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 2 October 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
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 329 364
Rank change year-on-year -199 +35 -66
Contract jobs citing HP 151 234 207
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.71% 0.54%
As % of the Vendors category 0.66% 1.48% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 120 130
10th Percentile £150 £154 £137
25th Percentile £200 £238 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £398 £409
Median % change year-on-year +24.28% -2.75% -7.63%
75th Percentile £560 £528 £534
90th Percentile £678 £608 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £365 £405
% change year-on-year +9.59% -9.88% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 65 23
10th Percentile - £18.51 £17.70
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £19.33 £25.08 £23.59
Median % change year-on-year -22.91% +6.30% +19.66%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £24.02
90th Percentile - - £24.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £23.59
% change year-on-year +2.44% -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 22,868 15,778 16,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.65% 47.64% 44.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,862 9,705 10,012
10th Percentile £310 £275 £285
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £619 £613 £626
90th Percentile £710 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,358 820 628
10th Percentile £13.97 £14.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.69 £15.70
Median hourly rate £25.28 £25.15 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -19.52% -26.90%
75th Percentile £57.50 £41.11 £64.63
90th Percentile £77.73 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.19 £21.30 £29.77
% change year-on-year +13.57% -28.45% -29.95%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -174 141 £475 +11.76% 253
UK excluding London -141 103 £400 +9.59% 169
London -121 36 £500 +0.91% 81
South East -67 29 £210 -55.79% 64
Work from Home -83 28 £513 +5.13% 101
North of England -75 27 £413 +42.24% 37
South West -37 22 £675 +68.75% 23
North West -49 13 £475 +75.93% 20
Midlands -71 13 £250 +13.64% 17
Yorkshire -38 10 £339 -10.26% 12
West Midlands -45 10 £238 +2.59% 8
East of England -21 8 £150 -57.14% 15
Scotland -35 4 £450 +56.52% 9
North East -41 4 £200 +14.29% 5
East Midlands -27 3 £500 +217.46% 9

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 (5.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.64%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.31%) Confluence
4 4 (2.65%) SAS
5 2 (1.32%) IIS
6 1 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.66%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 19 (12.58%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.65%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) BASE24
1 2 (1.32%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.32%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.66%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.66%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.66%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.66%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (0.66%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 36 (23.84%) Azure
2 15 (9.93%) Azure DevOps
2 15 (9.93%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (5.96%) AWS
4 8 (5.30%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.64%) OpenShift
6 6 (3.97%) OneDrive
7 4 (2.65%) GCP
8 3 (1.99%) GitHub
8 3 (1.99%) IaaS
8 3 (1.99%) PaaS
8 3 (1.99%) SaaS
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.32%) OCI
10 1 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.66%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.66%) Siteimprove
10 1 (0.66%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.95%) DHCP
1 12 (7.95%) DNS
1 12 (7.95%) Firewall
1 12 (7.95%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (5.96%) LAN
2 9 (5.96%) WAN
3 8 (5.30%) Skype
3 8 (5.30%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.97%) SAN
4 6 (3.97%) VPN
5 5 (3.31%) SNMP
6 4 (2.65%) Network Security
6 4 (2.65%) VLAN
7 3 (1.99%) BGP
7 3 (1.99%) OSPF
7 3 (1.99%) SMTP
8 2 (1.32%) ATM
8 2 (1.32%) MPLS
8 2 (1.32%) SSL
8 2 (1.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.97%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.65%) PowerCenter
2 4 (2.65%) Star Schema
3 3 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.99%) Big Data
3 3 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.99%) NonStop SQL
3 3 (1.99%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (18.54%) JIRA
2 11 (7.28%) Selenium
3 7 (4.64%) Cucumber
4 5 (3.31%) HP UFT
5 3 (1.99%) Bugzilla
5 3 (1.99%) REST Assured
5 3 (1.99%) TestRail
6 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.32%) GitLab
6 2 (1.32%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.32%) MSTest
6 2 (1.32%) Ranorex
7 1 (0.66%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.66%) Postman
7 1 (0.66%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.66%) Toad
7 1 (0.66%) Zephyr
General
1 35 (23.18%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.22%) Finance
3 13 (8.61%) Banking
4 10 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.30%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.31%) Legal
7 4 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.65%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.99%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.99%) Retail
9 2 (1.32%) Billing
9 2 (1.32%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.32%) Law
9 2 (1.32%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (14.57%) Hardware Technician
2 12 (7.95%) Tester
3 11 (7.28%) IT Engineer
4 10 (6.62%) Analyst
4 10 (6.62%) Senior
5 9 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (5.96%) Support Engineer
6 8 (5.30%) Field Service Technician
6 8 (5.30%) Lead
6 8 (5.30%) Network Engineer
7 7 (4.64%) Break Fix Engineer
7 7 (4.64%) Build Engineer
7 7 (4.64%) Test Leader
8 6 (3.97%) 2nd Line Support
8 6 (3.97%) Consultant
8 6 (3.97%) Desktop Support
8 6 (3.97%) Field Engineer
8 6 (3.97%) Support Analyst
8 6 (3.97%) Test Manager
8 6 (3.97%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.97%) REST
2 5 (3.31%) Middleware
3 4 (2.65%) Kafka
4 3 (1.99%) Node.js
4 3 (1.99%) Terraform
4 3 (1.99%) WireMock
5 2 (1.32%) .NET
5 2 (1.32%) OpenGL
5 2 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.32%) Playwright
5 2 (1.32%) Qt
5 2 (1.32%) SOAP
6 1 (0.66%) JSON
6 1 (0.66%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.66%) Web Services
6 1 (0.66%) XML
6 1 (0.66%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.26%) Data Centre
2 14 (9.27%) Driving Licence
3 12 (7.95%) Virtual Team
4 9 (5.96%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.31%) iPhone
5 5 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.31%) PKI
6 4 (2.65%) Clustering
6 4 (2.65%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.99%) Fat Client
7 3 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.99%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.99%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.32%) BYOD
8 2 (1.32%) Device Driver
8 2 (1.32%) SCADA
8 2 (1.32%) Tandem
8 2 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 46 (30.46%) Windows
2 27 (17.88%) Linux
3 18 (11.92%) Windows 10
4 14 (9.27%) AIX
4 14 (9.27%) Android
4 14 (9.27%) Windows Server
5 12 (7.95%) Unix
6 9 (5.96%) Solaris
7 8 (5.30%) HPUX
8 7 (4.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (3.97%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (3.97%) SUSE
10 3 (1.99%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.66%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (16.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (14.57%) Agile
3 22 (14.57%) DevOps
4 21 (13.91%) Asset Management
5 20 (13.25%) Customer Service
5 20 (13.25%) ITIL
6 19 (12.58%) Test Automation
7 17 (11.26%) Migration
8 16 (10.60%) Validation
9 15 (9.93%) Break/Fix
9 15 (9.93%) Defect Management
9 15 (9.93%) Root Cause Analysis
9 15 (9.93%) Test Management
9 15 (9.93%) User Acceptance Testing
10 13 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (8.61%) System Integration Testing
10 13 (8.61%) Test Strategy
11 12 (7.95%) Change Management
12 11 (7.28%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 18 (11.92%) PowerShell
2 15 (9.93%) SQL
3 13 (8.61%) Python
4 8 (5.30%) Shell Script
5 7 (4.64%) Java
6 5 (3.31%) Bash
6 5 (3.31%) C#
6 5 (3.31%) Search Processing Language
7 3 (1.99%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.32%) C
8 2 (1.32%) C++
9 1 (0.66%) COBOL
9 1 (0.66%) Lisp
9 1 (0.66%) Perl
Qualifications
1 39 (25.83%) Security Cleared
2 26 (17.22%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.61%) Degree
3 13 (8.61%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.64%) ISTQB
5 6 (3.97%) HP APS
6 5 (3.31%) CISSP
6 5 (3.31%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (3.31%) RHCE
7 4 (2.65%) CCNP
7 4 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.93%) SLA
2 14 (9.27%) QA
3 5 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.31%) GRC
4 2 (1.32%) GDPR
5 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.66%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.66%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (11.26%) Active Directory
2 11 (7.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.96%) Firmware
4 7 (4.64%) Docker
4 7 (4.64%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.31%) BitLocker
5 5 (3.31%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.31%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.99%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.99%) vSphere
7 2 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.32%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 29 (19.21%) HP ALM
2 11 (7.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (5.96%) Ansible
4 8 (5.30%) Nagios
4 8 (5.30%) SCCM
5 6 (3.97%) Tivoli
5 6 (3.97%) vCenter Server
6 5 (3.31%) HP Quality Center
6 5 (3.31%) Kubernetes
6 5 (3.31%) Netcool
6 5 (3.31%) OpenView
6 5 (3.31%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 5 (3.31%) vMotion
6 5 (3.31%) ZABBIX
7 4 (2.65%) NetBackup
8 3 (1.99%) Puppet
9 2 (1.32%) Grafana
9 2 (1.32%) Packer
9 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 43 (28.48%) Microsoft
2 26 (17.22%) Dell
3 18 (11.92%) Oracle
4 17 (11.26%) Apple
4 17 (11.26%) VMware
5 10 (6.62%) Cisco
6 9 (5.96%) IBM
6 9 (5.96%) Splunk
7 6 (3.97%) Zscaler
8 5 (3.31%) BMC
8 5 (3.31%) Red Hat
8 5 (3.31%) SolarWinds
9 4 (2.65%) F5
9 4 (2.65%) Informatica
9 4 (2.65%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.65%) Veeam
9 4 (2.65%) Veritas
10 3 (1.99%) Citrix
10 3 (1.99%) Juniper
10 3 (1.99%) NetApp