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 22 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
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 360 284
Rank change year-on-year +5 -76 +84
Contract jobs citing Dell 248 177 338
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.56% 0.78%
As % of the Vendors category 1.43% 1.22% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 98 246
10th Percentile £154 £149 £150
25th Percentile £170 £180 £236
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £384 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% -4.06% -6.54%
75th Percentile £500 £536 £575
90th Percentile £569 £602 £655
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £388 £400
% change year-on-year -3.23% -3.13% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 25 8
10th Percentile £16.17 £18.20 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £18.51 £17.94
Median hourly rate £20.09 £24.18 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +22.43% -7.43%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £22.00
90th Percentile £25.77 £32.70 £22.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £18.25
% change year-on-year -21.96% +32.49% +2.99%

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 17,349 14,541 18,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.90% 45.87% 44.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,193 8,605 11,952
10th Percentile £300 £285 £253
25th Percentile £410 £409 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 819 432 804
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.15
25th Percentile £17.93 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% -21.43% +11.01%
75th Percentile £48.75 £61.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -14.00% -28.57% +35.11%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +6 215 £381 -4.69% 180
UK excluding London -34 159 £375 -3.23% 188
London +6 67 £442 +26.36% 20
North of England -52 42 £188 -61.97% 30
Midlands -30 37 £239 -46.94% 20
Work from Home +4 29 £449 -24.24% 113
South West -4 26 £538 +11.98% 27
West Midlands -36 23 £310 -38.00% 8
East of England +3 22 £445 -25.83% 38
North West -19 18 £175 -44.00% 9
South East -51 18 £465 +165.71% 55
East Midlands -9 16 £158 -10.00% 11
Yorkshire -60 16 £350 -32.04% 15
Scotland +2 8 £500 +257.14% 11
North East - 8 £175 - 7
Northern Ireland -4 6 £375 - 6
Wales -3 2 - - 10

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 (6.85%) Confluence
2 9 (3.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.61%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 44 (17.74%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.81%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.40%) assyst
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.40%) SAP ECC
3 1 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (25.40%) Microsoft 365
2 44 (17.74%) Azure
3 35 (14.11%) AWS
4 12 (4.84%) Boomi
4 12 (4.84%) Datadog
5 7 (2.82%) Amazon S3
5 7 (2.82%) GCP
6 6 (2.42%) OCI
7 5 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.02%) SaaS
8 4 (1.61%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.61%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.81%) Apigee
9 2 (0.81%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.81%) PaaS
9 2 (0.81%) Slack
10 1 (0.40%) AtomSphere
10 1 (0.40%) iPaaS
10 1 (0.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 44 (17.74%) Wireless
2 28 (11.29%) SAN
3 24 (9.68%) Firewall
4 22 (8.87%) DNS
4 22 (8.87%) VLAN
5 17 (6.85%) DHCP
5 17 (6.85%) VSAN
6 8 (3.23%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.02%) BGP
7 5 (2.02%) iSCSI
7 5 (2.02%) LAN
7 5 (2.02%) WAN
8 4 (1.61%) 4G
8 4 (1.61%) 5G
8 4 (1.61%) IPsec
8 4 (1.61%) MPLS
8 4 (1.61%) NAS
8 4 (1.61%) OSPF
8 4 (1.61%) Radio Access Network
8 4 (1.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.02%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.81%) DataStage
2 2 (0.81%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.40%) Data Hub
3 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (4.44%) JIRA
2 3 (1.21%) Git
2 3 (1.21%) GitLab
3 2 (0.81%) Postman
4 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
General
1 55 (22.18%) Social Skills
2 46 (18.55%) Finance
3 37 (14.92%) Public Sector
4 33 (13.31%) Banking
5 27 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (9.68%) Manufacturing
6 24 (9.68%) Marketing
6 24 (9.68%) Telecoms
7 23 (9.27%) Electronics
8 18 (7.26%) Legal
9 14 (5.65%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (4.84%) Retail
11 9 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.61%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.40%) Billing
15 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.40%) French Language
15 1 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 38 (15.32%) IT Support
2 31 (12.50%) Desktop Support
3 28 (11.29%) Analyst
4 25 (10.08%) IT Engineer
5 24 (9.68%) 2nd Line Support
6 23 (9.27%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 23 (9.27%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
7 22 (8.87%) Field Engineer
8 19 (7.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (7.66%) Support Engineer
9 16 (6.45%) Server Engineer
10 15 (6.05%) Administrator
11 14 (5.65%) Architect
11 14 (5.65%) Consultant
12 11 (4.44%) Field Service Engineer
12 11 (4.44%) Hardware Engineer
12 11 (4.44%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 11 (4.44%) Senior
13 10 (4.03%) Storage Engineer
14 9 (3.63%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.82%) Middleware
1 7 (2.82%) REST
2 3 (1.21%) Keycloak
2 3 (1.21%) SOAP
3 2 (0.81%) JSON
3 2 (0.81%) XML
4 1 (0.40%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.40%) LDAP
4 1 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 67 (27.02%) Data Centre
2 33 (13.31%) Driving Licence
3 12 (4.84%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (4.84%) Replication
4 9 (3.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (3.63%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (3.23%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.82%) PKI
7 4 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.61%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.21%) Clustering
8 3 (1.21%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.81%) Chip and PIN
9 2 (0.81%) CUDA
9 2 (0.81%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.81%) EPoS
9 2 (0.81%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.81%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 70 (28.23%) Windows
2 48 (19.35%) Mac OS
3 47 (18.95%) Linux
4 44 (17.74%) Android
5 28 (11.29%) Windows Server
6 23 (9.27%) Windows 10
7 19 (7.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.82%) Ubuntu
8 7 (2.82%) Unix
9 6 (2.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (1.61%) VMS
10 4 (1.61%) Windows 7
11 3 (1.21%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.40%) CentOS
12 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (17.34%) Customer Service
2 42 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 31 (12.50%) Break/Fix
5 24 (9.68%) Agile
6 23 (9.27%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (9.27%) Digital Marketing
6 23 (9.27%) Programme Management
7 21 (8.47%) Migration
8 18 (7.26%) Asset Management
9 16 (6.45%) Ticket Management
10 15 (6.05%) ITIL
11 14 (5.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (5.65%) ITSM
12 12 (4.84%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (4.44%) Capacity Planning
13 11 (4.44%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (4.44%) Problem Management
13 11 (4.44%) Time Management
14 10 (4.03%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.44%) PowerShell
2 9 (3.63%) Shell Script
3 6 (2.42%) Bash
4 5 (2.02%) SQL
5 4 (1.61%) Python
6 2 (0.81%) Java
6 2 (0.81%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.40%) C
7 1 (0.40%) Perl
7 1 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 105 (42.34%) Security Cleared
2 86 (34.68%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.87%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (4.84%) A+ Certification
5 12 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (3.63%) CCNA
7 9 (3.63%) Degree
7 9 (3.63%) MCSE
7 9 (3.63%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (1.61%) OCP
8 4 (1.61%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.81%) VCAP
9 2 (0.81%) VCDX
10 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.68%) SLA
2 6 (2.42%) COBIT
3 5 (2.02%) QA
4 4 (1.61%) NIST
5 3 (1.21%) GDPR
6 2 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (14.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (14.11%) vSphere
3 31 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 12 (4.84%) Docker
5 11 (4.44%) Firmware
6 10 (4.03%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (3.23%) Hyper-V
8 6 (2.42%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.21%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.81%) Ceph
11 2 (0.81%) Lustre
11 2 (0.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.40%) GPFS
12 1 (0.40%) NFS
12 1 (0.40%) SRDF
12 1 (0.40%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.40%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 24 (9.68%) VxRail
2 21 (8.47%) Terraform
3 15 (6.05%) Ansible
4 14 (5.65%) vCenter Server
5 12 (4.84%) vRealize
6 11 (4.44%) EMC NetWorker
7 9 (3.63%) Dell DRAC
7 9 (3.63%) Kubernetes
7 9 (3.63%) SCCM
8 7 (2.82%) EMC VPLEX
8 7 (2.82%) ServiceCenter
9 6 (2.42%) Red Hat Satellite
9 6 (2.42%) SCOM
10 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.02%) Prometheus
11 4 (1.61%) Grafana
12 3 (1.21%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.21%) NetBackup
12 3 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.81%) Control-M
Vendors
1 115 (46.37%) HP
2 76 (30.65%) Cisco
3 57 (22.98%) VMware
4 54 (21.77%) Apple
5 38 (15.32%) Microsoft
6 33 (13.31%) SAP
7 21 (8.47%) Red Hat
8 20 (8.06%) IBM
9 17 (6.85%) SolarWinds
10 15 (6.05%) EMC
10 15 (6.05%) Veeam
11 13 (5.24%) Isilon
12 12 (4.84%) AppDynamics
12 12 (4.84%) Commvault
12 12 (4.84%) NetApp
13 10 (4.03%) ServiceNow
14 9 (3.63%) NVIDIA
15 8 (3.23%) Brocade
15 8 (3.23%) Computacenter
15 8 (3.23%) Oracle