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 15 September 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
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 342 356
Rank change year-on-year -181 +14 -39
Contract jobs citing HP 157 221 210
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.68% 0.55%
As % of the Vendors category 0.69% 1.45% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 113 140
10th Percentile £150 £150 £138
25th Percentile £195 £268 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £419
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.46% -6.94%
75th Percentile £533 £557 £538
90th Percentile £675 £620 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £303 £385 £425
% change year-on-year -21.30% -9.41% +9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 52 23
10th Percentile £18.33 £18.51 £17.70
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £19.85 £25.15 £23.59
Median % change year-on-year -21.07% +6.61% +24.62%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £24.02
90th Percentile - - £24.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.80 £18.87 £23.59
% change year-on-year +20.83% -20.01% +33.13%

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 22,747 15,293 16,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.80% 47.12% 44.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,964 9,367 10,148
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £612 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,253 777 684
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.60 £14.26
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.90 £25.15 £30.21
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% -16.74% -30.36%
75th Percentile £62.00 £43.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.75 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £21.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +24.48% -30.00% -25.60%

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 15 September 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 15 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the UK

HP
Top 15 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 15 September 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 -167 144 £375 -18.92% 236
UK excluding London -139 103 £303 -21.30% 168
London -117 37 £500 +0.91% 70
Work from Home -72 30 £500 +2.56% 96
South East -74 26 £180 -64.00% 54
South West -48 25 £426 +6.50% 26
North of England -70 23 £425 -5.56% 34
Midlands -59 16 £275 +83.33% 20
North West -42 13 £475 +5.56% 23
West Midlands -57 12 £238 +58.33% 11
East of England -24 9 £150 -57.14% 14
Yorkshire -37 6 £365 -24.35% 10
Scotland -23 4 £450 +96.72% 15
North East -36 4 £200 - 1
East Midlands -21 3 £500 - 9

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 8 (5.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.82%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.18%) Confluence
3 5 (3.18%) SAS
4 2 (1.27%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (12.10%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.55%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) BASE24
1 2 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.27%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.64%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.64%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.64%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.64%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (0.64%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 32 (20.38%) Azure
2 14 (8.92%) Azure DevOps
2 14 (8.92%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (7.64%) AWS
4 8 (5.10%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.82%) OneDrive
6 5 (3.18%) GCP
7 4 (2.55%) IaaS
8 3 (1.91%) GitHub
8 3 (1.91%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.91%) PaaS
8 3 (1.91%) SaaS
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.27%) OCI
10 1 (0.64%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.64%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.64%) Siteimprove
10 1 (0.64%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.28%) Firewall
2 12 (7.64%) DHCP
2 12 (7.64%) DNS
3 11 (7.01%) SNMP
4 10 (6.37%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (5.73%) LAN
5 9 (5.73%) WAN
6 8 (5.10%) Skype
7 7 (4.46%) TCP/IP
8 6 (3.82%) SAN
8 6 (3.82%) VPN
9 4 (2.55%) BGP
9 4 (2.55%) Network Security
9 4 (2.55%) OSPF
9 4 (2.55%) VLAN
10 3 (1.91%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.91%) SMTP
11 2 (1.27%) MPLS
11 2 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.82%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.55%) Big Data
3 4 (2.55%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.55%) PowerCenter
3 4 (2.55%) Star Schema
4 3 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.27%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.64%) Base SAS
6 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.64%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 1 (0.64%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 29 (18.47%) JIRA
2 8 (5.10%) Selenium
3 4 (2.55%) REST Assured
4 3 (1.91%) Bugzilla
4 3 (1.91%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.91%) TestRail
5 2 (1.27%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.27%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.27%) MSTest
5 2 (1.27%) Postman
5 2 (1.27%) Ranorex
5 2 (1.27%) TestDirector
5 2 (1.27%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.64%) Appium
6 1 (0.64%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.64%) JMeter
6 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.64%) Toad
General
1 38 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.65%) Finance
3 13 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.64%) Banking
5 5 (3.18%) Legal
6 4 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.55%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.55%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.27%) Billing
8 2 (1.27%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.27%) Law
8 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.27%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.64%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.64%) Retail
9 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (16.56%) Hardware Technician
2 12 (7.64%) Field Service Technician
2 12 (7.64%) Tester
3 11 (7.01%) Analyst
3 11 (7.01%) Consultant
4 10 (6.37%) Management Consultant
4 10 (6.37%) Network Engineer
5 9 (5.73%) Break Fix Engineer
5 9 (5.73%) IT Engineer
5 9 (5.73%) Senior
5 9 (5.73%) Support Engineer
6 8 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (5.10%) Lead
7 7 (4.46%) Field Engineer
7 7 (4.46%) Test Leader
8 6 (3.82%) Desktop Support
8 6 (3.82%) Hardware Engineer
8 6 (3.82%) Support Analyst
8 6 (3.82%) Unix Engineer
9 5 (3.18%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.55%) REST
2 6 (3.82%) Middleware
3 3 (1.91%) Node.js
3 3 (1.91%) WireMock
4 2 (1.27%) .NET
4 2 (1.27%) OpenGL
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.27%) Playwright
4 2 (1.27%) Qt
4 2 (1.27%) SOAP
4 2 (1.27%) Terraform
5 1 (0.64%) JSON
5 1 (0.64%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.64%) Web Services
5 1 (0.64%) XML
5 1 (0.64%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.19%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.92%) Driving Licence
3 12 (7.64%) Virtual Team
4 9 (5.73%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.18%) iPhone
6 5 (3.18%) PKI
7 4 (2.55%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.91%) Clustering
8 3 (1.91%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.27%) BYOD
9 2 (1.27%) CUDA
9 2 (1.27%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (1.27%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.27%) SCADA
9 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.27%) Tandem
9 2 (1.27%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 54 (34.39%) Windows
2 30 (19.11%) Linux
3 19 (12.10%) AIX
4 18 (11.46%) Windows 10
5 16 (10.19%) Windows Server
6 14 (8.92%) Android
7 10 (6.37%) Unix
8 8 (5.10%) HPUX
8 8 (5.10%) Solaris
9 7 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (3.82%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (3.82%) SUSE
11 3 (1.91%) Apple iOS
12 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.64%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (16.56%) Continuous Improvement
1 26 (16.56%) Customer Service
1 26 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (13.38%) Asset Management
3 20 (12.74%) DevOps
4 19 (12.10%) Agile
4 19 (12.10%) ITIL
4 19 (12.10%) Migration
4 19 (12.10%) Test Automation
5 17 (10.83%) Break/Fix
5 17 (10.83%) Test Management
5 17 (10.83%) Validation
6 16 (10.19%) User Acceptance Testing
7 15 (9.55%) Defect Management
7 15 (9.55%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (8.92%) System Integration Testing
9 13 (8.28%) Test Strategy
10 12 (7.64%) End-to-End Testing
10 12 (7.64%) Project Delivery
10 12 (7.64%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (15.29%) PowerShell
2 20 (12.74%) Python
3 18 (11.46%) SQL
4 9 (5.73%) Search Processing Language
5 6 (3.82%) Shell Script
6 5 (3.18%) Bash
7 3 (1.91%) Java
7 3 (1.91%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.27%) C
8 2 (1.27%) C#
8 2 (1.27%) C++
9 1 (0.64%) COBOL
9 1 (0.64%) Lisp
9 1 (0.64%) Perl
9 1 (0.64%) SAS Macro
9 1 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 45 (28.66%) Security Cleared
2 34 (21.66%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.19%) Degree
4 12 (7.64%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.10%) ISTQB
6 5 (3.18%) CISSP
6 5 (3.18%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (3.18%) RHCE
7 4 (2.55%) CCNP
7 4 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.64%) CCIE Security
9 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.55%) SLA
2 14 (8.92%) QA
3 6 (3.82%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.18%) GRC
5 2 (1.27%) GDPR
6 1 (0.64%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.64%) GAMP
6 1 (0.64%) GxP
6 1 (0.64%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.64%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (12.10%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.46%) Firmware
3 7 (4.46%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (3.18%) BitLocker
4 5 (3.18%) Docker
4 5 (3.18%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (2.55%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.91%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.91%) vSphere
7 2 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.27%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.64%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (20.38%) HP ALM
2 14 (8.92%) Nagios
3 12 (7.64%) Tivoli
4 11 (7.01%) Netcool
4 11 (7.01%) OpenView
4 11 (7.01%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 11 (7.01%) ZABBIX
5 10 (6.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (6.37%) SCCM
6 9 (5.73%) Ansible
7 6 (3.82%) vCenter Server
8 5 (3.18%) HP Quality Center
8 5 (3.18%) vMotion
9 3 (1.91%) Kubernetes
9 3 (1.91%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.91%) Puppet
10 2 (1.27%) Backup Exec
10 2 (1.27%) Packer
11 1 (0.64%) Avamar
11 1 (0.64%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 39 (24.84%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.29%) Dell
3 19 (12.10%) Oracle
4 17 (10.83%) Apple
5 16 (10.19%) IBM
5 16 (10.19%) VMware
6 13 (8.28%) Cisco
7 11 (7.01%) BMC
7 11 (7.01%) SolarWinds
7 11 (7.01%) Splunk
8 5 (3.18%) Red Hat
8 5 (3.18%) Zscaler
9 4 (2.55%) F5
9 4 (2.55%) Informatica
9 4 (2.55%) McAfee
9 4 (2.55%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.91%) Aruba
10 3 (1.91%) Broadcom
10 3 (1.91%) Symantec
10 3 (1.91%) Veeam