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 10 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
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 291 343
Rank change year-on-year -140 +52 +5
Contract jobs citing HP 221 257 259
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.87% 0.59%
As % of the Vendors category 1.10% 1.84% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 132 203
10th Percentile £150 £150 £144
25th Percentile £199 £182 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £417 £350
Median % change year-on-year -24.90% +19.07% -17.65%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £588
90th Percentile £618 £648 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £290 £363 £375
% change year-on-year -20.00% -3.33% -9.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 38 11
10th Percentile £16.09 - £18.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 -
Median hourly rate £19.35 £18.87 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +4.08% -5.65%
75th Percentile £24.28 £23.75 £23.80
90th Percentile £25.77 £25.12 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £18.13
% change year-on-year +2.44% +4.08% -3.31%

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 20,080 13,989 18,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.58% 47.63% 42.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,626 8,611 11,465
10th Percentile £313 £280 £269
25th Percentile £413 £404 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -2.72% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +4.06% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,022 624 1,139
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.34 £14.49
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +8.51% -45.35%
75th Percentile £59.56 £55.00 £58.49
90th Percentile £78.54 £69.90 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.94 £22.00
% change year-on-year +30.79% +4.26% -45.00%

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 10 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 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 10 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 -140 194 £290 -35.56% 61
UK excluding London -107 161 £290 -20.00% 57
London -91 41 £325 -36.59% 9
South East -80 32 £210 -60.00% 28
Midlands -69 31 £200 -13.61% 8
North of England -81 30 £445 +7.88% 9
East of England -4 29 £200 -61.90% 2
Work from Home -64 29 £375 -25.00% 27
South West -34 26 £310 +85.22% 5
North West -34 19 £338 -20.59% 6
East Midlands -19 17 £200 -46.60% 6
West Midlands -66 14 £356 +61.93% 2
Yorkshire -59 11 £458 +21.19% 3
Scotland -19 10 £425 +127.88% 4
Northern Ireland - 5 £475 - 1
Wales -17 1 £280 -6.67% 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 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.81%) Confluence
2 4 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.36%) IIS
4 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (6.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.71%) BASE24
2 3 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.45%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.45%) SAP FI-AR
3 1 (0.45%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.45%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (14.93%) Azure
2 20 (9.05%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.52%) AWS
5 5 (2.26%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.26%) GCP
5 5 (2.26%) IaaS
6 3 (1.36%) GitHub
6 3 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.36%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.36%) PaaS
7 2 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.90%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.90%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.45%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.45%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.45%) SaaS
8 1 (0.45%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.24%) SNMP
2 13 (5.88%) DNS
2 13 (5.88%) Firewall
3 12 (5.43%) DHCP
3 12 (5.43%) SAN
4 10 (4.52%) VPN
5 8 (3.62%) WAN
6 7 (3.17%) LAN
6 7 (3.17%) VLAN
6 7 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (2.71%) OSPF
7 6 (2.71%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.26%) BGP
8 5 (2.26%) iSCSI
8 5 (2.26%) Skype
8 5 (2.26%) Wireless
9 4 (1.81%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (1.81%) MPLS
9 4 (1.81%) Wireshark
10 3 (1.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.71%) NonStop SQL
2 3 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.36%) Big Data
3 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.90%) OLTP
3 2 (0.90%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.45%) Base SAS
4 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.45%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (0.45%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (12.22%) JIRA
2 7 (3.17%) Selenium
3 6 (2.71%) Zephyr
4 4 (1.81%) JMeter
4 4 (1.81%) TestRail
5 3 (1.36%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.36%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.36%) Postman
6 2 (0.90%) MSTest
6 2 (0.90%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.45%) Appium
7 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.45%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.45%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.45%) TestDirector
General
1 67 (30.32%) Social Skills
2 31 (14.03%) Finance
3 30 (13.57%) Organisational Skills
4 27 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.60%) Legal
6 16 (7.24%) Banking
7 9 (4.07%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.26%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.81%) Automotive
10 3 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.45%) Billing
11 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Law
11 1 (0.45%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (18.55%) Hardware Engineer
2 33 (14.93%) Break Fix Engineer
3 29 (13.12%) Field Engineer
4 27 (12.22%) Hardware Technician
5 24 (10.86%) Field Hardware Engineer
6 22 (9.95%) Computer Engineer
7 17 (7.69%) IT Support
8 14 (6.33%) Consultant
8 14 (6.33%) Field Service Technician
8 14 (6.33%) Printer Engineer
8 14 (6.33%) Support Engineer
9 13 (5.88%) Management Consultant
10 12 (5.43%) Test Manager
11 11 (4.98%) Analyst
12 10 (4.52%) IT Engineer
13 9 (4.07%) Desktop Support
13 9 (4.07%) Network Engineer
14 8 (3.62%) Developer
14 8 (3.62%) Technical Support
15 7 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.95%) REST
2 3 (1.36%) ADO
3 2 (0.90%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.90%) Middleware
3 2 (0.90%) OpenGL
3 2 (0.90%) Playwright
3 2 (0.90%) Qt
3 2 (0.90%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.45%) OAuth
4 1 (0.45%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.57%) Driving Licence
2 22 (9.95%) Data Centre
3 21 (9.50%) Virtual Team
4 7 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.71%) EMC VMAX
5 6 (2.71%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.71%) Tandem
6 5 (2.26%) Enterprise Storage
6 5 (2.26%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.26%) PKI
7 4 (1.81%) EMV
7 4 (1.81%) iPhone
8 3 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.36%) Clustering
9 2 (0.90%) CUDA
9 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.90%) HP Storage
9 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 79 (35.75%) Windows
2 32 (14.48%) Linux
3 19 (8.60%) AIX
4 17 (7.69%) Windows 10
5 14 (6.33%) Windows Server
6 9 (4.07%) Android
6 9 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (2.71%) Unix
8 4 (1.81%) HPUX
8 4 (1.81%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (1.81%) Solaris
8 4 (1.81%) SUSE
8 4 (1.81%) Windows 7
8 4 (1.81%) Windows 8
9 3 (1.36%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.36%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (32.58%) Customer Service
2 45 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (13.12%) Time Management
4 28 (12.67%) Service Management
5 27 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (12.22%) DevOps
6 25 (11.31%) Migration
7 24 (10.86%) Test Management
7 24 (10.86%) User Acceptance Testing
8 23 (10.41%) Agile
8 23 (10.41%) Asset Management
9 22 (9.95%) Test Automation
10 21 (9.50%) Break/Fix
11 18 (8.14%) Defect Management
12 17 (7.69%) ITIL
13 16 (7.24%) Test Strategy
14 15 (6.79%) Waterfall
15 14 (6.33%) Dashboard Development
16 13 (5.88%) End-to-End Testing
16 13 (5.88%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (12.67%) SQL
2 25 (11.31%) PowerShell
3 23 (10.41%) Python
4 13 (5.88%) Search Processing Language
5 7 (3.17%) C
5 7 (3.17%) Java
6 5 (2.26%) VB
7 4 (1.81%) COBOL
8 3 (1.36%) C++
8 3 (1.36%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.36%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.90%) Bash
9 2 (0.90%) C#
9 2 (0.90%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.45%) Lisp
10 1 (0.45%) Perl
10 1 (0.45%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 60 (27.15%) Security Cleared
2 51 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.14%) Degree
4 13 (5.88%) ISTQB
5 11 (4.98%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.17%) CCNP
6 7 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.81%) CISSP
7 4 (1.81%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.81%) RHCE
8 3 (1.36%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.90%) CCIE
9 2 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (13.57%) SLA
2 21 (9.50%) QA
3 5 (2.26%) ISO 8583
4 4 (1.81%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.81%) GRC
5 3 (1.36%) GDPR
5 3 (1.36%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.45%) GAMP
6 1 (0.45%) GxP
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (10.41%) Active Directory
2 14 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.07%) Firmware
4 6 (2.71%) BitLocker
5 5 (2.26%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.26%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (2.26%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.26%) vSphere
6 4 (1.81%) Docker
7 3 (1.36%) SRDF
7 3 (1.36%) Terminal Services
7 3 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.90%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.45%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 30 (13.57%) HP ALM
2 19 (8.60%) SCCM
3 17 (7.69%) Nagios
4 16 (7.24%) Tivoli
5 15 (6.79%) Netcool
5 15 (6.79%) OpenView
5 15 (6.79%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 15 (6.79%) ZABBIX
6 10 (4.52%) Ansible
6 10 (4.52%) ServiceCenter
7 7 (3.17%) HP Quality Center
8 5 (2.26%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.81%) Puppet
9 4 (1.81%) vMotion
10 3 (1.36%) Backup Exec
10 3 (1.36%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.36%) Terraform
11 2 (0.90%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 59 (26.70%) Dell
2 48 (21.72%) Microsoft
3 25 (11.31%) IBM
4 21 (9.50%) Apple
5 19 (8.60%) Cisco
6 16 (7.24%) SolarWinds
6 16 (7.24%) Splunk
6 16 (7.24%) VMware
7 15 (6.79%) BMC
7 15 (6.79%) Canon
8 10 (4.52%) Oracle
9 8 (3.62%) SAP
10 7 (3.17%) Aruba
10 7 (3.17%) ServiceNow
11 6 (2.71%) Fortinet
11 6 (2.71%) McAfee
11 6 (2.71%) Red Hat
12 5 (2.26%) Infor
13 4 (1.81%) 3PAR
13 4 (1.81%) Broadcom