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 4 August 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
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 305 341
Rank change year-on-year -179 +36 -12
Contract jobs citing HP 188 258 241
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.78% 0.61%
As % of the Vendors category 0.86% 1.66% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 130 177
10th Percentile £150 £150 £138
25th Percentile £198 £239 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £423 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.44% -6.00% +2.86%
75th Percentile £516 £573 £575
90th Percentile £638 £621 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £335 £375 £485
% change year-on-year -10.67% -22.68% +21.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 50 16
10th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £16.42
25th Percentile £18.33 £18.87 £18.10
Median hourly rate £19.38 £21.01 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +15.89% -1.06%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £23.80
90th Percentile £25.77 - £24.18
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 21,875 15,518 17,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.39% 47.16% 43.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,551 9,508 10,703
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £605 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.38% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,112 786 855
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.48 £13.57
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.13 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -10.18% -33.85%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.32 £27.25
% change year-on-year +52.32% -18.11% -23.24%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -164 163 £370 -17.78% 118
UK excluding London -138 124 £335 -10.67% 105
London -89 43 £500 - 22
Work from Home -65 35 £500 +5.26% 50
North of England -64 29 £425 - 11
South East -79 29 £210 -58.00% 39
South West -48 27 £313 +83.04% 12
North West -52 16 £450 - 6
Midlands -72 16 £318 +71.62% 19
East of England -12 12 £150 -71.43% 17
West Midlands -67 12 £250 +66.67% 5
Scotland -15 9 £450 +164.71% 4
Yorkshire -47 9 £458 +17.31% 3
North East -40 4 £200 - 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £525 -
East Midlands -20 2 £500 +39.66% 14

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 (4.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.66%) SAS
4 4 (2.13%) Confluence
5 3 (1.60%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (9.04%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.13%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) BASE24
2 1 (0.53%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.53%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (0.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.53%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (20.21%) Azure
2 16 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (7.45%) AWS
3 14 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (5.32%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.72%) OneDrive
6 6 (3.19%) GCP
6 6 (3.19%) IaaS
7 4 (2.13%) GitHub
7 4 (2.13%) PaaS
7 4 (2.13%) SaaS
8 3 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.60%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.06%) OCI
9 2 (1.06%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.53%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.53%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.53%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.57%) Firewall
2 17 (9.04%) DNS
3 16 (8.51%) DHCP
3 16 (8.51%) SNMP
4 12 (6.38%) WAN
4 12 (6.38%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (5.85%) LAN
5 11 (5.85%) SAN
5 11 (5.85%) VPN
6 9 (4.79%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.19%) OSPF
7 6 (3.19%) VLAN
8 5 (2.66%) BGP
8 5 (2.66%) iSCSI
8 5 (2.66%) Network Security
8 5 (2.66%) Skype
8 5 (2.66%) Wireless
9 4 (2.13%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (2.13%) MPLS
9 4 (2.13%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (2.66%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.13%) Big Data
2 4 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (2.13%) PowerCenter
2 4 (2.13%) Star Schema
3 3 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.06%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.53%) Base SAS
5 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.53%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 1 (0.53%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 31 (16.49%) JIRA
2 10 (5.32%) Selenium
3 5 (2.66%) REST Assured
3 5 (2.66%) Zephyr
4 3 (1.60%) Bugzilla
4 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.60%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.60%) Postman
4 3 (1.60%) TestRail
5 2 (1.06%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.06%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.53%) Appium
6 1 (0.53%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.53%) JMeter
6 1 (0.53%) MSTest
6 1 (0.53%) Ranorex
6 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
General
1 54 (28.72%) Social Skills
2 27 (14.36%) Finance
3 19 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.98%) Banking
5 12 (6.38%) Legal
6 5 (2.66%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.66%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.13%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.06%) Automotive
8 2 (1.06%) Billing
8 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.06%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.53%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.53%) Law
9 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (14.36%) Hardware Technician
2 14 (7.45%) Break Fix Engineer
2 14 (7.45%) Consultant
2 14 (7.45%) Field Engineer
2 14 (7.45%) Support Engineer
3 13 (6.91%) Field Service Technician
3 13 (6.91%) Hardware Engineer
3 13 (6.91%) Management Consultant
3 13 (6.91%) Network Engineer
3 13 (6.91%) Tester
4 12 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (5.32%) Analyst
5 10 (5.32%) Senior
6 9 (4.79%) IT Engineer
6 9 (4.79%) Test Manager
7 8 (4.26%) Field Hardware Engineer
7 8 (4.26%) IT Support
8 7 (3.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 7 (3.72%) Desktop Support
8 7 (3.72%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.17%) REST
2 5 (2.66%) Middleware
3 3 (1.60%) Node.js
3 3 (1.60%) Playwright
3 3 (1.60%) WireMock
4 2 (1.06%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.06%) OpenGL
4 2 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.06%) Qt
4 2 (1.06%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.53%) .NET
5 1 (0.53%) JSON
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.53%) OAuth
5 1 (0.53%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.53%) SOAP
5 1 (0.53%) Web Services
5 1 (0.53%) XML
5 1 (0.53%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.23%) Data Centre
2 20 (10.64%) Driving Licence
3 14 (7.45%) Virtual Team
4 8 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.19%) EMC VMAX
5 6 (3.19%) Enterprise Storage
5 6 (3.19%) PKI
6 5 (2.66%) iPhone
6 5 (2.66%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.13%) Clustering
8 3 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.06%) BYOD
9 2 (1.06%) CUDA
9 2 (1.06%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.06%) Tandem
9 2 (1.06%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 74 (39.36%) Windows
2 39 (20.74%) Linux
3 23 (12.23%) AIX
4 21 (11.17%) Windows Server
5 17 (9.04%) Windows 10
6 12 (6.38%) Android
6 12 (6.38%) Unix
7 10 (5.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (4.26%) HPUX
8 8 (4.26%) Solaris
9 6 (3.19%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (3.19%) SUSE
10 3 (1.60%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.60%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.53%) VMS
12 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (21.28%) Customer Service
2 35 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (16.49%) Migration
4 29 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (13.30%) DevOps
5 25 (13.30%) Test Automation
6 24 (12.77%) ITIL
7 23 (12.23%) User Acceptance Testing
8 21 (11.17%) Test Management
9 20 (10.64%) Break/Fix
10 19 (10.11%) Asset Management
10 19 (10.11%) Defect Management
10 19 (10.11%) System Integration Testing
11 18 (9.57%) Agile
12 17 (9.04%) Root Cause Analysis
13 15 (7.98%) Test Strategy
14 14 (7.45%) Change Management
14 14 (7.45%) Dashboard Development
15 13 (6.91%) Regression Testing
15 13 (6.91%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (15.96%) PowerShell
2 26 (13.83%) Python
3 25 (13.30%) SQL
4 13 (6.91%) Search Processing Language
5 8 (4.26%) Shell Script
6 5 (2.66%) Bash
7 3 (1.60%) Java
7 3 (1.60%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.06%) C
8 2 (1.06%) C++
8 2 (1.06%) VB
9 1 (0.53%) C#
9 1 (0.53%) COBOL
9 1 (0.53%) Lisp
9 1 (0.53%) Perl
9 1 (0.53%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 56 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 43 (22.87%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.04%) Degree
4 12 (6.38%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.26%) ISTQB
6 7 (3.72%) CCNP
6 7 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.66%) CISSP
7 5 (2.66%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (2.66%) RHCE
8 4 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.06%) CCIE
10 2 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.70%) SLA
2 18 (9.57%) QA
3 8 (4.26%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.66%) GRC
5 3 (1.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.53%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.53%) GAMP
6 1 (0.53%) GxP
6 1 (0.53%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.53%) NCSC
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (12.77%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (3.72%) Firmware
4 7 (3.72%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.19%) BitLocker
5 6 (3.19%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (2.66%) Docker
6 5 (2.66%) vSphere
7 4 (2.13%) Terminal Services
8 3 (1.60%) SRDF
8 3 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.06%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.53%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 32 (17.02%) HP ALM
2 18 (9.57%) Nagios
3 16 (8.51%) Tivoli
4 15 (7.98%) Netcool
4 15 (7.98%) OpenView
4 15 (7.98%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 15 (7.98%) ZABBIX
5 14 (7.45%) SCCM
6 13 (6.91%) Ansible
7 9 (4.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (3.72%) vCenter Server
9 6 (3.19%) vMotion
10 5 (2.66%) HP Quality Center
10 5 (2.66%) Puppet
11 4 (2.13%) ServiceCenter
12 3 (1.60%) Backup Exec
12 3 (1.60%) Kubernetes
12 3 (1.60%) NetBackup
12 3 (1.60%) Terraform
13 2 (1.06%) Packer
Vendors
1 43 (22.87%) Dell
2 42 (22.34%) Microsoft
3 23 (12.23%) Cisco
3 23 (12.23%) VMware
4 22 (11.70%) IBM
5 18 (9.57%) Apple
5 18 (9.57%) Oracle
6 16 (8.51%) SolarWinds
7 15 (7.98%) BMC
7 15 (7.98%) Splunk
8 7 (3.72%) Aruba
8 7 (3.72%) Canon
9 6 (3.19%) Broadcom
9 6 (3.19%) Red Hat
9 6 (3.19%) Zscaler
10 5 (2.66%) Fortinet
10 5 (2.66%) McAfee
11 4 (2.13%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.13%) Symantec
11 4 (2.13%) Veeam