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 20 April 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
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 302 256
Rank change year-on-year -44 -46 +99
Contract jobs citing Dell 59 53 141
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.34% 0.42% 0.79%
As % of the Vendors category 0.78% 0.92% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 34 78
10th Percentile £190 £156 £171
25th Percentile £278 £212 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £385
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +20.13% -14.44%
75th Percentile £563 £622 £566
90th Percentile £669 £750 £638
England median daily rate £450 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +5.88% -8.21% +15.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 6
10th Percentile £18.61 £20.09 £21.00
25th Percentile £20.09 £23.03 £32.44
Median hourly rate £23.71 £24.66 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% -63.47% +195.60%
75th Percentile £25.77 - £71.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.09 £24.18 £63.75
% change year-on-year -16.91% -62.07% +207.90%

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 7,580 5,758 7,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.52% 45.30% 40.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,000 3,783 4,951
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £667
90th Percentile £738 £770 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 89 144
10th Percentile £18.24 £15.84 £13.86
25th Percentile £21.84 £23.50 £16.97
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £24.93
Median % change year-on-year +11.80% +16.62% -4.13%
75th Percentile £46.13 £51.25 £39.41
90th Percentile £69.00 £67.75 £69.85
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% -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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -19 2 £475 -2.56% 8
West London -26 1 £500 +96.08% 2
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 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.39%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.42%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (22.03%) Azure
3 6 (10.17%) Boomi
4 4 (6.78%) AWS
4 4 (6.78%) Azure Stack
5 3 (5.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.39%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.69%) GCP
7 1 (1.69%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.69%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (22.03%) Wireless
2 9 (15.25%) DHCP
2 9 (15.25%) DNS
2 9 (15.25%) Firewall
2 9 (15.25%) VSAN
3 8 (13.56%) LAN
3 8 (13.56%) WAN
4 6 (10.17%) VLAN
5 5 (8.47%) Network Security
5 5 (8.47%) VPN
6 3 (5.08%) BGP
6 3 (5.08%) Multicast
6 3 (5.08%) SAN
6 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.39%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (3.39%) InfiniBand
7 2 (3.39%) NAS
8 1 (1.69%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (1.69%) MPLS
8 1 (1.69%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Git
2 2 (3.39%) GitLab
2 2 (3.39%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) Postman
3 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (23.73%) Banking
1 14 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.86%) Finance
3 5 (8.47%) Legal
3 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.78%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Electronics
6 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.69%) Marketing
6 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (16.95%) Support Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) IT Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) Server Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Data Centre Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) IT Support
5 6 (10.17%) Field Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Break Fix Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Field Support Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Migration Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Server Support
8 3 (5.08%) Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) Desktop Support
8 3 (5.08%) Senior
8 3 (5.08%) VMware Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Windows Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Windows Server Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) Middleware
2 5 (8.47%) XML
3 3 (5.08%) JSON
3 3 (5.08%) REST
3 3 (5.08%) SOAP
4 1 (1.69%) Kafka
4 1 (1.69%) Web Services
4 1 (1.69%) XSD
4 1 (1.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 22 (37.29%) Data Centre
2 7 (11.86%) Driving Licence
3 6 (10.17%) Replication
4 5 (8.47%) Clustering
5 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (5.08%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (5.08%) PKI
6 2 (3.39%) CUDA
6 2 (3.39%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.69%) CMDB
7 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.69%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.69%) Robotics
7 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.69%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 25 (42.37%) Windows
2 13 (22.03%) Android
2 13 (22.03%) Mac OS
2 13 (22.03%) Windows Server
3 11 (18.64%) Linux
4 10 (16.95%) Windows 10
5 7 (11.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (6.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (6.78%) SUSE
6 4 (6.78%) VMS
7 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.69%) Debian
7 1 (1.69%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.42%) Break/Fix
2 11 (18.64%) Customer Service
3 9 (15.25%) Migration
4 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (11.86%) Validation
6 6 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (8.47%) Coaching
7 5 (8.47%) Data Mapping
7 5 (8.47%) ITSM
8 4 (6.78%) Architectural Design
8 4 (6.78%) High Availability
8 4 (6.78%) Remediation Plan
8 4 (6.78%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (5.08%) Converged Infrastructure
9 3 (5.08%) DevOps
9 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (5.08%) Knowledge Transfer
9 3 (5.08%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (5.08%) Server Management
9 3 (5.08%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.64%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.78%) Python
3 3 (5.08%) Bash
3 3 (5.08%) SQL
4 2 (3.39%) C
5 1 (1.69%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 18 (30.51%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.56%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.47%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.08%) Degree
6 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.69%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.69%) CCNA
7 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.69%) MCSE
7 1 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.69%) VCAP
7 1 (1.69%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) SLA
2 2 (3.39%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.69%) NCSC
3 1 (1.69%) NIST
3 1 (1.69%) NIST 800
System Software
1 14 (23.73%) VMware Infrastructure
1 14 (23.73%) vSphere
2 11 (18.64%) Active Directory
3 8 (13.56%) Firmware
3 8 (13.56%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (10.17%) Hyper-V
5 5 (8.47%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (6.78%) Docker
6 4 (6.78%) VMware NSX
7 2 (3.39%) Ceph
7 2 (3.39%) Lustre
7 2 (3.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (3.39%) vCloud
8 1 (1.69%) BitLocker
8 1 (1.69%) KVM
8 1 (1.69%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.69%) QEMU
8 1 (1.69%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (10.17%) vCenter Server
1 6 (10.17%) VxRail
2 5 (8.47%) SCCM
3 4 (6.78%) Ansible
3 4 (6.78%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (6.78%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.08%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (3.39%) Grafana
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.69%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.69%) SCOM
6 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.69%) Terraform
6 1 (1.69%) vMotion
Vendors
1 22 (37.29%) HP
2 18 (30.51%) Cisco
3 17 (28.81%) VMware
4 13 (22.03%) Apple
5 9 (15.25%) IBM
6 6 (10.17%) SAP
6 6 (10.17%) ServiceNow
7 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
7 5 (8.47%) Remedy
8 3 (5.08%) F5
8 3 (5.08%) Fortinet
8 3 (5.08%) NVIDIA
8 3 (5.08%) Palo Alto
8 3 (5.08%) Red Hat
8 3 (5.08%) Supermicro
9 2 (3.39%) CheckPoint
9 2 (3.39%) Concur
9 2 (3.39%) Google
9 2 (3.39%) Mellanox
9 2 (3.39%) MuleSoft