HP Contracts

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 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 345 341
Rank change year-on-year +51 -4 +45
Contract jobs citing HP 265 251 387
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.58% 0.68%
As % of the Vendors category 1.75% 1.35% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 186 270
10th Percentile £150 £143 £198
25th Percentile £205 £213 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £405 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £584 £562
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £395 £420 £425
% change year-on-year -5.95% -1.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 14 7
10th Percentile £18.51 £15.94 -
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.03 £17.72
Median hourly rate £19.94 £18.13 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +9.96% -4.23% -20.83%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.80 £21.88
90th Percentile - £24.07 £25.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £18.07 £17.72
% change year-on-year +4.46% +1.95% -5.49%

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 15,164 18,621 24,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.61% 43.00% 43.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,266 11,565 16,451
10th Percentile £281 £270 £270
25th Percentile £400 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £732 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 728 1,161 665
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.49 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.00 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.65 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% -38.38% +83.65%
75th Percentile £52.75 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £24.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year -5.71% -18.09% +50.26%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HP in the UK

HP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HP.

Daily rate trend for HP in the UK

HP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in the UK

HP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HP.

Hourly rate trend for HP in the UK

HP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HP over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the UK

HP
Top 16 Contract 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 6 July 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 +65 233 £465 +8.77% 285
UK excluding London +64 183 £395 -5.95% 238
London +25 68 £500 +42.86% 71
Work from Home +36 56 £500 +19.05% 76
South East +20 49 £525 +30.43% 68
Midlands +36 38 £232 -53.70% 29
North of England +27 36 £450 +12.50% 52
South West +46 32 £155 -77.86% 30
West Midlands +29 27 £220 -48.24% 17
Scotland +3 17 £187 +33.21% 15
North West +18 16 £450 +12.50% 27
Yorkshire +14 15 £390 +20.00% 19
East Midlands +2 11 £375 -30.33% 12
East of England +30 8 £563 +2.27% 39
Wales +10 6 £300 +142.42% 8
North East - 5 - - 6

HP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.91%) Confluence
3 10 (3.77%) IIS
4 4 (1.51%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.75%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 31 (11.70%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.26%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.26%) BASE24
2 4 (1.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.75%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.75%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.38%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 39 (14.72%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (12.45%) Azure
3 15 (5.66%) GCP
4 14 (5.28%) AWS
4 14 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.28%) IaaS
4 14 (5.28%) PaaS
5 10 (3.77%) OpenShift
6 8 (3.02%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.64%) PowerApps
8 6 (2.26%) SaaS
9 5 (1.89%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.89%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (1.13%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.13%) OCI
11 2 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.75%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.75%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (9.43%) DNS
1 25 (9.43%) SAN
2 24 (9.06%) Firewall
3 22 (8.30%) DHCP
4 18 (6.79%) VPN
5 15 (5.66%) Wireless
6 14 (5.28%) SMTP
7 13 (4.91%) WAN
8 11 (4.15%) LAN
9 10 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (3.40%) TCP/IP
11 6 (2.26%) ATM
12 5 (1.89%) NetScaler
12 5 (1.89%) Network Security
12 5 (1.89%) SSL
13 4 (1.51%) Wireshark
14 3 (1.13%) DWDM
14 3 (1.13%) Ethernet
14 3 (1.13%) NAS
14 3 (1.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (3.40%) Big Data
3 7 (2.64%) NonStop SQL
4 6 (2.26%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.38%) MySQL
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.38%) Power BI
6 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (16.23%) JIRA
2 7 (2.64%) Selenium
3 5 (1.89%) Zephyr
4 3 (1.13%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.13%) TestRail
5 2 (0.75%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.75%) Git
5 2 (0.75%) GitLab
5 2 (0.75%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.75%) TestNG
5 2 (0.75%) VersaTest
6 1 (0.38%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.38%) Introscope
6 1 (0.38%) JMeter
6 1 (0.38%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 74 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 53 (20.00%) Finance
3 26 (9.81%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.43%) Banking
5 22 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.40%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.02%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.64%) Marketing
9 6 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (2.26%) Retail
10 5 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.51%) Electronics
12 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.75%) Aviation
12 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.75%) Law
12 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (15.85%) Support Engineer
2 35 (13.21%) IT Engineer
3 24 (9.06%) Desktop Support
4 23 (8.68%) Desktop Engineer
4 23 (8.68%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 20 (7.55%) Analyst
6 19 (7.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (6.79%) Architect
8 16 (6.04%) Senior
9 14 (5.28%) Test Manager
10 13 (4.91%) Break Fix Engineer
10 13 (4.91%) Lead
11 12 (4.53%) Data Centre Engineer
11 12 (4.53%) Network Engineer
12 10 (3.77%) Administrator
12 10 (3.77%) Server Engineer
13 9 (3.40%) Deployment Engineer
13 9 (3.40%) Test Analyst
14 8 (3.02%) 3rd Line Support
14 8 (3.02%) Storage Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.40%) Middleware
2 6 (2.26%) JSON
2 6 (2.26%) REST
3 5 (1.89%) AngularJS
3 5 (1.89%) HTML
3 5 (1.89%) LDAP
3 5 (1.89%) SOAP
3 5 (1.89%) Web Services
4 4 (1.51%) Apache Camel
4 4 (1.51%) HTML5
4 4 (1.51%) JDBC
4 4 (1.51%) jQuery
4 4 (1.51%) ODBC
4 4 (1.51%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (1.51%) SAML
5 2 (0.75%) .NET
5 2 (0.75%) pytest
5 2 (0.75%) RFC 2544
5 2 (0.75%) Software Packaging
5 2 (0.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (19.25%) Driving Licence
2 49 (18.49%) Data Centre
3 17 (6.42%) Clustering
4 15 (5.66%) PKI
5 13 (4.91%) Enterprise Storage
6 10 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (3.77%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.26%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (2.26%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.26%) SCADA
8 5 (1.89%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.89%) EMV
8 5 (1.89%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.89%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.89%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.89%) Replication
9 4 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.51%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 92 (34.72%) Windows
2 49 (18.49%) Linux
3 30 (11.32%) Windows Server
4 20 (7.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (7.17%) Windows 10
6 12 (4.53%) Android
7 11 (4.15%) Mac OS
8 9 (3.40%) Unix
8 9 (3.40%) Windows Server 2003
8 9 (3.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (2.64%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (1.89%) HPUX
10 5 (1.89%) Solaris
11 4 (1.51%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.51%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (1.13%) AIX
13 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.75%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.75%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.75%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (16.60%) Agile
2 38 (14.34%) ITIL
3 36 (13.58%) DevOps
4 34 (12.83%) Asset Management
5 33 (12.45%) Customer Service
6 32 (12.08%) Break/Fix
7 30 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (11.32%) Test Management
8 29 (10.94%) Ticket Management
9 27 (10.19%) Test Strategy
10 25 (9.43%) Test Automation
10 25 (9.43%) User Acceptance Testing
11 22 (8.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 21 (7.92%) Migration
12 21 (7.92%) Scrum
13 19 (7.17%) Disaster Recovery
14 18 (6.79%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (6.04%) Customer Experience
15 16 (6.04%) ITSM
15 16 (6.04%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 27 (10.19%) PowerShell
2 12 (4.53%) Shell Script
2 12 (4.53%) SQL
3 11 (4.15%) Python
4 7 (2.64%) COBOL
5 5 (1.89%) Bash
5 5 (1.89%) C
5 5 (1.89%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.13%) C++
6 3 (1.13%) Java
7 1 (0.38%) ABAP
7 1 (0.38%) C#
7 1 (0.38%) Perl
7 1 (0.38%) VB
7 1 (0.38%) VBA
7 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 107 (40.38%) Security Cleared
2 94 (35.47%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.92%) DV Cleared
4 20 (7.55%) Dell Certification
5 17 (6.42%) Degree
6 6 (2.26%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.13%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.13%) PMP
9 2 (0.75%) CCNP
9 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.38%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.38%) CCSE
10 1 (0.38%) CFA
10 1 (0.38%) ISEB
10 1 (0.38%) ISEB Practitioner
10 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.83%) SLA
2 13 (4.91%) QA
3 6 (2.26%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.75%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.38%) GxP
6 1 (0.38%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 34 (12.83%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.91%) BitLocker
3 13 (4.91%) Hyper-V
4 12 (4.53%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (3.77%) Microsoft App-V
5 10 (3.77%) vSphere
6 9 (3.40%) Docker
6 9 (3.40%) Firmware
6 9 (3.40%) Terminal Services
7 7 (2.64%) XenApp
8 6 (2.26%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.75%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.38%) GPFS
10 1 (0.38%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 49 (18.49%) HP ALM
2 19 (7.17%) Ansible
3 16 (6.04%) SCCM
4 15 (5.66%) NetBackup
5 14 (5.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (4.53%) Nagios
7 11 (4.15%) Puppet
8 10 (3.77%) HP Quality Center
8 10 (3.77%) Kubernetes
8 10 (3.77%) vCenter Server
9 9 (3.40%) vMotion
10 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (2.26%) WSUS
11 4 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.51%) Terraform
12 3 (1.13%) HP Data Protector
12 3 (1.13%) Prometheus
13 2 (0.75%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.75%) SCOM
13 2 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 115 (43.40%) Dell
2 82 (30.94%) Microsoft
3 49 (18.49%) Cisco
4 41 (15.47%) VMware
5 25 (9.43%) IBM
6 23 (8.68%) Citrix
7 17 (6.42%) Apple
7 17 (6.42%) Red Hat
8 16 (6.04%) SAP
9 15 (5.66%) 3PAR
9 15 (5.66%) Oracle
9 15 (5.66%) Veritas
10 14 (5.28%) ServiceNow
11 12 (4.53%) Aruba
11 12 (4.53%) Google
11 12 (4.53%) Symantec
12 11 (4.15%) NetApp
13 10 (3.77%) EMC
14 8 (3.02%) McAfee
15 7 (2.64%) Brocade