales +5 10 £290 +45.00% 4
Scotland -9 10 £400 +107.01% 4
North East -14 5 £175 -68.18% 3
Northern Ireland 0 3 £475 - 1

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 (8.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (6.30%) Confluence
3 6 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 56 (20.74%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.59%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.22%) BASE24
2 5 (1.85%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.48%) assyst
3 4 (1.48%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.37%) PORTIA
5 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (25.19%) Microsoft 365
2 54 (20.00%) Azure
3 21 (7.78%) AWS
4 15 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (4.44%) Datadog
6 7 (2.59%) GCP
7 6 (2.22%) OCI
8 4 (1.48%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.11%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (0.74%) 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%) Veeva
11 1 (0.37%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 39 (14.44%) Wireless
2 18 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (4.44%) Firewall
4 11 (4.07%) SAN
4 11 (4.07%) VSAN
5 7 (2.59%) DNS
5 7 (2.59%) VLAN
6 5 (1.85%) DHCP
6 5 (1.85%) WAN
7 4 (1.48%) LAN
7 4 (1.48%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.11%) VoIP
8 3 (1.11%) VPN
9 1 (0.37%) BGP
9 1 (0.37%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.37%) FTP
9 1 (0.37%) MPLS
9 1 (0.37%) OSPF
9 1 (0.37%) RTP
9 1 (0.37%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.59%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (1.48%) OLTP
3 3 (1.11%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.74%) 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 34 (12.59%) JIRA
2 7 (2.59%) TestRail
3 6 (2.22%) Selenium
4 4 (1.48%) JMeter
5 3 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.74%) MSTest
6 2 (0.74%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.37%) Gatling
7 1 (0.37%) Git
7 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.37%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.37%) NUnit
7 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 81 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 63 (23.33%) Organisational Skills
3 52 (19.26%) Finance
4 33 (12.22%) Public Sector
5 29 (10.74%) Manufacturing
6 26 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (9.63%) Banking
7 25 (9.26%) Marketing
7 25 (9.26%) Telecoms
8 23 (8.52%) Electronics
9 20 (7.41%) Legal
10 8 (2.96%) Retail
11 7 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.48%) Automotive
13 4 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.48%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.11%) Local Government
15 2 (0.74%) Advertising
15 2 (0.74%) Billing
Job Titles
1 68 (25.19%) Break Fix Engineer
2 46 (17.04%) Hardware Engineer
2 46 (17.04%) IT Support
3 39 (14.44%) Field Engineer
4 38 (14.07%) Analyst
5 33 (12.22%) Desktop Support
5 33 (12.22%) Field Hardware Engineer
6 28 (10.37%) Junior
7 24 (8.89%) Computer Engineer
8 23 (8.52%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 23 (8.52%) 2nd Line Support
8 23 (8.52%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
9 21 (7.78%) Support Engineer
10 17 (6.30%) IT Engineer
10 17 (6.30%) Support Analyst
11 11 (4.07%) Desktop Engineer
11 11 (4.07%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 11 (4.07%) Test Manager
12 10 (3.70%) Data Centre Engineer
12 10 (3.70%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.48%) Middleware
2 3 (1.11%) ADO
2 3 (1.11%) REST
3 2 (0.74%) 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 44 (16.30%) Data Centre
2 30 (11.11%) Driving Licence
3 19 (7.04%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (4.44%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.22%) Tandem
6 5 (1.85%) EMV
7 4 (1.48%) CMDB
7 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.48%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.11%) Clustering
8 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.11%) HP Storage
9 2 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.74%) Social Media
9 2 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.37%) iPhone
10 1 (0.37%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 72 (26.67%) Windows
2 48 (17.78%) Mac OS
3 41 (15.19%) Android
4 26 (9.63%) Windows 10
5 20 (7.41%) Linux
6 5 (1.85%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.48%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.48%) Windows 8
8 3 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.37%) AIX
9 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.37%) CentOS
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.37%) Solaris
9 1 (0.37%) SUSE
9 1 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.37%) Unix
9 1 (0.37%) VMS
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (27.41%) Customer Service
2 60 (22.22%) Time Management
3 48 (17.78%) Break/Fix
4 44 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (14.07%) Agile
6 36 (13.33%) Service Management
7 27 (10.00%) Test Management
8 25 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (8.52%) Digital Marketing
9 23 (8.52%) Programme Management
9 23 (8.52%) User Acceptance Testing
10 21 (7.78%) Asset Management
10 21 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (7.78%) Test Strategy
11 20 (7.41%) Test Automation
12 17 (6.30%) DevOps
13 16 (5.93%) Defect Management
13 16 (5.93%) ITSM
13 16 (5.93%) Migration
14 15 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.56%) SQL
2 7 (2.59%) C
3 6 (2.22%) COBOL
3 6 (2.22%) Java
4 5 (1.85%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.85%) PL/SQL
4 5 (1.85%) Python
4 5 (1.85%) VB
5 4 (1.48%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.11%) C#
7 1 (0.37%) C++
7 1 (0.37%) Perl
7 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 72 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.30%) ISTQB
4 15 (5.56%) Degree
5 10 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.48%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 4 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.11%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.74%) ISEB
9 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.37%) HP APS
10 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.37%) SLA
2 16 (5.93%) QA
3 6 (2.22%) ISO 8583
4 4 (1.48%) COBIT
4 4 (1.48%) 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 31 (11.48%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.44%) vSphere
4 6 (2.22%) Firmware
4 6 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.74%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.37%) Docker
6 1 (0.37%) GPFS
6 1 (0.37%) SRDF
6 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 33 (12.22%) HP ALM
2 18 (6.67%) SCCM
3 11 (4.07%) ServiceCenter
3 11 (4.07%) vRealize
4 10 (3.70%) VxRail
5 7 (2.59%) Ansible
6 6 (2.22%) Terraform
7 5 (1.85%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.48%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.11%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.74%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.37%) Grafana
11 1 (0.37%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.37%) HP UCMDB
11 1 (0.37%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.37%) Puppet
11 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 113 (41.85%) Dell
2 71 (26.30%) Apple
3 60 (22.22%) Cisco
4 49 (18.15%) Microsoft
5 33 (12.22%) SAP
6 22 (8.15%) VMware
7 19 (7.04%) IBM
8 17 (6.30%) ServiceNow
9 15 (5.56%) MobileIron
10 13 (4.81%) AppDynamics
10 13 (4.81%) SolarWinds
11 12 (4.44%) Canon
11 12 (4.44%) Commvault
12 10 (3.70%) Oracle
13 7 (2.59%) Remedy
14 5 (1.85%) CheckPoint
14 5 (1.85%) Computacenter
14 5 (1.85%) Dynatrace
14 5 (1.85%) Veritas
15 4 (1.48%) Palo Alto