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 6 June 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
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 291 260
Rank change year-on-year -98 -31 +94
Contract jobs citing Dell 259 246 388
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.85% 0.90%
As % of the Vendors category 1.29% 1.78% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 126 256
10th Percentile £126 £150 £228
25th Percentile £379 £181 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £461
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.44% +31.79%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £608
90th Percentile £635 £640 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% +81.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 37 22
10th Percentile £16.09 £17.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.17 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £18.51 £19.07
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -2.91% -7.92%
75th Percentile £20.09 £21.00 £24.18
90th Percentile £25.77 £24.66 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £18.51 £17.50
% change year-on-year -4.43% +5.77% -15.48%

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 20,109 13,843 18,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.71% 47.68% 42.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,661 8,543 11,339
10th Percentile £313 £281 £265
25th Percentile £413 £404 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -2.14% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.11% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,025 606 1,126
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.69 £17.37 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.48 £22.90
Median % change year-on-year +22.76% +15.62% -46.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.87 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.53 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.15 £22.88 £21.50
% change year-on-year +31.80% +6.40% -45.71%

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 6 June 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 6 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Dell in the UK

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 6 June 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 -102 198 £500 +8.11% 65
UK excluding London -88 177 £475 +18.75% 39
London -76 45 £500 +2.56% 26
North of England -60 40 £519 +22.12% 9
South East -67 39 £450 -10.00% 13
Work from Home -38 38 £500 -7.24% 30
East of England -11 26 £613 +11.36% 4
Yorkshire -47 26 £520 +9.47% 3
South West -35 25 £515 +232.26% 6
Scotland -6 23 £450 -12.15% 1
Midlands -66 16 £475 +216.67% 4
North West -45 11 £269 -34.85% 5
West Midlands -70 11 £583 +288.33% 4
Wales -14 10 - -
East Midlands -20 7 £450 -
North East -26 3 - - 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 5 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.77%) Confluence
3 2 (0.77%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.39%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.93%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.77%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.39%) assyst
4 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 39 (15.06%) Azure
2 20 (7.72%) Boomi
3 12 (4.63%) AWS
3 12 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (4.63%) OpenShift
4 6 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.32%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (1.54%) Azure Stack
5 4 (1.54%) GitHub
5 4 (1.54%) Smartsheet
5 4 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (1.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (1.16%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.16%) IaaS
6 3 (1.16%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (0.77%) Azure Storage
7 2 (0.77%) Datadog
7 2 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.77%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 80 (30.89%) SAN
2 18 (6.95%) DHCP
2 18 (6.95%) DNS
2 18 (6.95%) Firewall
2 18 (6.95%) VSAN
3 16 (6.18%) LAN
3 16 (6.18%) WAN
4 14 (5.41%) iSCSI
5 13 (5.02%) VLAN
6 10 (3.86%) Fibre Channel
7 9 (3.47%) NAS
8 8 (3.09%) Network Security
9 6 (2.32%) VPN
10 5 (1.93%) FCoE
11 4 (1.54%) BGP
11 4 (1.54%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (1.54%) TCP/IP
11 4 (1.54%) VXLAN
12 3 (1.16%) Multicast
12 3 (1.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.09%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.39%) MySQL
4 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (3.09%) Git
1 8 (3.09%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.70%) JIRA
3 6 (2.32%) GitLab
3 6 (2.32%) Postman
4 1 (0.39%) Hudson
4 1 (0.39%) SoapUI
General
1 69 (26.64%) Social Skills
2 56 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (10.42%) Finance
4 24 (9.27%) Legal
5 13 (5.02%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (4.25%) Banking
7 8 (3.09%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.16%) Retail
10 2 (0.77%) Law
10 2 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.39%) Billing
11 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.39%) French Language
11 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (24.71%) Field Engineer
2 54 (20.85%) IT Engineer
3 50 (19.31%) Field Service Engineer
4 29 (11.20%) IT Support
5 26 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 24 (9.27%) Support Engineer
7 17 (6.56%) Architect
7 17 (6.56%) Storage Engineer
8 16 (6.18%) Field Support Engineer
8 16 (6.18%) IT Support Engineer
9 15 (5.79%) Hardware Engineer
9 15 (5.79%) Senior
10 14 (5.41%) Computer Engineer
10 14 (5.41%) Field Hardware Engineer
10 14 (5.41%) Printer Engineer
11 13 (5.02%) Consultant
12 9 (3.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 9 (3.47%) Data Centre Engineer
12 9 (3.47%) Technical Support
13 8 (3.09%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.41%) Middleware
2 12 (4.63%) REST
3 11 (4.25%) JSON
4 7 (2.70%) SOAP
4 7 (2.70%) XML
5 6 (2.32%) BAPI
6 5 (1.93%) Keycloak
6 5 (1.93%) OAuth
6 5 (1.93%) OAuth2
7 4 (1.54%) IDoc
7 4 (1.54%) OpenAPI
7 4 (1.54%) Redfish
7 4 (1.54%) SAP ALE
7 4 (1.54%) Swagger
8 3 (1.16%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.16%) Web Services
9 2 (0.77%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.77%) SAP XI
9 2 (0.77%) YAML
10 1 (0.39%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 95 (36.68%) Data Centre
2 50 (19.31%) Analytical Mindset
3 26 (10.04%) Driving Licence
4 25 (9.65%) Enterprise Storage
5 17 (6.56%) Replication
6 15 (5.79%) EMC VMAX
6 15 (5.79%) Virtual Team
7 10 (3.86%) PKI
8 6 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.93%) Clustering
10 4 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.54%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.16%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.16%) EMC VNX
11 3 (1.16%) EPoS
11 3 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.77%) HP Storage
12 2 (0.77%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 74 (28.57%) Windows
2 34 (13.13%) Linux
3 33 (12.74%) Windows Server
4 15 (5.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.47%) Windows 10
7 7 (2.70%) Ubuntu
8 6 (2.32%) VMS
9 5 (1.93%) zOS
10 4 (1.54%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.54%) SUSE
11 3 (1.16%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (1.16%) Unix
11 3 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.77%) Android
12 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.39%) AIX
13 1 (0.39%) Debian
13 1 (0.39%) Solaris
13 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (33.59%) Customer Service
2 81 (31.27%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (24.32%) Break/Fix
4 32 (12.36%) Migration
5 31 (11.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 22 (8.49%) DevOps
7 20 (7.72%) ITSM
8 19 (7.34%) High Availability
8 19 (7.34%) Service Management
9 17 (6.56%) CI/CD
10 15 (5.79%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (5.41%) Agile
11 14 (5.41%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (5.02%) Data Protection
12 13 (5.02%) Observability
12 13 (5.02%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (5.02%) Storage Management
12 13 (5.02%) Validation
13 12 (4.63%) Change Management
13 12 (4.63%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.88%) Python
2 22 (8.49%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.86%) Bash
4 5 (1.93%) JCL
4 5 (1.93%) SQL
5 3 (1.16%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.77%) ABAP
6 2 (0.77%) C
6 2 (0.77%) REXX
7 1 (0.39%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.39%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.39%) Groovy
7 1 (0.39%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.39%) Korn
7 1 (0.39%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 68 (26.25%) Security Cleared
2 57 (22.01%) Cisco Certification
3 52 (20.08%) A+ Certification
3 52 (20.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 50 (19.31%) CCNA
4 50 (19.31%) MCSE
4 50 (19.31%) Network+ Certification
5 41 (15.83%) SC Cleared
6 22 (8.49%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.25%) Degree
8 7 (2.70%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.70%) CCNP
9 4 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.54%) HP ASE
9 4 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.16%) NCDA
10 3 (1.16%) NCIE
11 2 (0.77%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.88%) SLA
2 9 (3.47%) PMO
3 6 (2.32%) QA
4 2 (0.77%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.39%) GDPR
5 1 (0.39%) GRC
5 1 (0.39%) NCSC
5 1 (0.39%) NIST
5 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 47 (18.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (13.13%) vSphere
3 20 (7.72%) Active Directory
3 20 (7.72%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (5.41%) Hyper-V
5 12 (4.63%) SRDF
6 11 (4.25%) Firmware
7 10 (3.86%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (3.47%) NFS
9 7 (2.70%) VMware NSX
10 5 (1.93%) Docker
10 5 (1.93%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (1.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.77%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.77%) KVM
12 2 (0.77%) vCloud
13 1 (0.39%) Ceph
13 1 (0.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.39%) QEMU
13 1 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 25 (9.65%) vCenter Server
2 20 (7.72%) Ansible
3 19 (7.34%) VxRail
4 14 (5.41%) Kubernetes
5 12 (4.63%) ServiceCenter
6 10 (3.86%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.09%) Avamar
7 8 (3.09%) SCOM
8 7 (2.70%) Dell DRAC
9 6 (2.32%) EMC TimeFinder
9 6 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.32%) Terraform
9 6 (2.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 5 (1.93%) Grafana
10 5 (1.93%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.54%) EMC VPLEX
11 4 (1.54%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (1.16%) Puppet
12 3 (1.16%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 64 (24.71%) VMware
2 63 (24.32%) HP
3 44 (16.99%) Microsoft
4 42 (16.22%) Cisco
5 21 (8.11%) Red Hat
6 19 (7.34%) IBM
7 17 (6.56%) Brocade
7 17 (6.56%) SAP
8 15 (5.79%) Apple
8 15 (5.79%) EMC
8 15 (5.79%) Pure Storage
9 14 (5.41%) Canon
9 14 (5.41%) ServiceNow
10 13 (5.02%) Thales
11 12 (4.63%) Veeam
12 11 (4.25%) Broadcom
12 11 (4.25%) MuleSoft
13 10 (3.86%) NetApp
14 9 (3.47%) NVIDIA
15 6 (2.32%) 3PAR