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 19 August 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
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 96 102
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +73
DemandTrendContract jobs citing HP 20 10 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.16% 0.53% 1.11%
As % of the Vendors category 2.42% 1.14% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 13
10th Percentile £138 £164 £283
25th Percentile - £165 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 £300 £400
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% -25.00% +142.42%
75th Percentile £223 £469 £495
90th Percentile £293 £475 £520
England median daily rate £475 £463 £425
% change year-on-year +2.70% +8.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.51 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £18.13 £23.50
% change year-on-year +38.72% -22.85% -1.71%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 828 874 1,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 48.14% 46.39% 50.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 602 684
10th Percentile £230 £263 £220
25th Percentile £351 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.90% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 24
10th Percentile £13.78 £13.95 £16.46
25th Percentile £22.10 £14.44 £17.69
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.06 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.70% +11.39% +36.36%
75th Percentile £41.81 £47.94 £45.13
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £88.05
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -17.14% +55.56%

HP
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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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HP

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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 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing HP

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DemandTrendContract 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 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +10 9 £150 -11.76% 1
Warwickshire - 9 £323 -
Coventry - 2 £226 - 1
Solihull - 1 £220 - 1
Wolverhampton - 1 £138 -
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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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) LAN
1 5 (25.00%) WAN
2 4 (20.00%) Wireshark
3 2 (10.00%) VPN
4 1 (5.00%) Converged Networks
4 1 (5.00%) DHCP
4 1 (5.00%) DNS
4 1 (5.00%) Modbus
4 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Automotive
3 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Tester
4 1 (5.00%) Applications Tester
4 1 (5.00%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) OAT Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Driving Licence
2 5 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (15.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 8 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (25.00%) DevOps
1 5 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 5 (25.00%) Remote Testing
2 3 (15.00%) Agile
2 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (15.00%) Scrum
2 3 (15.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (15.00%) User Stories
3 2 (10.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (10.00%) ITIL
3 2 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (10.00%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (10.00%) Test Assurance
3 2 (10.00%) Test Management
4 1 (5.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (5.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (5.00%) Ticket Management
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) BitLocker
1 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) HP ALM
2 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Dell
2 5 (25.00%) Cisco
2 5 (25.00%) Micro Focus
2 5 (25.00%) Progress
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) MuleSoft
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) Apple
5 1 (5.00%) Computacenter
5 1 (5.00%) McAfee
5 1 (5.00%) MobileIron