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 4 January 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
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 330 264
Rank change year-on-year +10 -66 +47
Contract jobs citing HP 274 210 394
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.65% 0.92%
As % of the Vendors category 1.60% 1.42% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 120 309
10th Percentile £151 £154 £148
25th Percentile £170 £204 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £388 £350
Median % change year-on-year -40.65% +10.71% -17.84%
75th Percentile £384 £538 £506
90th Percentile £500 £600 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £220 £313 £285
% change year-on-year -29.60% +9.65% -28.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 22 13
10th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £20.00
25th Percentile £18.38 £20.30 £20.25
Median hourly rate £21.08 £24.17 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.79% +0.69% +0.38%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £30.00
90th Percentile £25.78 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £24.15 £24.00
% change year-on-year -21.86% +0.63% +42.48%

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 17,142 14,815 19,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.58% 45.72% 44.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,996 8,792 12,126
10th Percentile £300 £284 £252
25th Percentile £410 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £703 £714 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 807 433 661
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.52 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.96 £19.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.35 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% -38.54% +66.48%
75th Percentile £46.50 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.50 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -14.00% -45.51% +95.09%

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 4 January 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 4 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the UK

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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 4 January 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 +11 245 £210 -47.50% 72
UK excluding London -6 180 £220 -29.60% 74
London +6 79 £316 -31.78% 16
Midlands -6 53 £200 +14.29% 17
South East -33 32 £308 +2.50% 16
North of England -40 31 £205 -60.95% 11
West Midlands -25 29 £297 -0.92% 6
East Midlands -2 26 £200 +14.00% 11
Work from Home -15 26 £434 -8.25% 31
East of England +5 25 £200 -38.46% 6
South West -4 19 £305 -6.51% 13
Yorkshire -37 14 £290 -47.27% 4
Wales +7 12 £290 +81.25% 3
North West -19 12 £175 -56.79% 6
Scotland -9 9 £400 +14.29% 9
North East -12 5 £175 -68.18% 1
Northern Ireland -9 1 £500 -

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 27 (9.85%) Confluence
2 20 (7.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 60 (21.90%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (5.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.82%) assyst
3 4 (1.46%) BASE24
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.09%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.73%) PORTIA
5 2 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.36%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 78 (28.47%) Microsoft 365
2 50 (18.25%) Azure
3 22 (8.03%) AWS
4 12 (4.38%) Datadog
5 8 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (2.92%) GCP
5 8 (2.92%) OCI
6 2 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.73%) Entra ID
6 2 (0.73%) IaaS
6 2 (0.73%) PaaS
6 2 (0.73%) SaaS
6 2 (0.73%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (0.36%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.36%) Veeva
7 1 (0.36%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 44 (16.06%) Wireless
2 21 (7.66%) Wi-Fi
3 16 (5.84%) Firewall
4 10 (3.65%) VSAN
5 9 (3.28%) SAN
5 9 (3.28%) SSL
6 6 (2.19%) WAN
7 5 (1.82%) DNS
7 5 (1.82%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.82%) VLAN
8 4 (1.46%) DHCP
8 4 (1.46%) LAN
9 2 (0.73%) VoIP
10 1 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.36%) FTP
10 1 (0.36%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.36%) RTP
10 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.36%) VPN
10 1 (0.36%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.19%) NonStop SQL
2 5 (1.82%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.09%) OLTP
4 1 (0.36%) Big Data
4 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.36%) MySQL
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.36%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (15.33%) JIRA
2 11 (4.01%) TestRail
3 4 (1.46%) Selenium
4 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.36%) Gatling
4 1 (0.36%) Git
4 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.36%) JMeter
4 1 (0.36%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.36%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.36%) NUnit
4 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Coded UI
4 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 54 (19.71%) Organisational Skills
3 53 (19.34%) Finance
4 37 (13.50%) Public Sector
5 35 (12.77%) Banking
6 26 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (9.12%) Marketing
7 25 (9.12%) Telecoms
8 23 (8.39%) Electronics
8 23 (8.39%) Manufacturing
9 16 (5.84%) Legal
10 14 (5.11%) Retail
11 10 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.82%) Local Government
14 4 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.46%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.73%) Advertising
15 2 (0.73%) Billing
15 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 64 (23.36%) Break Fix Engineer
2 41 (14.96%) Analyst
3 38 (13.87%) IT Support
4 37 (13.50%) Hardware Engineer
5 33 (12.04%) Desktop Support
6 32 (11.68%) Field Engineer
7 29 (10.58%) Support Engineer
8 28 (10.22%) Junior
9 26 (9.49%) Field Hardware Engineer
10 23 (8.39%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
10 23 (8.39%) 2nd Line Support
10 23 (8.39%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
11 19 (6.93%) IT Engineer
11 19 (6.93%) Support Analyst
12 17 (6.20%) Computer Engineer
13 14 (5.11%) Senior
14 12 (4.38%) IT Support Engineer
15 11 (4.01%) Infrastructure Analyst
16 10 (3.65%) Developer
16 10 (3.65%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.38%) REST
2 10 (3.65%) LDAP
2 10 (3.65%) SOAP
2 10 (3.65%) Web Services
3 9 (3.28%) AngularJS
3 9 (3.28%) Apache Camel
3 9 (3.28%) HTML
3 9 (3.28%) HTML5
3 9 (3.28%) JDBC
3 9 (3.28%) jQuery
3 9 (3.28%) JSON
3 9 (3.28%) ODBC
3 9 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (3.28%) SAML
4 6 (2.19%) Middleware
5 3 (1.09%) XML
6 1 (0.36%) FHIR
6 1 (0.36%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.36%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 46 (16.79%) Data Centre
2 31 (11.31%) Driving Licence
3 18 (6.57%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.38%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (2.55%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.82%) Tandem
8 4 (1.46%) CMDB
9 3 (1.09%) Clustering
9 3 (1.09%) EMV
9 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.09%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.73%) Chip and PIN
10 2 (0.73%) HP Storage
10 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.73%) Social Media
11 1 (0.36%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.36%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 68 (24.82%) Windows
2 52 (18.98%) Mac OS
3 48 (17.52%) Android
4 25 (9.12%) Windows 10
5 20 (7.30%) Linux
6 6 (2.19%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.73%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.36%) AIX
8 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Solaris
8 1 (0.36%) SUSE
8 1 (0.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.36%) Unix
8 1 (0.36%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (22.63%) Customer Service
2 57 (20.80%) Time Management
3 49 (17.88%) Break/Fix
4 42 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (14.23%) Agile
6 27 (9.85%) Service Management
7 26 (9.49%) Asset Management
8 25 (9.12%) Business Intelligence
9 24 (8.76%) ITSM
10 23 (8.39%) Digital Marketing
10 23 (8.39%) Programme Management
10 23 (8.39%) Test Management
11 19 (6.93%) DevOps
11 19 (6.93%) Test Strategy
11 19 (6.93%) User Acceptance Testing
12 17 (6.20%) Mobile Device Management
12 17 (6.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (6.20%) Ticket Management
13 16 (5.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (5.47%) Defect Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.11%) SQL
2 13 (4.74%) JavaScript
3 5 (1.82%) C
4 4 (1.46%) COBOL
5 3 (1.09%) Python
5 3 (1.09%) VB
6 2 (0.73%) C++
6 2 (0.73%) Java
6 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.73%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.36%) C#
7 1 (0.36%) Perl
7 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (33.21%) Security Cleared
2 85 (31.02%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.47%) Degree
3 15 (5.47%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.65%) ISTQB
5 5 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.09%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.73%) MCITP
8 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.36%) Dell Certification
9 1 (0.36%) HP APS
9 1 (0.36%) ISEB
9 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.76%) SLA
2 16 (5.84%) QA
3 6 (2.19%) COBIT
4 4 (1.46%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.36%) HL7
6 1 (0.36%) NIST
6 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 29 (10.58%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.01%) vSphere
4 7 (2.55%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.46%) Firmware
6 3 (1.09%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.36%) Docker
7 1 (0.36%) GPFS
7 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.36%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 29 (10.58%) HP ALM
2 14 (5.11%) SCCM
3 11 (4.01%) vRealize
4 10 (3.65%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (3.65%) VxRail
5 8 (2.92%) Ansible
6 7 (2.55%) Terraform
7 5 (1.82%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.46%) ServiceCenter
9 2 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.73%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.73%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.73%) SCOM
10 1 (0.36%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.36%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.36%) HP Operations Orchestration
10 1 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.36%) HP UCMDB
10 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 110 (40.15%) Dell
2 71 (25.91%) Apple
3 66 (24.09%) Cisco
4 45 (16.42%) Microsoft
5 33 (12.04%) SAP
6 25 (9.12%) ServiceNow
7 22 (8.03%) VMware
8 16 (5.84%) MobileIron
8 16 (5.84%) Remedy
9 15 (5.47%) IBM
10 13 (4.74%) AppDynamics
10 13 (4.74%) Oracle
11 12 (4.38%) Commvault
11 12 (4.38%) SolarWinds
12 9 (3.28%) BMC
12 9 (3.28%) Ivanti
13 7 (2.55%) Computacenter
13 7 (2.55%) Dynatrace
14 6 (2.19%) CheckPoint
14 6 (2.19%) F5