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 20 September 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
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 348 354
Rank change year-on-year -166 +6 -50
Contract jobs citing HP 161 218 210
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.66% 0.55%
As % of the Vendors category 0.71% 1.40% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 111 140
10th Percentile £150 £150 £138
25th Percentile £195 £273 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £541 £556 £538
90th Percentile £679 £615 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £324 £395 £425
% change year-on-year -18.04% -7.06% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 56 23
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.36 £17.70
25th Percentile £18.33 £18.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £19.33 £25.11 £23.59
Median % change year-on-year -23.03% +6.45% +24.62%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £24.02
90th Percentile - - £24.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £23.59
% change year-on-year +2.44% -20.01% +33.13%

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 22,804 15,620 17,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.78% 47.47% 44.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,936 9,589 10,237
10th Percentile £310 £275 £286
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,295 794 677
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.71 £14.35
25th Percentile £16.68 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.14 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% -16.17% -32.58%
75th Percentile £61.54 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.75 £21.30 £29.77
% change year-on-year +20.89% -28.45% -29.95%

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 20 September 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 20 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the UK

HP
Top 15 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 20 September 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 -158 150 £426 -8.14% 189
UK excluding London -136 104 £324 -18.04% 130
London -105 42 £500 +0.91% 56
Work from Home -77 30 £500 +5.26% 78
South East -70 27 £210 -58.00% 44
North of England -65 26 £395 -12.22% 27
South West -33 24 £426 +6.50% 19
Midlands -66 14 £293 +32.95% 21
North West -44 13 £475 +5.56% 14
West Midlands -54 10 £238 +7.95% 10
East of England -22 9 £150 -57.14% 9
Yorkshire -49 9 £339 -29.79% 12
Scotland -28 4 £450 +56.52% 7
North East -40 4 £200 - 1
East Midlands -28 3 £500 - 11

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 8 (4.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.73%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.11%) Confluence
3 5 (3.11%) SAS
4 2 (1.24%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (11.80%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.48%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.24%) BASE24
1 2 (1.24%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.24%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.62%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.62%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.62%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.62%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (0.62%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 38 (23.60%) Azure
2 16 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (7.45%) AWS
5 8 (4.97%) Entra ID
6 7 (4.35%) OpenShift
7 6 (3.73%) OneDrive
8 5 (3.11%) GCP
9 3 (1.86%) GitHub
9 3 (1.86%) IaaS
9 3 (1.86%) PaaS
9 3 (1.86%) SaaS
10 2 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.24%) OCI
11 1 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.62%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.62%) Siteimprove
11 1 (0.62%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.70%) Firewall
2 12 (7.45%) DHCP
2 12 (7.45%) DNS
3 10 (6.21%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (5.59%) LAN
4 9 (5.59%) WAN
5 8 (4.97%) Skype
5 8 (4.97%) SNMP
6 7 (4.35%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.73%) SAN
7 6 (3.73%) VPN
8 4 (2.48%) BGP
8 4 (2.48%) Network Security
8 4 (2.48%) OSPF
8 4 (2.48%) VLAN
9 3 (1.86%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.86%) SMTP
10 2 (1.24%) SSL
10 2 (1.24%) Wireless
10 2 (1.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.73%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.48%) Big Data
3 4 (2.48%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.48%) PowerCenter
3 4 (2.48%) Star Schema
4 3 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.86%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.62%) Base SAS
5 1 (0.62%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.62%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 1 (0.62%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 30 (18.63%) JIRA
2 13 (8.07%) Selenium
3 7 (4.35%) Cucumber
4 5 (3.11%) HP UFT
5 4 (2.48%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.86%) Bugzilla
6 3 (1.86%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.86%) TestRail
7 2 (1.24%) GitLab
7 2 (1.24%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.24%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.24%) MSTest
7 2 (1.24%) Postman
7 2 (1.24%) Ranorex
7 2 (1.24%) TestDirector
7 2 (1.24%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.62%) Appium
8 1 (0.62%) JMeter
8 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.62%) Toad
General
1 39 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.77%) Finance
3 14 (8.70%) Banking
4 12 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.11%) Legal
7 4 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.48%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.86%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.24%) Billing
9 2 (1.24%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.24%) Law
9 2 (1.24%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Retail
10 1 (0.62%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (16.15%) Hardware Technician
2 13 (8.07%) Tester
3 12 (7.45%) Field Service Technician
4 10 (6.21%) Analyst
4 10 (6.21%) IT Engineer
4 10 (6.21%) Network Engineer
4 10 (6.21%) Senior
5 9 (5.59%) Break Fix Engineer
5 9 (5.59%) Consultant
6 8 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (4.97%) Lead
6 8 (4.97%) Management Consultant
6 8 (4.97%) Support Engineer
7 7 (4.35%) Field Engineer
7 7 (4.35%) Test Leader
7 7 (4.35%) Test Manager
8 6 (3.73%) Desktop Support
8 6 (3.73%) Hardware Engineer
8 6 (3.73%) Support Analyst
8 6 (3.73%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.45%) REST
2 6 (3.73%) Middleware
3 4 (2.48%) Kafka
4 3 (1.86%) Node.js
4 3 (1.86%) Playwright
4 3 (1.86%) Terraform
4 3 (1.86%) WireMock
5 2 (1.24%) .NET
5 2 (1.24%) OpenGL
5 2 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.24%) Qt
5 2 (1.24%) SOAP
6 1 (0.62%) JSON
6 1 (0.62%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.62%) Web Services
6 1 (0.62%) XML
6 1 (0.62%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.94%) Data Centre
2 15 (9.32%) Driving Licence
3 12 (7.45%) Virtual Team
4 9 (5.59%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.11%) iPhone
6 5 (3.11%) PKI
7 4 (2.48%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.86%) Clustering
8 3 (1.86%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.24%) BYOD
9 2 (1.24%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.24%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.24%) SCADA
9 2 (1.24%) Tandem
9 2 (1.24%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 49 (30.43%) Windows
2 31 (19.25%) Linux
3 18 (11.18%) Windows 10
4 17 (10.56%) AIX
5 14 (8.70%) Android
5 14 (8.70%) Windows Server
6 12 (7.45%) Unix
7 9 (5.59%) Solaris
8 8 (4.97%) HPUX
9 7 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (3.73%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (3.73%) SUSE
11 3 (1.86%) Apple iOS
12 2 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.62%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.62%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (16.15%) Continuous Improvement
2 26 (16.15%) Customer Service
3 24 (14.91%) DevOps
4 23 (14.29%) Agile
5 22 (13.66%) Asset Management
5 22 (13.66%) Test Automation
6 20 (12.42%) ITIL
7 19 (11.80%) Migration
8 17 (10.56%) Test Management
8 17 (10.56%) Validation
9 16 (9.94%) Break/Fix
9 16 (9.94%) Defect Management
9 16 (9.94%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (9.32%) Root Cause Analysis
11 14 (8.70%) System Integration Testing
11 14 (8.70%) Test Strategy
12 13 (8.07%) End-to-End Testing
13 12 (7.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 12 (7.45%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (13.04%) PowerShell
2 19 (11.80%) SQL
3 16 (9.94%) Python
4 8 (4.97%) Java
4 8 (4.97%) Shell Script
5 7 (4.35%) Search Processing Language
6 5 (3.11%) Bash
6 5 (3.11%) C#
7 3 (1.86%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.24%) C
8 2 (1.24%) C++
9 1 (0.62%) COBOL
9 1 (0.62%) Lisp
9 1 (0.62%) Perl
9 1 (0.62%) SAS Macro
9 1 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 42 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 30 (18.63%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.32%) Degree
4 12 (7.45%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.97%) ISTQB
6 5 (3.11%) CISSP
6 5 (3.11%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (3.11%) RHCE
7 4 (2.48%) CCNP
7 4 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.48%) HP APS
8 2 (1.24%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.24%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.62%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.32%) QA
1 15 (9.32%) SLA
2 7 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.11%) GRC
4 2 (1.24%) GDPR
5 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.62%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (10.56%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.97%) Firmware
4 7 (4.35%) Docker
4 7 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.11%) BitLocker
5 5 (3.11%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.11%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.86%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.86%) vSphere
7 2 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.24%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.62%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (19.88%) HP ALM
2 11 (6.83%) Nagios
3 10 (6.21%) Ansible
3 10 (6.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (5.59%) Tivoli
5 8 (4.97%) Netcool
5 8 (4.97%) OpenView
5 8 (4.97%) SCCM
5 8 (4.97%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 8 (4.97%) ZABBIX
6 6 (3.73%) vCenter Server
7 5 (3.11%) HP Quality Center
7 5 (3.11%) Kubernetes
7 5 (3.11%) vMotion
8 4 (2.48%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.86%) Puppet
10 2 (1.24%) Grafana
10 2 (1.24%) Packer
10 2 (1.24%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.62%) Avamar
Vendors
1 40 (24.84%) Microsoft
2 24 (14.91%) Dell
3 19 (11.80%) Oracle
4 17 (10.56%) Apple
5 16 (9.94%) VMware
6 13 (8.07%) IBM
7 12 (7.45%) Cisco
7 12 (7.45%) Splunk
8 8 (4.97%) BMC
8 8 (4.97%) SolarWinds
9 5 (3.11%) Red Hat
9 5 (3.11%) Zscaler
10 4 (2.48%) F5
10 4 (2.48%) Informatica
10 4 (2.48%) NetApp
10 4 (2.48%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.48%) Veeam
10 4 (2.48%) Veritas
11 3 (1.86%) Citrix
11 3 (1.86%) EMC