Dell Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Dell
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 19 October 2025, 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
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 116 112
Rank change year-on-year -15 -4 +30
Contract jobs citing Dell 24 22 32
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.86% 0.82% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 1.71% 1.76% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 13
10th Percentile £128 £323 £268
25th Percentile £141 £475 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £158 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -68.50% +33.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £229 £756 £550
90th Percentile £396 - £575
England median daily rate £413 £500 £413
% change year-on-year -17.50% +21.21% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £18.69 £19.18 -
25th Percentile - £25.11 -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% - -
75th Percentile £23.55 - -
90th Percentile £25.11 - -
England median hourly rate £18.87 £20.97 £23.50
% change year-on-year -9.99% -10.79% -1.71%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,405 1,253 1,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 50.45% 46.82% 50.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 912 806 973
10th Percentile £250 £245 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 27 44
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.96 £12.30
25th Percentile £18.60 £15.05 £15.07
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.00 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +47.94% -13.92% +12.86%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £36.44
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% -21.35% +80.56%

Dell
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Dell job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Dell
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Dell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Dell

Dell
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dell in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dell in the Midlands

Dell
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Dell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Dell

Dell
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dell within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 October 2025. 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
East Midlands +4 17 £158 -53.33% 8
West Midlands -25 7 £232 -57.91% 10
Dell
England

Dell
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) AtomSphere
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) DNS
1 4 (16.67%) Wireless
2 3 (12.50%) DHCP
2 3 (12.50%) PuTTY
2 3 (12.50%) SSH
2 3 (12.50%) Telnet
3 2 (8.33%) Firewall
3 2 (8.33%) SAN
3 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.33%) VLAN
3 2 (8.33%) VPN
4 1 (4.17%) Multicast
4 1 (4.17%) SSL
4 1 (4.17%) VoIP
4 1 (4.17%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.67%) Electronics
3 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 4 (16.67%) Marketing
3 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Automotive
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) IT Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) IT Support
3 4 (16.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 4 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (16.67%) Break Fix Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Desktop Support
3 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
3 4 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Field Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Field Service Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Hardware Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Network Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Network Support
5 1 (4.17%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Server Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) SOAP
2 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 5 (20.83%) Driving Licence
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.17%) IoT
4 1 (4.17%) PKI
4 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Windows
2 5 (20.83%) Linux
2 5 (20.83%) Mac OS
3 4 (16.67%) Android
3 4 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 4 (16.67%) Windows 7
4 3 (12.50%) Windows 8
5 1 (4.17%) Unix
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Break/Fix
2 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.83%) Asset Management
3 5 (20.83%) Customer Service
3 5 (20.83%) Ticket Management
4 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (16.67%) ITIL
4 4 (16.67%) Programme Management
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (8.33%) Customer Experience
6 2 (8.33%) Line Management
6 2 (8.33%) Migration
7 1 (4.17%) API Management
7 1 (4.17%) Change Management
7 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
7 1 (4.17%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (4.17%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (4.17%) Integration Patterns
7 1 (4.17%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (45.83%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) A+ Certification
4 2 (8.33%) CCNA
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.33%) MCSE
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
5 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) Firmware
3 3 (12.50%) BitLocker
3 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.17%) Terminal Services
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (4.17%) Nessus
2 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (4.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) HP
2 9 (37.50%) Cisco
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.83%) SAP
4 4 (16.67%) Apple
5 3 (12.50%) Draytek
5 3 (12.50%) McAfee
5 3 (12.50%) VMware
6 2 (8.33%) IBM
6 2 (8.33%) Veeam
7 1 (4.17%) Bomgar
7 1 (4.17%) Citrix
7 1 (4.17%) Computacenter
7 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
7 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
7 1 (4.17%) Workday
7 1 (4.17%) Zerto