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 22 August 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
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 105 127
Rank change year-on-year +14 +22 +27
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Dell 21 19 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.26% 0.85% 0.47%
As % of the Vendors category 2.25% 1.74% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 10
10th Percentile £358 £367 £364
25th Percentile £372 £603 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £605 £513
Median % change year-on-year -21.49% +18.05% +24.24%
75th Percentile £500 £608 £584
90th Percentile £534 - £690
South East median daily rate £413 £488 £313
% change year-on-year -15.38% +56.00% -30.56%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 932 1,092 1,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 56.11% 48.84% 51.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 552 638 945
10th Percentile £293 £243 £248
25th Percentile £403 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £524
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +0.29% +4.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £675 £721 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 52 52
10th Percentile £14.12 £14.50 £14.23
25th Percentile £14.20 £20.41 £18.08
Median hourly rate £18.00 £48.79 £32.31
Median % change year-on-year -63.11% +51.00% +97.01%
75th Percentile £38.42 £61.60 £62.53
90th Percentile £60.00 £73.98 £67.75
South East median hourly rate £18.94 £57.35 £45.00
% change year-on-year -66.98% +27.44% +125.00%

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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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Dell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Dell

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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 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dell in the Thames Valley

Dell
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Dell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Dell

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DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +18 20 £450 -25.62% 6
Buckinghamshire +6 1 £525 +3.45% 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Boomi
1 2 (9.52%) GitHub
1 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) SAN
2 5 (23.81%) DNS
3 4 (19.05%) BGP
3 4 (19.05%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (19.05%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (19.05%) IPv6
3 4 (19.05%) OSPF
3 4 (19.05%) Spanning Tree
3 4 (19.05%) TACACS
3 4 (19.05%) VSAN
4 1 (4.76%) DHCP
4 1 (4.76%) Firewall
4 1 (4.76%) NAS
4 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) GitLab
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
1 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Administrator
2 5 (23.81%) Backup Administrator
2 5 (23.81%) HP Storage Administrator
2 5 (23.81%) Storage Administrator
2 5 (23.81%) Storage and Backup Administrator
3 3 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Onboarding
2 5 (23.81%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (19.05%) HP Storage
4 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
4 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Windows
2 9 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 8 (38.10%) Windows 10
4 5 (23.81%) Linux
5 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (19.05%) Runbook
2 4 (19.05%) TOGAF
3 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (14.29%) High Availability
3 3 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (9.52%) Agile
4 2 (9.52%) Analytics
4 2 (9.52%) Attestation
4 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (9.52%) WFM
5 1 (4.76%) Backlog Refinement
5 1 (4.76%) Business Case
5 1 (4.76%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (4.76%) Project Delivery
5 1 (4.76%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) PowerShell
2 3 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 8 (38.10%) DV Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (4.76%) Degree
5 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 8 (38.10%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (19.05%) Ceph
4 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) NetBackup
2 2 (9.52%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) VMware
2 8 (38.10%) Wyse
3 6 (28.57%) HP
3 6 (28.57%) Red Hat
4 5 (23.81%) 3PAR
4 5 (23.81%) Cisco
4 5 (23.81%) NetApp
4 5 (23.81%) Veritas
5 4 (19.05%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (4.76%) F5
6 1 (4.76%) Isilon
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.76%) Veeam