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 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
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 342 363
Rank change year-on-year -169 +21 -47
Contract jobs citing HP 160 232 211
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.70% 0.55%
As % of the Vendors category 0.70% 1.49% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 119 141
10th Percentile £150 £150 £138
25th Percentile £195 £278 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £534 £575 £538
90th Percentile £670 £622 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £306 £393 £450
% change year-on-year -22.04% -12.78% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 52 23
10th Percentile £18.33 £18.51 £17.70
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £19.85 £25.15 £23.59
Median % change year-on-year -21.07% +6.61% +24.62%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £24.02
90th Percentile - - £24.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.80 £18.87 £23.59
% change year-on-year +20.83% -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 22,867 15,556 17,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.91% 47.12% 44.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,033 9,517 10,292
10th Percentile £313 £276 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £626
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,255 792 694
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.42 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% -18.33% -27.54%
75th Percentile £62.25 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.95 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.19 £21.24 £30.00
% change year-on-year +23.31% -29.20% -25.00%

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 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 12 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 12 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 -177 146 £375 -20.21% 127
UK excluding London -138 103 £306 -22.04% 100
London -111 39 £500 - 32
Work from Home -74 30 £500 +2.56% 49
South West -43 25 £426 +6.50% 11
South East -68 25 £180 -64.00% 39
North of England -73 23 £425 -5.56% 16
Midlands -65 16 £275 +83.33% 15
North West -43 13 £475 +5.56% 9
West Midlands -55 12 £238 +58.33% 8
East of England -17 9 £150 -57.14% 11
Yorkshire -50 6 £365 -21.51% 7
Scotland -29 5 £450 +96.72% 4
North East -43 4 £200 -
East Midlands -27 3 £500 - 7

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 9 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.13%) Confluence
3 5 (3.13%) SAS
4 2 (1.25%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (11.88%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.50%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.25%) BASE24
1 2 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.25%) 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 34 (21.25%) Azure
2 15 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (8.13%) AWS
5 8 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.75%) GCP
6 6 (3.75%) OneDrive
7 4 (2.50%) IaaS
8 3 (1.88%) GitHub
8 3 (1.88%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.88%) PaaS
8 3 (1.88%) SaaS
9 2 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.25%) OCI
10 1 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.63%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.63%) Siteimprove
10 1 (0.63%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.38%) Firewall
2 13 (8.13%) DHCP
2 13 (8.13%) DNS
3 11 (6.88%) SNMP
4 10 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (5.63%) LAN
5 9 (5.63%) WAN
6 8 (5.00%) Skype
7 7 (4.38%) TCP/IP
7 7 (4.38%) VPN
8 6 (3.75%) SAN
9 5 (3.13%) OSPF
9 5 (3.13%) VLAN
10 4 (2.50%) BGP
10 4 (2.50%) Network Security
10 4 (2.50%) SMTP
11 3 (1.88%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (1.88%) Wireless
12 2 (1.25%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.75%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.50%) Big Data
3 4 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.50%) PowerCenter
3 4 (2.50%) Star Schema
4 3 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.25%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.63%) Base SAS
6 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.63%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 1 (0.63%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 30 (18.75%) JIRA
2 9 (5.63%) Selenium
3 4 (2.50%) REST Assured
4 3 (1.88%) Bugzilla
4 3 (1.88%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.88%) TestRail
4 3 (1.88%) Zephyr
5 2 (1.25%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.25%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.25%) MSTest
5 2 (1.25%) Postman
5 2 (1.25%) Ranorex
5 2 (1.25%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.63%) Appium
6 1 (0.63%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.63%) JMeter
6 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.63%) Toad
General
1 40 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.38%) Finance
3 15 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.50%) Banking
5 5 (3.13%) Legal
6 4 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.50%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.25%) Billing
8 2 (1.25%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.25%) Law
8 2 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.25%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (16.88%) Hardware Technician
2 13 (8.13%) Field Service Technician
3 12 (7.50%) Tester
4 11 (6.88%) Analyst
4 11 (6.88%) Consultant
4 11 (6.88%) Network Engineer
5 10 (6.25%) Management Consultant
6 9 (5.63%) Break Fix Engineer
6 9 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (5.63%) IT Engineer
6 9 (5.63%) Senior
6 9 (5.63%) Support Engineer
7 8 (5.00%) Lead
8 7 (4.38%) Field Engineer
8 7 (4.38%) Test Leader
9 6 (3.75%) Desktop Support
9 6 (3.75%) Hardware Engineer
9 6 (3.75%) Support Analyst
9 6 (3.75%) Test Manager
9 6 (3.75%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.38%) REST
2 6 (3.75%) Middleware
3 3 (1.88%) Node.js
3 3 (1.88%) WireMock
4 2 (1.25%) .NET
4 2 (1.25%) OpenGL
4 2 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.25%) Playwright
4 2 (1.25%) Qt
4 2 (1.25%) SOAP
4 2 (1.25%) Terraform
5 1 (0.63%) JSON
5 1 (0.63%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.63%) Web Services
5 1 (0.63%) XML
5 1 (0.63%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.63%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.75%) Driving Licence
3 12 (7.50%) Virtual Team
4 9 (5.63%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.75%) PKI
7 5 (3.13%) iPhone
8 4 (2.50%) Clustering
8 4 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.88%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.88%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.25%) BYOD
10 2 (1.25%) CUDA
10 2 (1.25%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (1.25%) iPad
10 2 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.25%) Tandem
10 2 (1.25%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 55 (34.38%) Windows
2 30 (18.75%) Linux
3 19 (11.88%) AIX
4 18 (11.25%) Windows 10
5 17 (10.63%) Windows Server
6 14 (8.75%) Android
7 10 (6.25%) Unix
8 8 (5.00%) HPUX
8 8 (5.00%) Solaris
9 7 (4.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (3.75%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (3.75%) SUSE
11 3 (1.88%) Apple iOS
12 2 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
1 27 (16.88%) Customer Service
1 27 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (13.13%) Asset Management
2 21 (13.13%) DevOps
3 20 (12.50%) Agile
3 20 (12.50%) ITIL
3 20 (12.50%) Migration
3 20 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 18 (11.25%) Test Management
5 17 (10.63%) Break/Fix
5 17 (10.63%) User Acceptance Testing
5 17 (10.63%) Validation
6 16 (10.00%) Defect Management
7 15 (9.38%) Root Cause Analysis
7 15 (9.38%) System Integration Testing
8 14 (8.75%) Test Strategy
9 13 (8.13%) End-to-End Testing
9 13 (8.13%) Regression Testing
10 12 (7.50%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (15.63%) PowerShell
2 20 (12.50%) Python
3 18 (11.25%) SQL
4 9 (5.63%) Search Processing Language
5 6 (3.75%) Shell Script
6 5 (3.13%) Bash
7 3 (1.88%) Java
7 3 (1.88%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.25%) C
8 2 (1.25%) C#
8 2 (1.25%) C++
9 1 (0.63%) COBOL
9 1 (0.63%) Lisp
9 1 (0.63%) Perl
9 1 (0.63%) SAS Macro
9 1 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (28.75%) Security Cleared
2 34 (21.25%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.25%) Degree
4 13 (8.13%) DV Cleared
5 9 (5.63%) ISTQB
6 5 (3.13%) CCNP
6 5 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.13%) CISSP
6 5 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (3.13%) RHCE
7 4 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.25%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.63%) CCIE
9 1 (0.63%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.38%) QA
1 15 (9.38%) SLA
2 7 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.13%) GRC
4 2 (1.25%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.63%) GAMP
5 1 (0.63%) GxP
5 1 (0.63%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (4.38%) Firmware
5 6 (3.75%) BitLocker
5 6 (3.75%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (3.13%) Docker
6 5 (3.13%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.50%) Terminal Services
8 3 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.88%) vSphere
9 2 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.25%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.63%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 33 (20.63%) HP ALM
2 14 (8.75%) Nagios
3 12 (7.50%) Tivoli
4 11 (6.88%) Netcool
4 11 (6.88%) OpenView
4 11 (6.88%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 11 (6.88%) ZABBIX
5 10 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (6.25%) SCCM
6 9 (5.63%) Ansible
7 7 (4.38%) vCenter Server
8 6 (3.75%) vMotion
9 5 (3.13%) HP Quality Center
10 3 (1.88%) Kubernetes
10 3 (1.88%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.88%) Puppet
11 2 (1.25%) Backup Exec
11 2 (1.25%) Packer
12 1 (0.63%) ServiceCenter
12 1 (0.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 40 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (15.63%) Dell
3 20 (12.50%) Oracle
4 17 (10.63%) Apple
4 17 (10.63%) VMware
5 16 (10.00%) IBM
6 14 (8.75%) Cisco
7 11 (6.88%) BMC
7 11 (6.88%) SolarWinds
7 11 (6.88%) Splunk
8 6 (3.75%) Red Hat
9 5 (3.13%) Zscaler
10 4 (2.50%) Aruba
10 4 (2.50%) Citrix
10 4 (2.50%) Google
10 4 (2.50%) Informatica
10 4 (2.50%) McAfee
10 4 (2.50%) NetApp
10 4 (2.50%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.50%) Symantec