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 26 March 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
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 300 258
Rank change year-on-year -60 -42 +101
Contract jobs citing Dell 275 232 401
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.80% 0.91%
As % of the Vendors category 1.44% 1.69% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 119 276
10th Percentile £154 £150 £176
25th Percentile £206 £180 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £431
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -1.45% +2.99%
75th Percentile £550 £546 £625
90th Percentile £625 £603 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £455
% change year-on-year +12.50% -12.09% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 29 9
10th Percentile £16.09 £18.45 £15.65
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.85 £24.18 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% +20.90% -3.40%
75th Percentile £23.71 £24.66 £22.00
90th Percentile £25.77 £35.00 £66.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £22.89 £17.50
% change year-on-year -22.70% +30.77% -6.67%

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 19,134 13,734 18,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.51% 47.26% 42.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,240 8,680 11,799
10th Percentile £313 £295 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.75%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £700 £709 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 969 474 1,027
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.32 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.47 £28.68 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +22.02% -38.96%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £55.68
90th Percentile £77.65 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £27.13 £21.50
% change year-on-year -12.17% +26.16% -38.57%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -74 224 £450 +9.09% 68
UK excluding London -79 176 £450 +12.50% 55
London -29 64 £450 +20.00% 14
North of England -43 48 £350 -17.65% 10
Work from Home -38 34 £500 -5.66% 33
East of England -8 31 £613 +11.36% 11
Midlands -52 31 £311 +77.86% 7
Yorkshire -36 27 £500 +11.11% 4
West Midlands -59 23 £313 +13.64% 6
South East -82 22 £465 +131.07% 19
South West -34 21 £613 +240.28% 9
Scotland +7 15 £500 +42.86% 1
North West -42 13 £175 -58.82% 6
East Midlands -24 10 £158 -10.00% 1
North East -5 8 £175 -72.00%
Wales -9 7 - - 1
Northern Ireland -2 3 £375 -

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 10 (3.64%) Confluence
2 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 28 (10.18%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.73%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.36%) assyst
4 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.36%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 45 (16.36%) Microsoft 365
2 42 (15.27%) Azure
3 27 (9.82%) AWS
4 15 (5.45%) Boomi
5 12 (4.36%) Datadog
6 10 (3.64%) OpenShift
7 8 (2.91%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.45%) Azure Stack
10 3 (1.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.09%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.09%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (0.73%) Apigee
11 2 (0.73%) GCP
11 2 (0.73%) IaaS
12 1 (0.36%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 51 (18.55%) SAN
2 30 (10.91%) VSAN
2 30 (10.91%) Wireless
3 21 (7.64%) Firewall
4 19 (6.91%) DHCP
4 19 (6.91%) DNS
5 15 (5.45%) LAN
5 15 (5.45%) VLAN
5 15 (5.45%) WAN
6 13 (4.73%) iSCSI
7 8 (2.91%) Fibre Channel
7 8 (2.91%) Network Security
8 5 (1.82%) FCoE
8 5 (1.82%) VPN
9 4 (1.45%) NAS
10 3 (1.09%) BGP
10 3 (1.09%) InfiniBand
10 3 (1.09%) Multicast
10 3 (1.09%) SNMP
10 3 (1.09%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.18%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.82%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.73%) DataStage
4 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.36%) MySQL
5 1 (0.36%) Redis
5 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (1.82%) JIRA
2 4 (1.45%) GitLab
2 4 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.09%) Git
3 3 (1.09%) Postman
4 1 (0.36%) Hudson
4 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
General
1 67 (24.36%) Social Skills
2 45 (16.36%) Finance
3 39 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.55%) Public Sector
5 26 (9.45%) Legal
6 21 (7.64%) Banking
7 19 (6.91%) Telecoms
8 18 (6.55%) Manufacturing
8 18 (6.55%) Marketing
9 17 (6.18%) Electronics
10 14 (5.09%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.82%) Retail
14 4 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.36%) Billing
16 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (17.09%) Field Engineer
2 45 (16.36%) IT Support
3 40 (14.55%) IT Engineer
4 29 (10.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 28 (10.18%) Field Service Engineer
5 28 (10.18%) Support Engineer
6 24 (8.73%) Desktop Support
7 19 (6.91%) Analyst
8 18 (6.55%) 2nd Line Support
8 18 (6.55%) IT Support Engineer
9 17 (6.18%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 17 (6.18%) Hardware Engineer
9 17 (6.18%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
10 16 (5.82%) Field Support Engineer
11 15 (5.45%) Computer Engineer
11 15 (5.45%) Field Hardware Engineer
11 15 (5.45%) Senior
12 14 (5.09%) Printer Engineer
13 13 (4.73%) Architect
13 13 (4.73%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.91%) Middleware
2 6 (2.18%) REST
3 5 (1.82%) SOAP
3 5 (1.82%) XML
4 4 (1.45%) Keycloak
5 3 (1.09%) JSON
5 3 (1.09%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.09%) Redfish
5 3 (1.09%) Web Services
6 1 (0.36%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.36%) IDoc
6 1 (0.36%) JDBC
6 1 (0.36%) JMS
6 1 (0.36%) Kafka
6 1 (0.36%) LDAP
6 1 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.36%) SAP XI
6 1 (0.36%) XSD
6 1 (0.36%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 90 (32.73%) Data Centre
2 33 (12.00%) Driving Licence
3 27 (9.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 17 (6.18%) Enterprise Storage
5 15 (5.45%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (5.45%) Replication
5 15 (5.45%) Virtual Team
6 11 (4.00%) EMC VMAX
7 6 (2.18%) Clustering
7 6 (2.18%) PKI
8 5 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.09%) EPoS
9 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.73%) CUDA
10 2 (0.73%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.73%) HP Storage
10 2 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 76 (27.64%) Windows
2 51 (18.55%) Linux
3 36 (13.09%) Mac OS
4 32 (11.64%) Android
5 31 (11.27%) Windows Server
6 24 (8.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (6.55%) Windows 10
8 12 (4.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (2.91%) Unix
9 8 (2.91%) VMS
10 7 (2.55%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.45%) SUSE
12 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.73%) zOS
14 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.36%) CentOS
14 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (25.45%) Customer Service
2 63 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (16.73%) Break/Fix
4 38 (13.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 32 (11.64%) Migration
6 19 (6.91%) Agile
7 18 (6.55%) Service Management
8 17 (6.18%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (6.18%) Digital Marketing
8 17 (6.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (6.18%) Programme Management
9 15 (5.45%) High Availability
9 15 (5.45%) ITSM
10 14 (5.09%) Validation
11 13 (4.73%) DevOps
12 12 (4.36%) Time Management
13 11 (4.00%) Storage Management
14 10 (3.64%) Asset Management
14 10 (3.64%) CI/CD
14 10 (3.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.55%) Python
2 16 (5.82%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.00%) Bash
3 11 (4.00%) Shell Script
4 8 (2.91%) SQL
5 2 (0.73%) C
5 2 (0.73%) Java
5 2 (0.73%) JCL
5 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.36%) ABAP
6 1 (0.36%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.36%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (0.36%) Groovy
6 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.36%) Korn
6 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 98 (35.64%) Security Cleared
2 73 (26.55%) SC Cleared
3 32 (11.64%) Cisco Certification
4 30 (10.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 29 (10.55%) A+ Certification
6 27 (9.82%) CCNA
6 27 (9.82%) MCSE
6 27 (9.82%) Network+ Certification
7 24 (8.73%) DV Cleared
8 12 (4.36%) Degree
9 5 (1.82%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.82%) CCNP
10 4 (1.45%) HP ASE
10 4 (1.45%) OCP
10 4 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.73%) VCAP
12 2 (0.73%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.09%) SLA
2 9 (3.27%) PMO
3 3 (1.09%) QA
4 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.73%) GDPR
4 2 (0.73%) NCSC
4 2 (0.73%) NIST
4 2 (0.73%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.36%) COBIT
5 1 (0.36%) GRC
5 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (17.09%) vSphere
2 46 (16.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 19 (6.91%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (4.73%) Firmware
6 11 (4.00%) Hyper-V
7 10 (3.64%) Docker
8 9 (3.27%) SRDF
8 9 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (2.18%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.09%) NFS
11 2 (0.73%) Ceph
11 2 (0.73%) Lustre
11 2 (0.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.73%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.73%) vCloud
12 1 (0.36%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.36%) GPFS
12 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 31 (11.27%) VxRail
2 18 (6.55%) Ansible
3 16 (5.82%) vCenter Server
4 15 (5.45%) Terraform
5 13 (4.73%) vRealize
6 12 (4.36%) ServiceCenter
7 11 (4.00%) Kubernetes
8 9 (3.27%) Dell DRAC
8 9 (3.27%) Prometheus
9 7 (2.55%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (2.18%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (2.18%) EMC TimeFinder
10 6 (2.18%) SCCM
11 5 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.45%) EMC VPLEX
12 4 (1.45%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (1.45%) Grafana
12 4 (1.45%) Puppet
13 3 (1.09%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 106 (38.55%) HP
2 72 (26.18%) Cisco
3 61 (22.18%) VMware
4 46 (16.73%) Apple
5 32 (11.64%) Microsoft
6 30 (10.91%) SAP
7 27 (9.82%) IBM
8 26 (9.45%) Red Hat
9 16 (5.82%) EMC
10 15 (5.45%) Canon
11 14 (5.09%) Pure Storage
11 14 (5.09%) ServiceNow
11 14 (5.09%) SolarWinds
12 13 (4.73%) Commvault
13 12 (4.36%) AppDynamics
13 12 (4.36%) Brocade
14 11 (4.00%) NVIDIA
15 10 (3.64%) Veeam
16 8 (2.91%) Broadcom
17 7 (2.55%) Splunk