ProCurve Contract Job Trends

ProCurve
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of ProCurve products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ProCurve over the 6 months leading up to 20 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 HP ProCurve.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 - 641
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ProCurve 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% - 0.006%
As % of the Vendors category 0.006% - 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £481
25th Percentile - - £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £538
75th Percentile - - £591
90th Percentile - - £604
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £500

All Vendors
UK

ProCurve 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 15,612 17,085 22,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.45% 44.35% 44.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,583 10,226 14,399
10th Percentile £275 £286 £263
25th Percentile £403 £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 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 801 677 660
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.35 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.55 £15.62 £18.87
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +86.11%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £64.43
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.30 £29.77 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.45% -29.95% +112.50%

ProCurve
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ProCurve in the UK

ProCurve
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

ProCurve
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ProCurve.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ProCurve

ProCurve
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ProCurve within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
London - 1 - -
England - 1 - -
Work from Home - 1 - -

ProCurve
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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Migration Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Migration Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) HP ASE
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) 3PAR
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Nimble Storage
1 1 (100.00%) VMware