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 2 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
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 102 112
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 +26
Contract jobs citing Dell 24 17 42
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.91% 0.90% 1.33%
As % of the Vendors category 2.51% 1.98% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 33
10th Percentile £494 £153 £262
25th Percentile £514 £187 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £434 £560
Median % change year-on-year +44.09% -22.54% +4.19%
75th Percentile £700 £584 £850
90th Percentile - £610 -
England median daily rate £413 £400 £413
% change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 0
10th Percentile £17.92 £13.69 -
25th Percentile £18.38 £16.59 -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £18.41 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% - -
75th Percentile - £18.51 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.09 £24.18 £22.00
% change year-on-year -16.91% +9.91% +5.50%

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 958 857 1,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 36.29% 45.61% 41.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 629 520 857
10th Percentile £223 £215 £213
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
England median daily rate £502 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.43% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 33 157
10th Percentile £17.74 £12.52 £14.54
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.51 £37.50
Median hourly rate £31.50 £58.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.69% +18.37% -24.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £65.98
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.55 £70.65
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.67% - -7.69%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dell in the South West over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Dell in the South West

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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 2 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 8 - -
Wiltshire -15 6 £520 +47.52% 2
Devon +5 3 - - 4
Gloucestershire -2 3 £700 - 6
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.17%) Boomi
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) SAN
1 1 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Support Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Field Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Field Service Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Installations Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Field Service Technician
5 1 (4.17%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Integration Developer
5 1 (4.17%) IT Technician
5 1 (4.17%) PC Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Keycloak
2 1 (4.17%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (4.17%) Middleware
2 1 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (45.83%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
1 5 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (20.83%) Unix
2 4 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Asset Management
1 11 (45.83%) Ticket Management
2 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (20.83%) Storage Management
4 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.50%) High Availability
5 3 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (8.33%) Business Continuity
6 2 (8.33%) Business Strategy
6 2 (8.33%) Converged Infrastructure
6 2 (8.33%) DevOps
6 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (8.33%) Migration
6 2 (8.33%) Proactive Maintenance
6 2 (8.33%) Proactive Monitoring
7 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
7 1 (4.17%) Containerisation
7 1 (4.17%) Customer Service
7 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Bash
1 5 (20.83%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) A+ Certification
4 1 (4.17%) CCNA
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Dell Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.17%) MCSE
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
1 5 (20.83%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Firmware
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Dell DRAC
1 6 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.83%) Red Hat Satellite
3 3 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (12.50%) VxRail
4 1 (4.17%) Ansible
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) HP
2 6 (25.00%) Computacenter
3 5 (20.83%) Red Hat
3 5 (20.83%) Splunk
4 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (16.67%) VMware
5 3 (12.50%) BeyondTrust
5 3 (12.50%) Thales
6 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
6 1 (4.17%) Isilon
6 1 (4.17%) Juniper
6 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft