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 16 May 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
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 278 320
Rank change year-on-year -104 +42 +25
Contract jobs citing HP 271 263 272
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.90% 0.64%
As % of the Vendors category 1.37% 1.90% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 136 220
10th Percentile £150 £150 £150
25th Percentile £194 £180 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £405 £350
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +15.71% -20.45%
75th Percentile £448 £578 £578
90th Percentile £511 £625 £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £275 £336 £375
% change year-on-year -18.22% -10.33% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 36 10
10th Percentile £16.09 - -
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £18.13
Median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £19.07
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -1.02% +1.19%
75th Percentile £21.12 £24.18 £23.80
90th Percentile £25.77 £24.66 £24.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £18.87 £20.94
% change year-on-year - -9.89% +14.83%

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 19,801 13,877 18,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.23% 47.63% 42.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,535 8,680 11,199
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £601 £619 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,003 562 1,089
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.37 £14.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +15.12% -47.88%
75th Percentile £58.96 £56.00 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.34 £73.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.04 £23.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year +26.24% +7.18% -44.26%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -104 242 £210 -50.59% 89
UK excluding London -80 198 £275 -18.22% 80
London -75 53 £210 -60.00% 15
Midlands -51 47 £210 -4.55% 20
South East -73 45 £293 -44.29% 31
East of England -2 38 £200 -61.90% 8
Work from Home -40 32 £375 -21.05% 45
North of England -70 29 £275 -31.25% 9
West Midlands -61 26 £288 +55.41% 1
South West -53 25 £310 +25.99% 12
East Midlands -10 21 £200 -44.13% 19
North West -30 18 £151 -64.59% 7
Yorkshire -58 11 £414 +9.60% 2
Scotland -10 9 £450 +139.36% 3
Northern Ireland +6 5 £475 - 2
Wales -11 3 £290 - 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 (3.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.58%) Confluence
3 4 (1.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.74%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (6.27%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.48%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.21%) BASE24
2 5 (1.85%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.37%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.37%) PORTIA
5 1 (0.37%) SAP FI-AR
5 1 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.37%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 41 (15.13%) Azure
2 23 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (4.43%) AWS
5 5 (1.85%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.48%) Datadog
7 3 (1.11%) GCP
7 3 (1.11%) GitHub
7 3 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.11%) IaaS
7 3 (1.11%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.74%) OCI
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.37%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.37%) PaaS
9 1 (0.37%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.37%) SaaS
9 1 (0.37%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (0.37%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.90%) SNMP
2 11 (4.06%) SAN
3 10 (3.69%) DNS
4 9 (3.32%) DHCP
4 9 (3.32%) Firewall
4 9 (3.32%) Wireless
5 6 (2.21%) VPN
5 6 (2.21%) WAN
5 6 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.85%) iSCSI
6 5 (1.85%) LAN
6 5 (1.85%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.85%) VLAN
7 4 (1.48%) OSPF
7 4 (1.48%) Skype
7 4 (1.48%) VSAN
8 3 (1.11%) BGP
8 3 (1.11%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.74%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.74%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.21%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (1.48%) OLTP
3 2 (0.74%) Big Data
3 2 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.74%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.37%) Base SAS
4 1 (0.37%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.37%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (0.37%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 33 (12.18%) JIRA
2 9 (3.32%) Selenium
3 6 (2.21%) TestRail
3 6 (2.21%) Zephyr
4 4 (1.48%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.48%) JMeter
5 3 (1.11%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.11%) Postman
5 3 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.74%) MSTest
6 2 (0.74%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.37%) Appium
7 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.37%) NUnit
7 1 (0.37%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.37%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 80 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 57 (21.03%) Organisational Skills
3 36 (13.28%) Finance
4 30 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.12%) Banking
6 17 (6.27%) Legal
7 9 (3.32%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.21%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.48%) Automotive
9 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.37%) Billing
11 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Law
11 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (24.35%) Break Fix Engineer
2 57 (21.03%) Hardware Engineer
3 46 (16.97%) Field Engineer
4 39 (14.39%) Field Hardware Engineer
5 28 (10.33%) Computer Engineer
6 27 (9.96%) Hardware Technician
7 21 (7.75%) IT Support
8 18 (6.64%) Analyst
8 18 (6.64%) Junior
8 18 (6.64%) Support Engineer
9 14 (5.17%) Field Service Technician
9 14 (5.17%) Printer Engineer
10 13 (4.80%) Consultant
10 13 (4.80%) IT Engineer
10 13 (4.80%) Management Consultant
10 13 (4.80%) Test Manager
11 11 (4.06%) Desktop Support
12 9 (3.32%) Developer
12 9 (3.32%) Technical Support
13 7 (2.58%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.12%) REST
2 3 (1.11%) ADO
3 2 (0.74%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.74%) Middleware
3 2 (0.74%) OpenGL
3 2 (0.74%) Playwright
3 2 (0.74%) Qt
3 2 (0.74%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.37%) OAuth
4 1 (0.37%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.18%) Driving Licence
2 21 (7.75%) Virtual Team
3 20 (7.38%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.06%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.21%) EMC VMAX
6 6 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.21%) Tandem
7 5 (1.85%) EMV
7 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (1.85%) iPhone
7 5 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.11%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.74%) Clustering
9 2 (0.74%) CUDA
9 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 83 (30.63%) Windows
2 35 (12.92%) Linux
3 22 (8.12%) Windows 10
4 19 (7.01%) AIX
5 13 (4.80%) Android
6 11 (4.06%) Windows Server
7 10 (3.69%) Mac OS
7 10 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.58%) Unix
9 4 (1.48%) HPUX
9 4 (1.48%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (1.48%) Solaris
9 4 (1.48%) SUSE
9 4 (1.48%) Windows 7
9 4 (1.48%) Windows 8
10 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.37%) VMS
12 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (34.69%) Customer Service
2 56 (20.66%) Time Management
3 49 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (14.76%) Break/Fix
5 39 (14.39%) Service Management
6 30 (11.07%) Agile
7 29 (10.70%) Test Management
8 28 (10.33%) DevOps
8 28 (10.33%) User Acceptance Testing
9 25 (9.23%) Asset Management
9 25 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (9.23%) Test Automation
10 24 (8.86%) Migration
11 21 (7.75%) Defect Management
12 19 (7.01%) Test Strategy
13 16 (5.90%) End-to-End Testing
13 16 (5.90%) System Integration Testing
13 16 (5.90%) Waterfall
14 15 (5.54%) Integration Testing
14 15 (5.54%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 32 (11.81%) SQL
2 24 (8.86%) Python
3 23 (8.49%) PowerShell
4 13 (4.80%) Search Processing Language
5 7 (2.58%) C
6 5 (1.85%) COBOL
6 5 (1.85%) Java
6 5 (1.85%) VB
7 4 (1.48%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.48%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.11%) C#
8 3 (1.11%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.74%) Bash
10 1 (0.37%) C++
10 1 (0.37%) Lisp
10 1 (0.37%) Perl
10 1 (0.37%) SAS Macro
10 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (23.62%) Security Cleared
2 56 (20.66%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.90%) Degree
4 14 (5.17%) ISTQB
5 11 (4.06%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.85%) CCNP
6 5 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.48%) CISSP
7 4 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.48%) RHCE
8 3 (1.11%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.74%) CCIE
9 2 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.18%) SLA
2 24 (8.86%) QA
3 6 (2.21%) ISO 8583
4 5 (1.85%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.48%) GRC
5 4 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.37%) GAMP
6 1 (0.37%) GDPR
6 1 (0.37%) GxP
6 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (8.12%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.95%) vSphere
4 7 (2.58%) Firmware
5 3 (1.11%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.11%) SRDF
5 3 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.74%) Docker
6 2 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.37%) GPFS
7 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 37 (13.65%) HP ALM
2 20 (7.38%) SCCM
3 15 (5.54%) Nagios
3 15 (5.54%) Netcool
3 15 (5.54%) OpenView
3 15 (5.54%) Tivoli
3 15 (5.54%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 15 (5.54%) ZABBIX
4 12 (4.43%) ServiceCenter
5 9 (3.32%) Ansible
6 7 (2.58%) HP Quality Center
7 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.48%) vRealize
9 3 (1.11%) Backup Exec
9 3 (1.11%) Terraform
9 3 (1.11%) VxRail
10 2 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.74%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.74%) Puppet
10 2 (0.74%) vMotion
Vendors
1 73 (26.94%) Dell
2 49 (18.08%) Microsoft
3 29 (10.70%) Apple
3 29 (10.70%) IBM
4 25 (9.23%) Cisco
5 20 (7.38%) SolarWinds
6 16 (5.90%) Canon
6 16 (5.90%) Splunk
6 16 (5.90%) VMware
7 15 (5.54%) BMC
8 13 (4.80%) ServiceNow
9 12 (4.43%) Oracle
10 10 (3.69%) SAP
11 7 (2.58%) Aruba
11 7 (2.58%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.85%) Infor
12 5 (1.85%) McAfee
12 5 (1.85%) Remedy
13 4 (1.48%) Commvault
13 4 (1.48%) Computacenter