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 16 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
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 313 259
Rank change year-on-year -57 -54 +105
Contract jobs citing Dell 277 224 387
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.76% 0.87%
As % of the Vendors category 1.46% 1.61% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 116 263
10th Percentile £154 £149 £181
25th Percentile £190 £180 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £430
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -6.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £628
90th Percentile £625 £604 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £400 £463
% change year-on-year +3.75% -13.61% +26.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 29 8
10th Percentile £16.11 £18.45 £15.35
25th Percentile £16.23 £18.51 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.12 £24.18 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.92% +28.96% -11.26%
75th Percentile £24.08 £24.66 £22.00
90th Percentile £25.77 £35.00 £34.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £22.89 £17.50
% change year-on-year -17.54% +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 18,936 13,940 19,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.92% 47.15% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,091 8,723 11,942
10th Percentile £308 £285 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -2.84%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 971 458 1,028
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.01 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +17.65% -31.53%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.75 £83.57 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.55% +19.57% -30.30%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -59 230 £425 +6.25% 81
UK excluding London -62 178 £415 +3.75% 76
London -31 68 £438 +25.00% 14
North of England -36 48 £350 -17.65% 12
Midlands -42 33 £309 -22.75% 9
East of England -10 30 £575 +4.55% 13
Work from Home -27 30 £500 -1.72% 56
Yorkshire -39 26 £458 +40.77% 4
South West -29 23 £613 +240.28% 10
West Midlands -56 22 £313 -21.88% 7
South East -79 22 £465 +131.07% 24
Scotland +5 14 £500 +100.00% 7
North West -43 14 £175 -58.82% 7
East Midlands -17 13 £158 -10.00% 2
North East - 8 £175 - 1
Wales -4 7 - - 3
Northern Ireland 0 3 £375 - 1

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 11 (3.97%) Confluence
2 9 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 37 (13.36%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.72%) 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 55 (19.86%) Microsoft 365
2 36 (13.00%) Azure
3 26 (9.39%) AWS
4 16 (5.78%) Boomi
5 12 (4.33%) Datadog
6 8 (2.89%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.53%) OpenShift
8 5 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.08%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.08%) GCP
9 3 (1.08%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (0.72%) Apigee
10 2 (0.72%) iPaaS
10 2 (0.72%) OCI
10 2 (0.72%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.72%) PaaS
11 1 (0.36%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.36%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 46 (16.61%) SAN
2 39 (14.08%) Wireless
3 25 (9.03%) VSAN
4 19 (6.86%) Firewall
5 18 (6.50%) DHCP
5 18 (6.50%) DNS
6 14 (5.05%) LAN
6 14 (5.05%) WAN
7 12 (4.33%) iSCSI
8 11 (3.97%) VLAN
9 8 (2.89%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (1.81%) FCoE
10 5 (1.81%) NAS
11 4 (1.44%) Network Security
12 3 (1.08%) BGP
12 3 (1.08%) InfiniBand
12 3 (1.08%) Multicast
12 3 (1.08%) VXLAN
13 2 (0.72%) DMZ
13 2 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.81%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.72%) DataStage
4 2 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.72%) 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 6 (2.17%) JIRA
2 4 (1.44%) GitLab
2 4 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.08%) Git
3 3 (1.08%) Postman
4 1 (0.36%) Hudson
4 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
General
1 64 (23.10%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.05%) Finance
3 36 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (12.64%) Public Sector
5 26 (9.39%) Legal
6 24 (8.66%) Banking
6 24 (8.66%) Manufacturing
6 24 (8.66%) Marketing
6 24 (8.66%) Telecoms
7 23 (8.30%) Electronics
8 14 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.89%) Retail
11 7 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.72%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 50 (18.05%) IT Support
2 44 (15.88%) Field Engineer
3 37 (13.36%) IT Engineer
4 30 (10.83%) Desktop Support
5 29 (10.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 29 (10.47%) Support Engineer
6 25 (9.03%) Field Service Engineer
7 24 (8.66%) 2nd Line Support
8 23 (8.30%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 23 (8.30%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
9 19 (6.86%) Analyst
10 17 (6.14%) Hardware Engineer
10 17 (6.14%) IT Support Engineer
11 15 (5.42%) Computer Engineer
11 15 (5.42%) Field Hardware Engineer
11 15 (5.42%) Field Support Engineer
11 15 (5.42%) Senior
12 14 (5.05%) Printer Engineer
13 13 (4.69%) Architect
14 12 (4.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.89%) Middleware
2 7 (2.53%) REST
3 6 (2.17%) SOAP
4 5 (1.81%) XML
5 4 (1.44%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.08%) JSON
6 3 (1.08%) Web Services
7 2 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (0.72%) Redfish
8 1 (0.36%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.36%) IDoc
8 1 (0.36%) JDBC
8 1 (0.36%) JMS
8 1 (0.36%) Kafka
8 1 (0.36%) LDAP
8 1 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.36%) SAP XI
8 1 (0.36%) XSD
8 1 (0.36%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 92 (33.21%) Data Centre
2 37 (13.36%) Driving Licence
3 23 (8.30%) Analytical Mindset
4 18 (6.50%) Enterprise Storage
5 15 (5.42%) Virtual Team
6 12 (4.33%) EMC VMAX
6 12 (4.33%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (3.97%) Replication
8 7 (2.53%) PKI
9 5 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.08%) EPoS
11 2 (0.72%) Clustering
11 2 (0.72%) CUDA
11 2 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.72%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.72%) HP Storage
11 2 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.72%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.72%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 74 (26.71%) Windows
2 45 (16.25%) Linux
2 45 (16.25%) Mac OS
3 41 (14.80%) Android
4 32 (11.55%) Windows Server
5 19 (6.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (6.50%) Windows 10
7 11 (3.97%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (2.89%) Unix
9 7 (2.53%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.44%) VMS
11 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.36%) CentOS
12 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (23.83%) Customer Service
2 60 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (16.25%) Break/Fix
4 40 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 27 (9.75%) Migration
6 23 (8.30%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (8.30%) Digital Marketing
6 23 (8.30%) Programme Management
7 20 (7.22%) Agile
8 18 (6.50%) Service Management
9 15 (5.42%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (5.05%) Asset Management
10 14 (5.05%) ITSM
11 12 (4.33%) DevOps
11 12 (4.33%) High Availability
12 11 (3.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (3.97%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (3.97%) Ticket Management
12 11 (3.97%) Time Management
13 10 (3.61%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.78%) Python
2 13 (4.69%) PowerShell
3 11 (3.97%) Shell Script
4 10 (3.61%) Bash
5 8 (2.89%) SQL
6 2 (0.72%) C
6 2 (0.72%) Java
6 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.36%) ABAP
7 1 (0.36%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.36%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.36%) Groovy
7 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.36%) JCL
7 1 (0.36%) Korn
7 1 (0.36%) Perl
7 1 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 104 (37.55%) Security Cleared
2 83 (29.96%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.11%) Cisco Certification
4 27 (9.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 25 (9.03%) A+ Certification
6 23 (8.30%) CCNA
6 23 (8.30%) MCSE
6 23 (8.30%) Network+ Certification
7 22 (7.94%) DV Cleared
8 12 (4.33%) Degree
9 5 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.81%) CCNP
10 4 (1.44%) HP ASE
10 4 (1.44%) OCP
10 4 (1.44%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.72%) VCAP
12 2 (0.72%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.03%) SLA
2 7 (2.53%) PMO
3 3 (1.08%) GDPR
4 2 (0.72%) COBIT
4 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.72%) NCSC
4 2 (0.72%) NIST
4 2 (0.72%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.72%) QA
4 2 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.36%) GRC
5 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (15.88%) vSphere
2 40 (14.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (9.75%) Active Directory
4 15 (5.42%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (3.61%) Docker
6 9 (3.25%) Firmware
6 9 (3.25%) SRDF
7 8 (2.89%) Hyper-V
8 6 (2.17%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.72%) Ceph
10 2 (0.72%) Lustre
10 2 (0.72%) NFS
10 2 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.72%) vCloud
11 1 (0.36%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.36%) GPFS
11 1 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 27 (9.75%) VxRail
2 18 (6.50%) Ansible
3 16 (5.78%) Terraform
4 13 (4.69%) vCenter Server
4 13 (4.69%) vRealize
5 12 (4.33%) ServiceCenter
6 11 (3.97%) Kubernetes
7 8 (2.89%) Dell DRAC
7 8 (2.89%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.53%) EMC NetWorker
8 7 (2.53%) Red Hat Satellite
9 6 (2.17%) EMC TimeFinder
9 6 (2.17%) SCCM
10 5 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.44%) EMC VPLEX
11 4 (1.44%) Grafana
11 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.44%) Puppet
11 4 (1.44%) SCOM
12 3 (1.08%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 120 (43.32%) HP
2 75 (27.08%) Cisco
3 56 (20.22%) VMware
4 55 (19.86%) Apple
5 36 (13.00%) SAP
6 35 (12.64%) Microsoft
7 25 (9.03%) IBM
8 23 (8.30%) Red Hat
9 18 (6.50%) EMC
10 15 (5.42%) Canon
11 14 (5.05%) SolarWinds
12 13 (4.69%) Commvault
12 13 (4.69%) ServiceNow
13 12 (4.33%) AppDynamics
14 11 (3.97%) Brocade
14 11 (3.97%) NVIDIA
14 11 (3.97%) Pure Storage
14 11 (3.97%) Veeam
15 8 (2.89%) MuleSoft
15 8 (2.89%) Oracle