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 5 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
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 284 335
Rank change year-on-year -141 +51 +8
Contract jobs citing HP 230 255 265
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.88% 0.62%
As % of the Vendors category 1.15% 1.85% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 133 209
10th Percentile £150 £150 £147
25th Percentile £199 £181 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £413 £350
Median % change year-on-year -24.12% +17.86% -17.94%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £588
90th Percentile £595 £645 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £290 £359 £375
% change year-on-year -19.22% -4.27% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 35 13
10th Percentile £16.10 - £18.03
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 -
Median hourly rate £19.35 £18.87 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +4.08% -3.77%
75th Percentile £24.28 £21.01 £23.80
90th Percentile £25.77 £24.66 £24.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £18.13
% change year-on-year +2.44% +4.08% +2.31%

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 20,004 13,790 18,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.73% 47.66% 42.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,584 8,509 11,310
10th Percentile £313 £280 £263
25th Percentile £413 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -1.94% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,027 604 1,116
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.07
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.34 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% +17.24% -46.92%
75th Percentile £59.38 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.90 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% +4.65% -45.67%

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 5 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 5 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 -122 203 £295 -34.44% 69
UK excluding London -112 166 £290 -19.22% 68
London -81 44 £338 -35.71% 10
South East -76 34 £293 -44.29% 29
Work from Home -57 32 £389 -22.23% 35
East of England -6 31 £200 -61.90% 3
Midlands -54 31 £200 -13.61% 10
North of England -84 31 £415 +0.61% 10
South West -41 26 £310 +85.22% 7
North West -31 20 £200 -52.94% 7
East Midlands -13 17 £200 -46.60% 9
West Midlands -69 14 £356 +61.93% 1
Yorkshire -55 11 £458 +21.19% 3
Scotland -13 9 £450 +141.29% 7
Northern Ireland - 5 £475 - 2
Wales -21 2 £285 -5.00% 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 10 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.74%) Confluence
2 4 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.30%) IIS
4 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (7.39%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.48%) BASE24
2 5 (2.17%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.43%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.43%) SAP FI-AR
4 1 (0.43%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.43%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (15.65%) Azure
2 22 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.35%) AWS
5 5 (2.17%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.17%) GCP
5 5 (2.17%) IaaS
6 3 (1.30%) GitHub
6 3 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.30%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.30%) PaaS
7 2 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.87%) OCI
7 2 (0.87%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.87%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.43%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.43%) SaaS
8 1 (0.43%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.96%) SNMP
2 13 (5.65%) DNS
2 13 (5.65%) Firewall
3 12 (5.22%) DHCP
3 12 (5.22%) SAN
4 10 (4.35%) VPN
5 8 (3.48%) WAN
5 8 (3.48%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (3.04%) LAN
6 7 (3.04%) VLAN
7 6 (2.61%) OSPF
7 6 (2.61%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.61%) Wireless
8 5 (2.17%) BGP
8 5 (2.17%) iSCSI
8 5 (2.17%) Skype
9 4 (1.74%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (1.74%) MPLS
9 4 (1.74%) Wireshark
10 3 (1.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.48%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (1.74%) OLTP
3 3 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.30%) Big Data
4 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.87%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.43%) Base SAS
5 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.43%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 1 (0.43%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (12.61%) JIRA
2 7 (3.04%) Selenium
3 6 (2.61%) Zephyr
4 4 (1.74%) JMeter
4 4 (1.74%) TestRail
5 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.30%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.30%) Postman
6 2 (0.87%) MSTest
6 2 (0.87%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.43%) Appium
7 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.43%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.43%) TestDirector
General
1 74 (32.17%) Social Skills
2 33 (14.35%) Finance
3 32 (13.91%) Organisational Skills
4 29 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.26%) Banking
6 18 (7.83%) Legal
7 9 (3.91%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.61%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.74%) Automotive
10 3 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.43%) Billing
12 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Law
12 1 (0.43%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (17.83%) Hardware Engineer
2 33 (14.35%) Break Fix Engineer
3 30 (13.04%) Field Engineer
4 27 (11.74%) Hardware Technician
5 24 (10.43%) Field Hardware Engineer
6 22 (9.57%) Computer Engineer
7 19 (8.26%) IT Support
8 17 (7.39%) Support Engineer
9 14 (6.09%) Consultant
9 14 (6.09%) Field Service Technician
9 14 (6.09%) Printer Engineer
10 13 (5.65%) Management Consultant
11 12 (5.22%) Analyst
11 12 (5.22%) Test Manager
12 11 (4.78%) Desktop Support
12 11 (4.78%) IT Engineer
13 10 (4.35%) Developer
14 9 (3.91%) Network Engineer
14 9 (3.91%) Technical Support
15 7 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.57%) REST
2 3 (1.30%) ADO
3 2 (0.87%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.87%) Middleware
3 2 (0.87%) OpenGL
3 2 (0.87%) Playwright
3 2 (0.87%) Qt
3 2 (0.87%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.43%) OAuth
4 1 (0.43%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.48%) Driving Licence
2 22 (9.57%) Data Centre
3 21 (9.13%) Virtual Team
4 8 (3.48%) Tandem
5 7 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.61%) EMC VMAX
6 6 (2.61%) EMV
6 6 (2.61%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.17%) PKI
8 4 (1.74%) iPhone
9 3 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.30%) Clustering
10 2 (0.87%) CUDA
10 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.87%) HP Storage
10 2 (0.87%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 82 (35.65%) Windows
2 32 (13.91%) Linux
3 20 (8.70%) Windows 10
4 19 (8.26%) AIX
5 13 (5.65%) Windows Server
6 10 (4.35%) Android
7 9 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (2.61%) Mac OS
8 6 (2.61%) Unix
9 4 (1.74%) HPUX
9 4 (1.74%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (1.74%) Solaris
9 4 (1.74%) SUSE
9 4 (1.74%) Windows 7
9 4 (1.74%) Windows 8
10 3 (1.30%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (33.04%) Customer Service
2 46 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (13.48%) Time Management
4 30 (13.04%) Service Management
5 29 (12.61%) DevOps
6 27 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (11.30%) Test Management
8 25 (10.87%) Migration
9 24 (10.43%) Asset Management
9 24 (10.43%) User Acceptance Testing
10 23 (10.00%) Agile
11 22 (9.57%) Test Automation
12 21 (9.13%) Break/Fix
13 19 (8.26%) Defect Management
14 17 (7.39%) ITIL
15 16 (6.96%) Test Strategy
16 15 (6.52%) System Integration Testing
16 15 (6.52%) Waterfall
17 14 (6.09%) Dashboard Development
18 13 (5.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 30 (13.04%) SQL
2 25 (10.87%) PowerShell
3 23 (10.00%) Python
4 13 (5.65%) Search Processing Language
5 9 (3.91%) C
6 7 (3.04%) Java
7 6 (2.61%) COBOL
8 5 (2.17%) VB
9 3 (1.30%) C++
9 3 (1.30%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.30%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.87%) Bash
10 2 (0.87%) C#
10 2 (0.87%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.43%) Lisp
11 1 (0.43%) Perl
11 1 (0.43%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 63 (27.39%) Security Cleared
2 53 (23.04%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.70%) Degree
4 13 (5.65%) ISTQB
5 12 (5.22%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.04%) CCNP
6 7 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.74%) CISSP
7 4 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.74%) RHCE
8 3 (1.30%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.30%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.87%) CCIE
9 2 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.91%) SLA
2 21 (9.13%) QA
3 7 (3.04%) ISO 8583
4 5 (2.17%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.74%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.74%) GRC
6 3 (1.30%) GDPR
7 1 (0.43%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.43%) GAMP
7 1 (0.43%) GxP
7 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (10.43%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.91%) Firmware
4 6 (2.61%) BitLocker
5 5 (2.17%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.17%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.74%) Docker
6 4 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.74%) vSphere
7 3 (1.30%) SRDF
7 3 (1.30%) Terminal Services
7 3 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.87%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.43%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 32 (13.91%) HP ALM
2 20 (8.70%) SCCM
3 17 (7.39%) Nagios
4 16 (6.96%) Tivoli
5 15 (6.52%) Netcool
5 15 (6.52%) OpenView
5 15 (6.52%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 15 (6.52%) ZABBIX
6 12 (5.22%) ServiceCenter
7 10 (4.35%) Ansible
8 7 (3.04%) HP Quality Center
9 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.74%) Puppet
9 4 (1.74%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.74%) vMotion
10 3 (1.30%) Backup Exec
10 3 (1.30%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.30%) Terraform
11 2 (0.87%) Kubernetes
11 2 (0.87%) Packer
Vendors
1 64 (27.83%) Dell
2 51 (22.17%) Microsoft
3 25 (10.87%) Apple
3 25 (10.87%) IBM
4 20 (8.70%) Cisco
5 16 (6.96%) SolarWinds
5 16 (6.96%) Splunk
6 15 (6.52%) BMC
6 15 (6.52%) Canon
6 15 (6.52%) VMware
7 12 (5.22%) Oracle
8 8 (3.48%) SAP
8 8 (3.48%) ServiceNow
9 7 (3.04%) Aruba
10 6 (2.61%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.61%) McAfee
10 6 (2.61%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.17%) Infor
12 4 (1.74%) 3PAR
12 4 (1.74%) Remedy