Dell Contract Job Trends 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 1 January 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 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 215 237
Rank change year-on-year -33 +22 -14
Contract jobs citing Dell 154 136 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.84% 0.93% 0.89%
As % of the Vendors category 1.81% 2.03% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 74 130
10th Percentile £153 £148 £132
25th Percentile £170 £185 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £450 £325
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +38.46% -3.56%
75th Percentile £484 £553 £525
90th Percentile £576 £661 £631
UK median daily rate £370 £428 £395
% change year-on-year -13.45% +8.23% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 25 3
10th Percentile £16.16 £11.75 £16.70
25th Percentile £17.58 £18.20 £17.38
Median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.96% +27.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £19.79 - £19.63
90th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £19.70
UK median hourly rate £20.39 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% +15.14% -12.17%

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 8,490 6,712 9,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.35% 46.13% 46.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,543 3,996 5,711
10th Percentile £220 £215 £209
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 648 353 521
10th Percentile £14.60 £15.22 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.46 £16.92 £17.75
Median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -45.86% +102.88%
75th Percentile £44.94 £57.62 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.24 £45.94
% change year-on-year -12.53% -40.71% +76.69%

Dell
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Dell relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Dell job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Dell
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Dell.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Dell

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 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Dell in the UK excluding London

Dell
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Dell.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Dell

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 1 January 2026.

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 1 January 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
North of England -51 40 £188 -62.80% 8
Midlands -22 37 £239 -52.25% 6
South East -24 26 £425 +93.18% 17
West Midlands -27 23 £310 -38.00% 3
South West -9 22 £700 +27.27% 17
East of England +1 18 £445 -25.83% 10
North West -17 18 £175 -5.41% 2
East Midlands -5 16 £158 -10.00% 3
Yorkshire -64 16 £350 -32.04% 4
Scotland +8 6 £500 +257.14% 1
Northern Ireland -5 6 £375 - 1
North East - 6 £175 - 3
Wales -1 1 - -
Dell
UK

Dell
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (10.39%) Confluence
2 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.65%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) assyst
1 1 (0.65%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 33 (21.43%) Azure
2 28 (18.18%) AWS
3 27 (17.53%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (7.79%) Datadog
5 6 (3.90%) Boomi
5 6 (3.90%) GCP
5 6 (3.90%) OCI
6 5 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (3.25%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.25%) SaaS
7 4 (2.60%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.30%) Apigee
8 2 (1.30%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.30%) Slack
9 1 (0.65%) AtomSphere
9 1 (0.65%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.65%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (15.58%) SAN
2 20 (12.99%) Firewall
3 18 (11.69%) Wireless
4 16 (10.39%) VLAN
5 12 (7.79%) VSAN
6 11 (7.14%) DNS
7 6 (3.90%) DHCP
7 6 (3.90%) TCP/IP
8 4 (2.60%) iSCSI
9 3 (1.95%) PuTTY
9 3 (1.95%) SSH
9 3 (1.95%) Telnet
10 2 (1.30%) VoIP
10 2 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.65%) Multicast
11 1 (0.65%) Network Security
11 1 (0.65%) RTP
11 1 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.25%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.30%) Data Hub
2 2 (1.30%) DataStage
2 2 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (5.84%) JIRA
2 2 (1.30%) Git
3 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
General
1 34 (22.08%) Finance
2 33 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 26 (16.88%) Public Sector
4 20 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (11.04%) Manufacturing
5 17 (11.04%) Telecoms
6 16 (10.39%) Electronics
6 16 (10.39%) Marketing
7 11 (7.14%) Legal
8 10 (6.49%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (6.49%) Retail
9 9 (5.84%) Banking
10 5 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.60%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.65%) Local Government
12 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (17.53%) Analyst
2 21 (13.64%) Desktop Support
2 21 (13.64%) IT Support
3 17 (11.04%) Administrator
4 16 (10.39%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 16 (10.39%) 2nd Line Support
4 16 (10.39%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 13 (8.44%) Field Engineer
5 13 (8.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.14%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 11 (7.14%) IT Engineer
7 9 (5.84%) Field Service Engineer
8 7 (4.55%) Hardware Engineer
8 7 (4.55%) Implementation Specialist
8 7 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
9 6 (3.90%) Backup Administrator
9 6 (3.90%) HP Storage Administrator
9 6 (3.90%) Server Engineer
9 6 (3.90%) Storage Administrator
9 6 (3.90%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.60%) REST
2 3 (1.95%) Middleware
3 2 (1.30%) SOAP
4 1 (0.65%) JSON
4 1 (0.65%) LDAP
4 1 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (20.78%) Data Centre
2 18 (11.69%) Driving Licence
3 12 (7.79%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (5.19%) Replication
5 7 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.90%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (3.25%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.60%) HP Storage
9 3 (1.95%) Clustering
9 3 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.30%) Chip and PIN
10 2 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.30%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.65%) Blackberry
11 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.65%) IoT
11 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.65%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 38 (24.68%) Windows
2 37 (24.03%) Linux
3 19 (12.34%) Mac OS
4 16 (10.39%) Android
4 16 (10.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (7.14%) Windows 10
6 8 (5.19%) Windows Server
7 7 (4.55%) Unix
8 4 (2.60%) VMS
8 4 (2.60%) Windows 7
9 3 (1.95%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.65%) CentOS
10 1 (0.65%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (17.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (14.94%) Agile
4 19 (12.34%) Customer Service
5 16 (10.39%) Asset Management
5 16 (10.39%) Business Intelligence
5 16 (10.39%) Digital Marketing
5 16 (10.39%) Programme Management
6 15 (9.74%) Break/Fix
6 15 (9.74%) Migration
7 14 (9.09%) ITIL
7 14 (9.09%) Ticket Management
8 10 (6.49%) Decision-Making
8 10 (6.49%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (5.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (5.19%) Capacity Planning
10 8 (5.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (4.55%) Incident Management
11 7 (4.55%) ITSM
11 7 (4.55%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.14%) Shell Script
2 6 (3.90%) Bash
3 5 (3.25%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.95%) SQL
5 2 (1.30%) Java
5 2 (1.30%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.30%) Python
6 1 (0.65%) Perl
6 1 (0.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 69 (44.81%) Security Cleared
2 56 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.49%) A+ Certification
4 9 (5.84%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (5.19%) MCSE
5 8 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (4.55%) CCNA
6 7 (4.55%) Degree
6 7 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 7 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (2.60%) OCP
7 4 (2.60%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.30%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.30%) Dell Certification
8 2 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.65%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.09%) SLA
2 6 (3.90%) COBIT
3 3 (1.95%) GDPR
3 3 (1.95%) QA
4 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (12.99%) vSphere
3 15 (9.74%) Active Directory
4 7 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (3.90%) Firmware
6 5 (3.25%) Docker
7 4 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.95%) BitLocker
9 2 (1.30%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.65%) GPFS
10 1 (0.65%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 18 (11.69%) VxRail
2 17 (11.04%) Terraform
3 13 (8.44%) Ansible
3 13 (8.44%) vCenter Server
4 12 (7.79%) vRealize
5 10 (6.49%) EMC NetWorker
6 9 (5.84%) Dell DRAC
7 6 (3.90%) EMC VPLEX
8 5 (3.25%) Kubernetes
8 5 (3.25%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (2.60%) NetBackup
9 4 (2.60%) SCCM
9 4 (2.60%) ServiceCenter
10 2 (1.30%) Control-M
10 2 (1.30%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.30%) Puppet
11 1 (0.65%) Avamar
11 1 (0.65%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.65%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 77 (50.00%) HP
2 47 (30.52%) Cisco
3 36 (23.38%) VMware
4 22 (14.29%) Apple
4 22 (14.29%) SAP
5 18 (11.69%) Microsoft
6 17 (11.04%) SolarWinds
7 15 (9.74%) Red Hat
8 14 (9.09%) Veeam
9 13 (8.44%) IBM
10 12 (7.79%) AppDynamics
10 12 (7.79%) Commvault
11 11 (7.14%) NetApp
12 9 (5.84%) Isilon
13 8 (5.19%) EMC
13 8 (5.19%) Oracle
14 7 (4.55%) Computacenter
14 7 (4.55%) Intel
15 6 (3.90%) Brocade
15 6 (3.90%) F5