Dell Contract Job Trends

Dell
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 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
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 355 288
Rank change year-on-year +3 -67 +65
Contract jobs citing Dell 230 174 334
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.55% 0.78%
As % of the Vendors category 1.37% 1.21% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 96 245
10th Percentile £154 £149 £143
25th Percentile £170 £184 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £395
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.27% -7.06%
75th Percentile £491 £550 £570
90th Percentile £571 £600 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £413 £400
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.13% +7.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 24 7
10th Percentile £16.17 £13.69 £17.60
25th Percentile £18.71 £18.51 £18.88
Median hourly rate £20.09 £24.18 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +20.90% -16.35%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.30 £22.00
90th Percentile - £35.00 £22.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £19.00
% change year-on-year -21.96% +27.26% +5.56%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 16,759 14,424 19,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.24% 45.77% 44.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,764 8,535 12,034
10th Percentile £300 £285 £253
25th Percentile £411 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.88% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 793 422 684
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.96 £19.60 £17.75
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.13 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% -38.06% +60.71%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.00 £63.29
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.75 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £24.83 £44.50
% change year-on-year -13.41% -44.20% +80.27%

Dell
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Dell job vacancy trend in the UK

Dell
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Dell
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dell over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Dell in the UK

Dell
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Dell
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Dell over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Dell in the UK

Dell
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 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
England -19 201 £350 -18.13% 197
UK excluding London -19 148 £375 -9.09% 211
London +9 61 £438 +25.00% 20
North of England -42 40 £188 -63.59% 28
Midlands -26 37 £239 -52.25% 18
Work from Home -6 28 £450 -18.18% 142
West Midlands -27 23 £310 -48.33% 5
South West -13 22 £700 +39.30% 37
South East -33 19 £465 +158.33% 65
East of England -2 18 £445 -25.83% 44
North West -20 18 £175 -12.50% 9
East Midlands -7 16 £158 -10.00% 12
Yorkshire -49 16 £350 -32.04% 11
Scotland +3 7 £500 +257.14% 12
Northern Ireland -3 6 £375 - 7
North East - 6 £175 - 9
Wales 0 1 - - 12

Dell
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 17 (7.39%) Confluence
2 9 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.74%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 45 (19.57%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.87%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.43%) assyst
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.43%) SAP ECC
3 1 (0.43%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (28.26%) Microsoft 365
2 42 (18.26%) Azure
3 34 (14.78%) AWS
4 12 (5.22%) Boomi
4 12 (5.22%) Datadog
5 7 (3.04%) GCP
6 6 (2.61%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.61%) OCI
7 5 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.17%) SaaS
8 4 (1.74%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.74%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.87%) Apigee
9 2 (0.87%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.87%) PaaS
9 2 (0.87%) Slack
10 1 (0.43%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.43%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.43%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 46 (20.00%) Wireless
2 25 (10.87%) Firewall
3 23 (10.00%) SAN
4 22 (9.57%) VLAN
5 20 (8.70%) DNS
6 16 (6.96%) VSAN
7 15 (6.52%) DHCP
8 7 (3.04%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.17%) BGP
9 5 (2.17%) iSCSI
10 4 (1.74%) 3GPP
10 4 (1.74%) 4G
10 4 (1.74%) 5G
10 4 (1.74%) IPsec
10 4 (1.74%) MPLS
10 4 (1.74%) OSPF
10 4 (1.74%) Radio Access Network
10 4 (1.74%) Wireshark
11 3 (1.30%) LAN
11 3 (1.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.17%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.30%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.87%) DataStage
4 1 (0.43%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (4.35%) JIRA
2 2 (0.87%) Git
2 2 (0.87%) Postman
3 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.43%) GitLab
3 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
General
1 50 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 44 (19.13%) Finance
3 35 (15.22%) Public Sector
4 32 (13.91%) Banking
5 25 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (10.43%) Manufacturing
6 24 (10.43%) Marketing
6 24 (10.43%) Telecoms
7 23 (10.00%) Electronics
8 14 (6.09%) Legal
9 13 (5.65%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (4.78%) Retail
11 6 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.74%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.43%) Billing
14 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 36 (15.65%) IT Support
2 32 (13.91%) Desktop Support
3 29 (12.61%) Analyst
4 23 (10.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 23 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 23 (10.00%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 21 (9.13%) IT Engineer
6 19 (8.26%) Support Engineer
7 18 (7.83%) Field Engineer
8 16 (6.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (6.52%) Consultant
9 15 (6.52%) Server Engineer
10 14 (6.09%) Administrator
10 14 (6.09%) Architect
11 11 (4.78%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 11 (4.78%) Senior
12 9 (3.91%) Field Service Engineer
12 9 (3.91%) IT Support Engineer
12 9 (3.91%) Storage Engineer
12 9 (3.91%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.04%) Middleware
1 7 (3.04%) REST
2 3 (1.30%) SOAP
3 2 (0.87%) JSON
3 2 (0.87%) XML
4 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.43%) LDAP
4 1 (0.43%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 65 (28.26%) Data Centre
2 31 (13.48%) Driving Licence
3 12 (5.22%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (5.22%) Replication
4 7 (3.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.04%) PKI
5 6 (2.61%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.74%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.30%) Clustering
8 3 (1.30%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) Chip and PIN
9 2 (0.87%) CUDA
9 2 (0.87%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.87%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 1 (0.43%) EPoS
10 1 (0.43%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 63 (27.39%) Windows
2 50 (21.74%) Mac OS
3 46 (20.00%) Android
4 45 (19.57%) Linux
5 24 (10.43%) Windows Server
6 22 (9.57%) Windows 10
7 18 (7.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (3.04%) Ubuntu
8 7 (3.04%) Unix
9 4 (1.74%) VMS
9 4 (1.74%) Windows 7
9 4 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.30%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.43%) CentOS
11 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (15.65%) Customer Service
3 32 (13.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 27 (11.74%) Break/Fix
5 24 (10.43%) Agile
6 23 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
6 23 (10.00%) Programme Management
7 20 (8.70%) Migration
8 18 (7.83%) Asset Management
9 16 (6.96%) Ticket Management
10 15 (6.52%) ITIL
11 14 (6.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (5.22%) ITSM
13 11 (4.78%) Capacity Planning
13 11 (4.78%) Problem Management
13 11 (4.78%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (4.35%) Decision-Making
14 10 (4.35%) Runbook
14 10 (4.35%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.91%) PowerShell
2 8 (3.48%) Shell Script
3 5 (2.17%) Bash
3 5 (2.17%) SQL
4 3 (1.30%) Python
5 2 (0.87%) Java
5 2 (0.87%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.43%) Perl
6 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 99 (43.04%) Security Cleared
2 84 (36.52%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.13%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (4.35%) A+ Certification
5 10 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (3.91%) Degree
7 7 (3.04%) CCNA
7 7 (3.04%) MCSE
7 7 (3.04%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (1.74%) OCP
8 4 (1.74%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.87%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.87%) VCAP
9 2 (0.87%) VCDX
10 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.13%) SLA
2 6 (2.61%) COBIT
2 6 (2.61%) QA
3 4 (1.74%) NIST
4 3 (1.30%) GDPR
5 2 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (14.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (14.35%) vSphere
3 30 (13.04%) Active Directory
4 12 (5.22%) Docker
5 11 (4.78%) Firmware
6 10 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (2.17%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.17%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.30%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.87%) Ceph
10 2 (0.87%) Lustre
10 2 (0.87%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.43%) GPFS
11 1 (0.43%) NFS
11 1 (0.43%) SRDF
11 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 21 (9.13%) Terraform
1 21 (9.13%) VxRail
2 14 (6.09%) Ansible
2 14 (6.09%) vCenter Server
3 12 (5.22%) vRealize
4 11 (4.78%) EMC NetWorker
5 9 (3.91%) Dell DRAC
5 9 (3.91%) SCCM
6 8 (3.48%) Kubernetes
7 7 (3.04%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (2.61%) SCOM
9 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.17%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (2.17%) ServiceCenter
10 4 (1.74%) Grafana
10 4 (1.74%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.30%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.87%) Control-M
12 2 (0.87%) Puppet
13 1 (0.43%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 107 (46.52%) HP
2 76 (33.04%) Cisco
3 53 (23.04%) Apple
4 52 (22.61%) VMware
5 32 (13.91%) Microsoft
5 32 (13.91%) SAP
6 19 (8.26%) Red Hat
7 17 (7.39%) SolarWinds
8 16 (6.96%) IBM
8 16 (6.96%) Veeam
9 14 (6.09%) EMC
10 13 (5.65%) Isilon
11 12 (5.22%) AppDynamics
11 12 (5.22%) Commvault
12 9 (3.91%) NetApp
12 9 (3.91%) NVIDIA
12 9 (3.91%) ServiceNow
13 8 (3.48%) Brocade
13 8 (3.48%) Oracle
14 7 (3.04%) Computacenter