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 December 2025, 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 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 344 268
Rank change year-on-year +26 -76 +75
Contract jobs citing HP 279 206 409
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.77% 0.58% 0.90%
As % of the Vendors category 1.62% 1.27% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 122 305
10th Percentile £154 £163 £148
25th Percentile £170 £253 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -31.76% +6.25% -6.10%
75th Percentile £465 £538 £514
90th Percentile £556 £600 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £290 £400 £313
% change year-on-year -27.50% +28.00% -25.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 20 14
10th Percentile £17.86 £19.44 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.55 £20.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £23.88
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +1.28% -0.15%
75th Percentile - - £25.76
90th Percentile £25.99 £24.64 £30.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £24.00
% change year-on-year -21.96% +0.75% +41.18%

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 17,187 16,208 20,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.37% 45.39% 45.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,917 9,626 13,106
10th Percentile £290 £290 £255
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 864 500 679
10th Percentile £15.23 £15.46 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.09 £18.69 £19.88
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.39 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% -33.97% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.35 £62.51 £64.70
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% -39.04% +97.78%

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 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the UK

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 10 December 2025. 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 +29 251 £285 -35.23% 136
UK excluding London +10 175 £290 -27.50% 154
London +22 91 £338 -21.91% 32
Midlands -2 47 £210 -23.64% 30
South East -21 42 £375 -21.05% 41
North of England -28 31 £235 -57.27% 14
West Midlands -9 28 £305 +1.50% 15
Work from Home -17 27 £450 -10.89% 70
East Midlands -4 19 £158 -10.00% 15
East of England -2 17 £198 -11.73% 15
South West -5 16 £400 +17.65% 14
Yorkshire -32 14 £290 -47.27% 5
Wales +12 12 £290 +81.25% 10
North West -12 12 £200 -62.79% 8
Scotland -6 9 £300 -20.00% 31
North East -2 5 £175 -68.18% 1
Northern Ireland -6 1 £500 - 2

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 32 (11.47%) Confluence
2 17 (6.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.43%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 67 (24.01%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.87%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (6.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.79%) assyst
3 4 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.08%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.72%) PORTIA
5 2 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.36%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.36%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 79 (28.32%) Microsoft 365
2 54 (19.35%) Azure
3 22 (7.89%) AWS
4 12 (4.30%) Datadog
4 12 (4.30%) GCP
5 9 (3.23%) OCI
6 8 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.87%) SaaS
7 7 (2.51%) IaaS
7 7 (2.51%) PaaS
8 3 (1.08%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.72%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.36%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.36%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.36%) Veeva
10 1 (0.36%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 50 (17.92%) Wireless
2 22 (7.89%) Wi-Fi
3 20 (7.17%) SAN
4 17 (6.09%) Firewall
5 13 (4.66%) SSL
6 10 (3.58%) VSAN
7 9 (3.23%) WAN
8 7 (2.51%) LAN
9 6 (2.15%) DNS
9 6 (2.15%) TCP/IP
9 6 (2.15%) VLAN
10 5 (1.79%) DHCP
11 2 (0.72%) VoIP
11 2 (0.72%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.36%) Fibre Channel
12 1 (0.36%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.36%) NAS
12 1 (0.36%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.15%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.72%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.36%) Big Data
4 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.36%) MySQL
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.36%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 53 (19.00%) JIRA
2 12 (4.30%) TestRail
3 6 (2.15%) Selenium
4 5 (1.79%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.36%) Gatling
5 1 (0.36%) Git
5 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.36%) JMeter
5 1 (0.36%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.36%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.36%) NUnit
5 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 81 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.92%) Finance
3 42 (15.05%) Banking
4 38 (13.62%) Public Sector
5 34 (12.19%) Organisational Skills
6 27 (9.68%) Telecoms
7 26 (9.32%) Marketing
8 25 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (8.60%) Manufacturing
10 23 (8.24%) Electronics
11 16 (5.73%) Retail
12 13 (4.66%) Legal
13 10 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.79%) Local Government
16 4 (1.43%) Retail Banking
17 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 2 (0.72%) Advertising
18 2 (0.72%) Billing
18 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 50 (17.92%) Break Fix Engineer
2 45 (16.13%) Analyst
3 36 (12.90%) IT Support
4 30 (10.75%) Desktop Support
5 28 (10.04%) Junior
6 27 (9.68%) Support Engineer
7 24 (8.60%) IT Engineer
8 23 (8.24%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 23 (8.24%) 2nd Line Support
8 23 (8.24%) Field Engineer
8 23 (8.24%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
9 21 (7.53%) Senior
10 20 (7.17%) Support Analyst
11 17 (6.09%) Hardware Engineer
12 15 (5.38%) Administrator
12 15 (5.38%) Field Hardware Engineer
13 14 (5.02%) Architect
14 13 (4.66%) IT Support Engineer
15 11 (3.94%) Infrastructure Analyst
15 11 (3.94%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.38%) REST
1 15 (5.38%) SOAP
2 14 (5.02%) LDAP
2 14 (5.02%) Web Services
3 13 (4.66%) AngularJS
3 13 (4.66%) Apache Camel
3 13 (4.66%) HTML
3 13 (4.66%) HTML5
3 13 (4.66%) JDBC
3 13 (4.66%) jQuery
3 13 (4.66%) JSON
3 13 (4.66%) ODBC
3 13 (4.66%) RabbitMQ
3 13 (4.66%) SAML
4 10 (3.58%) Middleware
5 4 (1.43%) XML
6 1 (0.36%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.36%) XML Messaging
6 1 (0.36%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 54 (19.35%) Data Centre
2 27 (9.68%) Driving Licence
3 18 (6.45%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.30%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (3.23%) Enterprise Storage
5 9 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.79%) HP Storage
7 4 (1.43%) Clustering
7 4 (1.43%) CMDB
7 4 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.43%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.08%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.72%) Chip and PIN
9 2 (0.72%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.72%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.72%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.72%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.72%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 77 (27.60%) Windows
2 55 (19.71%) Mac OS
3 54 (19.35%) Android
4 32 (11.47%) Linux
5 21 (7.53%) Windows 10
6 11 (3.94%) Windows Server
7 10 (3.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (2.15%) Unix
9 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.36%) AIX
10 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.36%) CentOS
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.36%) Solaris
10 1 (0.36%) SUSE
10 1 (0.36%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.36%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (19.00%) Break/Fix
2 50 (17.92%) Agile
3 44 (15.77%) Customer Service
4 41 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (13.62%) Time Management
6 26 (9.32%) DevOps
7 25 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
7 25 (8.96%) Test Management
8 24 (8.60%) ITSM
8 24 (8.60%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (8.24%) Digital Marketing
9 23 (8.24%) Programme Management
9 23 (8.24%) Test Strategy
9 23 (8.24%) User Acceptance Testing
10 22 (7.89%) ITIL
11 20 (7.17%) Scrum
11 20 (7.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (6.81%) Asset Management
12 19 (6.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (6.45%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.73%) JavaScript
1 16 (5.73%) SQL
2 7 (2.51%) Python
2 7 (2.51%) Shell Script
3 4 (1.43%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.08%) VB
5 2 (0.72%) Bash
5 2 (0.72%) C
5 2 (0.72%) C#
5 2 (0.72%) Java
5 2 (0.72%) Perl
5 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.36%) C++
6 1 (0.36%) COBOL
6 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 99 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 93 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.53%) DV Cleared
4 14 (5.02%) Degree
5 12 (4.30%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.72%) ISEB
8 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.72%) MCITP
8 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.36%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.36%) HP APS
9 1 (0.36%) ISEB Practitioner
9 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.60%) SLA
2 17 (6.09%) QA
3 6 (2.15%) COBIT
4 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.36%) HL7
5 1 (0.36%) NIST
5 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 30 (10.75%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.30%) vSphere
4 8 (2.87%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.15%) Firmware
6 4 (1.43%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.72%) GPFS
8 1 (0.36%) Docker
8 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.36%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 38 (13.62%) HP ALM
2 14 (5.02%) SCCM
2 14 (5.02%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (3.94%) vRealize
4 10 (3.58%) VxRail
5 9 (3.23%) Ansible
5 9 (3.23%) NetBackup
6 7 (2.51%) Terraform
7 5 (1.79%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.08%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.72%) BladeLogic
9 2 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.72%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.72%) SCOM
10 1 (0.36%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.36%) Grafana
10 1 (0.36%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.36%) HP UCMDB
10 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 109 (39.07%) Dell
2 74 (26.52%) Apple
3 73 (26.16%) Cisco
4 45 (16.13%) Microsoft
5 34 (12.19%) SAP
6 28 (10.04%) VMware
7 27 (9.68%) ServiceNow
8 22 (7.89%) IBM
9 20 (7.17%) Remedy
10 18 (6.45%) Oracle
11 16 (5.73%) MobileIron
12 13 (4.66%) AppDynamics
12 13 (4.66%) BMC
12 13 (4.66%) Ivanti
13 12 (4.30%) Commvault
13 12 (4.30%) SolarWinds
14 11 (3.94%) Veritas
15 10 (3.58%) F5
15 10 (3.58%) Red Hat
16 9 (3.23%) 3PAR