HPCC Contract Job Trends

HPCC
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring HPCC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 557 -
Rank change year-on-year -23 - -
Contract jobs citing HPCC 1 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.020% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.016% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £535 -
25th Percentile £522 £558 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £565 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% - -
75th Percentile £565 £577 -
90th Percentile - £582 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

HPCC falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,332 6,233 7,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.38% 18.02% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,369 4,126 5,243
10th Percentile £329 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £709 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 84 139
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.15 £16.51
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.46 £21.64
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.40 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +43.09% -34.17% -7.73%
75th Percentile £68.19 £60.15 £64.77
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.89 £77.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.24 £46.18
% change year-on-year +83.57% -41.02% +1.49%

HPCC
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HPCC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

HPCC job vacancy trend in the UK

HPCC
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HPCC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HPCC

HPCC
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HPCC within the UK over the 6 months to 14 December 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
London -6 1 £543 -3.89%
England -43 1 £543 -3.89%

HPCC
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Code Coverage
1 1 (100.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft