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 12 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
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 309 283
Rank change year-on-year -30 -26 +46
Contract jobs citing HP 273 225 370
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.69% 0.73% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 1.52% 1.57% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 126 287
10th Percentile £154 £153 £150
25th Percentile £183 £185 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £355 £350
Median % change year-on-year -38.03% +1.43% -22.22%
75th Percentile £391 £540 £500
90th Percentile £488 £625 £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £210 £300 £285
% change year-on-year -30.00% +5.26% -33.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 24 13
10th Percentile £16.17 £18.29 £20.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £19.85 £20.25
Median hourly rate £20.09 £24.17 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.86% +0.69% -2.04%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £30.00
90th Percentile £25.77 £24.66 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £24.15 £24.00
% change year-on-year -21.86% +0.63% +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 17,911 14,349 19,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.97% 46.32% 43.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,506 8,584 12,141
10th Percentile £300 £275 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -1.12%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 869 416 916
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.93
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £26.72
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% +8.53% -16.50%
75th Percentile £56.69 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.04 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.74% +4.33% -5.45%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -35 245 £210 -47.50% 83
UK excluding London -9 197 £210 -30.00% 85
London -40 65 £250 -47.37% 15
Midlands -9 59 £200 +14.29% 24
East of England +5 36 £200 -44.83% 3
West Midlands -26 34 £306 -1.21% 12
South East -49 33 £388 +37.37% 22
North of England -54 33 £188 -55.88% 17
East Midlands 0 27 £200 +14.00% 12
Work from Home -27 22 £413 -13.01% 31
South West -23 16 £425 +30.27% 8
Yorkshire -47 15 £290 - 4
North West -25 13 £175 -58.82% 10
Wales +9 10 £290 +45.00% 3
Scotland -4 9 £400 +107.01% 2
North East -16 5 £175 -68.18% 3
Northern Ireland -1 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 (8.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (6.23%) Confluence
3 5 (1.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 57 (20.88%) 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
5 1 (0.37%) PORTIA
5 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (25.27%) Microsoft 365
2 54 (19.78%) 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 4 (1.47%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.10%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.37%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.37%) IaaS
10 1 (0.37%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.37%) PaaS
10 1 (0.37%) SaaS
10 1 (0.37%) Veeva
10 1 (0.37%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 40 (14.65%) Wireless
2 18 (6.59%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (4.40%) Firewall
4 11 (4.03%) SAN
4 11 (4.03%) VSAN
5 7 (2.56%) DNS
5 7 (2.56%) VLAN
6 5 (1.83%) DHCP
6 5 (1.83%) WAN
7 4 (1.47%) LAN
7 4 (1.47%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.10%) VoIP
9 2 (0.73%) VPN
10 1 (0.37%) BGP
10 1 (0.37%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.37%) FTP
10 1 (0.37%) MPLS
10 1 (0.37%) OSPF
10 1 (0.37%) RTP
10 1 (0.37%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.56%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (1.47%) OLTP
3 3 (1.10%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.10%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.37%) Big Data
4 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.37%) MySQL
4 1 (0.37%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (12.82%) JIRA
2 8 (2.93%) TestRail
3 6 (2.20%) Selenium
4 4 (1.47%) JMeter
5 3 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.73%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.73%) MSTest
6 2 (0.73%) 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%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.37%) NUnit
7 1 (0.37%) Postman
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 80 (29.30%) Social Skills
2 62 (22.71%) Organisational Skills
3 52 (19.05%) Finance
4 34 (12.45%) Public Sector
5 29 (10.62%) Banking
5 29 (10.62%) Manufacturing
6 27 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (9.16%) Marketing
7 25 (9.16%) Telecoms
8 23 (8.42%) Electronics
9 19 (6.96%) Legal
10 8 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.93%) Retail
11 6 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.47%) Automotive
12 4 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.47%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.10%) Local Government
14 2 (0.73%) Advertising
14 2 (0.73%) Billing
Job Titles
1 68 (24.91%) Break Fix Engineer
2 46 (16.85%) IT Support
3 45 (16.48%) Hardware Engineer
4 39 (14.29%) Analyst
5 38 (13.92%) Field Engineer
6 33 (12.09%) Desktop Support
7 32 (11.72%) Field Hardware Engineer
8 28 (10.26%) Junior
9 23 (8.42%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 23 (8.42%) 2nd Line Support
9 23 (8.42%) Computer Engineer
9 23 (8.42%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
10 20 (7.33%) Support Engineer
11 19 (6.96%) IT Engineer
12 18 (6.59%) Support Analyst
13 11 (4.03%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 11 (4.03%) IT Support Engineer
13 11 (4.03%) Lead
13 11 (4.03%) Test Leader
13 11 (4.03%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.47%) Middleware
2 3 (1.10%) ADO
2 3 (1.10%) REST
2 3 (1.10%) XML
3 1 (0.37%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.37%) FHIR
3 1 (0.37%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.37%) LDAP
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.37%) SOAP
3 1 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.12%) Data Centre
2 33 (12.09%) Driving Licence
3 19 (6.96%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.40%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (4.03%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.20%) Tandem
7 5 (1.83%) EMV
8 4 (1.47%) CMDB
8 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.47%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.10%) Clustering
9 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.10%) HP Storage
9 3 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.73%) Social Media
11 1 (0.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.37%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 70 (25.64%) Windows
2 48 (17.58%) Mac OS
3 42 (15.38%) Android
4 25 (9.16%) Windows 10
5 20 (7.33%) Linux
6 5 (1.83%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.47%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.47%) Windows 8
8 3 (1.10%) 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 71 (26.01%) Customer Service
2 59 (21.61%) Time Management
3 47 (17.22%) Break/Fix
4 44 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (13.92%) Agile
6 35 (12.82%) Service Management
7 28 (10.26%) Test Management
8 26 (9.52%) Asset Management
9 25 (9.16%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (8.79%) User Acceptance Testing
11 23 (8.42%) Digital Marketing
11 23 (8.42%) Programme Management
12 21 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (7.69%) Test Automation
12 21 (7.69%) Test Strategy
13 17 (6.23%) Defect Management
13 17 (6.23%) DevOps
14 16 (5.86%) ITSM
14 16 (5.86%) Migration
14 16 (5.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.86%) SQL
2 7 (2.56%) C
3 6 (2.20%) COBOL
3 6 (2.20%) Java
3 6 (2.20%) VB
4 5 (1.83%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.83%) PL/SQL
4 5 (1.83%) Python
5 4 (1.47%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.10%) 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 82 (30.04%) Security Cleared
2 75 (27.47%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.59%) ISTQB
4 15 (5.49%) Degree
5 11 (4.03%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 4 (1.47%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.10%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.73%) AWS 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%) 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 27 (9.89%) SLA
2 16 (5.86%) 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 31 (11.36%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.40%) vSphere
4 6 (2.20%) Firmware
4 6 (2.20%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.73%) 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 34 (12.45%) HP ALM
2 17 (6.23%) SCCM
3 11 (4.03%) vRealize
4 10 (3.66%) ServiceCenter
4 10 (3.66%) VxRail
5 7 (2.56%) Ansible
6 6 (2.20%) Terraform
7 5 (1.83%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.47%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.10%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.73%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.37%) BladeLogic
11 1 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
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%) Puppet
Vendors
1 113 (41.39%) Dell
2 70 (25.64%) Apple
3 62 (22.71%) Cisco
4 48 (17.58%) Microsoft
5 33 (12.09%) SAP
6 22 (8.06%) VMware
7 18 (6.59%) IBM
8 16 (5.86%) ServiceNow
9 15 (5.49%) MobileIron
10 13 (4.76%) AppDynamics
10 13 (4.76%) SolarWinds
11 12 (4.40%) Commvault
12 11 (4.03%) Canon
13 10 (3.66%) Oracle
14 8 (2.93%) Computacenter
15 7 (2.56%) Remedy
16 5 (1.83%) CheckPoint
16 5 (1.83%) Dynatrace
16 5 (1.83%) Veritas
17 4 (1.47%) Palo Alto