Dell Contract Job Trends in London

Dell
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of Dell products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Dell over the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Dell, Inc.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 316 254
Rank change year-on-year +7 -62 +125
Contract jobs citing Dell 72 39 140
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 0.29% 0.75%
As % of the Vendors category 1.07% 0.65% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 25 89
10th Percentile £154 £175 £124
25th Percentile £190 £206 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £350 £375
Median % change year-on-year +26.36% -6.67% -25.00%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £538
90th Percentile £550 £562 £638
England median daily rate £413 £400 £413
% change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 4
10th Percentile £21.21 - £20.60
25th Percentile - - £21.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.66 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% +12.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile - - £22.56
90th Percentile £25.77 - £23.58
England median hourly rate £20.09 £24.18 £22.00
% change year-on-year -16.91% +9.91% +5.50%

All Vendors
London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,750 6,027 7,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.04% 44.08% 40.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,433 3,701 5,159
10th Percentile £340 £313 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £502 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.43% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 70 154
10th Percentile £17.93 £22.19 £13.86
25th Percentile £21.35 £24.26 £17.20
Median hourly rate £25.77 £34.25 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +21.24% +13.00%
75th Percentile £42.14 £60.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.75 £77.13
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.67% - -7.69%

Dell
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Dell relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Dell job vacancy trend in London

Dell
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Dell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Dell

Dell
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dell in London over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Dell in London

Dell
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Dell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Dell

Dell
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dell within the London region over the 6 months to 2 February 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -3 5 - - 4
South London - 1 £175 - 1
Dell
England

Dell
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.78%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (47.22%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (12.50%) Azure
3 5 (6.94%) AWS
3 5 (6.94%) Boomi
4 4 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.39%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.39%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.39%) PaaS
7 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (34.72%) Wireless
2 8 (11.11%) DHCP
2 8 (11.11%) DNS
3 5 (6.94%) LAN
3 5 (6.94%) SAN
3 5 (6.94%) VSAN
3 5 (6.94%) WAN
4 4 (5.56%) BGP
4 4 (5.56%) Firewall
5 3 (4.17%) MPLS
5 3 (4.17%) Multicast
5 3 (4.17%) NAS
5 3 (4.17%) Network Security
5 3 (4.17%) OSPF
5 3 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.17%) VLAN
6 2 (2.78%) 4G
6 2 (2.78%) InfiniBand
6 2 (2.78%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (2.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.39%) Redis
2 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Git
1 3 (4.17%) GitLab
2 2 (2.78%) JIRA
2 2 (2.78%) Postman
3 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (30.56%) Banking
2 13 (18.06%) Finance
2 13 (18.06%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.28%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.11%) Marketing
5 7 (9.72%) Electronics
5 7 (9.72%) Manufacturing
5 7 (9.72%) Telecoms
6 5 (6.94%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (4.17%) Legal
9 2 (2.78%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (19.44%) IT Support
2 12 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 12 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 9 (12.50%) Desktop Support
4 8 (11.11%) Senior
4 8 (11.11%) Server Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 7 (9.72%) 2nd Line Support
5 7 (9.72%) Architect
5 7 (9.72%) IT Support Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
6 6 (8.33%) Field Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Field Support Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Senior Wintel Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Wintel Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Break Fix Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Data Centre Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.56%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.56%) Middleware
2 3 (4.17%) XML
3 2 (2.78%) REST
3 2 (2.78%) SOAP
4 1 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.39%) JSON
4 1 (1.39%) Kafka
4 1 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.39%) Web Services
4 1 (1.39%) XSD
4 1 (1.39%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 29 (40.28%) Data Centre
2 8 (11.11%) Driving Licence
3 7 (9.72%) PKI
4 5 (6.94%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.78%) CUDA
5 2 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.78%) EMC VMAX
5 2 (2.78%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) Replication
6 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.39%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.39%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.39%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.39%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.39%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 29 (40.28%) Windows
2 27 (37.50%) Android
2 27 (37.50%) Mac OS
3 17 (23.61%) Windows Server
4 11 (15.28%) Windows 10
5 7 (9.72%) Linux
6 5 (6.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.39%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (19.44%) Break/Fix
1 14 (19.44%) Customer Service
2 7 (9.72%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (9.72%) Digital Marketing
2 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (9.72%) Programme Management
3 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (6.94%) Architectural Design
4 5 (6.94%) Coaching
4 5 (6.94%) ITSM
4 5 (6.94%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (4.17%) Agile
5 3 (4.17%) Data Mapping
5 3 (4.17%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (4.17%) Observability
5 3 (4.17%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (4.17%) Roadmaps
5 3 (4.17%) Workflow
5 3 (4.17%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.56%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.17%) Python
3 2 (2.78%) Bash
3 2 (2.78%) C
3 2 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 25 (34.72%) SC Cleared
3 11 (15.28%) DV Cleared
4 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.78%) Degree
7 1 (1.39%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.39%) CCNA
7 1 (1.39%) CCNP
7 1 (1.39%) CISSP
7 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.39%) MCSE
7 1 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.39%) VCAP
7 1 (1.39%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) SLA
2 4 (5.56%) NIST
3 1 (1.39%) NCSC
3 1 (1.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 14 (19.44%) vSphere
3 9 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (6.94%) Docker
4 5 (6.94%) VMware NSX
5 4 (5.56%) Firmware
6 3 (4.17%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.78%) Ceph
7 2 (2.78%) Lustre
7 2 (2.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (2.78%) vCloud
7 2 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (8.33%) SCCM
1 6 (8.33%) SCOM
2 4 (5.56%) Prometheus
2 4 (5.56%) Terraform
3 3 (4.17%) Ansible
3 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.78%) Grafana
4 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (2.78%) VxRail
5 1 (1.39%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (1.39%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (1.39%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (44.44%) HP
2 28 (38.89%) Apple
2 28 (38.89%) Cisco
3 17 (23.61%) VMware
4 14 (19.44%) Microsoft
5 9 (12.50%) SAP
6 5 (6.94%) IBM
6 5 (6.94%) Remedy
6 5 (6.94%) ServiceNow
7 3 (4.17%) EMC
7 3 (4.17%) F5
7 3 (4.17%) Isilon
7 3 (4.17%) MuleSoft
7 3 (4.17%) NVIDIA
7 3 (4.17%) Palo Alto
7 3 (4.17%) Red Hat
7 3 (4.17%) Supermicro
8 2 (2.78%) Concur
8 2 (2.78%) Mellanox
8 2 (2.78%) Veeam