HP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 19 April 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
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 474 379
Rank change year-on-year +104 -95 +22
Permanent jobs citing HP 401 174 640
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.42% 0.68%
As % of the Vendors category 1.77% 1.06% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 124 154 575
10th Percentile £24,000 £31,250 £26,450
25th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £64,625 £67,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,500 £47,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -27.37% +26.67% -8.54%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,648 16,484 35,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.06% 39.48% 37.35%
Number of salaries quoted 12,155 10,197 25,248
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £26,700
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

HP job vacancy trend in the UK

HP
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HP

HP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing HP over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for HP in the UK

HP
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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
UK excluding London +103 331 £34,500 -27.37% 85
England +42 288 £40,000 -11.11% 89
Midlands +10 88 £45,000 -10.00% 25
South East -14 63 £35,000 -36.36% 28
Scotland - 61 £22,500 - 3
North of England -43 55 £30,000 -7.69% 14
East Midlands -28 49 £30,000 -40.00% 19
West Midlands -2 39 £56,400 +18.74% 6
London -8 39 £42,500 -5.56% 15
Work from Home -7 33 £52,500 +5.00% 33
North West -17 33 £28,000 -13.85% 9
South West -35 27 £45,000 -25.00% 6
Northern Ireland - 20 - - 1
North East - 15 - -
East of England -28 12 £48,750 +21.88% 4
Yorkshire -51 7 £57,500 +64.29% 5
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Wales -30 1 - - 5

HP
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:

Application Platforms
1 30 (7.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (3.24%) Exchange Server 2007
2 13 (3.24%) Exchange Server 2010
2 13 (3.24%) Exchange Server 2013
3 12 (2.99%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.00%) IIS
5 3 (0.75%) Confluence
6 2 (0.50%) Apache
6 2 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 34 (8.48%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.25%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 80 (19.95%) Azure
2 47 (11.72%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (9.48%) AWS
4 32 (7.98%) Entra ID
5 28 (6.98%) Nutanix
6 9 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (2.00%) OneDrive
7 8 (2.00%) SaaS
8 5 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.75%) Google Workspace
9 3 (0.75%) PaaS
9 3 (0.75%) Siteimprove
10 2 (0.50%) BrowserStack
10 2 (0.50%) IaaS
10 2 (0.50%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.50%) Serverless
10 2 (0.50%) Viva Engage
11 1 (0.25%) GitHub
11 1 (0.25%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.25%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 54 (13.47%) DHCP
1 54 (13.47%) DNS
2 37 (9.23%) Firewall
3 30 (7.48%) Remote Desktop
4 20 (4.99%) WAN
5 19 (4.74%) TCP/IP
6 15 (3.74%) LAN
6 15 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (3.24%) Wireless
8 12 (2.99%) VPN
9 9 (2.24%) SAN
9 9 (2.24%) VLAN
10 8 (2.00%) Network Security
11 6 (1.50%) NAS
11 6 (1.50%) SD-WAN
12 5 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (1.25%) VoIP
13 4 (1.00%) NetScaler
13 4 (1.00%) SNMP
14 3 (0.75%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.00%) GIS
2 5 (1.25%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.50%) Big Data
4 2 (0.50%) Informix
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 5 (1.25%) JIRA
1 5 (1.25%) Selenium
2 3 (0.75%) TestRail
2 3 (0.75%) Toad
2 3 (0.75%) Zephyr
3 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.50%) GitLab
3 2 (0.50%) NUnit
3 2 (0.50%) SpecFlow
3 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.25%) Git
4 1 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 75 (18.70%) Social Skills
2 33 (8.23%) Public Sector
3 24 (5.99%) Finance
4 20 (4.99%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.00%) Military
7 6 (1.50%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.00%) Law
10 3 (0.75%) Advertising
10 3 (0.75%) Marketing
11 2 (0.50%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.50%) Banking
11 2 (0.50%) Retail
12 1 (0.25%) Electronics
12 1 (0.25%) Legal
12 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (19.95%) Field Engineer
2 78 (19.45%) Field Service Engineer
3 48 (11.97%) Senior
4 33 (8.23%) Support Engineer
5 32 (7.98%) Consultant
6 28 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 27 (6.73%) IT Support
7 27 (6.73%) Senior Consultant
8 23 (5.74%) Lead
9 22 (5.49%) IT Engineer
10 20 (4.99%) IT Support Engineer
11 16 (3.99%) Print Operator
12 15 (3.74%) Account Manager
12 15 (3.74%) Trainee
13 14 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (3.24%) Analyst
15 12 (2.99%) Coordinator
16 11 (2.74%) Business Manager
17 10 (2.49%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 10 (2.49%) Bid Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.50%) 802.1X
1 2 (0.50%) LDAP
1 2 (0.50%) XML
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (0.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.48%) Public Cloud
2 29 (7.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (6.98%) PKI
4 27 (6.73%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.99%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.24%) Driving Licence
7 7 (1.75%) Enterprise Storage
7 7 (1.75%) iSeries
7 7 (1.75%) Replication
8 5 (1.25%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.00%) iPhone
9 4 (1.00%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.00%) Smartphone
9 4 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.75%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.75%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.75%) Web Conferencing
11 2 (0.50%) IoT
11 2 (0.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 92 (22.94%) Windows
2 51 (12.72%) Windows Server
3 17 (4.24%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (3.99%) Linux
4 16 (3.99%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (3.74%) Windows 10
5 15 (3.74%) Windows Server 2008
6 9 (2.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (2.00%) Windows 7
8 5 (1.25%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.00%) Unix
10 3 (0.75%) Android
11 2 (0.50%) CentOS
11 2 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.25%) HPUX
12 1 (0.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (14.46%) ITIL
2 42 (10.47%) Disaster Recovery
3 39 (9.73%) Change Management
4 35 (8.73%) ITSM
5 34 (8.48%) Server Management
6 30 (7.48%) Mentoring
6 30 (7.48%) Storage Management
7 28 (6.98%) Business Continuity
7 28 (6.98%) Business Strategy
7 28 (6.98%) Coaching
7 28 (6.98%) High Availability
7 28 (6.98%) Knowledge Transfer
7 28 (6.98%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 27 (6.73%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (5.49%) Customer Service
10 20 (4.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (3.99%) Business Development
11 16 (3.99%) CRM
12 10 (2.49%) B2B
12 10 (2.49%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (3.99%) PowerShell
2 12 (2.99%) Python
3 4 (1.00%) Java
3 4 (1.00%) Perl
4 3 (0.75%) Bash
5 2 (0.50%) Bicep
5 2 (0.50%) C
5 2 (0.50%) C#
5 2 (0.50%) C++
5 2 (0.50%) COBOL
5 2 (0.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (6.98%) Security Cleared
2 18 (4.49%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.24%) Degree
4 10 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (2.24%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.75%) DBS Check
7 6 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.25%) CCNA
8 5 (1.25%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (1.00%) A+ Certification
9 4 (1.00%) MCDST
9 4 (1.00%) MCITP
9 4 (1.00%) MCSA
9 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.75%) CCIE
10 3 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.50%) CCNP
11 2 (0.50%) HND
11 2 (0.50%) ISEB
11 2 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.23%) SLA
2 6 (1.50%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.75%) QA
4 3 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.50%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 82 (20.45%) Active Directory
2 58 (14.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (13.72%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.00%) Firmware
5 6 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (2.49%) SCCM
3 6 (1.50%) SCOM
4 5 (1.25%) Ansible
4 5 (1.25%) HP ALM
4 5 (1.25%) NetBackup
4 5 (1.25%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 4 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
5 4 (1.00%) ServiceCenter
5 4 (1.00%) VxRail
5 4 (1.00%) WSUS
6 3 (0.75%) Autotask
6 3 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.75%) PaperCut
7 2 (0.50%) OpenView
7 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 2 (0.50%) Terraform
7 2 (0.50%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 79 (19.70%) Dell
2 78 (19.45%) Microsoft
3 64 (15.96%) VMware
4 47 (11.72%) Cisco
5 28 (6.98%) Dell Compellent
5 28 (6.98%) Nimble Storage
6 21 (5.24%) Veeam
7 18 (4.49%) Aruba
8 16 (3.99%) Meraki
9 15 (3.74%) IBM
10 13 (3.24%) EMC
10 13 (3.24%) Palo Alto
11 11 (2.74%) Commvault
12 10 (2.49%) ServiceNow
13 9 (2.24%) Juniper
14 8 (2.00%) Apple
14 8 (2.00%) Bloomberg
15 7 (1.75%) Oracle
16 6 (1.50%) Fortinet
16 6 (1.50%) McAfee