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 19 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
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 275 313
Rank change year-on-year -96 +38 +23
Contract jobs citing HP 271 263 268
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.90% 0.63%
As % of the Vendors category 1.37% 1.89% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 137 216
10th Percentile £150 £150 £150
25th Percentile £195 £180 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £410 £350
Median % change year-on-year -29.27% +17.14% -20.69%
75th Percentile £452 £588 £588
90th Percentile £534 £635 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £275 £336 £363
% change year-on-year -18.22% -7.24% -14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 37 10
10th Percentile £16.09 - -
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £18.13
Median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £19.07
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -1.02% +1.19%
75th Percentile £20.09 £24.18 £23.80
90th Percentile £25.77 £24.66 £24.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £18.87 £20.94
% change year-on-year - -9.89% +14.83%

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 19,721 13,922 18,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.05% 47.67% 42.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,493 8,702 11,225
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -0.41% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 987 568 1,096
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £14.46
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.49% +15.91% -48.02%
75th Percentile £58.75 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.13 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £22.53 £21.42
% change year-on-year +24.28% +5.21% -44.38%

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 19 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 19 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 -92 242 £210 -50.57% 89
UK excluding London -80 198 £275 -18.22% 83
London -73 53 £268 -49.05% 12
Midlands -46 47 £210 -4.55% 24
South East -66 44 £293 -44.29% 31
East of England 0 38 £200 -61.90% 9
Work from Home -57 33 £375 -23.08% 44
North of England -72 30 £344 -14.06% 9
West Midlands -55 26 £288 +55.41% 3
South West -40 25 £310 +25.99% 11
East Midlands -15 21 £200 -44.13% 21
North West -35 18 £151 -64.59% 6
Yorkshire -54 12 £415 +9.93% 3
Scotland -11 9 £450 +139.36% 3
Northern Ireland +3 5 £475 - 2
Wales -11 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 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.58%) Confluence
3 4 (1.48%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.11%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (5.90%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.48%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.21%) BASE24
2 5 (1.85%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.37%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.37%) PORTIA
5 1 (0.37%) SAP FI-AR
5 1 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.37%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (15.50%) Azure
2 23 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (4.43%) AWS
5 5 (1.85%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.48%) Datadog
7 3 (1.11%) GCP
7 3 (1.11%) GitHub
7 3 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.11%) IaaS
7 3 (1.11%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.74%) OCI
8 2 (0.74%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.37%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.37%) PaaS
9 1 (0.37%) SaaS
9 1 (0.37%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (0.37%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.90%) SNMP
2 12 (4.43%) SAN
3 11 (4.06%) DNS
4 10 (3.69%) DHCP
5 9 (3.32%) Firewall
6 8 (2.95%) Wireless
7 6 (2.21%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.21%) VPN
7 6 (2.21%) WAN
7 6 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.85%) iSCSI
8 5 (1.85%) LAN
8 5 (1.85%) VLAN
9 4 (1.48%) OSPF
9 4 (1.48%) Skype
9 4 (1.48%) VSAN
10 3 (1.11%) BGP
10 3 (1.11%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.74%) IPsec
11 2 (0.74%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.21%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (1.48%) OLTP
3 2 (0.74%) Big Data
3 2 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.74%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.37%) Base SAS
4 1 (0.37%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.37%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (0.37%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (12.18%) JIRA
2 9 (3.32%) Selenium
3 6 (2.21%) TestRail
3 6 (2.21%) Zephyr
4 4 (1.48%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.48%) JMeter
5 3 (1.11%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.11%) Postman
5 3 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.74%) MSTest
6 2 (0.74%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.37%) Appium
7 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.37%) NUnit
7 1 (0.37%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.37%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 80 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 57 (21.03%) Organisational Skills
3 37 (13.65%) Finance
4 30 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.12%) Banking
6 18 (6.64%) Legal
7 9 (3.32%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.21%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.48%) Automotive
9 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.37%) Billing
11 1 (0.37%) Law
11 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 65 (23.99%) Break Fix Engineer
2 57 (21.03%) Hardware Engineer
3 46 (16.97%) Field Engineer
4 39 (14.39%) Field Hardware Engineer
5 28 (10.33%) Computer Engineer
6 27 (9.96%) Hardware Technician
7 21 (7.75%) IT Support
8 18 (6.64%) Analyst
9 17 (6.27%) Junior
9 17 (6.27%) Support Engineer
10 14 (5.17%) Field Service Technician
10 14 (5.17%) Printer Engineer
11 13 (4.80%) Consultant
11 13 (4.80%) IT Engineer
11 13 (4.80%) Management Consultant
11 13 (4.80%) Test Manager
12 10 (3.69%) Desktop Support
13 9 (3.32%) Developer
13 9 (3.32%) Technical Support
14 7 (2.58%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.12%) REST
2 3 (1.11%) ADO
3 2 (0.74%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.74%) Middleware
3 2 (0.74%) OpenGL
3 2 (0.74%) Playwright
3 2 (0.74%) Qt
3 2 (0.74%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.37%) OAuth
4 1 (0.37%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.18%) Driving Licence
2 21 (7.75%) Virtual Team
3 20 (7.38%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.06%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.21%) EMC VMAX
6 6 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.21%) Tandem
7 5 (1.85%) EMV
7 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (1.85%) iPhone
7 5 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.11%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.74%) CUDA
9 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.74%) HP Storage
9 2 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 83 (30.63%) Windows
2 35 (12.92%) Linux
3 21 (7.75%) Windows 10
4 19 (7.01%) AIX
5 12 (4.43%) Android
6 11 (4.06%) Windows Server
7 10 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (3.32%) Mac OS
9 7 (2.58%) Unix
10 4 (1.48%) HPUX
10 4 (1.48%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (1.48%) Solaris
10 4 (1.48%) SUSE
10 4 (1.48%) Windows 7
10 4 (1.48%) Windows 8
11 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (34.32%) Customer Service
2 56 (20.66%) Time Management
3 49 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (14.39%) Service Management
5 38 (14.02%) Break/Fix
6 30 (11.07%) Agile
7 29 (10.70%) Test Management
8 28 (10.33%) DevOps
8 28 (10.33%) User Acceptance Testing
9 25 (9.23%) Asset Management
9 25 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (9.23%) Test Automation
10 24 (8.86%) Migration
11 21 (7.75%) Defect Management
12 19 (7.01%) Test Strategy
13 16 (5.90%) End-to-End Testing
13 16 (5.90%) System Integration Testing
13 16 (5.90%) Waterfall
14 15 (5.54%) ITIL
14 15 (5.54%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 32 (11.81%) SQL
2 24 (8.86%) PowerShell
2 24 (8.86%) Python
3 13 (4.80%) Search Processing Language
4 7 (2.58%) C
5 5 (1.85%) COBOL
5 5 (1.85%) Java
5 5 (1.85%) VB
6 4 (1.48%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.48%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.11%) C#
7 3 (1.11%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.74%) Bash
9 1 (0.37%) C++
9 1 (0.37%) Lisp
9 1 (0.37%) Perl
9 1 (0.37%) SAS Macro
9 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (23.25%) Security Cleared
2 55 (20.30%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.27%) Degree
4 14 (5.17%) ISTQB
5 11 (4.06%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.85%) CCNP
6 5 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.48%) CISSP
7 4 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.48%) RHCE
8 3 (1.11%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.74%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.18%) SLA
2 24 (8.86%) QA
3 6 (2.21%) ISO 8583
4 5 (1.85%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.48%) GRC
5 4 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.37%) GAMP
6 1 (0.37%) GDPR
6 1 (0.37%) GxP
6 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (8.49%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.95%) vSphere
4 7 (2.58%) Firmware
5 3 (1.11%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.11%) SRDF
5 3 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.74%) Docker
6 2 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.37%) GPFS
7 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 37 (13.65%) HP ALM
2 21 (7.75%) SCCM
3 16 (5.90%) Tivoli
4 15 (5.54%) Nagios
4 15 (5.54%) Netcool
4 15 (5.54%) OpenView
4 15 (5.54%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 15 (5.54%) ZABBIX
5 12 (4.43%) ServiceCenter
6 9 (3.32%) Ansible
7 7 (2.58%) HP Quality Center
8 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.48%) vRealize
10 3 (1.11%) Backup Exec
10 3 (1.11%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.11%) Terraform
10 3 (1.11%) VxRail
11 2 (0.74%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.74%) Puppet
11 2 (0.74%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 73 (26.94%) Dell
2 50 (18.45%) Microsoft
3 30 (11.07%) IBM
4 28 (10.33%) Apple
5 24 (8.86%) Cisco
6 20 (7.38%) SolarWinds
7 17 (6.27%) VMware
8 16 (5.90%) Canon
8 16 (5.90%) Splunk
9 15 (5.54%) BMC
10 13 (4.80%) ServiceNow
11 12 (4.43%) Oracle
12 10 (3.69%) SAP
13 7 (2.58%) Aruba
13 7 (2.58%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.85%) Infor
14 5 (1.85%) McAfee
14 5 (1.85%) Remedy
15 4 (1.48%) Commvault
15 4 (1.48%) Computacenter