Dell Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Dell
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 95 38 37
Rank change year-on-year -57 -1 +13
Contract jobs citing Dell 10 8 19
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.04% 2.81% 4.50%
As % of the Vendors category 1.86% 5.63% 8.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 13
10th Percentile - £356 £403
25th Percentile £500 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £477 £415
Median % change year-on-year +20.55% +14.94% +23.88%
75th Percentile £613 £497 £430
90th Percentile £619 £508 £550
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £477 £415
% change year-on-year +4.82% +14.94% +27.69%

All Vendors
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 537 142 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 55.82% 49.82% 54.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 90 138
10th Percentile £350 £208 £223
25th Percentile £416 £268 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% +5.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £558 £587 £585
90th Percentile £688 £650 £641
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +9.89% +1.11% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £15.27 - -
25th Percentile £15.29 £15.22 £12.63
Median hourly rate £16.67 £16.19 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% +26.98% -8.80%
75th Percentile £18.67 £17.16 £14.50
90th Percentile £19.07 - £40.30
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £14.63
% change year-on-year - +88.03% -26.88%

Dell
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Dell job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Dell
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Dell

Dell
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Dell

Dell
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 March 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
Sheffield -59 6 £575 +20.55% 2
Dell
Yorkshire

Dell
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) iSCSI
1 2 (20.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Platform Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Backup Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) VMS
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Network Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Operations Management
3 3 (30.00%) Programme Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (20.00%) Build Automation
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) OCP
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (20.00%) SRDF
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Ansible
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (20.00%) Puppet
4 1 (10.00%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Pure Storage
2 2 (20.00%) Broadcom
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) HP
2 2 (20.00%) TOWER Software
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft