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 25 May 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
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 283 325
Rank change year-on-year -101 +42 +4
Contract jobs citing HP 259 258 258
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.90% 0.61%
As % of the Vendors category 1.31% 1.88% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 131 207
10th Percentile £150 £150 £159
25th Percentile £195 £180 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £413 £375
Median % change year-on-year -29.70% +10.00% -14.77%
75th Percentile £453 £588 £588
90th Percentile £538 £650 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £275 £345 £375
% change year-on-year -20.35% -7.93% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 36 9
10th Percentile £16.11 - -
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 -
Median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +4.08% -3.77%
75th Percentile £24.28 £21.80 £23.80
90th Percentile £25.77 £24.66 £25.04
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 19,824 13,751 17,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.95% 47.75% 42.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,524 8,565 11,242
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £492 £500
% change year-on-year - -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,015 565 1,105
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +14.35% -47.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.40 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.50 £22.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +31.11% +4.85% -45.81%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -112 231 £210 -52.00% 83
UK excluding London -92 192 £275 -20.35% 78
London -91 48 £268 -49.05% 11
Midlands -49 45 £210 -4.55% 20
South East -66 41 £210 -60.00% 27
East of England -6 35 £200 -61.90% 5
Work from Home -48 33 £375 -23.08% 51
North of England -85 30 £344 -14.06% 11
South West -41 27 £310 +85.22% 12
West Midlands -65 24 £288 +55.41% 2
East Midlands -9 21 £200 -44.13% 18
North West -38 18 £151 -64.59% 8
Yorkshire -63 12 £415 +9.93% 3
Scotland -7 9 £450 +139.36% 5
Northern Ireland +6 5 £475 - 2
Wales -10 3 £290 - 1

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 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.70%) Confluence
3 4 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.16%) IIS
5 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.54%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.70%) BASE24
2 5 (1.93%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.39%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.39%) SAP FI-AR
4 1 (0.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.39%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (16.22%) Azure
2 23 (8.88%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (4.63%) AWS
5 5 (1.93%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.54%) Datadog
7 3 (1.16%) GCP
7 3 (1.16%) GitHub
7 3 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.16%) IaaS
7 3 (1.16%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.77%) OCI
8 2 (0.77%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.39%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.39%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.39%) PaaS
9 1 (0.39%) SaaS
9 1 (0.39%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (0.39%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.18%) SNMP
2 12 (4.63%) SAN
3 11 (4.25%) DNS
4 10 (3.86%) DHCP
5 9 (3.47%) Firewall
6 7 (2.70%) Wireless
7 6 (2.32%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.32%) VPN
7 6 (2.32%) WAN
7 6 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.93%) iSCSI
8 5 (1.93%) LAN
8 5 (1.93%) Skype
8 5 (1.93%) VLAN
9 4 (1.54%) OSPF
9 4 (1.54%) VSAN
10 3 (1.16%) BGP
10 3 (1.16%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.77%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.77%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.70%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (1.54%) OLTP
3 2 (0.77%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.39%) Base SAS
4 1 (0.39%) Big Data
4 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.39%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.39%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (0.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (11.97%) JIRA
2 8 (3.09%) Selenium
3 6 (2.32%) Zephyr
4 5 (1.93%) TestRail
5 4 (1.54%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.54%) JMeter
6 3 (1.16%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.16%) Postman
7 2 (0.77%) MSTest
7 2 (0.77%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.39%) Appium
8 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.39%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.39%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.39%) TestDirector
General
1 78 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 52 (20.08%) Organisational Skills
3 34 (13.13%) Finance
4 29 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.72%) Banking
6 17 (6.56%) Legal
7 9 (3.47%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.32%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.54%) Automotive
9 4 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.39%) Billing
11 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 57 (22.01%) Break Fix Engineer
1 57 (22.01%) Hardware Engineer
2 46 (17.76%) Field Engineer
3 39 (15.06%) Field Hardware Engineer
4 28 (10.81%) Computer Engineer
5 27 (10.42%) Hardware Technician
6 20 (7.72%) IT Support
7 18 (6.95%) Analyst
8 16 (6.18%) Support Engineer
9 14 (5.41%) Consultant
9 14 (5.41%) Field Service Technician
9 14 (5.41%) Printer Engineer
10 13 (5.02%) IT Engineer
10 13 (5.02%) Management Consultant
11 12 (4.63%) Test Manager
12 10 (3.86%) Desktop Support
13 9 (3.47%) Developer
13 9 (3.47%) Technical Support
14 8 (3.09%) Junior
15 7 (2.70%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.49%) REST
2 3 (1.16%) ADO
3 2 (0.77%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.77%) Middleware
3 2 (0.77%) OpenGL
3 2 (0.77%) Playwright
3 2 (0.77%) Qt
3 2 (0.77%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.39%) OAuth
4 1 (0.39%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.74%) Driving Licence
2 22 (8.49%) Virtual Team
3 20 (7.72%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.70%) Tandem
5 6 (2.32%) EMC VMAX
5 6 (2.32%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.32%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.93%) EMV
6 5 (1.93%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (1.93%) iPhone
6 5 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (1.93%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.16%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.77%) CUDA
8 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.77%) HP Storage
8 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 83 (32.05%) Windows
2 34 (13.13%) Linux
3 21 (8.11%) Windows 10
4 19 (7.34%) AIX
5 12 (4.63%) Android
6 11 (4.25%) Windows Server
7 9 (3.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (3.09%) Mac OS
9 6 (2.32%) Unix
10 4 (1.54%) HPUX
10 4 (1.54%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (1.54%) Solaris
10 4 (1.54%) SUSE
10 4 (1.54%) Windows 7
10 4 (1.54%) Windows 8
11 3 (1.16%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (36.29%) Customer Service
2 51 (19.69%) Time Management
3 48 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (15.06%) Service Management
5 31 (11.97%) Break/Fix
6 29 (11.20%) Agile
7 28 (10.81%) DevOps
7 28 (10.81%) Test Management
8 26 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (9.65%) Migration
9 25 (9.65%) User Acceptance Testing
10 24 (9.27%) Asset Management
11 23 (8.88%) Test Automation
12 19 (7.34%) Defect Management
13 17 (6.56%) Test Strategy
14 16 (6.18%) System Integration Testing
15 15 (5.79%) ITIL
15 15 (5.79%) Waterfall
16 14 (5.41%) Dashboard Development
16 14 (5.41%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.58%) SQL
2 23 (8.88%) PowerShell
2 23 (8.88%) Python
3 13 (5.02%) Search Processing Language
4 8 (3.09%) C
5 6 (2.32%) COBOL
5 6 (2.32%) Java
6 5 (1.93%) VB
7 3 (1.16%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.16%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.16%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.77%) Bash
8 2 (0.77%) C#
8 2 (0.77%) C++
9 1 (0.39%) Lisp
9 1 (0.39%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 63 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 55 (21.24%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.56%) Degree
4 13 (5.02%) ISTQB
5 11 (4.25%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.93%) CCNP
6 5 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.54%) CISSP
7 4 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.54%) RHCE
8 3 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.77%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.74%) SLA
2 23 (8.88%) QA
3 7 (2.70%) ISO 8583
4 4 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.54%) GRC
4 4 (1.54%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.39%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.39%) GAMP
5 1 (0.39%) GDPR
5 1 (0.39%) GxP
5 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (8.88%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.09%) vSphere
4 7 (2.70%) Firmware
5 3 (1.16%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.16%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.16%) SRDF
5 3 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.77%) Docker
6 2 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.77%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 34 (13.13%) HP ALM
2 20 (7.72%) SCCM
3 16 (6.18%) Tivoli
4 15 (5.79%) Nagios
4 15 (5.79%) Netcool
4 15 (5.79%) OpenView
4 15 (5.79%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 15 (5.79%) ZABBIX
5 12 (4.63%) ServiceCenter
6 8 (3.09%) Ansible
7 7 (2.70%) HP Quality Center
8 5 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.54%) vRealize
10 3 (1.16%) Backup Exec
10 3 (1.16%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.16%) Terraform
10 3 (1.16%) VxRail
11 2 (0.77%) Packer
11 2 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.77%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 70 (27.03%) Dell
2 50 (19.31%) Microsoft
3 29 (11.20%) IBM
4 28 (10.81%) Apple
5 23 (8.88%) Cisco
6 20 (7.72%) SolarWinds
7 17 (6.56%) VMware
8 16 (6.18%) Canon
8 16 (6.18%) Splunk
9 15 (5.79%) BMC
10 12 (4.63%) Oracle
11 11 (4.25%) ServiceNow
12 9 (3.47%) SAP
13 7 (2.70%) Aruba
14 6 (2.32%) Red Hat
15 5 (1.93%) Infor
15 5 (1.93%) McAfee
16 4 (1.54%) 3PAR
16 4 (1.54%) AppDynamics
16 4 (1.54%) Broadcom