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 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
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 277 310
Rank change year-on-year -93 +33 +21
Contract jobs citing HP 275 264 301
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.89% 0.69%
As % of the Vendors category 1.40% 1.88% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 138 245
10th Percentile £150 £150 £180
25th Percentile £190 £182 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £411 £350
Median % change year-on-year -29.48% +17.50% -20.45%
75th Percentile £419 £580 £573
90th Percentile £500 £625 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £275 £358 £375
% change year-on-year -23.18% -4.53% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 33 9
10th Percentile £16.09 - £20.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £23.63
Median hourly rate £19.85 £21.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -5.48% -11.76% +23.86%
75th Percentile £23.99 £24.18 £30.00
90th Percentile £25.77 £24.66 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.28 £19.94 £30.00
% change year-on-year -8.30% -33.55% +64.52%

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 19,649 14,019 18,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.29% 47.46% 42.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,551 8,811 11,523
10th Percentile £313 £294 £260
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 £619 £627
90th Percentile £703 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -1.01% -0.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 986 554 1,079
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £12.02
25th Percentile £18.61 £18.25 £14.38
Median hourly rate £30.32 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.78% +20.56% -48.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.57 £57.41
90th Percentile £79.13 £75.88 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.83 £24.19 £21.46
% change year-on-year +10.91% +12.72% -46.35%

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 24 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 24 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 -95 246 £210 -53.30% 94
UK excluding London -70 194 £275 -23.18% 90
London -71 64 £258 -52.00% 13
Midlands -32 50 £210 +20.00% 25
East of England -1 41 £200 -61.90% 6
South East -73 41 £375 -28.57% 32
West Midlands -48 29 £283 +88.33% 2
North of England -69 28 £290 -27.50% 11
Work from Home -49 25 £375 -21.05% 40
East Midlands -18 21 £200 -44.13% 23
South West -52 19 £306 -6.21% 10
North West -36 15 £200 -51.52% 8
Yorkshire -47 12 £413 +9.27% 3
Scotland -1 8 £450 +138.10% 3
Northern Ireland +6 5 £475 - 2
Wales -9 5 £290 - 3
North East -22 1 £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 13 (4.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.91%) Confluence
3 5 (1.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.73%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (7.64%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.18%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.18%) BASE24
2 5 (1.82%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.73%) assyst
3 2 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.73%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.36%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.36%) PORTIA
4 1 (0.36%) SAP FI-AR
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.36%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 42 (15.27%) Azure
2 28 (10.18%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (4.73%) AWS
5 7 (2.55%) Datadog
6 4 (1.45%) GCP
7 3 (1.09%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.09%) IaaS
7 3 (1.09%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (0.73%) 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 17 (6.18%) Wireless
2 13 (4.73%) SNMP
3 11 (4.00%) SAN
4 9 (3.27%) DNS
4 9 (3.27%) Firewall
4 9 (3.27%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (2.91%) DHCP
6 7 (2.55%) VSAN
7 6 (2.18%) VPN
7 6 (2.18%) WAN
8 5 (1.82%) iSCSI
8 5 (1.82%) LAN
8 5 (1.82%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.82%) VLAN
9 4 (1.45%) OSPF
10 3 (1.09%) BGP
10 3 (1.09%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.73%) MPLS
11 2 (0.73%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.18%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (1.45%) OLTP
3 2 (0.73%) Big Data
3 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.73%) 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%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (12.36%) JIRA
2 11 (4.00%) Selenium
3 7 (2.55%) TestRail
4 6 (2.18%) Zephyr
5 4 (1.45%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.45%) JMeter
6 3 (1.09%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.09%) Postman
6 3 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.73%) MSTest
7 2 (0.73%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.36%) Appium
8 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.36%) NUnit
8 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.36%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 83 (30.18%) Social Skills
2 64 (23.27%) Organisational Skills
3 35 (12.73%) Finance
4 32 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (10.18%) Banking
6 19 (6.91%) Legal
7 10 (3.64%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.27%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.45%) Automotive
10 3 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.36%) Billing
12 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Electronics
12 1 (0.36%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Retail
12 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (26.55%) Break Fix Engineer
2 54 (19.64%) Hardware Engineer
3 46 (16.73%) Field Engineer
4 39 (14.18%) Field Hardware Engineer
5 28 (10.18%) Computer Engineer
5 28 (10.18%) Junior
6 22 (8.00%) Analyst
6 22 (8.00%) IT Support
7 20 (7.27%) Support Engineer
8 17 (6.18%) Hardware Technician
9 15 (5.45%) IT Engineer
10 14 (5.09%) Printer Engineer
11 13 (4.73%) Test Manager
12 12 (4.36%) Desktop Support
13 11 (4.00%) Field Service Technician
14 10 (3.64%) Consultant
14 10 (3.64%) Management Consultant
15 9 (3.27%) Developer
15 9 (3.27%) Technical Support
16 8 (2.91%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.91%) REST
2 3 (1.09%) ADO
3 2 (0.73%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.73%) Middleware
3 2 (0.73%) Playwright
3 2 (0.73%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.36%) FHIR
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%) Web Services
4 1 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.27%) Driving Licence
2 23 (8.36%) Data Centre
3 19 (6.91%) Mobile App
4 18 (6.55%) Virtual Team
5 8 (2.91%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.18%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (2.18%) Tandem
8 5 (1.82%) EMV
8 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.45%) Clustering
9 4 (1.45%) iPhone
10 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.09%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.09%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.73%) HP Storage
11 2 (0.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 84 (30.55%) Windows
2 34 (12.36%) Linux
3 24 (8.73%) Windows 10
4 18 (6.55%) Mac OS
5 16 (5.82%) AIX
5 16 (5.82%) Android
6 13 (4.73%) Windows Server
7 10 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.55%) Unix
9 5 (1.82%) SUSE
10 4 (1.45%) HPUX
10 4 (1.45%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (1.45%) Solaris
10 4 (1.45%) Windows 7
10 4 (1.45%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.36%) VMS
12 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (32.36%) Customer Service
2 63 (22.91%) Time Management
3 47 (17.09%) Break/Fix
3 47 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (14.18%) Service Management
5 31 (11.27%) Agile
5 31 (11.27%) Test Management
6 28 (10.18%) Test Automation
6 28 (10.18%) User Acceptance Testing
7 26 (9.45%) DevOps
8 25 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (9.09%) Migration
9 21 (7.64%) Asset Management
9 21 (7.64%) Test Strategy
10 19 (6.91%) Defect Management
11 17 (6.18%) End-to-End Testing
11 17 (6.18%) System Integration Testing
12 16 (5.82%) Integration Testing
12 16 (5.82%) Waterfall
13 15 (5.45%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 29 (10.55%) SQL
2 19 (6.91%) PowerShell
2 19 (6.91%) Python
3 10 (3.64%) Search Processing Language
4 7 (2.55%) C
5 5 (1.82%) COBOL
5 5 (1.82%) Java
5 5 (1.82%) VB
6 4 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.45%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.09%) C#
7 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.36%) C++
8 1 (0.36%) Lisp
8 1 (0.36%) Perl
8 1 (0.36%) SAS Macro
8 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 64 (23.27%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.55%) ISTQB
4 14 (5.09%) Degree
5 11 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.82%) CCNP
6 5 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.45%) CISSP
7 4 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (1.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 4 (1.45%) RHCE
8 2 (0.73%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.73%) CCIE
8 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.73%) ISEB
8 2 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.64%) SLA
2 23 (8.36%) QA
3 6 (2.18%) ISO 8583
4 5 (1.82%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.45%) GRC
5 4 (1.45%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.36%) GAMP
6 1 (0.36%) GDPR
6 1 (0.36%) GxP
6 1 (0.36%) HL7
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.36%) NCSC
6 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 26 (9.45%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.64%) vSphere
4 6 (2.18%) Firmware
5 3 (1.09%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.09%) SRDF
6 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.73%) 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 (13.82%) HP ALM
2 23 (8.36%) SCCM
3 12 (4.36%) Nagios
3 12 (4.36%) Netcool
3 12 (4.36%) OpenView
3 12 (4.36%) ServiceCenter
3 12 (4.36%) Tivoli
3 12 (4.36%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 12 (4.36%) ZABBIX
4 7 (2.55%) Ansible
4 7 (2.55%) vRealize
5 6 (2.18%) VxRail
6 5 (1.82%) HP Quality Center
7 3 (1.09%) Backup Exec
7 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.73%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.73%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.73%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.73%) Puppet
Vendors
1 81 (29.45%) Dell
2 47 (17.09%) Microsoft
3 37 (13.45%) Apple
4 36 (13.09%) Cisco
5 30 (10.91%) IBM
6 20 (7.27%) SolarWinds
7 17 (6.18%) VMware
8 16 (5.82%) Canon
9 15 (5.45%) ServiceNow
10 14 (5.09%) SAP
11 13 (4.73%) Splunk
12 12 (4.36%) BMC
12 12 (4.36%) Oracle
13 7 (2.55%) AppDynamics
13 7 (2.55%) Aruba
13 7 (2.55%) Commvault
13 7 (2.55%) Red Hat
13 7 (2.55%) Remedy
14 6 (2.18%) MobileIron
15 5 (1.82%) Infor