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 9 April 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
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 284 298
Rank change year-on-year -87 +14 +39
Contract jobs citing HP 281 256 322
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.88% 0.73%
As % of the Vendors category 1.43% 1.85% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 135 262
10th Percentile £150 £151 £150
25th Percentile £188 £184 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year -28.75% +14.29% -19.77%
75th Percentile £400 £578 £538
90th Percentile £500 £625 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £275 £354 £320
% change year-on-year -22.32% +10.63% -24.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 28 11
10th Percentile £16.09 £18.42 £20.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £21.81
Median hourly rate £19.85 £21.30 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.81% -11.25% +26.78%
75th Percentile £23.99 £24.30 £30.00
90th Percentile £25.77 £26.04 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £21.01 £24.00
% change year-on-year -15.80% -12.46% +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 19,708 13,821 18,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.05% 47.29% 42.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,620 8,740 11,724
10th Percentile £313 £293 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 984 510 1,060
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £12.11
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.90 £14.41
Median hourly rate £27.72 £28.68 £22.54
Median % change year-on-year -3.35% +27.22% -46.08%
75th Percentile £59.25 £60.72 £57.37
90th Percentile £78.60 £80.15 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £25.82 £21.50
% change year-on-year -1.69% +20.08% -43.42%

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 9 April 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
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 9 April 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 -100 249 £210 -50.59% 93
UK excluding London -67 201 £275 -22.32% 82
London -60 65 £316 -41.30% 18
Midlands -28 58 £210 -21.20% 15
East of England -2 42 £200 -61.90% 12
South East -75 35 £380 -13.14% 28
West Midlands -44 34 £300 +100.00% 5
North of England -72 30 £230 -44.24% 17
Work from Home -56 26 £355 -25.26% 31
East Midlands -13 24 £200 -44.20% 10
South West -40 18 £306 -6.21% 10
North West -32 14 £175 -58.82% 11
Yorkshire -50 13 £351 -6.95% 6
Scotland -1 8 £450 +134.85%
Wales -6 8 £290 - 4
Northern Ireland +3 5 £475 -
North East -21 3 £175 -68.18%

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 16 (5.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.91%) Confluence
3 4 (1.42%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.36%) IIS
4 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 35 (12.46%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.85%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.14%) BASE24
2 5 (1.78%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.78%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.71%) assyst
3 2 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.71%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.36%) PORTIA
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.36%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 50 (17.79%) Azure
2 44 (15.66%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (7.12%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (6.41%) AWS
5 12 (4.27%) Datadog
6 4 (1.42%) GCP
7 3 (1.07%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.07%) IaaS
7 3 (1.07%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (0.71%) OCI
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.36%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.36%) GitHub
9 1 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.36%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.36%) PaaS
9 1 (0.36%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.36%) SaaS
9 1 (0.36%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.25%) Wireless
2 13 (4.63%) SNMP
3 11 (3.91%) SAN
3 11 (3.91%) VSAN
3 11 (3.91%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (3.56%) Firewall
5 9 (3.20%) DNS
6 7 (2.49%) DHCP
7 6 (2.14%) VPN
8 5 (1.78%) iSCSI
8 5 (1.78%) VLAN
8 5 (1.78%) WAN
9 4 (1.42%) LAN
9 4 (1.42%) OSPF
9 4 (1.42%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.07%) BGP
10 3 (1.07%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.71%) MPLS
11 2 (0.71%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.14%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (1.42%) OLTP
3 2 (0.71%) Big Data
3 2 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.71%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.36%) Base SAS
4 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.36%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.36%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.36%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (0.36%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (12.10%) JIRA
2 11 (3.91%) Selenium
3 6 (2.14%) TestRail
3 6 (2.14%) Zephyr
4 4 (1.42%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.42%) JMeter
5 3 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.07%) Postman
5 3 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.71%) MSTest
6 2 (0.71%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.36%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.36%) NUnit
7 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.36%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 84 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 64 (22.78%) Organisational Skills
3 42 (14.95%) Finance
4 33 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (9.61%) Banking
6 20 (7.12%) Manufacturing
7 19 (6.76%) Legal
7 19 (6.76%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.27%) Telecoms
9 11 (3.91%) Electronics
9 11 (3.91%) Marketing
10 4 (1.42%) Automotive
10 4 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.71%) Billing
12 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.71%) Retail
13 1 (0.36%) Law
13 1 (0.36%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 73 (25.98%) Break Fix Engineer
2 53 (18.86%) Hardware Engineer
3 46 (16.37%) Field Engineer
4 39 (13.88%) Field Hardware Engineer
5 33 (11.74%) IT Support
6 30 (10.68%) Analyst
7 28 (9.96%) Computer Engineer
7 28 (9.96%) Junior
8 21 (7.47%) Desktop Support
9 19 (6.76%) Support Engineer
10 15 (5.34%) IT Engineer
11 14 (4.98%) Printer Engineer
12 12 (4.27%) 2nd Line Support
12 12 (4.27%) Test Manager
13 11 (3.91%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
13 11 (3.91%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 11 (3.91%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
14 10 (3.56%) Consultant
14 10 (3.56%) Management Consultant
15 9 (3.20%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.76%) REST
2 3 (1.07%) ADO
3 2 (0.71%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.71%) Middleware
3 2 (0.71%) Playwright
3 2 (0.71%) XML
4 1 (0.36%) FHIR
4 1 (0.36%) LDAP
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.36%) OAuth
4 1 (0.36%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.36%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.03%) Data Centre
1 31 (11.03%) Driving Licence
2 19 (6.76%) Mobile App
3 16 (5.69%) Virtual Team
4 13 (4.63%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (2.14%) EMC VMAX
5 6 (2.14%) Tandem
6 5 (1.78%) EMV
6 5 (1.78%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.78%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.42%) Clustering
8 3 (1.07%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.07%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.71%) HP Storage
9 2 (0.71%) iPhone
9 2 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 86 (30.60%) Windows
2 38 (13.52%) Linux
3 30 (10.68%) Mac OS
4 27 (9.61%) Android
5 23 (8.19%) Windows 10
6 14 (4.98%) AIX
7 13 (4.63%) Windows Server
8 9 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (1.78%) Unix
10 4 (1.42%) Windows 7
10 4 (1.42%) Windows 8
11 3 (1.07%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (1.07%) SUSE
12 2 (0.71%) HPUX
12 2 (0.71%) Solaris
12 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.36%) CentOS
13 1 (0.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (30.96%) Customer Service
2 63 (22.42%) Time Management
3 48 (17.08%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (16.37%) Break/Fix
5 39 (13.88%) Service Management
6 37 (13.17%) Agile
7 31 (11.03%) Test Management
8 28 (9.96%) Test Automation
8 28 (9.96%) User Acceptance Testing
9 25 (8.90%) DevOps
10 23 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (7.83%) Migration
11 22 (7.83%) Test Strategy
12 19 (6.76%) Defect Management
13 18 (6.41%) End-to-End Testing
14 17 (6.05%) Asset Management
14 17 (6.05%) Waterfall
15 16 (5.69%) System Integration Testing
16 15 (5.34%) Integration Testing
16 15 (5.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 29 (10.32%) SQL
2 19 (6.76%) PowerShell
2 19 (6.76%) Python
3 10 (3.56%) Search Processing Language
4 7 (2.49%) C
5 6 (2.14%) VB
6 5 (1.78%) COBOL
6 5 (1.78%) Java
7 4 (1.42%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.42%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.07%) C#
8 3 (1.07%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.36%) C++
9 1 (0.36%) Perl
9 1 (0.36%) SAS Macro
9 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (29.18%) Security Cleared
2 75 (26.69%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.41%) ISTQB
4 16 (5.69%) Degree
5 10 (3.56%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.42%) CCNP
7 4 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.71%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.71%) CISSP
8 2 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.71%) ISEB
8 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (0.71%) RHCE
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.68%) SLA
2 23 (8.19%) QA
3 6 (2.14%) ISO 8583
4 5 (1.78%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.71%) GRC
7 1 (0.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.36%) GAMP
7 1 (0.36%) GDPR
7 1 (0.36%) GxP
7 1 (0.36%) HL7
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.36%) NCSC
7 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 30 (10.68%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.98%) vSphere
4 7 (2.49%) Firmware
5 3 (1.07%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.07%) SRDF
6 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.36%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.36%) GPFS
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.36%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 38 (13.52%) HP ALM
2 22 (7.83%) SCCM
3 12 (4.27%) Nagios
3 12 (4.27%) Netcool
3 12 (4.27%) OpenView
3 12 (4.27%) ServiceCenter
3 12 (4.27%) Tivoli
3 12 (4.27%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 12 (4.27%) ZABBIX
4 11 (3.91%) vRealize
5 10 (3.56%) VxRail
6 7 (2.49%) Ansible
7 5 (1.78%) HP Quality Center
8 3 (1.07%) Backup Exec
8 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.71%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.71%) Puppet
10 1 (0.36%) vMotion
Vendors
1 98 (34.88%) Dell
2 51 (18.15%) Apple
2 51 (18.15%) Cisco
3 48 (17.08%) Microsoft
4 35 (12.46%) IBM
5 25 (8.90%) SolarWinds
6 23 (8.19%) SAP
7 21 (7.47%) VMware
8 16 (5.69%) Canon
9 14 (4.98%) ServiceNow
10 13 (4.63%) Splunk
11 12 (4.27%) AppDynamics
11 12 (4.27%) BMC
11 12 (4.27%) Commvault
12 11 (3.91%) Oracle
13 9 (3.20%) MobileIron
14 6 (2.14%) Aruba
14 6 (2.14%) Remedy
15 5 (1.78%) Infor
15 5 (1.78%) McAfee