HP Job Trends in the South East

HP
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring knowledge or experience of HP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited HP over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Hewlett-Packard Company.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 242 256
Rank change year-on-year +23 +14 -2
Permanent jobs citing HP 75 31 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.52% 0.40% 0.85%
As % of the Vendors category 2.03% 0.98% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 42 27 131
10th Percentile - £28,500 £25,250
25th Percentile £26,000 £41,875 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +10.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £49,063 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,000 - £59,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +8.43% -4.60%

All Vendors
South East

HP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,692 3,176 6,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.53% 40.53% 38.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,155 1,766 4,393
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £66,672 £67,500 £61,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £56,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.73% +10.00% -12.40%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing HP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

HP job vacancy trend in the South East

HP
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HP

HP
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing HP in the South East over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for HP in the South East

HP
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Kent +10 48 £28,000 -49.09% 20
Surrey - 12 £60,000 - 2
Berkshire +24 11 £35,000 -17.65% 8
Thames Valley +13 11 £35,000 -20.00% 9
Hampshire -46 3 £105,000 +82.61%
West Sussex - 1 - -
HP
England

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.33%) Azure
2 8 (10.67%) AWS
2 8 (10.67%) Nutanix
3 2 (2.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.33%) Firewall
2 11 (14.67%) DHCP
2 11 (14.67%) DNS
3 8 (10.67%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (5.33%) Wireless
5 3 (4.00%) VLAN
5 3 (4.00%) WAN
6 2 (2.67%) LAN
6 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.67%) VoIP
6 2 (2.67%) VPN
7 1 (1.33%) ATM
7 1 (1.33%) Cisco Wireless
7 1 (1.33%) Frame Relay
7 1 (1.33%) MPLS
7 1 (1.33%) SNMP
7 1 (1.33%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.33%) Wireshark
7 1 (1.33%) WLAN
General
1 12 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.00%) Retail
3 2 (2.67%) Aerospace
3 2 (2.67%) Military
4 1 (1.33%) Finance
4 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (18.67%) Help Desk Technician
2 12 (16.00%) Coordinator
3 8 (10.67%) Account Manager
3 8 (10.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (10.67%) Customer Executive
3 8 (10.67%) Customer Support Executive
3 8 (10.67%) Sales Executive
3 8 (10.67%) Sales Support
3 8 (10.67%) Sales Support Executive
4 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (9.33%) Junior
5 6 (8.00%) Consultant
5 6 (8.00%) IT Consultant
5 6 (8.00%) Junior Account Manager
6 4 (5.33%) Business Manager
7 3 (4.00%) IT Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) IT Sales Consultant
7 3 (4.00%) IT Support
7 3 (4.00%) Sales Consultant
7 3 (4.00%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.00%) Data Centre
1 9 (12.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 9 (12.00%) iSeries
1 9 (12.00%) Replication
2 8 (10.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (10.67%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.00%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.67%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (1.33%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.33%) PKI
5 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.67%) Windows
2 12 (16.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.67%) Linux
3 2 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (17.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (13.33%) ITIL
4 9 (12.00%) ITSM
5 8 (10.67%) Business Continuity
5 8 (10.67%) Business Strategy
5 8 (10.67%) Change Management
5 8 (10.67%) Coaching
5 8 (10.67%) High Availability
5 8 (10.67%) Knowledge Transfer
5 8 (10.67%) Mentoring
5 8 (10.67%) Server Management
5 8 (10.67%) Storage Management
5 8 (10.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (5.33%) Business Development
7 2 (2.67%) Agile
7 2 (2.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (2.67%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (2.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (2.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.33%) Bicep
2 1 (1.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (4.00%) CCNA
2 3 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.67%) CCIE
3 2 (2.67%) Degree
3 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.33%) CCNP
4 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.00%) SLA
2 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.33%) GDPR
2 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.33%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (24.00%) Hyper-V
1 18 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (17.33%) Active Directory
3 10 (13.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.33%) OpenView
1 1 (1.33%) Terraform
1 1 (1.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 20 (26.67%) VMware
2 12 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (13.33%) EMC
3 10 (13.33%) Veeam
4 9 (12.00%) Commvault
4 9 (12.00%) IBM
5 8 (10.67%) Dell
5 8 (10.67%) Dell Compellent
5 8 (10.67%) Nimble Storage
6 3 (4.00%) Cisco
6 3 (4.00%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.67%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 2 (2.67%) Aruba
8 1 (1.33%) 3PAR
8 1 (1.33%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.33%) Meraki
8 1 (1.33%) Radware
8 1 (1.33%) Riverbed
8 1 (1.33%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.33%) WatchGuard