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 4 September 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
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 339 307
Rank change year-on-year -162 -32 +25
Contract jobs citing Dell 186 212 283
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.66% 0.74%
As % of the Vendors category 0.83% 1.39% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 109 187
10th Percentile £126 £139 £201
25th Percentile £213 £200 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £447 £472
Median % change year-on-year +6.26% -5.30% +14.42%
75th Percentile £576 £525 £565
90th Percentile £638 £623 £637
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £365 £475
% change year-on-year +30.14% -23.16% +58.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 42 30
10th Percentile £16.02 £17.30 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.71 £18.51 £13.93
Median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -21.34% +19.35%
75th Percentile - £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile £23.98 - £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.33 £18.51 £24.18
% change year-on-year +4.43% -23.45% +24.00%

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 22,422 15,261 16,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.80% 47.23% 44.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,829 9,339 10,233
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,171 780 716
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.54 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.15 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.59% -16.17% -29.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.84 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.75 £21.30 £29.00
% change year-on-year +30.28% -26.55% -27.50%

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 4 September 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
Top 16 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 4 September 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 -150 145 £475 +5.56% 152
UK excluding London -101 123 £475 +30.14% 67
London -113 41 £525 +3.75% 94
Work from Home -47 38 £413 -7.72% 41
South East -67 36 £475 +20.25% 22
North of England -71 31 £525 +18.71% 19
Yorkshire -26 25 £525 +11.70% 6
South West -51 19 £123 -28.36% 8
Scotland -13 18 £276 +104.07% 10
Midlands -61 10 £375 +150.00% 6
West Midlands -50 9 £250 +66.67% 4
Wales -10 5 - -
East of England -22 5 £580 +7.41% 2
North West -55 5 £200 -54.02% 11
East Midlands -31 1 £500 +301.61% 2
North East -40 1 £200 -48.39% 2

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 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.61%) Confluence
3 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) IIS
4 1 (0.54%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (4.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.23%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.08%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.54%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 41 (22.04%) Azure
2 24 (12.90%) Boomi
3 20 (10.75%) AWS
4 12 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.84%) OpenShift
6 8 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (3.23%) AtomSphere
9 5 (2.69%) GitHub
9 5 (2.69%) Smartsheet
10 4 (2.15%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.15%) IaaS
11 3 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.61%) GCP
11 3 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.61%) iPaaS
11 3 (1.61%) Nutanix
11 3 (1.61%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.61%) Rubrik
12 2 (1.08%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 60 (32.26%) SAN
2 14 (7.53%) Firewall
3 12 (6.45%) NAS
4 10 (5.38%) Fibre Channel
4 10 (5.38%) VLAN
5 9 (4.84%) VPN
6 8 (4.30%) DHCP
6 8 (4.30%) DNS
6 8 (4.30%) Network Security
7 7 (3.76%) BGP
7 7 (3.76%) VSAN
7 7 (3.76%) WAN
8 6 (3.23%) iSCSI
8 6 (3.23%) LAN
9 5 (2.69%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (2.69%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.69%) VXLAN
10 4 (2.15%) OSPF
11 3 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.15%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (4.84%) Git
1 9 (4.84%) JIRA
2 6 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.69%) Postman
4 3 (1.61%) GitLab
5 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 49 (26.34%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.43%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.90%) Finance
4 11 (5.91%) Banking
5 9 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.61%) Legal
6 3 (1.61%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.08%) Law
8 1 (0.54%) Billing
8 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (19.89%) Field Engineer
1 37 (19.89%) IT Engineer
2 35 (18.82%) Field Service Engineer
3 26 (13.98%) Storage Engineer
4 21 (11.29%) Architect
5 18 (9.68%) Consultant
6 17 (9.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (8.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 12 (6.45%) IT Support
9 11 (5.91%) Senior
9 11 (5.91%) Support Engineer
10 10 (5.38%) Analyst
10 10 (5.38%) Network Engineer
11 9 (4.84%) Integration Architect
12 8 (4.30%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
13 7 (3.76%) IT Support Engineer
14 6 (3.23%) Field Support Engineer
14 6 (3.23%) Integration Consultant
14 6 (3.23%) Storage Architect
14 6 (3.23%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.60%) REST
2 14 (7.53%) Middleware
3 11 (5.91%) JSON
4 9 (4.84%) OAuth
4 9 (4.84%) OAuth2
4 9 (4.84%) Terraform
5 8 (4.30%) BAPI
6 7 (3.76%) SOAP
7 6 (3.23%) OpenAPI
7 6 (3.23%) SAP ALE
7 6 (3.23%) Swagger
8 4 (2.15%) IDoc
9 3 (1.61%) XML
10 2 (1.08%) Redfish
10 2 (1.08%) Restlet
10 2 (1.08%) YAML
11 1 (0.54%) 802.1X
11 1 (0.54%) Apache NiFi
11 1 (0.54%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.54%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 74 (39.78%) Data Centre
2 33 (17.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 25 (13.44%) Replication
4 23 (12.37%) Enterprise Storage
5 14 (7.53%) PKI
6 13 (6.99%) Driving Licence
7 7 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.69%) Clustering
8 5 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.69%) EMC VMAX
8 5 (2.69%) Private Cloud
9 4 (2.15%) EMC VNX
9 4 (2.15%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.15%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.61%) Chip and PIN
10 3 (1.61%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.61%) Mainframe
11 2 (1.08%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 55 (29.57%) Windows
2 35 (18.82%) Linux
3 29 (15.59%) Windows Server
4 16 (8.60%) VMS
5 7 (3.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (3.76%) zOS
6 6 (3.23%) Windows 10
7 5 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (2.15%) SUSE
9 3 (1.61%) AIX
9 3 (1.61%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (1.61%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.61%) Solaris
9 3 (1.61%) Unix
10 2 (1.08%) Android
10 2 (1.08%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.08%) HPUX
10 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.54%) Debian
11 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (26.88%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (23.12%) Break/Fix
3 41 (22.04%) Customer Service
4 27 (14.52%) Disaster Recovery
5 23 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 22 (11.83%) ITSM
7 20 (10.75%) Migration
8 19 (10.22%) Agile
8 19 (10.22%) Change Management
9 18 (9.68%) DevOps
10 17 (9.14%) High Availability
10 17 (9.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (8.06%) Data Protection
12 14 (7.53%) CI/CD
12 14 (7.53%) ITIL
12 14 (7.53%) Validation
13 13 (6.99%) Performance Tuning
14 11 (5.91%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (5.91%) Project Management
14 11 (5.91%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.22%) PowerShell
2 12 (6.45%) Python
3 7 (3.76%) Bash
4 5 (2.69%) JCL
5 3 (1.61%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.61%) SQL
6 2 (1.08%) REXX
6 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.08%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.54%) ABAP
7 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.54%) Bicep
7 1 (0.54%) Groovy
7 1 (0.54%) Java
7 1 (0.54%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 49 (26.34%) Security Cleared
2 40 (21.51%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (21.51%) Microsoft Certification
3 35 (18.82%) CCNA
4 34 (18.28%) MCSE
5 33 (17.74%) A+ Certification
5 33 (17.74%) Network+ Certification
6 23 (12.37%) DV Cleared
7 21 (11.29%) SC Cleared
8 8 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (4.30%) Degree
9 7 (3.76%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.69%) CCNP
11 4 (2.15%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.61%) CISSP
12 3 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.61%) NCDA
12 3 (1.61%) NCIE
12 3 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.15%) QA
1 4 (2.15%) SLA
2 2 (1.08%) PMO
2 2 (1.08%) SEPA
3 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.54%) NCSC
System Software
1 52 (27.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (10.75%) vSphere
3 17 (9.14%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (8.60%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (7.53%) Active Directory
6 13 (6.99%) Firmware
7 10 (5.38%) Hyper-V
7 10 (5.38%) NFS
8 5 (2.69%) Time Sharing Option
9 4 (2.15%) Docker
9 4 (2.15%) SRDF
9 4 (2.15%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.61%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (1.08%) BitLocker
11 2 (1.08%) KVM
12 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.54%) QEMU
12 1 (0.54%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.54%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 30 (16.13%) vCenter Server
2 20 (10.75%) Ansible
3 13 (6.99%) Avamar
3 13 (6.99%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.99%) SCOM
4 12 (6.45%) Dell DRAC
5 7 (3.76%) VxRail
6 6 (3.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 6 (3.23%) vMotion
7 5 (2.69%) NetBackup
7 5 (2.69%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.15%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.61%) EMC VPLEX
9 3 (1.61%) Grafana
9 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.61%) SCCM
9 3 (1.61%) SnapMirror
10 2 (1.08%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (1.08%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 70 (37.63%) VMware
2 37 (19.89%) Microsoft
3 33 (17.74%) Cisco
4 27 (14.52%) HP
5 16 (8.60%) NetApp
6 15 (8.06%) ServiceNow
7 14 (7.53%) Thales
8 12 (6.45%) Brocade
9 11 (5.91%) SAP
9 11 (5.91%) Veeam
10 10 (5.38%) IBM
10 10 (5.38%) MuleSoft
11 8 (4.30%) Broadcom
11 8 (4.30%) Pure Storage
11 8 (4.30%) Red Hat
12 7 (3.76%) EMC
13 4 (2.15%) Citrix
13 4 (2.15%) Oracle
13 4 (2.15%) Splunk
14 3 (1.61%) F5