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 16 May 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
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 302 250
Rank change year-on-year -67 -52 +101
Contract jobs citing Dell 49 53 136
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.43% 0.78%
As % of the Vendors category 0.65% 0.94% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 34 71
10th Percentile £200 £147 £225
25th Percentile £413 £188 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +10.29% -
75th Percentile £610 £629 £544
90th Percentile £688 £750 £641
England median daily rate £475 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 10
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.09 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.85 £23.03 £18.60
Median hourly rate £23.62 £24.66 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -4.24% +3.61% +11.55%
75th Percentile £25.77 - £71.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £19.85 £18.87 £23.80
% change year-on-year +5.19% -20.71% +14.95%

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 7,567 5,649 7,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.03% 45.55% 40.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,996 3,705 4,885
10th Percentile £350 £331 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% -0.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £519
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.11% -2.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 93 128
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.86
25th Percentile £22.97 £22.27 £16.86
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +29.20% -19.64%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £35.06
90th Percentile £77.98 £67.00 £58.63
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.39 £22.50
% change year-on-year +23.14% +17.30% -41.56%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -14 2 £475 -15.56% 3
West London -23 1 £500 +96.08% 1
North London - 1 £225 -
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 2 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (4.08%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.49%) Azure
2 6 (12.24%) Boomi
3 5 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.16%) AWS
4 4 (8.16%) Azure Stack
5 3 (6.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.08%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.04%) GCP
7 1 (2.04%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.04%) iPaaS
7 1 (2.04%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.37%) Firewall
1 9 (18.37%) VSAN
2 8 (16.33%) DHCP
2 8 (16.33%) DNS
2 8 (16.33%) LAN
2 8 (16.33%) WAN
3 6 (12.24%) VLAN
4 5 (10.20%) Network Security
4 5 (10.20%) VPN
4 5 (10.20%) Wireless
5 3 (6.12%) BGP
5 3 (6.12%) Multicast
5 3 (6.12%) SAN
5 3 (6.12%) TCP/IP
6 2 (4.08%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (4.08%) InfiniBand
6 2 (4.08%) NAS
7 1 (2.04%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (2.04%) EIGRP
7 1 (2.04%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Git
2 2 (4.08%) GitLab
2 2 (4.08%) JIRA
2 2 (4.08%) Postman
3 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.29%) Banking
3 6 (12.24%) Finance
4 5 (10.20%) Legal
5 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (14.29%) Server Engineer
2 6 (12.24%) Data Centre Engineer
2 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (12.24%) Support Engineer
3 5 (10.20%) IT Engineer
3 5 (10.20%) Migration Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Break Fix Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Field Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Architect
5 3 (6.12%) Consultant
5 3 (6.12%) Field Support Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) IT Support
5 3 (6.12%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Server Support
6 2 (4.08%) Functional Consultant
6 2 (4.08%) SAP Tester
6 2 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Tester
6 2 (4.08%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) Middleware
2 5 (10.20%) XML
3 3 (6.12%) JSON
3 3 (6.12%) REST
3 3 (6.12%) SOAP
4 1 (2.04%) Kafka
4 1 (2.04%) Web Services
4 1 (2.04%) XSD
4 1 (2.04%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.69%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.20%) Clustering
2 5 (10.20%) Replication
3 4 (8.16%) Driving Licence
4 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (6.12%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.08%) CUDA
5 2 (4.08%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (4.08%) PKI
5 2 (4.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.04%) CMDB
6 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.04%) Device Driver
6 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Reinsurance
6 1 (2.04%) Robotics
6 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.04%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 18 (36.73%) Windows
2 11 (22.45%) Linux
2 11 (22.45%) Windows Server
3 7 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (8.16%) Android
4 4 (8.16%) Mac OS
4 4 (8.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (8.16%) SUSE
4 4 (8.16%) VMS
4 4 (8.16%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.04%) Debian
5 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (24.49%) Break/Fix
2 9 (18.37%) Migration
3 8 (16.33%) Customer Service
4 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (14.29%) Validation
5 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.20%) Data Mapping
7 4 (8.16%) Architectural Design
7 4 (8.16%) High Availability
7 4 (8.16%) Remediation Plan
7 4 (8.16%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (6.12%) Coaching
8 3 (6.12%) Converged Infrastructure
8 3 (6.12%) Data Centre Operations
8 3 (6.12%) DevOps
8 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (6.12%) Knowledge Transfer
8 3 (6.12%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (6.12%) Server Management
8 3 (6.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.41%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.16%) Python
3 3 (6.12%) Bash
3 3 (6.12%) SQL
4 2 (4.08%) C
5 1 (2.04%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 10 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.16%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.08%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.04%) CCNA
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.04%) MCSE
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.04%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.04%) VCAP
5 1 (2.04%) VCDX
5 1 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) SLA
2 2 (4.08%) QA
3 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.04%) NCSC
3 1 (2.04%) NIST
3 1 (2.04%) NIST 800
System Software
1 13 (26.53%) VMware Infrastructure
1 13 (26.53%) vSphere
2 9 (18.37%) Active Directory
3 7 (14.29%) Firmware
3 7 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (12.24%) Hyper-V
5 5 (10.20%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (8.16%) Docker
6 4 (8.16%) VMware NSX
7 2 (4.08%) Ceph
7 2 (4.08%) Lustre
7 2 (4.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (4.08%) vCloud
8 1 (2.04%) BitLocker
8 1 (2.04%) KVM
8 1 (2.04%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (2.04%) QEMU
8 1 (2.04%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (12.24%) VxRail
2 5 (10.20%) vCenter Server
3 4 (8.16%) Ansible
3 4 (8.16%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (8.16%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (6.12%) SCCM
5 2 (4.08%) Grafana
5 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.04%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.04%) Terraform
6 1 (2.04%) vMotion
Vendors
1 16 (32.65%) VMware
2 14 (28.57%) HP
3 10 (20.41%) Cisco
4 9 (18.37%) IBM
5 5 (10.20%) Apple
5 5 (10.20%) SAP
6 4 (8.16%) ServiceNow
7 3 (6.12%) F5
7 3 (6.12%) Fortinet
7 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
7 3 (6.12%) NVIDIA
7 3 (6.12%) Palo Alto
7 3 (6.12%) Red Hat
7 3 (6.12%) Remedy
7 3 (6.12%) Supermicro
8 2 (4.08%) CheckPoint
8 2 (4.08%) Concur
8 2 (4.08%) Mellanox
8 2 (4.08%) MuleSoft
8 2 (4.08%) Oracle