HP ALM Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 643 760
Rank change year-on-year +88 +117 -112
Contract jobs citing HP ALM 20 39 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.070% 0.089%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.38% 0.44% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 31 54
10th Percentile £408 £363 £306
25th Percentile £463 £444 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £419
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +22.39% -1.47%
75th Percentile £538 £581 £500
90th Percentile £563 £624 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £513 £400
% change year-on-year +1.22% +28.13% -15.79%

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 5,219 8,830 13,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 15.75% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 6,309 9,985
10th Percentile £275 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 202 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £13.42
25th Percentile £20.38 £25.71 £15.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%
75th Percentile £51.44 £73.74 £43.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.68 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -12.74%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for HP ALM in the UK

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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 8 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 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 +59 10 £513 -1.20% 3
Work from Home +114 9 £500 -
UK excluding London +14 7 £519 +1.22%
South East +4 5 £525 -7.00%
London +91 3 £513 -2.38% 1
North West +13 1 - -
North of England +12 1 - -
East of England +5 1 £513 +0.20%

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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 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Geospatial Data
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) ClearCase
1 6 (30.00%) ClearQuest
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
2 5 (25.00%) Selenium
2 5 (25.00%) SoapUI
3 4 (20.00%) JMeter
3 4 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (15.00%) Postman
5 2 (10.00%) Gatling
6 1 (5.00%) JUnit
6 1 (5.00%) Maven
6 1 (5.00%) TestNG
6 1 (5.00%) WebDriver
6 1 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Test Manager
2 4 (20.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Lead
2 4 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Salesforce Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.00%) C++ Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Manual Tester
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Manager
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Test Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Test Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Test Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Test Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) UAT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) SOAP
2 4 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Agile
1 9 (45.00%) Scrum
2 7 (35.00%) Kanban
2 7 (35.00%) Test Management
3 5 (25.00%) OO
3 5 (25.00%) Open Source
3 5 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 4 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (15.00%) BDD
5 3 (15.00%) Defect Management
5 3 (15.00%) Manual Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Memory Management
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting
5 3 (15.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) C
1 4 (20.00%) C++
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (10.00%) ISEB
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) HP
2 7 (35.00%) SAP
3 6 (30.00%) Oracle
4 4 (20.00%) Ariba
4 4 (20.00%) Sparx
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (5.00%) Micro Focus