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 12 March 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
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 298 286
Rank change year-on-year -46 -12 +33
Contract jobs citing HP 289 239 358
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.81% 0.80%
As % of the Vendors category 1.54% 1.73% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 124 286
10th Percentile £154 £153 £151
25th Percentile £183 £185 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £245 £396 £350
Median % change year-on-year -38.05% +13.00% -21.52%
75th Percentile £388 £551 £500
90th Percentile £491 £620 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £220 £333 £313
% change year-on-year -33.83% +6.40% -26.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 27 12
10th Percentile £16.09 £18.39 £20.00
25th Percentile £16.21 £18.51 £20.19
Median hourly rate £19.38 £21.59 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -10.04% +14.29%
75th Percentile £25.08 £24.42 £30.00
90th Percentile £25.77 £26.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £21.30 £24.00
% change year-on-year -11.41% -11.25% +31.62%

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 18,772 13,848 19,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.96% 47.05% 43.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,009 8,622 12,007
10th Percentile £306 £284 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% -2.83%
75th Percentile £600 £622 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 446 1,035
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.09 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £29.07 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +17.93% -29.63%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £76.04 £81.63 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.79 £27.63 £23.22
% change year-on-year -17.54% +19.02% -29.65%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -57 253 £210 -47.50% 86
UK excluding London -48 214 £220 -33.83% 72
London -42 65 £250 -44.44% 23
Midlands -19 60 £200 -49.43% 16
East of England +5 41 £200 -61.90% 7
North of England -64 36 £205 -51.76% 12
South East -65 36 £385 +40.42% 24
West Midlands -41 34 £305 -28.35% 5
East Midlands -10 27 £200 -25.14% 11
Work from Home -48 24 £375 -21.05% 31
Yorkshire -53 18 £290 -20.55% 3
South West -31 16 £308 -5.75% 10
North West -43 13 £175 -58.82% 7
Scotland +3 12 £300 +56.56% 3
Wales +1 10 £290 +45.00% 3
Northern Ireland +1 6 £488 -
North East -17 5 £175 -68.18% 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 21 (7.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.50%) Confluence
3 5 (1.73%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) IIS
Applications
1 58 (20.07%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.77%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.08%) BASE24
2 5 (1.73%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.73%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.38%) assyst
3 4 (1.38%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.35%) PORTIA
5 1 (0.35%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.35%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 68 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (19.03%) Azure
3 20 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (5.54%) AWS
5 12 (4.15%) Datadog
6 4 (1.38%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.38%) GCP
6 4 (1.38%) OCI
7 3 (1.04%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (0.69%) IaaS
9 1 (0.35%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.35%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.35%) GitHub
9 1 (0.35%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.35%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.35%) PaaS
9 1 (0.35%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.35%) SaaS
9 1 (0.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 41 (14.19%) Wireless
2 18 (6.23%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (3.81%) SAN
3 11 (3.81%) VSAN
4 9 (3.11%) Firewall
5 8 (2.77%) DNS
6 6 (2.08%) DHCP
6 6 (2.08%) WAN
7 5 (1.73%) LAN
7 5 (1.73%) SNMP
7 5 (1.73%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.73%) VLAN
7 5 (1.73%) VPN
8 4 (1.38%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.69%) BGP
9 2 (0.69%) IPsec
9 2 (0.69%) MPLS
9 2 (0.69%) OSPF
9 2 (0.69%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.08%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (1.38%) OLTP
3 3 (1.04%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.35%) Big Data
4 1 (0.35%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.35%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (12.11%) JIRA
2 8 (2.77%) Selenium
3 7 (2.42%) TestRail
4 4 (1.38%) Zephyr
5 3 (1.04%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.04%) JMeter
5 3 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.69%) MSTest
6 2 (0.69%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.35%) NUnit
7 1 (0.35%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.35%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 89 (30.80%) Social Skills
2 64 (22.15%) Organisational Skills
3 55 (19.03%) Finance
4 32 (11.07%) Manufacturing
4 32 (11.07%) Public Sector
5 28 (9.69%) Banking
6 27 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (8.65%) Marketing
7 25 (8.65%) Telecoms
8 23 (7.96%) Electronics
8 23 (7.96%) Legal
9 6 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.08%) Retail
10 5 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.38%) Automotive
12 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.69%) Advertising
13 2 (0.69%) Billing
13 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (24.22%) Break Fix Engineer
2 52 (17.99%) Hardware Engineer
3 47 (16.26%) IT Support
4 44 (15.22%) Field Engineer
5 38 (13.15%) Field Hardware Engineer
6 36 (12.46%) Analyst
7 33 (11.42%) Desktop Support
8 28 (9.69%) Computer Engineer
8 28 (9.69%) Junior
9 24 (8.30%) 2nd Line Support
10 23 (7.96%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
10 23 (7.96%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
11 22 (7.61%) Support Engineer
12 19 (6.57%) IT Engineer
13 17 (5.88%) Support Analyst
14 14 (4.84%) Printer Engineer
15 13 (4.50%) Test Manager
16 11 (3.81%) Infrastructure Analyst
17 10 (3.46%) Desktop Engineer
17 10 (3.46%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.77%) REST
2 3 (1.04%) ADO
3 2 (0.69%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.69%) XML
4 1 (0.35%) FHIR
4 1 (0.35%) LDAP
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.35%) Middleware
4 1 (0.35%) OAuth
4 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.35%) Playwright
4 1 (0.35%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.35%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 44 (15.22%) Data Centre
2 34 (11.76%) Driving Licence
3 19 (6.57%) Mobile App
4 15 (5.19%) Virtual Team
5 12 (4.15%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.08%) Tandem
7 5 (1.73%) EMV
8 4 (1.38%) CMDB
8 4 (1.38%) EMC VMAX
8 4 (1.38%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.04%) Clustering
9 3 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.04%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.04%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.69%) HP Storage
10 2 (0.69%) iPhone
10 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.69%) Social Media
10 2 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 84 (29.07%) Windows
2 48 (16.61%) Mac OS
3 43 (14.88%) Android
4 26 (9.00%) Linux
4 26 (9.00%) Windows 10
5 9 (3.11%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.38%) AIX
7 4 (1.38%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.38%) Windows 8
8 3 (1.04%) Unix
9 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.35%) CentOS
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.35%) SUSE
10 1 (0.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.35%) VMS
10 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (27.68%) Customer Service
2 62 (21.45%) Time Management
3 50 (17.30%) Break/Fix
4 46 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (13.49%) Service Management
6 37 (12.80%) Agile
7 30 (10.38%) Test Management
8 28 (9.69%) User Acceptance Testing
9 27 (9.34%) Test Automation
10 25 (8.65%) Business Intelligence
11 24 (8.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (7.96%) DevOps
12 23 (7.96%) Digital Marketing
12 23 (7.96%) Programme Management
12 23 (7.96%) Test Strategy
13 22 (7.61%) Asset Management
14 20 (6.92%) Migration
15 19 (6.57%) Defect Management
16 16 (5.54%) ITSM
16 16 (5.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (7.61%) SQL
2 10 (3.46%) Python
3 9 (3.11%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.42%) C
5 6 (2.08%) VB
6 5 (1.73%) COBOL
6 5 (1.73%) Java
6 5 (1.73%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.38%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.38%) Search Processing Language
8 3 (1.04%) C#
8 3 (1.04%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.35%) C++
9 1 (0.35%) Perl
9 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (30.80%) Security Cleared
2 82 (28.37%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.23%) ISTQB
4 15 (5.19%) Degree
5 9 (3.11%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 3 (1.04%) A+ Certification
8 3 (1.04%) CCNP
8 3 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.69%) ISEB
9 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.35%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.73%) SLA
2 21 (7.27%) QA
3 6 (2.08%) ISO 8583
4 4 (1.38%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.69%) COBIT
5 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.35%) GDPR
6 1 (0.35%) HL7
6 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.35%) NCSC
6 1 (0.35%) NIST
6 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 35 (12.11%) Active Directory
2 17 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.84%) vSphere
4 6 (2.08%) Firmware
5 3 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.04%) SRDF
6 2 (0.69%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.35%) GPFS
7 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 36 (12.46%) HP ALM
2 20 (6.92%) SCCM
3 13 (4.50%) ServiceCenter
4 11 (3.81%) vRealize
5 10 (3.46%) VxRail
6 7 (2.42%) Ansible
7 6 (2.08%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.38%) Nagios
8 4 (1.38%) Netcool
8 4 (1.38%) OpenView
8 4 (1.38%) Tivoli
8 4 (1.38%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 4 (1.38%) ZABBIX
9 3 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.04%) Terraform
10 2 (0.69%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.69%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.69%) Puppet
11 1 (0.35%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 120 (41.52%) Dell
2 75 (25.95%) Apple
3 65 (22.49%) Cisco
4 53 (18.34%) Microsoft
5 35 (12.11%) SAP
6 25 (8.65%) IBM
7 20 (6.92%) VMware
8 17 (5.88%) SolarWinds
9 16 (5.54%) Canon
9 16 (5.54%) ServiceNow
10 15 (5.19%) MobileIron
11 12 (4.15%) AppDynamics
11 12 (4.15%) Commvault
12 9 (3.11%) Oracle
13 6 (2.08%) Remedy
14 5 (1.73%) Computacenter
14 5 (1.73%) Infor
14 5 (1.73%) Splunk
15 4 (1.38%) Aruba
15 4 (1.38%) Fortinet