HP Contracts

HP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 335 378
Rank change year-on-year +12 +43 -55
Contract jobs citing HP 269 401 609
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.72% 0.70%
As % of the Vendors category 1.47% 1.65% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 283 415
10th Percentile £143 £198 £177
25th Percentile £213 £273 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £428 £425
Median % change year-on-year -18.22% +0.71% -0.23%
75th Percentile £578 £550 £527
90th Percentile £649 £650 £589
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 49
10th Percentile £18.03 £14.49 £12.47
25th Percentile - £17.82 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.13 £18.84 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% -21.20% +67.79%
75th Percentile £23.80 £19.47 -
90th Percentile £24.10 £21.88 £56.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.13 £17.72 £18.75
% change year-on-year +2.31% -5.49% +33.93%

All Vendors
UK

HP is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,277 24,339 35,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.45% 43.42% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,373 16,241 23,612
10th Percentile £263 £265 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 647 855
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.97 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for HP in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for HP in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HP in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for HP in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing HP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for HP in the UK

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Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +23 228 £375 -11.76% 128
UK excluding London -9 173 £350 -17.65% 96
South East +18 87 £285 -32.94% 38
London +57 80 £350 -23.91% 31
Work from Home +34 65 £410 -13.68% 43
South West +24 28 £700 +64.71% 10
Scotland +21 22 £148 -70.20% 6
Midlands -5 14 £500 +73.91% 13
North of England -6 11 £400 -8.57% 17
East Midlands +8 9 £556 +145.86% 5
Wales +7 5 £128 -22.73% 2
Yorkshire +6 5 £375 +7.14% 8
North West +6 5 £400 -12.33% 7
East of England -2 5 £550 +15.79% 12
West Midlands -10 5 £320 -14.67% 8
North East +10 1 £600 +75.18% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £190 -

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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 29 (10.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (10.04%) Confluence
3 8 (2.97%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.12%) IIS
5 2 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.37%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 35 (13.01%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.49%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.23%) SystmOne
2 5 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (1.12%) SAP EWM
5 2 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.37%) MFGPRO
6 1 (0.37%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 46 (17.10%) Azure
2 33 (12.27%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (5.58%) OCI
4 12 (4.46%) AWS
5 10 (3.72%) Entra ID
5 10 (3.72%) SaaS
6 9 (3.35%) GCP
7 8 (2.97%) Nutanix
7 8 (2.97%) Rubrik
8 7 (2.60%) IaaS
8 7 (2.60%) PaaS
9 6 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.86%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (0.74%) OneDrive
13 1 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.37%) Google Workspace
13 1 (0.37%) Power Automate
13 1 (0.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 63 (23.42%) SAN
2 50 (18.59%) Firewall
3 32 (11.90%) LAN
4 31 (11.52%) DNS
5 27 (10.04%) DHCP
6 19 (7.06%) WAN
7 16 (5.95%) NAS
8 14 (5.20%) VPN
8 14 (5.20%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (4.09%) TCP/IP
10 8 (2.97%) Wireless
11 7 (2.60%) VLAN
12 6 (2.23%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (2.23%) Kerberos
13 5 (1.86%) Network Security
14 4 (1.49%) Internet
14 4 (1.49%) SD-WAN
14 4 (1.49%) WLAN
15 3 (1.12%) DKIM
15 3 (1.12%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.35%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.86%) NonStop SQL
3 4 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (1.49%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.74%) MySQL
5 1 (0.37%) DB2
5 1 (0.37%) Power BI
5 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (13.75%) JIRA
2 29 (10.78%) Jenkins
3 22 (8.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 22 (8.18%) Bitbucket
4 11 (4.09%) Selenium
5 7 (2.60%) Git
5 7 (2.60%) WebDriver
6 6 (2.23%) ClearCase
6 6 (2.23%) ClearQuest
6 6 (2.23%) SoapUI
7 5 (1.86%) JMeter
7 5 (1.86%) LoadRunner
7 5 (1.86%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.49%) Appium
8 4 (1.49%) Postman
8 4 (1.49%) Rational DOORS
8 4 (1.49%) Rational Performance Tester
8 4 (1.49%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.74%) Zephyr
General
1 125 (46.47%) Social Skills
2 37 (13.75%) Finance
3 30 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.78%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (7.43%) Public Sector
6 18 (6.69%) Aerospace
7 17 (6.32%) Banking
8 9 (3.35%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.97%) Back Office
10 7 (2.60%) Legal
11 5 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.86%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.12%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.74%) Advertising
13 2 (0.74%) Electronics
13 2 (0.74%) Marketing
13 2 (0.74%) Retail
14 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 44 (16.36%) Support Engineer
2 34 (12.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 25 (9.29%) Desktop Support
3 25 (9.29%) Hardware Engineer
4 23 (8.55%) Desktop Engineer
5 22 (8.18%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 20 (7.43%) Developer
7 17 (6.32%) Analyst
8 15 (5.58%) Network Engineer
9 14 (5.20%) Server Engineer
9 14 (5.20%) Storage Engineer
10 13 (4.83%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
10 13 (4.83%) Senior
11 12 (4.46%) Consultant
12 10 (3.72%) IT Engineer
13 9 (3.35%) Architect
13 9 (3.35%) Data Centre Engineer
13 9 (3.35%) Test Analyst
14 8 (2.97%) Break Fix Engineer
14 8 (2.97%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.18%) .NET
1 22 (8.18%) .NET Core
2 8 (2.97%) LDAP
3 6 (2.23%) SOAP
4 5 (1.86%) XML
5 3 (1.12%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.37%) Ajax
6 1 (0.37%) CSS
6 1 (0.37%) HTML
6 1 (0.37%) Middleware
6 1 (0.37%) Redfish
6 1 (0.37%) REST
6 1 (0.37%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.36%) Data Centre
2 37 (13.75%) Driving Licence
3 29 (10.78%) Video Conferencing
4 12 (4.46%) iPhone
5 11 (4.09%) Clustering
5 11 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.60%) HP Storage
6 7 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.23%) PKI
8 5 (1.86%) NHS
8 5 (1.86%) Replication
8 5 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.86%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.49%) Fat Client
9 4 (1.49%) iPad
9 4 (1.49%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.49%) Thin Client
10 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 140 (52.04%) Windows
2 72 (26.77%) Linux
3 67 (24.91%) Windows 10
4 42 (15.61%) Windows Server
5 36 (13.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 31 (11.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 30 (11.15%) Windows 7
8 19 (7.06%) Windows Server 2019
9 17 (6.32%) Unix
9 17 (6.32%) Windows XP
10 16 (5.95%) Solaris
11 10 (3.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (2.23%) AIX
12 6 (2.23%) Mac OS
13 5 (1.86%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (1.49%) Android
14 4 (1.49%) Apple iOS
14 4 (1.49%) Windows Server 2003
15 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (29.74%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (28.62%) ITIL
3 48 (17.84%) Customer Service
4 38 (14.13%) Disaster Recovery
5 37 (13.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 33 (12.27%) Continuous Integration
7 30 (11.15%) Deployment Automation
8 27 (10.04%) OO
9 26 (9.67%) Agile
9 26 (9.67%) Task Automation
10 25 (9.29%) Break/Fix
10 25 (9.29%) Configuration Management
10 25 (9.29%) Performance Tuning
11 23 (8.55%) OOP
12 22 (8.18%) CI/CD
12 22 (8.18%) Infrastructure Automation
13 21 (7.81%) Software Testing
14 19 (7.06%) Server Management
14 19 (7.06%) Storage Management
15 17 (6.32%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 55 (20.45%) PowerShell
2 33 (12.27%) Python
3 15 (5.58%) SQL
4 8 (2.97%) Bash
5 6 (2.23%) C
5 6 (2.23%) Java
5 6 (2.23%) Shell Script
6 5 (1.86%) C++
7 4 (1.49%) C#
8 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.37%) Perl
8 1 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 107 (39.78%) Security Cleared
2 63 (23.42%) SC Cleared
3 51 (18.96%) DV Cleared
4 42 (15.61%) Degree
5 17 (6.32%) CCNP
5 17 (6.32%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (5.95%) CCNA
7 8 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.86%) Dell Certification
9 4 (1.49%) MCSE
10 3 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.12%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.12%) MCP
10 3 (1.12%) MCSA
11 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.74%) ISEB
11 2 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.37%) RIBA
12 1 (0.37%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.29%) SLA
2 6 (2.23%) GDPR
2 6 (2.23%) QA
2 6 (2.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 62 (23.05%) Active Directory
2 39 (14.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (11.90%) Hyper-V
4 24 (8.92%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (4.83%) Firmware
6 8 (2.97%) vSphere
7 5 (1.86%) BitLocker
7 5 (1.86%) Docker
8 4 (1.49%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.12%) KVM
10 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.74%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.37%) Citrix Presentation Server
11 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 66 (24.54%) SCCM
2 34 (12.64%) Ansible
3 25 (9.29%) EMC NetWorker
4 24 (8.92%) NetBackup
4 24 (8.92%) SCOM
5 22 (8.18%) PowerCLI
6 17 (6.32%) HP ALM
6 17 (6.32%) vCenter Server
7 15 (5.58%) WSUS
8 12 (4.46%) Kubernetes
9 10 (3.72%) Terraform
10 9 (3.35%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (2.60%) HP Quality Center
12 6 (2.23%) HP Data Protector
12 6 (2.23%) Netcool
13 5 (1.86%) AirWatch
13 5 (1.86%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (1.86%) Tivoli
13 5 (1.86%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 5 (1.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 98 (36.43%) Dell
2 95 (35.32%) Microsoft
3 63 (23.42%) Cisco
4 50 (18.59%) VMware
5 41 (15.24%) EMC
6 36 (13.38%) Oracle
7 27 (10.04%) ServiceNow
8 26 (9.67%) Citrix
9 22 (8.18%) Atlassian
9 22 (8.18%) Symantec
10 19 (7.06%) Aruba
11 17 (6.32%) Juniper
12 16 (5.95%) Avaya
12 16 (5.95%) Palo Alto
13 15 (5.58%) 3PAR
13 15 (5.58%) IBM
13 15 (5.58%) Veeam
14 14 (5.20%) CheckPoint
14 14 (5.20%) Extreme Networks
15 12 (4.46%) SAP