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 14 January 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
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 326 261
Rank change year-on-year -7 -65 +70
Contract jobs citing HP 268 205 389
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.65% 0.92%
As % of the Vendors category 1.57% 1.42% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 111 309
10th Percentile £154 £154 £148
25th Percentile £170 £200 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +14.29% -18.18%
75th Percentile £363 £550 £500
90th Percentile £500 £600 £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £215 £325 £285
% change year-on-year -33.85% +14.04% -28.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 23 13
10th Percentile £16.12 £18.51 £20.00
25th Percentile £18.22 £20.30 £20.25
Median hourly rate £20.09 £24.18 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +0.75% +0.38%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £30.00
90th Percentile £25.99 £24.56 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £24.15 £24.00
% change year-on-year -21.86% +0.63% +35.44%

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 17,072 14,476 18,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.18% 45.80% 44.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,992 8,580 11,904
10th Percentile £300 £285 £255
25th Percentile £410 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.73% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 799 423 683
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.88 £19.62 £17.74
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.13 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% -38.00% +58.43%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.06 £63.29
90th Percentile £74.26 £77.44 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £24.62 £44.50
% change year-on-year -12.84% -44.67% +78.00%

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 14 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HP over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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 -1 239 £210 -47.50% 122
UK excluding London -7 183 £215 -33.85% 132
London -18 71 £290 -42.00% 13
Midlands -2 54 £200 +14.29% 16
South East -34 31 £375 +25.00% 34
North of England -47 31 £205 -60.95% 23
West Midlands -16 29 £297 +26.49% 8
East of England +5 27 £200 -38.46% 25
East Midlands -1 27 £200 +14.00% 8
Work from Home -17 22 £418 -12.01% 99
South West -15 19 £400 +17.65% 18
Yorkshire -39 14 £290 -47.27% 7
Wales +8 12 £290 +45.00% 9
North West -24 12 £175 -56.79% 13
Scotland -10 10 £400 +45.45% 8
North East -13 5 £175 -68.18% 3
Northern Ireland -4 1 £500 - 3

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 22 (8.21%) Confluence
2 21 (7.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 57 (21.27%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.61%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (3.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.87%) assyst
3 4 (1.49%) BASE24
4 3 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.12%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.75%) PORTIA
5 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 76 (28.36%) Microsoft 365
2 50 (18.66%) Azure
3 22 (8.21%) AWS
4 12 (4.48%) Datadog
5 8 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (2.99%) GCP
5 8 (2.99%) OCI
6 2 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.75%) Entra ID
6 2 (0.75%) IaaS
6 2 (0.75%) PaaS
6 2 (0.75%) SaaS
6 2 (0.75%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (0.37%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.37%) Veeva
7 1 (0.37%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 42 (15.67%) Wireless
2 21 (7.84%) Wi-Fi
3 16 (5.97%) Firewall
4 11 (4.10%) SAN
5 10 (3.73%) VSAN
6 6 (2.24%) WAN
7 5 (1.87%) DNS
7 5 (1.87%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.87%) VLAN
8 4 (1.49%) DHCP
8 4 (1.49%) LAN
8 4 (1.49%) SSL
9 2 (0.75%) VoIP
10 1 (0.37%) FTP
10 1 (0.37%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.37%) RTP
10 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.24%) NonStop SQL
2 5 (1.87%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.12%) OLTP
4 1 (0.37%) Big Data
4 1 (0.37%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.37%) MySQL
4 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.37%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (12.69%) JIRA
2 10 (3.73%) TestRail
3 4 (1.49%) Selenium
4 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.37%) Gatling
4 1 (0.37%) Git
4 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.37%) JMeter
4 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.37%) NeoLoad
4 1 (0.37%) NUnit
4 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 77 (28.73%) Social Skills
2 57 (21.27%) Organisational Skills
3 50 (18.66%) Finance
4 34 (12.69%) Public Sector
5 33 (12.31%) Banking
6 25 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (9.33%) Marketing
6 25 (9.33%) Telecoms
7 23 (8.58%) Electronics
7 23 (8.58%) Manufacturing
8 18 (6.72%) Legal
9 13 (4.85%) Retail
10 10 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.87%) Local Government
13 4 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.49%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.75%) Advertising
14 2 (0.75%) Billing
14 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 66 (24.63%) Break Fix Engineer
2 41 (15.30%) Hardware Engineer
3 40 (14.93%) IT Support
4 39 (14.55%) Analyst
5 35 (13.06%) Field Engineer
6 33 (12.31%) Desktop Support
7 29 (10.82%) Field Hardware Engineer
8 28 (10.45%) Junior
9 27 (10.07%) Support Engineer
10 23 (8.58%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
10 23 (8.58%) 2nd Line Support
10 23 (8.58%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
11 20 (7.46%) Computer Engineer
12 19 (7.09%) IT Engineer
12 19 (7.09%) Support Analyst
13 12 (4.48%) IT Support Engineer
14 11 (4.10%) Infrastructure Analyst
15 10 (3.73%) Desktop Engineer
15 10 (3.73%) Developer
15 10 (3.73%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.61%) REST
2 6 (2.24%) Middleware
3 5 (1.87%) LDAP
3 5 (1.87%) SOAP
3 5 (1.87%) Web Services
4 4 (1.49%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.49%) Apache Camel
4 4 (1.49%) HTML
4 4 (1.49%) HTML5
4 4 (1.49%) JDBC
4 4 (1.49%) jQuery
4 4 (1.49%) JSON
4 4 (1.49%) ODBC
4 4 (1.49%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (1.49%) SAML
5 3 (1.12%) XML
6 1 (0.37%) FHIR
6 1 (0.37%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.42%) Data Centre
2 32 (11.94%) Driving Licence
3 18 (6.72%) Mobile App
4 12 (4.48%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (3.36%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.87%) Tandem
8 4 (1.49%) CMDB
9 3 (1.12%) Clustering
9 3 (1.12%) EMV
9 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.12%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.75%) Chip and PIN
10 2 (0.75%) HP Storage
10 2 (0.75%) Social Media
11 1 (0.37%) iPhone
11 1 (0.37%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.37%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 70 (26.12%) Windows
2 50 (18.66%) Mac OS
3 45 (16.79%) Android
4 26 (9.70%) Windows 10
5 21 (7.84%) Linux
6 6 (2.24%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.12%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.75%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.37%) AIX
9 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.37%) CentOS
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.37%) Solaris
9 1 (0.37%) SUSE
9 1 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (24.25%) Customer Service
2 59 (22.01%) Time Management
3 48 (17.91%) Break/Fix
4 44 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (12.31%) Agile
6 30 (11.19%) Service Management
7 27 (10.07%) Asset Management
8 25 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (8.58%) Digital Marketing
9 23 (8.58%) Programme Management
10 20 (7.46%) Test Management
11 19 (7.09%) User Acceptance Testing
12 18 (6.72%) ITSM
13 17 (6.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (6.34%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (6.34%) Test Strategy
13 17 (6.34%) Ticket Management
14 16 (5.97%) Mobile Device Management
15 14 (5.22%) DevOps
15 14 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (4.85%) SQL
2 8 (2.99%) JavaScript
3 5 (1.87%) C
4 4 (1.49%) COBOL
5 3 (1.12%) Python
5 3 (1.12%) VB
6 2 (0.75%) C++
6 2 (0.75%) Java
6 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.75%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.37%) C#
7 1 (0.37%) Perl
7 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (32.09%) Security Cleared
2 81 (30.22%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.60%) Degree
4 13 (4.85%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.73%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.12%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.75%) MCITP
9 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.37%) Dell Certification
10 1 (0.37%) HP APS
10 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.37%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.21%) SLA
2 15 (5.60%) QA
3 6 (2.24%) COBIT
4 4 (1.49%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.37%) HL7
6 1 (0.37%) NIST
6 1 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 29 (10.82%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.10%) vSphere
4 7 (2.61%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.49%) Firmware
6 3 (1.12%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.37%) Docker
7 1 (0.37%) GPFS
7 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 26 (9.70%) HP ALM
2 15 (5.60%) SCCM
3 11 (4.10%) vRealize
4 10 (3.73%) VxRail
5 8 (2.99%) Ansible
6 7 (2.61%) Terraform
7 5 (1.87%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.87%) ServiceCenter
7 5 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.49%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.75%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.75%) SCOM
10 1 (0.37%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.37%) Grafana
10 1 (0.37%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.37%) HP UCMDB
10 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 111 (41.42%) Dell
2 69 (25.75%) Apple
3 63 (23.51%) Cisco
4 45 (16.79%) Microsoft
5 30 (11.19%) SAP
6 22 (8.21%) VMware
7 18 (6.72%) ServiceNow
8 16 (5.97%) MobileIron
9 15 (5.60%) IBM
10 13 (4.85%) AppDynamics
11 12 (4.48%) Commvault
11 12 (4.48%) Oracle
11 12 (4.48%) SolarWinds
12 11 (4.10%) Remedy
13 8 (2.99%) Computacenter
14 7 (2.61%) Canon
14 7 (2.61%) Dynatrace
15 6 (2.24%) CheckPoint
15 6 (2.24%) F5
16 5 (1.87%) Veritas