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 14 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
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 357 307
Rank change year-on-year -124 -50 +21
Contract jobs citing Dell 185 205 278
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.63% 0.72%
As % of the Vendors category 0.82% 1.33% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 113 181
10th Percentile £126 £137 £183
25th Percentile £231 £190 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +15.15%
75th Percentile £576 £500 £565
90th Percentile £638 £600 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £370 £477
% change year-on-year +28.38% -22.43% +59.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 42 31
10th Percentile £16.22 £17.30 £11.75
25th Percentile £19.08 £18.51 £14.36
Median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -21.96% +10.92%
75th Percentile £19.46 £25.15 £26.47
90th Percentile £25.16 - £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 22,611 15,412 16,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.77% 47.15% 44.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,874 9,444 10,224
10th Percentile £313 £275 £290
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 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,249 781 690
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.54 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.00 £25.15 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -18.33% -28.38%
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.21 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.01 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £21.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +24.48% -30.00% -25.00%

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 14 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 14 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 -142 147 £475 +8.57% 150
UK excluding London -103 123 £475 +28.38% 57
London -104 39 £525 +6.71% 102
Work from Home -50 37 £413 -7.72% 41
South East -51 35 £475 +19.50% 21
North of England -68 35 £523 +18.15% 14
Yorkshire -17 27 £525 +10.53% 4
South West -49 18 £149 -13.01% 6
Scotland -15 17 £145 +3.20% 9
Midlands -62 10 £375 +150.00% 4
West Midlands -50 9 £250 +66.67% 3
East of England -29 6 £513 +15.17% 3
North West -62 5 £200 -53.49% 9
Wales -10 3 - -
North East -40 3 £426 +9.81% 1
East Midlands -27 1 £500 +294.63% 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 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.62%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) IIS
3 1 (0.54%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (4.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.24%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.08%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.54%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 40 (21.62%) Azure
2 24 (12.97%) Boomi
3 20 (10.81%) AWS
4 11 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.86%) OpenShift
6 8 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.78%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (3.24%) AtomSphere
9 5 (2.70%) GitHub
9 5 (2.70%) Smartsheet
10 4 (2.16%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.16%) IaaS
11 3 (1.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.62%) iPaaS
11 3 (1.62%) Nutanix
11 3 (1.62%) Rubrik
12 2 (1.08%) Azure Storage
12 2 (1.08%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.08%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 56 (30.27%) SAN
2 13 (7.03%) Firewall
3 12 (6.49%) NAS
4 10 (5.41%) Fibre Channel
4 10 (5.41%) Network Security
5 9 (4.86%) VLAN
6 8 (4.32%) VPN
7 7 (3.78%) BGP
7 7 (3.78%) DHCP
7 7 (3.78%) VSAN
7 7 (3.78%) WAN
8 6 (3.24%) DNS
8 6 (3.24%) iSCSI
8 6 (3.24%) LAN
8 6 (3.24%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.70%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (2.70%) VXLAN
10 4 (2.16%) OSPF
11 3 (1.62%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.16%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (4.86%) Git
1 9 (4.86%) JIRA
2 6 (3.24%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.70%) Postman
4 3 (1.62%) GitLab
5 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 51 (27.57%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.97%) Finance
4 12 (6.49%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (5.95%) Banking
6 3 (1.62%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.62%) Retail
7 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.08%) Law
8 1 (0.54%) Billing
8 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.54%) Legal
8 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (17.84%) IT Engineer
2 31 (16.76%) Field Engineer
2 31 (16.76%) Field Service Engineer
3 26 (14.05%) Storage Engineer
4 22 (11.89%) Architect
5 18 (9.73%) Consultant
6 17 (9.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (7.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 12 (6.49%) IT Support
9 11 (5.95%) Senior
9 11 (5.95%) Support Engineer
10 10 (5.41%) Analyst
10 10 (5.41%) Network Engineer
11 9 (4.86%) Integration Architect
12 8 (4.32%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
13 7 (3.78%) IT Support Engineer
14 6 (3.24%) Field Support Engineer
14 6 (3.24%) Integration Consultant
14 6 (3.24%) Storage Architect
14 6 (3.24%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.65%) REST
2 14 (7.57%) Middleware
3 11 (5.95%) JSON
4 9 (4.86%) OAuth
4 9 (4.86%) OAuth2
4 9 (4.86%) Terraform
5 8 (4.32%) BAPI
6 7 (3.78%) SOAP
7 6 (3.24%) OpenAPI
7 6 (3.24%) SAP ALE
7 6 (3.24%) Swagger
8 4 (2.16%) IDoc
9 3 (1.62%) 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 69 (37.30%) Data Centre
2 29 (15.68%) Analytical Mindset
3 25 (13.51%) Replication
4 23 (12.43%) Enterprise Storage
5 16 (8.65%) PKI
6 13 (7.03%) Driving Licence
7 7 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.24%) Operational Technology
9 5 (2.70%) EMC VMAX
9 5 (2.70%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.16%) Clustering
10 4 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (2.16%) EMC VNX
10 4 (2.16%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.16%) SCADA
11 3 (1.62%) Chip and PIN
11 3 (1.62%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.62%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 57 (30.81%) Windows
2 39 (21.08%) Linux
3 28 (15.14%) Windows Server
4 16 (8.65%) VMS
5 7 (3.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (3.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.24%) Windows 10
6 6 (3.24%) zOS
7 4 (2.16%) SUSE
8 3 (1.62%) AIX
8 3 (1.62%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (1.62%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.62%) Solaris
8 3 (1.62%) Unix
9 2 (1.08%) Android
9 2 (1.08%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.08%) HPUX
9 2 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.54%) Debian
10 1 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (20.54%) Break/Fix
2 38 (20.54%) Customer Service
3 27 (14.59%) Disaster Recovery
4 26 (14.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 22 (11.89%) ITSM
6 21 (11.35%) Migration
7 19 (10.27%) Change Management
7 19 (10.27%) DevOps
7 19 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (9.73%) Agile
9 17 (9.19%) High Availability
10 14 (7.57%) CI/CD
10 14 (7.57%) Data Protection
10 14 (7.57%) ITIL
10 14 (7.57%) Validation
11 13 (7.03%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (5.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (5.95%) Observability
12 11 (5.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.73%) PowerShell
2 12 (6.49%) Python
3 7 (3.78%) Bash
4 4 (2.16%) JCL
5 3 (1.62%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.62%) 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 50 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 36 (19.46%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (19.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 31 (16.76%) CCNA
4 30 (16.22%) MCSE
5 29 (15.68%) A+ Certification
5 29 (15.68%) Network+ Certification
6 23 (12.43%) SC Cleared
7 22 (11.89%) DV Cleared
8 8 (4.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (3.78%) Azure Certification
9 7 (3.78%) Degree
10 5 (2.70%) CCNP
11 4 (2.16%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.62%) NCDA
12 3 (1.62%) NCIE
12 3 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.16%) QA
1 4 (2.16%) 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 55 (29.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (10.81%) vSphere
3 18 (9.73%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (9.19%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (6.49%) Active Directory
5 12 (6.49%) Firmware
6 10 (5.41%) NFS
7 8 (4.32%) Hyper-V
8 4 (2.16%) Docker
8 4 (2.16%) SRDF
8 4 (2.16%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (2.16%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.62%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (1.62%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (1.08%) KVM
11 1 (0.54%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.54%) QEMU
11 1 (0.54%) Samba
11 1 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 29 (15.68%) vCenter Server
2 21 (11.35%) Ansible
3 13 (7.03%) Avamar
3 13 (7.03%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.03%) SCOM
4 12 (6.49%) Dell DRAC
5 11 (5.95%) VxRail
6 5 (2.70%) NetBackup
6 5 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 5 (2.70%) vMotion
7 4 (2.16%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.62%) EMC VPLEX
8 3 (1.62%) Grafana
8 3 (1.62%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (1.62%) Nessus
8 3 (1.62%) SCCM
8 3 (1.62%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 73 (39.46%) VMware
2 38 (20.54%) Microsoft
3 36 (19.46%) Cisco
4 24 (12.97%) HP
5 19 (10.27%) NetApp
6 15 (8.11%) ServiceNow
7 14 (7.57%) Thales
8 12 (6.49%) IBM
9 11 (5.95%) Brocade
9 11 (5.95%) SAP
9 11 (5.95%) Veeam
10 10 (5.41%) EMC
10 10 (5.41%) MuleSoft
11 8 (4.32%) Pure Storage
11 8 (4.32%) Red Hat
12 7 (3.78%) Broadcom
13 5 (2.70%) Fortinet
14 4 (2.16%) Hitachi
14 4 (2.16%) Oracle
14 4 (2.16%) Splunk