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 9 February 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
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 311 267
Rank change year-on-year -33 -44 +64
Contract jobs citing HP 270 221 383
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.69% 0.72% 0.85%
As % of the Vendors category 1.54% 1.55% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 124 299
10th Percentile £154 £153 £150
25th Percentile £179 £187 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £376 £350
Median % change year-on-year -42.74% +7.29% -22.22%
75th Percentile £388 £541 £500
90th Percentile £488 £625 £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £210 £306 £285
% change year-on-year -31.43% +7.46% -32.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 24 13
10th Percentile £16.17 £18.29 £20.00
25th Percentile £17.91 £19.85 £20.25
Median hourly rate £20.09 £24.17 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.86% +0.69% -2.04%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £30.00
90th Percentile £25.88 £24.66 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £24.15 £24.00
% change year-on-year -21.86% +0.63% +35.44%

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 17,573 14,295 19,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.07% 46.28% 43.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,320 8,489 12,398
10th Percentile £300 £275 £255
25th Percentile £412 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.01%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.58% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 849 415 933
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.99
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% +1.75% -8.51%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.50 £58.70
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +4.33% -4.59%

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 9 February 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 9 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the UK

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 9 February 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 -25 243 £210 -47.50% 89
UK excluding London -21 193 £210 -31.43% 94
London -38 66 £210 -56.92% 13
Midlands -3 59 £200 +14.29% 25
East of England +8 35 £200 -38.46% 6
West Midlands -25 34 £306 -1.21% 12
South East -44 32 £381 +29.24% 22
North of England -48 31 £200 -52.94% 19
East Midlands -4 27 £200 +14.00% 13
Work from Home -21 23 £413 -13.01% 32
South West -21 16 £425 +30.27% 7
Yorkshire -47 15 £290 - 4
North West -25 11 £175 -58.82% 12
Wales +7 10 £290 +45.00% 5
Scotland -3 9 £400 +107.01% 4
North East -16 5 £175 -68.18% 3
Northern Ireland -1 3 £475 - 2

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 22 (8.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (6.30%) Confluence
3 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 57 (21.11%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.59%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.22%) BASE24
2 5 (1.85%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.48%) assyst
3 4 (1.48%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.37%) PORTIA
5 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (25.56%) Microsoft 365
2 52 (19.26%) Azure
3 20 (7.41%) AWS
4 15 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (4.44%) Datadog
6 6 (2.22%) GCP
6 6 (2.22%) OCI
7 3 (1.11%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (0.74%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.37%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.37%) Veeva
9 1 (0.37%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 39 (14.44%) Wireless
2 19 (7.04%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (4.44%) Firewall
4 11 (4.07%) SAN
5 10 (3.70%) VSAN
6 6 (2.22%) DNS
6 6 (2.22%) VLAN
7 5 (1.85%) DHCP
7 5 (1.85%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.85%) WAN
8 4 (1.48%) LAN
9 2 (0.74%) VoIP
10 1 (0.37%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.37%) FTP
10 1 (0.37%) InfiniBand
10 1 (0.37%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.37%) RTP
10 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.96%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (1.48%) OLTP
3 3 (1.11%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.37%) Big Data
4 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.37%) MySQL
4 1 (0.37%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (12.59%) JIRA
2 8 (2.96%) TestRail
3 6 (2.22%) Selenium
4 4 (1.48%) JMeter
5 3 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.74%) MSTest
7 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.37%) Gatling
7 1 (0.37%) Git
7 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.37%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.37%) NUnit
7 1 (0.37%) Postman
7 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 78 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 62 (22.96%) Organisational Skills
3 53 (19.63%) Finance
4 34 (12.59%) Public Sector
5 29 (10.74%) Banking
6 28 (10.37%) Manufacturing
7 26 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
8 25 (9.26%) Marketing
8 25 (9.26%) Telecoms
9 23 (8.52%) Electronics
10 18 (6.67%) Legal
11 8 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.96%) Retail
12 6 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.48%) Local Government
13 4 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.48%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.11%) Automotive
15 2 (0.74%) Advertising
15 2 (0.74%) Billing
Job Titles
1 67 (24.81%) Break Fix Engineer
2 46 (17.04%) IT Support
3 44 (16.30%) Hardware Engineer
4 39 (14.44%) Analyst
5 37 (13.70%) Field Engineer
6 33 (12.22%) Desktop Support
7 31 (11.48%) Field Hardware Engineer
8 28 (10.37%) Junior
9 23 (8.52%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 23 (8.52%) 2nd Line Support
9 23 (8.52%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
10 22 (8.15%) Computer Engineer
10 22 (8.15%) Support Engineer
11 19 (7.04%) IT Engineer
12 18 (6.67%) Support Analyst
13 11 (4.07%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 11 (4.07%) IT Support Engineer
13 11 (4.07%) Lead
13 11 (4.07%) Test Leader
14 10 (3.70%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.85%) Middleware
2 3 (1.11%) ADO
2 3 (1.11%) REST
2 3 (1.11%) XML
3 1 (0.37%) FHIR
3 1 (0.37%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.37%) LDAP
3 1 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.37%) SOAP
3 1 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.93%) Data Centre
2 31 (11.48%) Driving Licence
3 18 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (4.07%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.59%) Tandem
7 5 (1.85%) EMV
8 4 (1.48%) CMDB
8 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.48%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.11%) Clustering
9 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.74%) HP Storage
10 2 (0.74%) Social Media
11 1 (0.37%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.37%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 68 (25.19%) Windows
2 47 (17.41%) Mac OS
3 42 (15.56%) Android
4 25 (9.26%) Windows 10
5 19 (7.04%) Linux
6 5 (1.85%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.48%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.48%) Windows 8
8 3 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.37%) AIX
9 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.37%) CentOS
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.37%) Solaris
9 1 (0.37%) SUSE
9 1 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.37%) Unix
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (26.30%) Customer Service
2 59 (21.85%) Time Management
3 46 (17.04%) Break/Fix
4 42 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (13.70%) Agile
6 34 (12.59%) Service Management
7 27 (10.00%) Test Management
8 26 (9.63%) Asset Management
9 25 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (8.52%) Digital Marketing
10 23 (8.52%) Programme Management
10 23 (8.52%) User Acceptance Testing
11 21 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (7.78%) Test Automation
12 20 (7.41%) Test Strategy
13 17 (6.30%) Defect Management
13 17 (6.30%) DevOps
14 16 (5.93%) ITSM
14 16 (5.93%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (5.56%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.30%) SQL
2 8 (2.96%) C
3 6 (2.22%) COBOL
3 6 (2.22%) Java
3 6 (2.22%) VB
4 5 (1.85%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.85%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.11%) C#
5 3 (1.11%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.11%) Python
6 2 (0.74%) C++
7 1 (0.37%) Perl
7 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 74 (27.41%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.30%) ISTQB
4 16 (5.93%) Degree
5 10 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.11%) A+ Certification
8 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.74%) ISEB
9 2 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.37%) Dell Certification
10 1 (0.37%) HP APS
10 1 (0.37%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.00%) SLA
2 16 (5.93%) QA
3 6 (2.22%) ISO 8583
4 4 (1.48%) COBIT
4 4 (1.48%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.37%) HL7
5 1 (0.37%) NIST
5 1 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 30 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.44%) vSphere
4 6 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.85%) Firmware
6 2 (0.74%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.37%) Docker
7 1 (0.37%) GPFS
7 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 33 (12.22%) HP ALM
2 17 (6.30%) SCCM
3 11 (4.07%) vRealize
4 10 (3.70%) ServiceCenter
4 10 (3.70%) VxRail
5 6 (2.22%) Ansible
6 5 (1.85%) HP Quality Center
6 5 (1.85%) Terraform
7 4 (1.48%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.48%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.74%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.37%) BladeLogic
9 1 (0.37%) Grafana
9 1 (0.37%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.37%) HP UCMDB
9 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.37%) Puppet
9 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 112 (41.48%) Dell
2 70 (25.93%) Apple
3 60 (22.22%) Cisco
4 47 (17.41%) Microsoft
5 33 (12.22%) SAP
6 22 (8.15%) VMware
7 18 (6.67%) IBM
8 16 (5.93%) ServiceNow
9 15 (5.56%) MobileIron
10 13 (4.81%) AppDynamics
11 12 (4.44%) Commvault
11 12 (4.44%) SolarWinds
12 10 (3.70%) Oracle
13 9 (3.33%) Canon
14 8 (2.96%) Computacenter
15 7 (2.59%) Remedy
16 5 (1.85%) Dynatrace
16 5 (1.85%) Veritas
17 4 (1.48%) F5
17 4 (1.48%) Palo Alto