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 23 February 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
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 99 95
Rank change year-on-year -17 -4 +43
Contract jobs citing Dell 20 19 54
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.73% 1.06% 1.74%
As % of the Vendors category 2.07% 2.25% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 43
10th Percentile £481 - £437
25th Percentile £510 £153 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £218 £700
Median % change year-on-year +221.84% -68.93% +27.27%
75th Percentile - £600 £730
90th Percentile - £620 £850
England median daily rate £425 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +21.43% -17.65% -0.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £17.42 £18.26 -
25th Percentile - £18.36 -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £18.51 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.09 £24.18 £22.00
% change year-on-year -16.91% +9.91% +3.12%

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 964 845 1,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 34.99% 47.13% 42.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 532 828
10th Percentile £275 £215 £218
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £529
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.18% +0.71%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £688 £725
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 35 172
10th Percentile £18.87 £14.84 £14.54
25th Percentile £23.12 £25.26 £39.38
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £65.98
90th Percentile £74.03 £72.66 £70.00
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £26.66
% change year-on-year -23.15% +16.28% -19.21%

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 23 February 2026.

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 23 February 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
Bristol -10 5 - - 1
Wiltshire -12 5 £518 +46.81%
Devon -1 3 - - 5
Gloucestershire -5 3 £700 - 3
Dorset - 1 - - 3
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:

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 2 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.00%) Boomi
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (5.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (5.00%) LAN
1 1 (5.00%) SAN
1 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) IT Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Field Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Field Service Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Field Service Technician
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Integration Developer
5 1 (5.00%) IT Technician
5 1 (5.00%) PC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
1 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (25.00%) Unix
2 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 8 (40.00%) Ticket Management
3 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 3 (15.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (15.00%) High Availability
4 3 (15.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) Business Strategy
5 2 (10.00%) Converged Infrastructure
5 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (10.00%) Migration
5 2 (10.00%) Proactive Maintenance
5 2 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
6 1 (5.00%) Change Management
6 1 (5.00%) Containerisation
6 1 (5.00%) Customer Service
6 1 (5.00%) ETL
6 1 (5.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Bash
1 5 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) A+ Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CCNA
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Dell Certification
3 1 (5.00%) MCSE
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (25.00%) Dell DRAC
2 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 5 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (15.00%) VxRail
4 1 (5.00%) EMC VPLEX
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) HP
2 5 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (25.00%) Splunk
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (20.00%) VMware
4 3 (15.00%) BeyondTrust
4 3 (15.00%) Computacenter
4 3 (15.00%) Thales
5 1 (5.00%) Citrix
5 1 (5.00%) Juniper
5 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft