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 29 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
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 334 265
Rank change year-on-year -7 -69 +61
Contract jobs citing HP 270 206 378
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.70% 0.65% 0.86%
As % of the Vendors category 1.53% 1.42% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 112 301
10th Percentile £154 £153 £150
25th Percentile £170 £200 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year -47.50% +14.29% -21.17%
75th Percentile £363 £575 £500
90th Percentile £488 £625 £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £210 £325 £285
% change year-on-year -35.38% +14.04% -33.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 23 13
10th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £20.00
25th Percentile £17.84 £20.30 £20.25
Median hourly rate £20.09 £24.18 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +0.75% -2.04%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £30.00
90th Percentile £26.07 £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 17,609 14,510 19,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.75% 46.09% 43.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,336 8,569 12,142
10th Percentile £300 £284 £250
25th Percentile £410 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 831 427 856
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £32.06
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% -14.22% +3.41%
75th Percentile £51.38 £62.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.00 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -14.16% -16.67% +18.76%

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 29 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 29 January 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 29 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 -19 242 £205 -48.75% 128
UK excluding London -5 189 £210 -35.38% 138
London -18 67 £210 -55.79% 15
Midlands -11 57 £200 +14.29% 25
East of England +13 33 £200 -44.83% 24
North of England -51 32 £200 -55.56% 21
West Midlands -12 31 £305 +79.12% 13
South East -50 31 £375 +25.00% 39
East Midlands -3 28 £200 +14.00% 12
Work from Home -20 22 £438 -7.89% 87
South West -14 17 £400 +22.61% 11
Yorkshire -41 16 £290 -42.00% 7
North West -23 11 £175 -58.82% 11
Scotland -3 10 £400 +14.29% 6
Wales +5 9 £290 +45.00% 9
North East -16 5 £175 -68.18% 3
Northern Ireland -2 2 £488 - 3

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 21 (7.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (6.67%) Confluence
3 4 (1.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 54 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.59%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
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 71 (26.30%) Microsoft 365
2 51 (18.89%) Azure
3 22 (8.15%) AWS
4 12 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (4.44%) Datadog
5 8 (2.96%) GCP
5 8 (2.96%) OCI
6 3 (1.11%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (0.74%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.37%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.37%) IaaS
8 1 (0.37%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.37%) PaaS
8 1 (0.37%) SaaS
8 1 (0.37%) Veeva
8 1 (0.37%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 40 (14.81%) Wireless
2 19 (7.04%) Wi-Fi
3 16 (5.93%) Firewall
4 12 (4.44%) SAN
5 10 (3.70%) VSAN
6 6 (2.22%) DNS
6 6 (2.22%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.22%) VLAN
6 6 (2.22%) WAN
7 5 (1.85%) DHCP
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
2 4 (1.48%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.74%) Relational Database
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 31 (11.48%) JIRA
2 7 (2.59%) TestRail
3 5 (1.85%) Selenium
4 3 (1.11%) JMeter
4 3 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.74%) MSTest
6 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.37%) Gatling
6 1 (0.37%) Git
6 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.37%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.37%) NUnit
6 1 (0.37%) Postman
6 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Coded UI
6 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (28.52%) Social Skills
2 60 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
3 54 (20.00%) Finance
4 34 (12.59%) Public Sector
5 33 (12.22%) Banking
6 27 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (9.26%) Manufacturing
7 25 (9.26%) Marketing
7 25 (9.26%) Telecoms
8 23 (8.52%) Electronics
9 20 (7.41%) Legal
10 11 (4.07%) Retail
11 10 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.85%) Local Government
14 4 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.48%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.74%) Advertising
15 2 (0.74%) Billing
15 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 67 (24.81%) Break Fix Engineer
2 44 (16.30%) Hardware Engineer
2 44 (16.30%) IT Support
3 37 (13.70%) Field Engineer
4 36 (13.33%) Analyst
5 35 (12.96%) Desktop Support
6 31 (11.48%) Field Hardware Engineer
7 28 (10.37%) Junior
8 24 (8.89%) Support Engineer
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
11 19 (7.04%) IT Engineer
12 17 (6.30%) Support Analyst
13 11 (4.07%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 11 (4.07%) IT Support Engineer
14 10 (3.70%) Desktop Engineer
14 10 (3.70%) Lead
14 10 (3.70%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.22%) Middleware
2 3 (1.11%) REST
2 3 (1.11%) XML
3 2 (0.74%) ADO
4 1 (0.37%) FHIR
4 1 (0.37%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.37%) LDAP
4 1 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.37%) SOAP
4 1 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 32 (11.85%) 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 6 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.85%) EMV
9 4 (1.48%) CMDB
10 3 (1.11%) Clustering
10 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.11%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.74%) HP Storage
11 2 (0.74%) Social Media
12 1 (0.37%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.37%) iPhone
12 1 (0.37%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.37%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 72 (26.67%) Windows
2 48 (17.78%) Mac OS
3 43 (15.93%) Android
4 26 (9.63%) Windows 10
5 20 (7.41%) Linux
6 6 (2.22%) 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 69 (25.56%) Customer Service
2 60 (22.22%) Time Management
3 48 (17.78%) Break/Fix
4 45 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (12.96%) Agile
6 33 (12.22%) Service Management
7 28 (10.37%) Asset Management
8 25 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (8.52%) Digital Marketing
9 23 (8.52%) Programme Management
10 22 (8.15%) Test Management
11 20 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (7.04%) User Acceptance Testing
13 18 (6.67%) Test Automation
14 17 (6.30%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (6.30%) Test Strategy
15 16 (5.93%) Ticket Management
16 15 (5.56%) Defect Management
16 15 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 15 (5.56%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.56%) SQL
2 7 (2.59%) C
3 6 (2.22%) COBOL
4 4 (1.48%) Java
4 4 (1.48%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.48%) VB
5 3 (1.11%) C#
5 3 (1.11%) PL/SQL
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 83 (30.74%) Security Cleared
2 77 (28.52%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.19%) Degree
3 14 (5.19%) ISTQB
4 11 (4.07%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.48%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.11%) A+ Certification
6 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.37%) Dell Certification
8 1 (0.37%) ISEB
8 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.37%) MCITP
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.37%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.63%) SLA
2 17 (6.30%) QA
3 6 (2.22%) COBIT
3 6 (2.22%) ISO 8583
4 4 (1.48%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.37%) HL7
5 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 7 (2.59%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.48%) Firmware
6 1 (0.37%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.37%) Docker
6 1 (0.37%) GPFS
6 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 27 (10.00%) HP ALM
2 16 (5.93%) SCCM
3 11 (4.07%) vRealize
4 10 (3.70%) VxRail
5 8 (2.96%) Ansible
5 8 (2.96%) ServiceCenter
6 7 (2.59%) Terraform
7 5 (1.85%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.48%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (1.48%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.74%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.37%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.37%) Grafana
10 1 (0.37%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.37%) HP UCMDB
10 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.37%) Puppet
10 1 (0.37%) SCOM
Vendors
1 116 (42.96%) Dell
2 68 (25.19%) Apple
3 61 (22.59%) Cisco
4 45 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 32 (11.85%) SAP
6 23 (8.52%) VMware
7 18 (6.67%) IBM
8 15 (5.56%) ServiceNow
9 14 (5.19%) MobileIron
10 13 (4.81%) AppDynamics
11 12 (4.44%) Commvault
11 12 (4.44%) Oracle
11 12 (4.44%) SolarWinds
12 9 (3.33%) Canon
13 8 (2.96%) Computacenter
14 7 (2.59%) Dynatrace
15 6 (2.22%) CheckPoint
15 6 (2.22%) F5
15 6 (2.22%) Remedy
16 5 (1.85%) Veritas