Dell Contracts in the UK excluding London

Dell
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 181 263
Rank change year-on-year +12 +82 +55
Contract jobs citing Dell 176 235 203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.38% 1.14% 0.85%
As % of the Vendors category 2.82% 2.67% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 181 145
10th Percentile £150 £220 £112
25th Percentile £154 £400 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £260 £500 £300
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +66.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £538 £646 £500
90th Percentile £589 £710 £669
UK median daily rate £425 £472 £400
% change year-on-year -9.96% +18.00% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 8 11
10th Percentile £17.30 £11.93 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.94 £17.92
Median hourly rate £18.87 £16.25 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +16.12% -21.52% +8.80%
75th Percentile £24.18 £18.75 £21.22
90th Percentile £24.66 £32.63 £21.67
UK median hourly rate £18.87 £18.13 £20.71
% change year-on-year +4.08% -12.44% -13.40%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,231 8,804 10,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.77% 42.53% 44.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,960 5,308 7,304
10th Percentile £215 £205 £205
25th Percentile £368 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £690 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £515 £525
% change year-on-year - -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 948 476
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.80 £14.31
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.05%
75th Percentile £58.09 £59.13 £63.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £22.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year +19.67% -49.43% +105.65%

Dell
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Dell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Dell in the UK excluding London

Dell
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Dell in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Dell in the UK excluding London

Dell
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dell in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dell in the UK excluding London

Dell
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Dell in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Dell in the UK excluding London

Dell
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Dell in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Dell in the UK excluding London

Dell
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dell within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +18 56 £214 -53.73% 47
South West +1 35 £155 -77.86% 38
North of England -11 26 £425 -1.16% 44
Midlands +27 25 £150 -62.50% 32
West Midlands +22 21 £150 -62.50% 21
Scotland +9 21 £450 +41.84% 8
North West +1 14 £425 -16.83% 18
East of England +44 11 £550 +100.00% 21
Yorkshire -7 10 £450 +8.43% 19
Wales +7 5 £200 -9.09% 3
East Midlands +15 4 £175 -76.67% 9
North East - 3 £625 - 8
Northern Ireland -5 2 - - 2
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UK

Dell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (5.11%) IIS
2 4 (2.27%) Confluence
3 2 (1.14%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.95%) Azure
2 10 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (3.98%) GitHub
4 4 (2.27%) Entra ID
4 4 (2.27%) OCI
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.14%) AWS
5 2 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.14%) Boomi
5 2 (1.14%) IaaS
5 2 (1.14%) Lucidchart
5 2 (1.14%) Nutanix
5 2 (1.14%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.14%) PaaS
5 2 (1.14%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.57%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.57%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.66%) DNS
2 12 (6.82%) Firewall
3 11 (6.25%) DHCP
4 8 (4.55%) NetScaler
4 8 (4.55%) SAN
5 7 (3.98%) VSAN
6 6 (3.41%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (3.41%) SMTP
7 5 (2.84%) NAS
7 5 (2.84%) Network Security
7 5 (2.84%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.27%) LAN
8 4 (2.27%) VPN
9 3 (1.70%) DMZ
10 2 (1.14%) BGP
10 2 (1.14%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (1.14%) IPv6
10 2 (1.14%) OSPF
10 2 (1.14%) SSL
10 2 (1.14%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.84%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.27%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (1.14%) Power BI
3 2 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.41%) GitLab
2 5 (2.84%) JIRA
3 1 (0.57%) Git
3 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
General
1 51 (28.98%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.02%) Finance
3 18 (10.23%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.68%) Manufacturing
6 9 (5.11%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.41%) Banking
7 6 (3.41%) Electronics
7 6 (3.41%) Marketing
8 3 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Legal
10 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (23.30%) Support Engineer
2 32 (18.18%) Desktop Support
3 28 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 26 (14.77%) IT Engineer
5 25 (14.20%) Desktop Engineer
6 24 (13.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 16 (9.09%) Server Engineer
8 13 (7.39%) IT Support
9 10 (5.68%) Break Fix Engineer
10 9 (5.11%) Lead
10 9 (5.11%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
10 9 (5.11%) Windows Engineer
11 7 (3.98%) Deployment Engineer
11 7 (3.98%) IT Support Engineer
11 7 (3.98%) IT Technician
11 7 (3.98%) Server Support
11 7 (3.98%) Server Support Engineer
12 6 (3.41%) Data Centre Engineer
12 6 (3.41%) Senior
13 5 (2.84%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.14%) Middleware
1 2 (1.14%) Software Packaging
1 2 (1.14%) Web Services
1 2 (1.14%) YAML
2 1 (0.57%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 60 (34.09%) Driving Licence
2 33 (18.75%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.82%) Clustering
3 12 (6.82%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.41%) PKI
5 5 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.84%) Replication
6 4 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.14%) Blackberry
7 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.57%) Handset
8 1 (0.57%) iPhone
8 1 (0.57%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.57%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 65 (36.93%) Windows
2 34 (19.32%) Windows Server
3 22 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 20 (11.36%) Linux
5 10 (5.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.41%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (3.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.27%) AIX
7 4 (2.27%) Solaris
8 3 (1.70%) Android
8 3 (1.70%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.57%) Rocky
10 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (19.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (18.18%) Break/Fix
3 29 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (15.34%) Ticket Management
5 24 (13.64%) Asset Management
5 24 (13.64%) Customer Experience
6 23 (13.07%) Mathematics
7 22 (12.50%) Customer Service
8 13 (7.39%) ITIL
9 11 (6.25%) Agile
10 10 (5.68%) CI/CD
10 10 (5.68%) Time Management
11 9 (5.11%) High Availability
12 8 (4.55%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (4.55%) Disaster Recovery
13 7 (3.98%) Project Delivery
14 6 (3.41%) DevOps
14 6 (3.41%) Digital Marketing
14 6 (3.41%) Service Management
14 6 (3.41%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.48%) PowerShell
2 8 (4.55%) Python
3 7 (3.98%) Shell Script
4 4 (2.27%) SQL
5 2 (1.14%) Perl
6 1 (0.57%) Bash
6 1 (0.57%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 88 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 75 (42.61%) SC Cleared
3 30 (17.05%) Dell Certification
4 17 (9.66%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.84%) A+ Certification
5 5 (2.84%) Degree
5 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.70%) VCAP
6 3 (1.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.14%) CCNP
7 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.14%) MCP
7 2 (1.14%) MCSA
7 2 (1.14%) MCSE
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.57%) HP ASE
8 1 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (23.30%) SLA
2 8 (4.55%) QA
3 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 34 (19.32%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (7.39%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (7.39%) vSphere
4 10 (5.68%) VMware NSX
5 6 (3.41%) XenApp
5 6 (3.41%) XenDesktop
6 5 (2.84%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (2.27%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (1.14%) Ceph
8 2 (1.14%) Firmware
8 2 (1.14%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.57%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 10 (5.68%) Microsoft Clustering
2 9 (5.11%) Ansible
2 9 (5.11%) VxRail
3 8 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.98%) NetBackup
4 7 (3.98%) SCCM
4 7 (3.98%) Terraform
4 7 (3.98%) WSUS
5 6 (3.41%) vCenter Server
6 4 (2.27%) Data Guard
6 4 (2.27%) Dell DRAC
6 4 (2.27%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (2.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 4 (2.27%) Oracle Flashback
6 4 (2.27%) PowerCLI
7 3 (1.70%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.70%) Nagios
8 2 (1.14%) Malwarebytes
8 2 (1.14%) vRealize
8 2 (1.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 108 (61.36%) HP
2 58 (32.95%) Microsoft
3 41 (23.30%) VMware
4 24 (13.64%) IBM
5 13 (7.39%) Red Hat
6 12 (6.82%) Citrix
7 10 (5.68%) ServiceNow
8 9 (5.11%) SAP
8 9 (5.11%) Wyse
9 8 (4.55%) Cisco
10 6 (3.41%) Veritas
11 5 (2.84%) Oracle
12 4 (2.27%) 3PAR
12 4 (2.27%) Commvault
12 4 (2.27%) Dynatrace
12 4 (2.27%) SolarWinds
13 3 (1.70%) Apple
13 3 (1.70%) CyberArk
14 2 (1.14%) Brocade
14 2 (1.14%) LogRhythm