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 28 May 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
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 280 338
Rank change year-on-year -116 +58 +3
Contract jobs citing HP 243 258 260
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.90% 0.61%
As % of the Vendors category 1.21% 1.89% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 132 208
10th Percentile £150 £150 £155
25th Percentile £199 £181 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £417 £363
Median % change year-on-year -26.93% +14.97% -17.61%
75th Percentile £475 £578 £588
90th Percentile £541 £648 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £290 £359 £375
% change year-on-year -19.22% -4.27% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 37 10
10th Percentile £16.10 - £18.12
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 -
Median hourly rate £19.35 £18.87 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +4.08% -3.77%
75th Percentile £24.28 £21.01 £22.85
90th Percentile £25.77 £24.66 £24.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £18.13
% change year-on-year +2.44% +4.08% -0.58%

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 20,001 13,678 18,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.95% 47.74% 42.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,624 8,506 11,301
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +0.10% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 573 1,107
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.55 £17.30 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.46% +12.44% -47.06%
75th Percentile £58.75 £56.00 £57.41
90th Percentile £76.62 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.75 £22.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +32.22% +4.85% -45.74%

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 28 May 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 16 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 28 May 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 -127 215 £275 -38.89% 92
UK excluding London -87 178 £290 -19.22% 85
London -83 45 £325 -38.10% 15
Midlands -55 39 £210 -9.29% 19
South East -67 37 £293 -44.29% 31
East of England -6 32 £200 -61.90% 1
Work from Home -69 32 £382 -23.61% 53
North of England -80 29 £413 +3.13% 16
South West -35 27 £310 +85.22% 10
West Midlands -68 20 £302 +37.39% 1
East Midlands -12 19 £200 -46.60% 18
North West -34 18 £151 -64.59% 12
Yorkshire -62 11 £458 +21.19% 4
Scotland -10 9 £450 +139.36% 6
Northern Ireland +7 5 £475 - 2
Wales -16 3 £290 -3.33% 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 9 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.06%) Confluence
3 4 (1.65%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.23%) IIS
5 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.29%) BASE24
2 5 (2.06%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.41%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.41%) SAP FI-AR
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.41%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.41%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 40 (16.46%) Azure
2 22 (9.05%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (4.53%) AWS
5 5 (2.06%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.23%) Datadog
6 3 (1.23%) GCP
6 3 (1.23%) GitHub
6 3 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.23%) IaaS
6 3 (1.23%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.82%) OCI
7 2 (0.82%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.41%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.41%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.41%) PaaS
8 1 (0.41%) SaaS
8 1 (0.41%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (0.41%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.58%) SNMP
2 12 (4.94%) SAN
3 11 (4.53%) DNS
4 10 (4.12%) DHCP
5 9 (3.70%) Firewall
6 7 (2.88%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (2.88%) Wireless
7 6 (2.47%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.47%) VPN
7 6 (2.47%) WAN
8 5 (2.06%) iSCSI
8 5 (2.06%) LAN
8 5 (2.06%) Skype
8 5 (2.06%) VLAN
9 4 (1.65%) OSPF
10 3 (1.23%) BGP
10 3 (1.23%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.23%) VSAN
11 2 (0.82%) MPLS
11 2 (0.82%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.29%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (1.65%) OLTP
3 2 (0.82%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.41%) Base SAS
4 1 (0.41%) Big Data
4 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.41%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.41%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (0.41%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (0.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (12.35%) JIRA
2 7 (2.88%) Selenium
3 6 (2.47%) Zephyr
4 4 (1.65%) JMeter
4 4 (1.65%) TestRail
5 3 (1.23%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.23%) Postman
6 2 (0.82%) MSTest
6 2 (0.82%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.41%) Appium
7 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.41%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.41%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.41%) TestDirector
General
1 76 (31.28%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.46%) Organisational Skills
3 33 (13.58%) Finance
4 28 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.23%) Banking
6 17 (7.00%) Legal
7 9 (3.70%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.47%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.65%) Automotive
10 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.41%) Billing
12 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Law
12 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (20.58%) Hardware Engineer
2 44 (18.11%) Break Fix Engineer
3 40 (16.46%) Field Engineer
4 33 (13.58%) Field Hardware Engineer
5 28 (11.52%) Computer Engineer
6 27 (11.11%) Hardware Technician
7 20 (8.23%) IT Support
8 17 (7.00%) Analyst
9 16 (6.58%) Support Engineer
10 14 (5.76%) Consultant
10 14 (5.76%) Field Service Technician
10 14 (5.76%) Printer Engineer
11 13 (5.35%) Management Consultant
12 12 (4.94%) IT Engineer
12 12 (4.94%) Test Manager
13 11 (4.53%) Desktop Support
14 10 (4.12%) Developer
15 9 (3.70%) Technical Support
16 7 (2.88%) Data Centre Engineer
16 7 (2.88%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.05%) REST
2 3 (1.23%) ADO
3 2 (0.82%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.82%) Middleware
3 2 (0.82%) OpenGL
3 2 (0.82%) Playwright
3 2 (0.82%) Qt
3 2 (0.82%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.41%) OAuth
4 1 (0.41%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.58%) Driving Licence
2 22 (9.05%) Virtual Team
3 20 (8.23%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.29%) Tandem
5 7 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.47%) EMC VMAX
6 6 (2.47%) EMV
6 6 (2.47%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.06%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (2.06%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.65%) iPhone
8 4 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.82%) CUDA
10 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.82%) HP Storage
10 2 (0.82%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.41%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 83 (34.16%) Windows
2 33 (13.58%) Linux
3 21 (8.64%) Windows 10
4 19 (7.82%) AIX
5 11 (4.53%) Android
5 11 (4.53%) Windows Server
6 9 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.88%) Mac OS
8 6 (2.47%) Unix
9 4 (1.65%) HPUX
9 4 (1.65%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (1.65%) Solaris
9 4 (1.65%) SUSE
9 4 (1.65%) Windows 7
9 4 (1.65%) Windows 8
10 3 (1.23%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (34.98%) Customer Service
2 47 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (16.05%) Time Management
4 32 (13.17%) Service Management
5 27 (11.11%) Agile
5 27 (11.11%) DevOps
5 27 (11.11%) Test Management
6 25 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (10.29%) Migration
7 24 (9.88%) Asset Management
7 24 (9.88%) Break/Fix
7 24 (9.88%) User Acceptance Testing
8 22 (9.05%) Test Automation
9 19 (7.82%) Defect Management
10 16 (6.58%) System Integration Testing
10 16 (6.58%) Test Strategy
11 15 (6.17%) ITIL
11 15 (6.17%) Waterfall
12 14 (5.76%) Dashboard Development
13 13 (5.35%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (12.35%) SQL
2 23 (9.47%) PowerShell
2 23 (9.47%) Python
3 13 (5.35%) Search Processing Language
4 9 (3.70%) C
5 7 (2.88%) Java
6 6 (2.47%) COBOL
7 5 (2.06%) VB
8 3 (1.23%) C++
8 3 (1.23%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.23%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.82%) Bash
9 2 (0.82%) C#
9 2 (0.82%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.41%) Lisp
10 1 (0.41%) Perl
10 1 (0.41%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 63 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 55 (22.63%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.58%) Degree
4 13 (5.35%) ISTQB
5 11 (4.53%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.06%) CCNP
6 5 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.65%) CISSP
7 4 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.65%) RHCE
8 3 (1.23%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.82%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.17%) SLA
2 22 (9.05%) QA
3 7 (2.88%) ISO 8583
4 5 (2.06%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.65%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.41%) GAMP
6 1 (0.41%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) GxP
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (9.47%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.88%) Firmware
3 7 (2.88%) vSphere
4 4 (1.65%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.23%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.23%) SRDF
5 3 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.82%) Docker
6 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.82%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.41%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.41%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 33 (13.58%) HP ALM
2 21 (8.64%) SCCM
3 16 (6.58%) Tivoli
4 15 (6.17%) Nagios
4 15 (6.17%) Netcool
4 15 (6.17%) OpenView
4 15 (6.17%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 15 (6.17%) ZABBIX
5 12 (4.94%) ServiceCenter
6 8 (3.29%) Ansible
7 7 (2.88%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.23%) Backup Exec
9 3 (1.23%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.23%) Terraform
9 3 (1.23%) vRealize
10 2 (0.82%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.82%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.82%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.82%) vMotion
Vendors
1 68 (27.98%) Dell
2 50 (20.58%) Microsoft
3 28 (11.52%) IBM
4 27 (11.11%) Apple
5 22 (9.05%) Cisco
6 19 (7.82%) SolarWinds
7 16 (6.58%) Canon
7 16 (6.58%) Splunk
7 16 (6.58%) VMware
8 15 (6.17%) BMC
9 12 (4.94%) Oracle
10 9 (3.70%) ServiceNow
11 8 (3.29%) SAP
12 7 (2.88%) Aruba
13 6 (2.47%) McAfee
13 6 (2.47%) Red Hat
14 5 (2.06%) Infor
14 5 (2.06%) Remedy
15 4 (1.65%) 3PAR
15 4 (1.65%) Broadcom