HP Contracts in the West Midlands

HP
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 101 111
Rank change year-on-year +24 +10 +56
Contract jobs citing HP 20 10 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.49% 0.51% 1.17%
As % of the Vendors category 3.18% 1.19% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 14
10th Percentile - - £208
25th Percentile - £320 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 £360 £350
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +2.86% +2.94%
75th Percentile £428 £428 £400
90th Percentile £486 £438 £451
England median daily rate £450 £363 £426
% change year-on-year +24.14% -14.91% +1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £18.51 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -66.35% - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £23.80 £18.84
% change year-on-year -11.76% +26.33% -12.37%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 628 841 1,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 46.69% 43.19% 49.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 538 735
10th Percentile £185 £250 £213
25th Percentile £320 £350 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 53 29
10th Percentile £12.25 £11.07 £13.15
25th Percentile £14.86 £13.25 £15.10
Median hourly rate £18.51 £19.95 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +7.84% +7.06%
75th Percentile £29.25 £28.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £31.43 £55.00 £72.30
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing HP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for HP in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HP in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for HP in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HP in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for HP in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Birmingham +23 10 £150 -64.71% 7
Warwickshire +10 8 £475 +18.75% 3
Wolverhampton -2 1 - - 3
Herefordshire - 1 - - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (5.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) NetScaler
2 2 (10.00%) SSL
3 1 (5.00%) Converged Networks
3 1 (5.00%) DNS
3 1 (5.00%) SMTP
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Tester
2 2 (10.00%) Administrator
2 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Applications Tester
3 1 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Desktop Support
3 1 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Lead
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Support Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) Middleware
2 2 (10.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Driving Licence
2 5 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (25.00%) SCADA
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Clustering
4 1 (5.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Windows
2 8 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (10.00%) Android
4 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Agile
1 5 (25.00%) Defect Management
1 5 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
1 5 (25.00%) Scrum
1 5 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
1 5 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
1 5 (25.00%) Test Assurance
1 5 (25.00%) Test Management
1 5 (25.00%) Test Strategy
1 5 (25.00%) User Stories
2 4 (20.00%) Change Management
2 4 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (10.00%) Release Management
3 2 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (5.00%) Energy Management
4 1 (5.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (5.00%) Ticket Management
4 1 (5.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Perl
2 2 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) vSphere
2 1 (5.00%) XenApp
2 1 (5.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) HP ALM
2 2 (10.00%) SCCM
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Dell
2 5 (25.00%) MuleSoft
2 5 (25.00%) Oracle
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) IBM
5 1 (5.00%) Citrix
5 1 (5.00%) VMware