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 15 July 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
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 301 352
Rank change year-on-year -156 +51 -11
Contract jobs citing HP 194 272 244
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.84% 0.57%
As % of the Vendors category 0.89% 1.76% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 145 180
10th Percentile £150 £151 £138
25th Percentile £196 £213 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £405
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £640 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £315 £395 £438
% change year-on-year -20.25% -9.71% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 46 14
10th Percentile £16.13 £18.51 £15.94
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.87 £18.03
Median hourly rate £19.61 £19.94 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% +9.96% -4.23%
75th Percentile £24.46 £25.15 £23.80
90th Percentile £25.77 - £24.07
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.35 £18.87 £18.07
% change year-on-year +2.56% +4.46% +1.95%

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 21,678 15,427 18,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.20% 47.54% 43.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,483 9,438 11,509
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 748 1,120
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% +0.60% -38.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.41 £60.83
90th Percentile £83.88 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.56 £24.43
% change year-on-year +50.66% -7.65% -18.57%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -177 165 £325 -30.11% 84
UK excluding London -151 134 £315 -20.25% 86
London -96 39 £425 -15.00% 14
Work from Home -90 31 £435 -13.00% 37
North of England -77 30 £420 -6.67% 8
South East -87 28 £180 -65.71% 34
South West -41 24 £313 +76.34% 8
Midlands -73 20 £275 +18.79% 19
East of England -13 17 £150 -73.33%
North West -43 17 £425 -5.56% 5
West Midlands -76 14 £275 +25.00% 2
Scotland -17 10 £450 +141.29% 5
Yorkshire -58 10 £458 +17.31% 1
Northern Ireland - 5 £475 - 3
East Midlands -20 4 £200 -46.73% 17
North East -40 3 £200 - 2
Wales -17 1 £280 -6.67% 6

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 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.58%) Confluence
3 3 (1.55%) IIS
3 3 (1.55%) SAS
3 3 (1.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (8.76%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.06%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) BASE24
2 1 (0.52%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.52%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (0.52%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.52%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (20.10%) Azure
2 23 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (6.19%) AWS
3 12 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.09%) Entra ID
4 6 (3.09%) GCP
4 6 (3.09%) IaaS
5 4 (2.06%) GitHub
5 4 (2.06%) PaaS
6 3 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.55%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.55%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.55%) SaaS
7 2 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.03%) OCI
7 2 (1.03%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.52%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.52%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.52%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.25%) SNMP
2 14 (7.22%) DNS
2 14 (7.22%) Firewall
3 13 (6.70%) DHCP
4 11 (5.67%) VPN
5 9 (4.64%) SAN
5 9 (4.64%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (4.12%) WAN
7 7 (3.61%) LAN
7 7 (3.61%) VLAN
8 6 (3.09%) OSPF
8 6 (3.09%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.58%) BGP
9 5 (2.58%) iSCSI
9 5 (2.58%) Skype
9 5 (2.58%) Wireless
10 4 (2.06%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (2.06%) MPLS
10 4 (2.06%) SMTP
10 4 (2.06%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (2.06%) Big Data
2 3 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.55%) NonStop SQL
2 3 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.03%) PowerCenter
3 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.03%) Star Schema
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.52%) Base SAS
4 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.52%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (0.52%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 34 (17.53%) JIRA
2 10 (5.15%) Selenium
3 5 (2.58%) Zephyr
4 4 (2.06%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.06%) REST Assured
4 4 (2.06%) TestRail
5 3 (1.55%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.55%) JMeter
5 3 (1.55%) MSTest
5 3 (1.55%) Postman
6 2 (1.03%) Bugzilla
6 2 (1.03%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.03%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.03%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.52%) Appium
7 1 (0.52%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.52%) Ranorex
7 1 (0.52%) SoapUI
General
1 61 (31.44%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.95%) Finance
3 23 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.25%) Banking
5 14 (7.22%) Legal
6 8 (4.12%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.06%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.55%) Automotive
9 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.03%) Billing
10 2 (1.03%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.52%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Law
11 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (13.92%) Hardware Technician
2 16 (8.25%) Hardware Engineer
3 15 (7.73%) Break Fix Engineer
3 15 (7.73%) Field Engineer
3 15 (7.73%) Support Engineer
4 14 (7.22%) Consultant
5 13 (6.70%) Analyst
5 13 (6.70%) Field Service Technician
5 13 (6.70%) Management Consultant
6 12 (6.19%) IT Support
7 11 (5.67%) Test Manager
8 10 (5.15%) Desktop Support
8 10 (5.15%) Field Hardware Engineer
8 10 (5.15%) Tester
9 9 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.64%) Network Engineer
10 8 (4.12%) Computer Engineer
10 8 (4.12%) IT Engineer
10 8 (4.12%) Printer Engineer
11 7 (3.61%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.82%) REST
2 4 (2.06%) Middleware
3 3 (1.55%) Playwright
4 2 (1.03%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.03%) ADO
4 2 (1.03%) Node.js
4 2 (1.03%) OpenGL
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.03%) Qt
4 2 (1.03%) Software Packaging
4 2 (1.03%) WireMock
5 1 (0.52%) .NET
5 1 (0.52%) JSON
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.52%) OAuth
5 1 (0.52%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.52%) SOAP
5 1 (0.52%) Web Services
5 1 (0.52%) XML
5 1 (0.52%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.86%) Data Centre
2 20 (10.31%) Driving Licence
3 16 (8.25%) Virtual Team
4 8 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.12%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.09%) EMC VMAX
5 6 (3.09%) PKI
6 5 (2.58%) iPhone
6 5 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.06%) Clustering
8 3 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.55%) Tandem
9 2 (1.03%) BYOD
9 2 (1.03%) CUDA
9 2 (1.03%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 76 (39.18%) Windows
2 35 (18.04%) Linux
3 21 (10.82%) AIX
4 18 (9.28%) Windows 10
5 17 (8.76%) Windows Server
6 11 (5.67%) Android
7 10 (5.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (5.15%) Unix
8 6 (3.09%) HPUX
8 6 (3.09%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (3.09%) Solaris
8 6 (3.09%) SUSE
9 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.55%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.03%) Windows 7
10 2 (1.03%) Windows 8
10 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (23.20%) Customer Service
2 38 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (16.49%) DevOps
4 30 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (14.43%) User Acceptance Testing
6 27 (13.92%) Migration
7 26 (13.40%) Test Automation
7 26 (13.40%) Test Management
8 23 (11.86%) Agile
8 23 (11.86%) Defect Management
9 22 (11.34%) ITIL
10 20 (10.31%) Break/Fix
11 19 (9.79%) Asset Management
11 19 (9.79%) System Integration Testing
12 18 (9.28%) Test Strategy
13 16 (8.25%) Integration Testing
13 16 (8.25%) Regression Testing
13 16 (8.25%) Waterfall
14 14 (7.22%) Dashboard Development
14 14 (7.22%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 30 (15.46%) PowerShell
2 27 (13.92%) SQL
3 25 (12.89%) Python
4 13 (6.70%) Search Processing Language
5 6 (3.09%) Java
6 5 (2.58%) VB
7 4 (2.06%) Bash
7 4 (2.06%) C
7 4 (2.06%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.55%) C#
8 3 (1.55%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.03%) C++
9 2 (1.03%) COBOL
9 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.52%) Lisp
10 1 (0.52%) Perl
10 1 (0.52%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 52 (26.80%) Security Cleared
2 42 (21.65%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.31%) Degree
4 14 (7.22%) ISTQB
5 12 (6.19%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.61%) CCNP
6 7 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.58%) CISSP
7 5 (2.58%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (2.58%) RHCE
8 4 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.55%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (1.03%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.03%) CCIE
10 2 (1.03%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.86%) QA
1 23 (11.86%) SLA
2 6 (3.09%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.58%) GRC
4 3 (1.55%) GDPR
5 2 (1.03%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.52%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.52%) GAMP
6 1 (0.52%) GxP
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (12.89%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.64%) Firmware
4 7 (3.61%) BitLocker
4 7 (3.61%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.61%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (3.09%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (2.58%) Docker
6 5 (2.58%) vSphere
7 4 (2.06%) Terminal Services
8 3 (1.55%) SRDF
8 3 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.03%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.52%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 37 (19.07%) HP ALM
2 18 (9.28%) Nagios
2 18 (9.28%) SCCM
3 16 (8.25%) Tivoli
4 15 (7.73%) Netcool
4 15 (7.73%) OpenView
4 15 (7.73%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 15 (7.73%) ZABBIX
5 11 (5.67%) Ansible
6 9 (4.64%) HP Quality Center
7 7 (3.61%) ServiceCenter
8 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (3.09%) vCenter Server
9 5 (2.58%) Puppet
9 5 (2.58%) vMotion
10 3 (1.55%) Backup Exec
10 3 (1.55%) Kubernetes
10 3 (1.55%) Terraform
11 2 (1.03%) AirWatch
11 2 (1.03%) Packer
Vendors
1 48 (24.74%) Microsoft
2 43 (22.16%) Dell
3 22 (11.34%) IBM
4 20 (10.31%) Apple
5 19 (9.79%) VMware
6 18 (9.28%) Cisco
7 17 (8.76%) Oracle
8 16 (8.25%) SolarWinds
9 15 (7.73%) BMC
9 15 (7.73%) Splunk
10 9 (4.64%) Canon
11 7 (3.61%) Aruba
12 6 (3.09%) Fortinet
12 6 (3.09%) McAfee
12 6 (3.09%) Red Hat
13 5 (2.58%) Infor
13 5 (2.58%) SAP
13 5 (2.58%) Veeam
14 4 (2.06%) Broadcom
14 4 (2.06%) ServiceNow