Dell Contract Job Trends in the South West

Dell
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 18 December 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
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 106 126
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 +10
Contract jobs citing Dell 20 20 25
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.86% 0.95% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 2.10% 2.07% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 18
10th Percentile £171 £213 £196
25th Percentile £375 £294 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 £463
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +24.32% -11.90%
75th Percentile - £650 £587
90th Percentile - £760 £633
England median daily rate £350 £450 £411
% change year-on-year -22.22% +9.49% -3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £18.22 - £18.58
25th Percentile £18.54 £11.75 £18.69
Median hourly rate £18.87 £13.50 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +39.78% -29.87% -51.27%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £19.69
90th Percentile - - £19.73
England median hourly rate £23.73 £24.18 £22.00
% change year-on-year -1.85% +9.91% -7.99%

All Vendors
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 951 967 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 41.04% 45.79% 41.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 586 823
10th Percentile £261 £223 £232
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -6.51% +4.76%
75th Percentile £624 £618 £638
90th Percentile £725 £709 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 48 121
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £32.56 £46.39
Median hourly rate £23.58 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.73% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £41.72 £70.31 £65.98
90th Percentile £70.30 £75.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%

Dell
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Dell job vacancy trend in the South West

Dell
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Dell

Dell
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dell in the South West over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dell in the South West

Dell
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Dell

Dell
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dell within the South West region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Bristol -1 8 - - 3
Gloucestershire -7 5 £436 +97.95% 7
Wiltshire -16 3 £475 -13.64% 3
Dorset +9 1 - - 2
Dell
England

Dell
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.00%) Boomi
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) SAN
1 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Support Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Field Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Field Service Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Installations Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Integration Developer
5 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (5.00%) PC Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Middleware
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (10.00%) Chip and PIN
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
1 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (25.00%) Unix
2 3 (15.00%) Windows
3 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Asset Management
1 7 (35.00%) Ticket Management
2 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) Agile
5 2 (10.00%) Time Management
6 1 (5.00%) API Development
6 1 (5.00%) API Integration
6 1 (5.00%) CI/CD
6 1 (5.00%) Computer Science
6 1 (5.00%) Configuration Management
6 1 (5.00%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (5.00%) Customer Service
6 1 (5.00%) ETL
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (5.00%) Migration
6 1 (5.00%) Patch Management
6 1 (5.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Bash
1 5 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) A+ Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CCNA
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.00%) MCSE
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.00%) Firmware
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Dell DRAC
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) HP
2 5 (25.00%) Computacenter
2 5 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (25.00%) Splunk
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) MuleSoft
5 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (5.00%) Isilon
5 1 (5.00%) Juniper
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) VMware