HP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HP over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 343 382
Rank change year-on-year +20 +39 -75
Contract jobs citing HP 287 428 606
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.72% 0.68%
As % of the Vendors category 1.55% 1.68% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 300 422
10th Percentile £177 £200 £163
25th Percentile £213 £302 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £423
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +6.32% -0.41%
75th Percentile £582 £562 £524
90th Percentile £638 £638 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 46
10th Percentile - £15.78 £11.33
25th Percentile £18.13 £18.02 £15.44
Median hourly rate £21.88 £18.84 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.11% -12.37% +46.63%
75th Percentile £23.82 £19.88 £23.91
90th Percentile £25.71 £21.98 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.88 £18.24 £16.83
% change year-on-year +47.38% +8.38% +16.03%

All Vendors
UK

HP is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,478 25,412 35,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.60% 42.89% 39.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,447 17,027 23,531
10th Percentile £263 £273 £290
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,119 696 894
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.23 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.90 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.15 £42.50 £21.29
Median % change year-on-year -47.88% +99.65% -3.24%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £46.84
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.38 £60.79
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.96%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the UK

HP
Top 17 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 3 May 2024. 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 +56 258 £375 -15.97% 153
UK excluding London +11 187 £400 -5.88% 115
South East +40 111 £285 -36.67% 28
London +48 79 £350 -26.70% 38
Work from Home +43 72 £420 -11.58% 54
South West +35 28 £700 +57.75% 26
Midlands 0 17 £438 +59.09% 20
North of England -2 14 £425 -0.23% 25
Scotland +13 12 £400 -20.00% 8
East Midlands +10 8 £575 +142.11% 6
West Midlands +6 8 £360 +2.86% 14
North West +4 7 £425 -0.23% 12
Yorkshire +10 5 £375 -11.76% 12
East of England +3 4 £550 +15.79% 10
North East +11 2 £600 +26.32% 2
Wales +9 1 £135 -18.18%
Northern Ireland - 1 £190 - 2

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 30 (10.45%) Confluence
1 30 (10.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.05%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (1.05%) Exchange Server 2013
3 3 (1.05%) nginx
4 2 (0.70%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (0.70%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 47 (16.38%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.09%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (1.05%) Sage X3
3 3 (1.05%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.35%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.35%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 52 (18.12%) Azure
2 37 (12.89%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (6.27%) AWS
4 17 (5.92%) SaaS
5 15 (5.23%) OCI
6 12 (4.18%) GCP
7 11 (3.83%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (3.83%) IaaS
7 11 (3.83%) Rubrik
8 10 (3.48%) Nutanix
8 10 (3.48%) PaaS
9 8 (2.79%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.39%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.05%) GitHub
13 2 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 1 (0.35%) Azure AKS
14 1 (0.35%) Commercetools
14 1 (0.35%) Power Automate
14 1 (0.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 70 (24.39%) SAN
2 55 (19.16%) Firewall
3 38 (13.24%) LAN
4 35 (12.20%) DNS
5 32 (11.15%) DHCP
6 24 (8.36%) WAN
7 18 (6.27%) NAS
8 17 (5.92%) TCP/IP
9 15 (5.23%) VPN
10 12 (4.18%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (3.83%) VLAN
12 9 (3.14%) Kerberos
12 9 (3.14%) Wireless
13 6 (2.09%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (2.09%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (2.09%) Remote Desktop
14 5 (1.74%) Network Security
15 4 (1.39%) SD-WAN
15 4 (1.39%) WLAN
16 3 (1.05%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.18%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.74%) MySQL
2 5 (1.74%) NonStop SQL
3 4 (1.39%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (1.39%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.35%) DB2
5 1 (0.35%) Power BI
5 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (14.29%) JIRA
2 33 (11.50%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 22 (7.67%) Bitbucket
4 12 (4.18%) Selenium
5 11 (3.83%) Git
6 8 (2.79%) TeamCity
7 7 (2.44%) LoadRunner
8 6 (2.09%) ClearCase
8 6 (2.09%) ClearQuest
8 6 (2.09%) JMeter
8 6 (2.09%) Postman
8 6 (2.09%) SoapUI
8 6 (2.09%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.39%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (1.05%) Appium
10 3 (1.05%) Rational Performance Tester
10 3 (1.05%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.70%) Zephyr
General
1 142 (49.48%) Social Skills
2 36 (12.54%) Finance
2 36 (12.54%) Organisational Skills
3 31 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.27%) Aerospace
5 17 (5.92%) Banking
6 16 (5.57%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.14%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.79%) Legal
9 7 (2.44%) Back Office
9 7 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.39%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.05%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.70%) Advertising
13 2 (0.70%) Retail
14 1 (0.35%) Electronics
14 1 (0.35%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (15.33%) Support Engineer
2 35 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 31 (10.80%) Hardware Engineer
4 25 (8.71%) Desktop Support
5 24 (8.36%) Desktop Engineer
6 23 (8.01%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 20 (6.97%) Analyst
7 20 (6.97%) Developer
8 17 (5.92%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
8 17 (5.92%) Network Engineer
9 15 (5.23%) Server Engineer
10 14 (4.88%) Storage Engineer
11 13 (4.53%) Consultant
11 13 (4.53%) Senior
12 10 (3.48%) Data Centre Engineer
12 10 (3.48%) Test Analyst
13 9 (3.14%) Lead
14 8 (2.79%) Architect
14 8 (2.79%) Break Fix Engineer
14 8 (2.79%) Hardware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.67%) .NET
1 22 (7.67%) .NET Core
2 11 (3.83%) LDAP
3 6 (2.09%) SOAP
4 5 (1.74%) XML
5 3 (1.05%) EDI
5 3 (1.05%) Playwright
6 2 (0.70%) Redfish
6 2 (0.70%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.70%) WebdriverIO
7 1 (0.35%) Ajax
7 1 (0.35%) CSS
7 1 (0.35%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.35%) HTML
7 1 (0.35%) Middleware
7 1 (0.35%) REST
7 1 (0.35%) RESTful
7 1 (0.35%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.72%) Data Centre
2 46 (16.03%) Driving Licence
3 23 (8.01%) Video Conferencing
4 16 (5.57%) Clustering
5 11 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.79%) Replication
6 8 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.44%) HP Storage
7 7 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.44%) PKI
8 5 (1.74%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.39%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.39%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.05%) CCTV
10 3 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.05%) Fat Client
10 3 (1.05%) iPad
10 3 (1.05%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 150 (52.26%) Windows
2 82 (28.57%) Linux
3 67 (23.34%) Windows 10
4 47 (16.38%) Windows Server
5 40 (13.94%) Windows 7
6 38 (13.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 36 (12.54%) Windows Server 2012
8 24 (8.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 20 (6.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (6.62%) Unix
11 18 (6.27%) Solaris
12 17 (5.92%) Windows XP
13 8 (2.79%) Oracle Linux
14 7 (2.44%) Mac OS
15 6 (2.09%) AIX
15 6 (2.09%) Windows Server 2003
15 6 (2.09%) Windows Server 2008
16 5 (1.74%) Android
17 3 (1.05%) Mac OS X
17 3 (1.05%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (31.01%) ITIL
2 88 (30.66%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (21.25%) Customer Service
4 42 (14.63%) Disaster Recovery
4 42 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 34 (11.85%) Continuous Integration
6 33 (11.50%) Deployment Automation
7 31 (10.80%) Agile
8 29 (10.10%) Configuration Management
9 28 (9.76%) OO
9 28 (9.76%) Performance Tuning
10 25 (8.71%) Break/Fix
10 25 (8.71%) Task Automation
11 24 (8.36%) OOP
11 24 (8.36%) Software Testing
12 23 (8.01%) CI/CD
12 23 (8.01%) DevOps
12 23 (8.01%) Storage Management
13 22 (7.67%) Infrastructure Automation
13 22 (7.67%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 60 (20.91%) PowerShell
2 36 (12.54%) Python
3 18 (6.27%) SQL
4 11 (3.83%) Bash
5 8 (2.79%) Shell Script
6 7 (2.44%) C
6 7 (2.44%) Java
7 5 (1.74%) C++
8 3 (1.05%) C#
8 3 (1.05%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.70%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.70%) Perl
10 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 120 (41.81%) Security Cleared
2 64 (22.30%) DV Cleared
2 64 (22.30%) SC Cleared
3 49 (17.07%) Degree
4 17 (5.92%) CCNP
4 17 (5.92%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (5.57%) CCNA
6 8 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.74%) Dell Certification
8 4 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.39%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.39%) MCSE
9 3 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.05%) MCP
9 3 (1.05%) MCSA
10 2 (0.70%) ISEB
10 2 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.35%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.41%) SLA
2 9 (3.14%) GDPR
2 9 (3.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (2.44%) QA
4 6 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 74 (25.78%) Active Directory
2 40 (13.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (10.80%) Hyper-V
4 25 (8.71%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (6.62%) Firmware
6 12 (4.18%) vSphere
7 8 (2.79%) Docker
8 5 (1.74%) BitLocker
9 3 (1.05%) KVM
9 3 (1.05%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.05%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 79 (27.53%) SCCM
2 36 (12.54%) Ansible
3 28 (9.76%) EMC NetWorker
4 25 (8.71%) NetBackup
5 22 (7.67%) PowerCLI
5 22 (7.67%) SCOM
6 20 (6.97%) HP ALM
7 19 (6.62%) vCenter Server
8 15 (5.23%) WSUS
9 14 (4.88%) Kubernetes
10 13 (4.53%) Terraform
11 9 (3.14%) Netcool
12 8 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (2.79%) Tivoli
12 8 (2.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 7 (2.44%) HP Quality Center
14 6 (2.09%) AirWatch
14 6 (2.09%) HP Data Protector
15 5 (1.74%) Dell DRAC
16 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 110 (38.33%) Microsoft
2 104 (36.24%) Dell
3 70 (24.39%) Cisco
4 56 (19.51%) VMware
5 45 (15.68%) Oracle
6 43 (14.98%) EMC
7 31 (10.80%) Citrix
7 31 (10.80%) ServiceNow
8 24 (8.36%) Aruba
9 23 (8.01%) Symantec
10 22 (7.67%) Atlassian
11 19 (6.62%) 3PAR
12 18 (6.27%) Red Hat
12 18 (6.27%) Veeam
13 16 (5.57%) IBM
13 16 (5.57%) Juniper
13 16 (5.57%) Palo Alto
14 15 (5.23%) Avaya
15 14 (4.88%) CheckPoint
15 14 (4.88%) Extreme Networks