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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 356 314
Rank change year-on-year +5 -42 +33
Contract jobs citing HP 222 209 375
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.54% 0.76%
As % of the Vendors category 1.42% 1.23% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 139 275
10th Percentile £150 £138 £164
25th Percentile £270 £193 £234
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £556 £538 £538
90th Percentile £614 £608 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £395 £415 £375
% change year-on-year -4.82% +10.67% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 23 7
10th Percentile £18.33 £17.70 -
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.08 £23.59 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +6.30% +24.62% -20.83%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.02 £24.25
90th Percentile - £24.18 £25.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £23.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.01% +33.13% -17.58%

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 15,579 17,006 21,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.28% 44.16% 44.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,565 10,199 14,188
10th Percentile £275 £281 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.40% - +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 796 678 648
10th Percentile £14.72 £14.26 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.45 £15.62 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -31.66% +83.61%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.28 £30.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.07% -29.41% +112.50%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the UK

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 18 September 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 +42 193 £463 +2.78% 193
UK excluding London +6 138 £395 -4.82% 199
London +20 67 £496 +27.87% 19
Work from Home +29 39 £475 -5.94% 105
South East +14 36 £500 -4.76% 45
Midlands -9 30 £185 -58.89% 49
North of England +5 26 £450 -18.18% 26
South West +43 24 £400 +81.82% 35
West Midlands -4 17 £185 -38.33% 24
Yorkshire -6 14 £483 -12.27% 11
East Midlands -1 13 - - 23
Scotland -21 11 £288 +99.07% 17
North West -7 10 £450 - 11
Wales +7 7 £300 +150.00% 4
East of England 0 4 £350 -26.32% 21
North East - 2 - - 4

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 25 (11.26%) Confluence
2 14 (6.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.80%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.90%) IIS
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 26 (11.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (5.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.80%) BASE24
2 4 (1.80%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.45%) assyst
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.45%) PORTIA
4 1 (0.45%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.45%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 36 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
2 35 (15.77%) Azure
3 20 (9.01%) GCP
4 19 (8.56%) AWS
5 16 (7.21%) IaaS
5 16 (7.21%) PaaS
6 13 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.50%) OpenShift
8 8 (3.60%) OCI
8 8 (3.60%) SaaS
9 6 (2.70%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.70%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.25%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (1.80%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.90%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.90%) Google Workspace
13 1 (0.45%) GitHub
13 1 (0.45%) OneDrive
13 1 (0.45%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 31 (13.96%) Firewall
2 21 (9.46%) SAN
3 16 (7.21%) DHCP
3 16 (7.21%) DNS
4 14 (6.31%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (5.86%) SSL
5 13 (5.86%) VPN
5 13 (5.86%) WAN
5 13 (5.86%) Wireless
6 11 (4.95%) LAN
7 9 (4.05%) SMTP
8 7 (3.15%) VLAN
9 6 (2.70%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.80%) ATM
10 4 (1.80%) Wireshark
11 3 (1.35%) VoIP
12 2 (0.90%) NAS
12 2 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
13 1 (0.45%) Modbus
13 1 (0.45%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (4.05%) Big Data
1 9 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (3.60%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.15%) NonStop SQL
4 4 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.90%) MySQL
6 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 53 (23.87%) JIRA
2 8 (3.60%) TestRail
3 5 (2.25%) Zephyr
4 4 (1.80%) Selenium
5 2 (0.90%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.90%) JMeter
5 2 (0.90%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.45%) Gatling
6 1 (0.45%) Git
6 1 (0.45%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.45%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.45%) VersaTest
General
1 71 (31.98%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.77%) Finance
3 32 (14.41%) Banking
4 26 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (11.26%) Public Sector
6 17 (7.66%) Retail
7 7 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.15%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.70%) Legal
8 6 (2.70%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.25%) Marketing
10 4 (1.80%) Local Government
11 3 (1.35%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.90%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.90%) Electronics
12 2 (0.90%) Front Office
12 2 (0.90%) Law
12 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (15.32%) Support Engineer
2 26 (11.71%) Analyst
3 25 (11.26%) IT Engineer
4 19 (8.56%) Architect
4 19 (8.56%) Senior
5 18 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (6.31%) Test Manager
7 13 (5.86%) Desktop Support
8 11 (4.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 11 (4.95%) 3rd Line Support
8 11 (4.95%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 11 (4.95%) Administrator
8 11 (4.95%) Infrastructure Support
8 11 (4.95%) Network Engineer
9 10 (4.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 10 (4.50%) Backup Administrator
9 10 (4.50%) ServiceNow Architect
9 10 (4.50%) Storage Administrator
9 10 (4.50%) Storage and Backup Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.76%) REST
1 15 (6.76%) SOAP
2 14 (6.31%) AngularJS
2 14 (6.31%) JSON
2 14 (6.31%) LDAP
3 13 (5.86%) Apache Camel
3 13 (5.86%) HTML
3 13 (5.86%) HTML5
3 13 (5.86%) JDBC
3 13 (5.86%) jQuery
3 13 (5.86%) ODBC
3 13 (5.86%) RabbitMQ
3 13 (5.86%) SAML
3 13 (5.86%) Web Services
4 9 (4.05%) Middleware
5 2 (0.90%) RFC 2544
5 2 (0.90%) XML
6 1 (0.45%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.45%) Kafka
6 1 (0.45%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 38 (17.12%) Data Centre
2 37 (16.67%) Driving Licence
3 15 (6.76%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.50%) Clustering
5 9 (4.05%) Enterprise Storage
5 9 (4.05%) PKI
6 7 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.70%) HP Storage
7 6 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.25%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.25%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.80%) EMV
9 4 (1.80%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.80%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.80%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.80%) Replication
9 4 (1.80%) Tandem
10 3 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 79 (35.59%) Windows
2 34 (15.32%) Linux
3 19 (8.56%) Windows Server
4 15 (6.76%) Windows 10
5 13 (5.86%) Android
5 13 (5.86%) Mac OS
5 13 (5.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.70%) Unix
7 5 (2.25%) Solaris
8 4 (1.80%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.80%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.35%) HPUX
10 2 (0.90%) AIX
10 2 (0.90%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.90%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.90%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.45%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (20.72%) Agile
2 44 (19.82%) DevOps
3 34 (15.32%) ITIL
4 32 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (13.06%) Test Management
6 26 (11.71%) Asset Management
6 26 (11.71%) Customer Service
7 25 (11.26%) Test Strategy
8 24 (10.81%) User Acceptance Testing
9 23 (10.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 23 (10.36%) Scrum
9 23 (10.36%) Ticket Management
10 21 (9.46%) Migration
10 21 (9.46%) Test Automation
11 20 (9.01%) Break/Fix
11 20 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (8.56%) ITSM
12 19 (8.56%) Microservices
13 18 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 17 (7.66%) Defect Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.66%) SQL
2 14 (6.31%) JavaScript
2 14 (6.31%) PowerShell
3 7 (3.15%) Python
3 7 (3.15%) Shell Script
4 6 (2.70%) COBOL
5 4 (1.80%) C
6 3 (1.35%) C++
6 3 (1.35%) Java
7 2 (0.90%) Bash
7 2 (0.90%) VB
8 1 (0.45%) ABAP
8 1 (0.45%) C#
8 1 (0.45%) Perl
8 1 (0.45%) VBA
8 1 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 87 (39.19%) Security Cleared
2 75 (33.78%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.46%) DV Cleared
4 17 (7.66%) Degree
5 6 (2.70%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.80%) Dell Certification
7 3 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.90%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.90%) MCITP
8 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.90%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.90%) PMP
8 2 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.45%) CCDE
9 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.81%) SLA
2 13 (5.86%) QA
3 5 (2.25%) COBIT
4 4 (1.80%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.90%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.45%) GxP
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 24 (10.81%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.11%) Hyper-V
3 15 (6.76%) BitLocker
4 14 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (4.50%) Docker
5 10 (4.50%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (4.05%) Microsoft App-V
6 9 (4.05%) Terminal Services
7 8 (3.60%) Firmware
8 3 (1.35%) vSphere
9 2 (0.90%) XenApp
10 1 (0.45%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 46 (20.72%) HP ALM
2 18 (8.11%) Ansible
3 14 (6.31%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (4.50%) Kubernetes
4 10 (4.50%) Puppet
4 10 (4.50%) vCenter Server
5 9 (4.05%) Nagios
5 9 (4.05%) NetBackup
5 9 (4.05%) vMotion
6 8 (3.60%) HP Quality Center
7 7 (3.15%) SCCM
8 6 (2.70%) Terraform
9 4 (1.80%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.35%) SCOM
11 2 (0.90%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (0.90%) Norton AntiVirus
12 1 (0.45%) BladeLogic
12 1 (0.45%) HP Operations Orchestration
12 1 (0.45%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 80 (36.04%) Dell
2 54 (24.32%) Microsoft
3 34 (15.32%) Cisco
4 28 (12.61%) VMware
5 22 (9.91%) Apple
6 21 (9.46%) ServiceNow
7 20 (9.01%) Citrix
8 18 (8.11%) Oracle
9 15 (6.76%) IBM
9 15 (6.76%) Remedy
10 14 (6.31%) SAP
11 13 (5.86%) BMC
11 13 (5.86%) Ivanti
12 12 (5.41%) Veritas
13 11 (4.95%) Google
13 11 (4.95%) Symantec
14 10 (4.50%) F5
14 10 (4.50%) NetApp
14 10 (4.50%) Red Hat
15 9 (4.05%) 3PAR