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 17 June 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
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 293 350
Rank change year-on-year -143 +57 -7
Contract jobs citing HP 210 259 255
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.87% 0.58%
As % of the Vendors category 1.03% 1.83% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 130 195
10th Percentile £150 £150 £143
25th Percentile £199 £186 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +21.43% -20.45%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £575
90th Percentile £627 £628 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £303 £391 £375
% change year-on-year -22.41% +4.13% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 41 12
10th Percentile £16.12 - £18.01
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £18.87 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +4.08% -4.23%
75th Percentile £24.28 £24.66 £23.80
90th Percentile £25.77 £25.15 £24.14
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 20,477 14,135 18,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.69% 47.62% 42.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,867 8,698 11,416
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £401 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,051 649 1,149
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £14.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.30 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +34.31% +6.30% -44.65%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.95 £59.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.72 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £23.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +39.13% +2.22% -43.75%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -149 183 £306 -33.84% 63
UK excluding London -123 150 £303 -22.41% 61
London -82 40 £350 -30.00% 10
South East -68 30 £210 -60.97% 24
Work from Home -74 28 £375 -25.00% 27
East of England -10 27 £200 -61.90% 2
Midlands -69 27 £205 -11.41% 9
North of England -78 27 £445 +4.71% 10
South West -39 25 £313 +101.94% 9
North West -36 17 £338 -20.59% 7
West Midlands -70 13 £300 +36.36% 2
East Midlands -18 12 £200 -46.60% 7
Yorkshire -62 10 £458 +17.31% 3
Scotland -20 9 £425 +126.06% 3
Northern Ireland - 5 £475 - 3
Wales -15 1 £280 -6.67% 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 9 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.90%) Confluence
3 3 (1.43%) IIS
3 3 (1.43%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) BASE24
2 2 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.48%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.48%) SAP FI-AR
3 1 (0.48%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.48%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (16.19%) Azure
2 21 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (5.24%) AWS
5 6 (2.86%) GCP
5 6 (2.86%) IaaS
6 5 (2.38%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.90%) PaaS
8 3 (1.43%) GitHub
8 3 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.43%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.43%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.95%) Rubrik
9 2 (0.95%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.48%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.48%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.48%) OCI
10 1 (0.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.62%) SNMP
2 14 (6.67%) DNS
2 14 (6.67%) Firewall
3 13 (6.19%) DHCP
4 12 (5.71%) SAN
5 11 (5.24%) VPN
6 9 (4.29%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (3.81%) WAN
8 7 (3.33%) LAN
8 7 (3.33%) VLAN
9 6 (2.86%) OSPF
9 6 (2.86%) TCP/IP
10 5 (2.38%) BGP
10 5 (2.38%) iSCSI
10 5 (2.38%) Skype
10 5 (2.38%) Wireless
11 4 (1.90%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (1.90%) MPLS
11 4 (1.90%) SMTP
11 4 (1.90%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.38%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.90%) Big Data
3 3 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.48%) Base SAS
5 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.48%) OLTP
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.48%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 1 (0.48%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (13.33%) JIRA
2 8 (3.81%) Selenium
3 6 (2.86%) Zephyr
4 5 (2.38%) TestRail
5 4 (1.90%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.90%) JMeter
6 3 (1.43%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.43%) Postman
7 2 (0.95%) MSTest
7 2 (0.95%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.48%) Appium
8 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.48%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.48%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.48%) TestDirector
General
1 65 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.76%) Finance
3 26 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (7.62%) Banking
5 16 (7.62%) Legal
6 9 (4.29%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.38%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.90%) Automotive
9 3 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.48%) Billing
10 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Law
10 1 (0.48%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (14.29%) Hardware Engineer
2 27 (12.86%) Hardware Technician
3 25 (11.90%) Break Fix Engineer
4 21 (10.00%) Field Engineer
5 17 (8.10%) IT Support
6 16 (7.62%) Field Hardware Engineer
7 14 (6.67%) Computer Engineer
7 14 (6.67%) Consultant
7 14 (6.67%) Field Service Technician
7 14 (6.67%) Support Engineer
8 13 (6.19%) Management Consultant
9 12 (5.71%) Analyst
9 12 (5.71%) Test Manager
10 11 (5.24%) Desktop Support
10 11 (5.24%) Printer Engineer
11 10 (4.76%) IT Engineer
12 9 (4.29%) Network Engineer
13 8 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.81%) Technical Support
14 7 (3.33%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.48%) REST
2 3 (1.43%) ADO
2 3 (1.43%) Playwright
3 2 (0.95%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.95%) Middleware
3 2 (0.95%) OpenGL
3 2 (0.95%) Qt
3 2 (0.95%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.48%) OAuth
4 1 (0.48%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.90%) Driving Licence
2 24 (11.43%) Data Centre
3 18 (8.57%) Virtual Team
4 8 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.86%) EMC VMAX
5 6 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.86%) PKI
6 5 (2.38%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.38%) Tandem
7 4 (1.90%) Clustering
7 4 (1.90%) iPhone
8 3 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.43%) EMV
9 2 (0.95%) BYOD
9 2 (0.95%) CUDA
9 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.95%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.95%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 78 (37.14%) Windows
2 33 (15.71%) Linux
3 20 (9.52%) AIX
4 18 (8.57%) Windows 10
5 15 (7.14%) Windows Server
6 10 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (4.29%) Android
8 7 (3.33%) Unix
9 5 (2.38%) HPUX
9 5 (2.38%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (2.38%) Solaris
9 5 (2.38%) SUSE
10 4 (1.90%) Windows 7
10 4 (1.90%) Windows 8
11 3 (1.43%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (29.52%) Customer Service
2 41 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (13.81%) DevOps
4 28 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (11.90%) Migration
6 24 (11.43%) Test Management
6 24 (11.43%) User Acceptance Testing
7 23 (10.95%) Agile
8 22 (10.48%) Service Management
8 22 (10.48%) Test Automation
9 21 (10.00%) Break/Fix
9 21 (10.00%) Time Management
10 20 (9.52%) Asset Management
10 20 (9.52%) ITIL
11 19 (9.05%) Defect Management
12 16 (7.62%) Test Strategy
13 15 (7.14%) Waterfall
14 14 (6.67%) Dashboard Development
15 13 (6.19%) End-to-End Testing
15 13 (6.19%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (12.38%) PowerShell
1 26 (12.38%) SQL
2 23 (10.95%) Python
3 13 (6.19%) Search Processing Language
4 7 (3.33%) Java
5 6 (2.86%) C
6 5 (2.38%) VB
7 3 (1.43%) C++
7 3 (1.43%) COBOL
7 3 (1.43%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.43%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.95%) Bash
8 2 (0.95%) C#
8 2 (0.95%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.48%) Lisp
9 1 (0.48%) Perl
9 1 (0.48%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 56 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 45 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.05%) Degree
4 13 (6.19%) ISTQB
5 12 (5.71%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.33%) CCNP
6 7 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.38%) CISSP
7 5 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (2.38%) RHCE
8 4 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.43%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.76%) SLA
2 21 (10.00%) QA
3 5 (2.38%) GRC
4 4 (1.90%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.43%) GDPR
5 3 (1.43%) ISO 8583
5 3 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.48%) GAMP
6 1 (0.48%) GxP
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.29%) Firmware
4 7 (3.33%) BitLocker
5 6 (2.86%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.86%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.38%) Docker
6 5 (2.38%) vSphere
7 4 (1.90%) Terminal Services
8 3 (1.43%) SRDF
8 3 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.95%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.48%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 31 (14.76%) HP ALM
2 19 (9.05%) SCCM
3 18 (8.57%) Nagios
4 16 (7.62%) Tivoli
5 15 (7.14%) Netcool
5 15 (7.14%) OpenView
5 15 (7.14%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 15 (7.14%) ZABBIX
6 11 (5.24%) Ansible
7 10 (4.76%) ServiceCenter
8 7 (3.33%) HP Quality Center
9 6 (2.86%) vCenter Server
10 5 (2.38%) Puppet
10 5 (2.38%) vMotion
11 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.43%) Backup Exec
12 3 (1.43%) Kubernetes
12 3 (1.43%) NetBackup
12 3 (1.43%) Terraform
13 2 (0.95%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 55 (26.19%) Dell
2 47 (22.38%) Microsoft
3 25 (11.90%) IBM
4 20 (9.52%) Apple
5 19 (9.05%) Cisco
6 17 (8.10%) VMware
7 16 (7.62%) SolarWinds
8 15 (7.14%) BMC
8 15 (7.14%) Splunk
9 12 (5.71%) Canon
9 12 (5.71%) Oracle
10 8 (3.81%) SAP
11 7 (3.33%) Aruba
11 7 (3.33%) Red Hat
11 7 (3.33%) ServiceNow
12 6 (2.86%) Fortinet
12 6 (2.86%) McAfee
13 5 (2.38%) Infor
14 4 (1.90%) Google
14 4 (1.90%) Symantec