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 27 June 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
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 293 350
Rank change year-on-year -158 +57 -9
Contract jobs citing HP 211 259 249
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.85% 0.57%
As % of the Vendors category 1.01% 1.80% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 185
10th Percentile £150 £150 £143
25th Percentile £199 £187 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £308 £400 £405
% change year-on-year -23.13% -1.23% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 40 14
10th Percentile £16.12 £18.51 £15.94
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.78 £18.03
Median hourly rate £19.85 £18.87 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% +4.08% -4.23%
75th Percentile £25.00 £25.11 £23.80
90th Percentile £25.77 £25.15 £24.07
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £18.07
% change year-on-year +2.44% +4.46% -0.93%

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 20,842 14,394 18,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.88% 47.47% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,028 8,832 11,508
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year - -3.29% -1.52%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.28% -4.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,074 674 1,153
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.30 £14.72
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.40 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +33.82% +5.05% -42.64%
75th Percentile £61.88 £53.75 £59.95
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year +41.30% -1.53% -37.71%

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 27 June 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 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 27 June 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 -170 182 £315 -33.68% 76
UK excluding London -135 147 £308 -23.13% 75
London -95 44 £425 -15.00% 7
Work from Home -81 32 £405 -19.00% 27
South East -70 30 £210 -60.97% 26
North of England -78 28 £415 -7.78% 22
South West -46 25 £313 +101.94% 8
East of England -10 24 £175 -68.89% 6
Midlands -75 24 £225 -2.81% 10
North West -48 17 £338 -25.00% 17
West Midlands -76 14 £300 +36.36% 3
Scotland -11 11 £450 +141.29% 3
Yorkshire -46 10 £458 +17.31% 4
East Midlands -15 8 £200 -46.66% 7
Northern Ireland - 5 £475 - 1
Wales -19 1 £280 -6.67% 1
North East -40 1 £200 - 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 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.84%) Confluence
3 3 (1.42%) IIS
3 3 (1.42%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (8.06%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.90%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) BASE24
2 2 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.47%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.47%) SAP FI-AR
3 1 (0.47%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.47%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 40 (18.96%) Azure
2 24 (11.37%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (5.69%) AWS
5 6 (2.84%) Entra ID
5 6 (2.84%) GCP
5 6 (2.84%) IaaS
6 4 (1.90%) GitHub
6 4 (1.90%) PaaS
7 3 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.42%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.42%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.95%) OCI
8 2 (0.95%) Rubrik
8 2 (0.95%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.47%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.58%) SNMP
2 14 (6.64%) DNS
2 14 (6.64%) Firewall
3 13 (6.16%) DHCP
4 12 (5.69%) SAN
5 11 (5.21%) VPN
6 9 (4.27%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (3.79%) WAN
8 7 (3.32%) LAN
8 7 (3.32%) VLAN
9 6 (2.84%) OSPF
9 6 (2.84%) TCP/IP
10 5 (2.37%) BGP
10 5 (2.37%) iSCSI
10 5 (2.37%) Skype
10 5 (2.37%) Wireless
11 4 (1.90%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (1.90%) MPLS
11 4 (1.90%) SMTP
11 4 (1.90%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (1.90%) Big Data
1 4 (1.90%) NonStop SQL
2 3 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.47%) Base SAS
4 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.47%) OLTP
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.47%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (0.47%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (15.64%) JIRA
2 9 (4.27%) Selenium
3 6 (2.84%) Zephyr
4 5 (2.37%) TestRail
5 4 (1.90%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.90%) JMeter
5 4 (1.90%) Postman
6 3 (1.42%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.42%) MSTest
7 2 (0.95%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.95%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.95%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.47%) Appium
8 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.47%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.47%) Ranorex
8 1 (0.47%) SoapUI
General
1 70 (33.18%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.69%) Finance
3 27 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.53%) Banking
5 17 (8.06%) Legal
6 15 (7.11%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (4.27%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.37%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.90%) Automotive
10 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.95%) Billing
11 2 (0.95%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.47%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 27 (12.80%) Hardware Technician
2 25 (11.85%) Hardware Engineer
3 20 (9.48%) Break Fix Engineer
3 20 (9.48%) Field Engineer
4 15 (7.11%) Field Hardware Engineer
4 15 (7.11%) IT Support
4 15 (7.11%) Support Engineer
5 14 (6.64%) Analyst
5 14 (6.64%) Consultant
6 13 (6.16%) Computer Engineer
6 13 (6.16%) Field Service Technician
6 13 (6.16%) Management Consultant
7 12 (5.69%) Test Manager
8 11 (5.21%) Desktop Support
8 11 (5.21%) Printer Engineer
9 10 (4.74%) IT Engineer
10 9 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (4.27%) Network Engineer
11 7 (3.32%) Data Centre Engineer
11 7 (3.32%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.95%) REST
2 4 (1.90%) Middleware
3 3 (1.42%) ADO
3 3 (1.42%) Playwright
4 2 (0.95%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.95%) OpenGL
4 2 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.95%) Qt
4 2 (0.95%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.47%) .NET
5 1 (0.47%) JSON
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.47%) OAuth
5 1 (0.47%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.47%) SOAP
5 1 (0.47%) Web Services
5 1 (0.47%) XML
5 1 (0.47%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.85%) Data Centre
2 24 (11.37%) Driving Licence
3 19 (9.00%) Virtual Team
4 8 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.32%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.84%) EMC VMAX
6 6 (2.84%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.84%) PKI
7 5 (2.37%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (2.37%) iPhone
8 4 (1.90%) Clustering
8 4 (1.90%) Tandem
9 3 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.42%) EMV
10 2 (0.95%) CUDA
10 2 (0.95%) Fat Client
10 2 (0.95%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.95%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.95%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 81 (38.39%) Windows
2 33 (15.64%) Linux
3 20 (9.48%) AIX
4 19 (9.00%) Windows 10
5 17 (8.06%) Windows Server
6 11 (5.21%) Android
7 10 (4.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (3.32%) Unix
9 5 (2.37%) HPUX
9 5 (2.37%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (2.37%) Solaris
9 5 (2.37%) SUSE
10 3 (1.42%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.42%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.42%) Windows 7
10 3 (1.42%) Windows 8
10 3 (1.42%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (27.49%) Customer Service
2 44 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (15.64%) DevOps
4 31 (14.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (13.74%) User Acceptance Testing
6 27 (12.80%) Test Management
7 26 (12.32%) Agile
7 26 (12.32%) Migration
8 24 (11.37%) Test Automation
9 22 (10.43%) Break/Fix
9 22 (10.43%) ITIL
10 21 (9.95%) Defect Management
11 20 (9.48%) Asset Management
12 19 (9.00%) Service Management
13 18 (8.53%) Test Strategy
13 18 (8.53%) Waterfall
14 17 (8.06%) System Integration Testing
15 15 (7.11%) Integration Testing
15 15 (7.11%) Regression Testing
15 15 (7.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (13.27%) PowerShell
2 26 (12.32%) SQL
3 23 (10.90%) Python
4 13 (6.16%) Search Processing Language
5 7 (3.32%) Java
6 5 (2.37%) C
6 5 (2.37%) VB
7 3 (1.42%) C#
7 3 (1.42%) COBOL
7 3 (1.42%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.42%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.95%) Bash
8 2 (0.95%) C++
8 2 (0.95%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.47%) Lisp
9 1 (0.47%) Perl
9 1 (0.47%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 58 (27.49%) Security Cleared
2 47 (22.27%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.48%) Degree
4 15 (7.11%) ISTQB
5 12 (5.69%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.32%) CCNP
6 7 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.37%) CISSP
7 5 (2.37%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (2.37%) RHCE
8 4 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.42%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (13.27%) SLA
2 24 (11.37%) QA
3 5 (2.37%) GRC
4 4 (1.90%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.42%) GDPR
5 3 (1.42%) ISO 8583
5 3 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.47%) GAMP
6 1 (0.47%) GxP
6 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (12.32%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.27%) Firmware
4 7 (3.32%) BitLocker
4 7 (3.32%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.32%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.84%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (2.37%) Docker
6 5 (2.37%) vSphere
7 4 (1.90%) Terminal Services
8 3 (1.42%) SRDF
8 3 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.95%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.47%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 36 (17.06%) HP ALM
2 19 (9.00%) SCCM
3 18 (8.53%) Nagios
4 16 (7.58%) Tivoli
5 15 (7.11%) Netcool
5 15 (7.11%) OpenView
5 15 (7.11%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 15 (7.11%) ZABBIX
6 11 (5.21%) Ansible
7 9 (4.27%) HP Quality Center
7 9 (4.27%) ServiceCenter
8 6 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (2.84%) vCenter Server
9 5 (2.37%) Puppet
9 5 (2.37%) vMotion
10 3 (1.42%) Backup Exec
10 3 (1.42%) Kubernetes
10 3 (1.42%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.42%) Terraform
11 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 54 (25.59%) Dell
2 50 (23.70%) Microsoft
3 25 (11.85%) IBM
4 22 (10.43%) Apple
5 19 (9.00%) Cisco
5 19 (9.00%) VMware
6 16 (7.58%) SolarWinds
7 15 (7.11%) BMC
7 15 (7.11%) Splunk
8 14 (6.64%) Oracle
9 12 (5.69%) Canon
10 7 (3.32%) Aruba
10 7 (3.32%) Red Hat
10 7 (3.32%) SAP
11 6 (2.84%) Fortinet
11 6 (2.84%) McAfee
11 6 (2.84%) ServiceNow
12 5 (2.37%) Infor
12 5 (2.37%) Veeam
13 4 (1.90%) 3PAR