HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for HP ALM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HP ALM over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 664 755
Rank change year-on-year +106 +91 -136
Contract jobs citing HP ALM 24 39 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.067% 0.096%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.47% 0.42% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 60
10th Percentile £338 £231 £306
25th Percentile £409 £413 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £406
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +29.23% -9.72%
75th Percentile £523 £588 £503
90th Percentile £563 £624 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £530 £400
% change year-on-year -3.30% +32.50% -21.95%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

HP ALM is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,099 9,284 13,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.86% 16.04% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,659 6,677 10,044
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £562 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% -0.53% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 209 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.48 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.72 £23.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.00 £47.84
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.60 £65.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -9.09%

HP ALM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for HP ALM in the UK

HP ALM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HP ALM.

Daily rate trend for HP ALM in the UK

HP ALM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP ALM over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HP ALM in the UK

HP ALM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HP ALM.

Hourly rate trend for HP ALM in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP ALM within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
England +71 12 £513 -2.38% 8
Work from Home +125 11 £425 -17.07%
UK excluding London +33 8 £513 -3.30% 3
South East +12 5 £525 -7.00% 1
London +93 4 £513 -1.20% 5
North of England +26 1 - - 1
Midlands +21 1 £425 +78.95% 1
North West +20 1 - -
West Midlands +18 1 £425 - 1
East of England +15 1 £513 +0.20%

HP ALM
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 (4.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
2 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Geospatial Data
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) JIRA
2 7 (29.17%) Selenium
3 6 (25.00%) ClearCase
3 6 (25.00%) ClearQuest
3 6 (25.00%) Postman
4 5 (20.83%) SoapUI
5 4 (16.67%) Cucumber
5 4 (16.67%) JMeter
5 4 (16.67%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (12.50%) Gatling
7 2 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (4.17%) JUnit
8 1 (4.17%) Maven
8 1 (4.17%) TestNG
8 1 (4.17%) WebDriver
8 1 (4.17%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Analyst
1 6 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 6 (25.00%) Test Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Lead
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Automation Test Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) Salesforce Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Test Leader
4 1 (4.17%) Manual Tester
4 1 (4.17%) QA Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) SAP Manager
4 1 (4.17%) SAP Test Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) SAP Test Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Test Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) UAT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) SOAP
2 4 (16.67%) XML
3 2 (8.33%) Playwright
3 2 (8.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Agile
2 9 (37.50%) Scrum
2 9 (37.50%) Test Management
3 8 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 7 (29.17%) Kanban
5 5 (20.83%) BDD
5 5 (20.83%) Defect Management
5 5 (20.83%) OO
5 5 (20.83%) Open Source
5 5 (20.83%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (20.83%) Test Scripting
5 5 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 4 (16.67%) Multithreading
6 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 4 (16.67%) Test Strategy
7 3 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (12.50%) Sprint Backlog
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) C
1 4 (16.67%) C++
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (4.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 15 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) ISTQB
3 2 (8.33%) ISEB
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 20 (83.33%) HP
2 7 (29.17%) SAP
3 6 (25.00%) Oracle
4 4 (16.67%) Ariba
4 4 (16.67%) Sparx
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (4.17%) Micro Focus
6 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow