Dell Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Dell
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 1 March 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
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 30 44
Rank change year-on-year -59 +14 +6
Contract jobs citing Dell 6 8 5
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.67% 3.28% 1.42%
As % of the Vendors category 1.20% 6.06% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile - £356 £529
25th Percentile £500 £425 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £477 £563
Median % change year-on-year +20.55% -15.20% +9.22%
75th Percentile £613 £497 £584
90th Percentile £619 £508 £586
South Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £477 £415
% change year-on-year +20.55% +14.94% +23.88%

All Vendors
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 498 132 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 55.70% 54.10% 52.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 81 110
10th Percentile £357 £220 £228
25th Percentile £428 £285 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £506
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.17% -7.95%
75th Percentile £559 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £476 £450
% change year-on-year +5.04% +5.78% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £15.74 - -
25th Percentile £16.34 £15.22 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.01 £16.19 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.21% +26.98% -32.40%
75th Percentile £19.01 £17.16 £12.88
90th Percentile £19.21 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.67 £16.19 £12.75
% change year-on-year +2.96% +26.98% -8.80%

Dell
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Dell job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Dell
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Dell

Dell
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Dell

Dell
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) iSCSI
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Platform Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Backup Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
2 2 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Build Automation
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) OCP
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (33.33%) SRDF
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (33.33%) Puppet
4 1 (16.67%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Pure Storage
2 2 (33.33%) Broadcom
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) HP
2 2 (33.33%) TOWER Software
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft