Dell Contracts in the Thames Valley

Dell
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 113 138
Rank change year-on-year +37 +25 +12
Contract jobs citing Dell 26 32 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.72% 1.19% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 3.27% 2.49% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 32 10
10th Percentile £244 - £364
25th Percentile £500 £280 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £531
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -24.71% +34.92%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £600
90th Percentile £655 - -
South East median daily rate £214 £500 £300
% change year-on-year -57.20% +66.67% -22.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £24.66 - -
South East median hourly rate £24.18 - -

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 794 1,287 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 52.55% 47.92% 48.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 799 975
10th Percentile £350 £205 £300
25th Percentile £441 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.75% +3.90%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £619
90th Percentile £695 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 71 47
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.59 £23.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.03% +7.14% +276.92%
75th Percentile £46.30 £61.60 £66.21
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

Dell
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Dell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Dell in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Dell in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Dell in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dell in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dell in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Dell in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Dell in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dell within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +25 24 £532 +49.72% 7
Buckinghamshire +17 2 £155 -75.78% 9
Dell
South East

Dell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (19.23%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) GitHub
2 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) DNS
2 5 (19.23%) NetScaler
2 5 (19.23%) SMTP
3 4 (15.38%) DHCP
3 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
4 2 (7.69%) BGP
4 2 (7.69%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (7.69%) IPv6
4 2 (7.69%) OSPF
4 2 (7.69%) SAN
4 2 (7.69%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (7.69%) TACACS
4 2 (7.69%) VSAN
5 1 (3.85%) 3GPP
5 1 (3.85%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
2 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Banking
3 1 (3.85%) Electronics
3 1 (3.85%) Legal
3 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.85%) Marketing
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Data Centre Technician
4 1 (3.85%) Data Technician
4 1 (3.85%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Desktop Support
4 1 (3.85%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) IT Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Network Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Technical Support
4 1 (3.85%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Onboarding
2 6 (23.08%) Data Centre
3 5 (19.23%) Clustering
3 5 (19.23%) PKI
4 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 18 (69.23%) Windows
1 18 (69.23%) Windows Server
2 9 (34.62%) Windows 10
3 5 (19.23%) Linux
3 5 (19.23%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.85%) Android
5 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (15.38%) DevSecOps
3 4 (15.38%) High Availability
3 4 (15.38%) ITIL
3 4 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (7.69%) Break/Fix
4 2 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 2 (7.69%) DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (7.69%) Runbook
5 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (3.85%) Case Management
5 1 (3.85%) Customer Experience
5 1 (3.85%) Customer Service
5 1 (3.85%) Data Centre Operations
5 1 (3.85%) Hardware Maintenance
5 1 (3.85%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.85%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) PowerShell
2 5 (19.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 10 (38.46%) DV Cleared
3 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (57.69%) Active Directory
2 9 (34.62%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (19.23%) vSphere
3 5 (19.23%) XenApp
3 5 (19.23%) XenDesktop
4 2 (7.69%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Clustering
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (19.23%) WSUS
2 4 (15.38%) NetBackup
3 2 (7.69%) Argo
4 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (69.23%) VMware
2 14 (53.85%) HP
3 9 (34.62%) Wyse
4 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 6 (23.08%) Red Hat
5 5 (19.23%) Citrix
6 4 (15.38%) 3PAR
6 4 (15.38%) Veritas
7 3 (11.54%) Cisco
8 1 (3.85%) Amdocs
8 1 (3.85%) Apple
8 1 (3.85%) Google
8 1 (3.85%) IBM
8 1 (3.85%) Mavenir
8 1 (3.85%) Rakuten
8 1 (3.85%) Samsung
8 1 (3.85%) SAP