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 27 May 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
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 285 260
Rank change year-on-year -93 -25 +102
Contract jobs citing Dell 262 252 385
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.88% 0.90%
As % of the Vendors category 1.31% 1.85% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 125 255
10th Percentile £126 £150 £216
25th Percentile £313 £180 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -2.17% +26.90%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £608
90th Percentile £625 £630 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +26.67% -25.00% +81.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 40 19
10th Percentile £16.09 £17.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £14.88
Median hourly rate £19.10 £18.69 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +3.09% -12.44%
75th Percentile £20.09 £21.01 £44.40
90th Percentile £25.77 £24.66 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £18.51 £15.00
% change year-on-year -4.43% +23.40% -27.55%

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 20,005 13,641 18,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.05% 47.74% 42.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,636 8,503 11,247
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +0.51% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 563 1,105
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +12.11% -47.53%
75th Percentile £58.75 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £76.62 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.29 £22.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year +33.11% +2.52% -45.74%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -124 201 £475 +5.56% 50
UK excluding London -102 177 £475 +26.67% 33
London -73 47 £500 +5.26% 20
North of England -58 39 £510 +14.49% 9
Work from Home -39 38 £500 -7.24% 26
South East -70 38 £419 +10.20% 11
East of England -13 27 £613 +11.36% 3
South West -41 25 £515 +232.26% 2
Yorkshire -40 24 £520 +9.37% 6
Scotland +2 22 £450 -12.15% 2
Midlands -80 17 £450 +200.00% 4
North West -41 12 £269 -36.76% 3
West Midlands -73 12 £513 +241.67% 4
Wales -12 10 - -
East Midlands -27 7 £450 -
North East -24 3 - -
Northern Ireland 0 1 £375 +7.14% 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 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.53%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.15%) Confluence
4 2 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.76%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.91%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.76%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.38%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 38 (14.50%) Azure
2 18 (6.87%) Boomi
3 14 (5.34%) AWS
3 14 (5.34%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.82%) OpenShift
5 6 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (1.53%) Azure Stack
6 4 (1.53%) Smartsheet
6 4 (1.53%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (1.15%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (1.15%) Datadog
7 3 (1.15%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.15%) IaaS
7 3 (1.15%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (0.76%) GitHub
8 2 (0.76%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 80 (30.53%) SAN
2 20 (7.63%) VSAN
3 18 (6.87%) DHCP
3 18 (6.87%) DNS
3 18 (6.87%) Firewall
4 16 (6.11%) LAN
4 16 (6.11%) WAN
5 14 (5.34%) iSCSI
5 14 (5.34%) VLAN
6 10 (3.82%) Fibre Channel
7 8 (3.05%) Network Security
8 7 (2.67%) NAS
9 6 (2.29%) VPN
10 5 (1.91%) FCoE
10 5 (1.91%) VXLAN
11 4 (1.53%) BGP
11 4 (1.53%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (1.53%) TCP/IP
12 3 (1.15%) SNMP
12 3 (1.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.38%) MySQL
4 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (3.05%) Git
2 7 (2.67%) JIRA
3 6 (2.29%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.29%) Postman
4 5 (1.91%) GitLab
5 1 (0.38%) Hudson
5 1 (0.38%) SoapUI
General
1 69 (26.34%) Social Skills
2 56 (21.37%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (10.31%) Finance
4 25 (9.54%) Legal
5 14 (5.34%) Banking
5 14 (5.34%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (3.05%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.15%) Retail
9 2 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.38%) Billing
10 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.38%) French Language
10 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (25.95%) Field Engineer
2 57 (21.76%) IT Engineer
3 52 (19.85%) Field Service Engineer
4 31 (11.83%) IT Support
5 26 (9.92%) Support Engineer
6 25 (9.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (6.87%) Field Support Engineer
7 18 (6.87%) IT Support Engineer
8 17 (6.49%) Hardware Engineer
9 15 (5.73%) Computer Engineer
9 15 (5.73%) Field Hardware Engineer
9 15 (5.73%) Senior
10 14 (5.34%) Architect
10 14 (5.34%) Printer Engineer
11 13 (4.96%) Consultant
12 12 (4.58%) Storage Engineer
13 9 (3.44%) Data Centre Engineer
13 9 (3.44%) Technical Support
14 8 (3.05%) Analyst
14 8 (3.05%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.96%) Middleware
2 11 (4.20%) REST
3 10 (3.82%) JSON
4 7 (2.67%) SOAP
4 7 (2.67%) XML
5 5 (1.91%) BAPI
6 4 (1.53%) IDoc
6 4 (1.53%) Keycloak
6 4 (1.53%) OAuth
6 4 (1.53%) OAuth2
6 4 (1.53%) OpenAPI
6 4 (1.53%) Redfish
6 4 (1.53%) SAP ALE
6 4 (1.53%) Swagger
7 3 (1.15%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.15%) Web Services
8 2 (0.76%) SAP XI
9 1 (0.38%) XSD
9 1 (0.38%) XSLT
9 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 95 (36.26%) Data Centre
2 51 (19.47%) Analytical Mindset
3 29 (11.07%) Driving Licence
4 21 (8.02%) Enterprise Storage
5 16 (6.11%) Replication
5 16 (6.11%) Virtual Team
6 13 (4.96%) EMC VMAX
7 9 (3.44%) PKI
8 6 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.91%) Clustering
9 5 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.53%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.15%) EPoS
11 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.76%) Device Driver
12 2 (0.76%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.76%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.76%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 73 (27.86%) Windows
2 39 (14.89%) Linux
3 31 (11.83%) Windows Server
4 16 (6.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (5.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (4.20%) Windows 10
7 7 (2.67%) Ubuntu
8 6 (2.29%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.53%) Android
9 4 (1.53%) SUSE
9 4 (1.53%) Unix
9 4 (1.53%) VMS
9 4 (1.53%) zOS
10 3 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.38%) AIX
12 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.38%) Debian
12 1 (0.38%) Solaris
12 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (33.97%) Customer Service
2 83 (31.68%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (24.81%) Break/Fix
4 32 (12.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 31 (11.83%) Migration
6 20 (7.63%) DevOps
6 20 (7.63%) Service Management
7 19 (7.25%) ITSM
8 18 (6.87%) High Availability
9 16 (6.11%) CI/CD
10 15 (5.73%) Agile
10 15 (5.73%) Validation
11 14 (5.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (5.34%) Observability
12 13 (4.96%) Data Protection
13 12 (4.58%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (4.58%) Time Management
14 11 (4.20%) Asset Management
14 11 (4.20%) Change Management
14 11 (4.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (8.02%) Python
2 19 (7.25%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.82%) Bash
4 5 (1.91%) SQL
5 4 (1.53%) JCL
5 4 (1.53%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.76%) ABAP
6 2 (0.76%) C
7 1 (0.38%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.38%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.38%) Groovy
7 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.38%) Korn
7 1 (0.38%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.38%) REXX
Qualifications
1 72 (27.48%) Security Cleared
2 58 (22.14%) Cisco Certification
3 53 (20.23%) A+ Certification
3 53 (20.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 51 (19.47%) CCNA
4 51 (19.47%) MCSE
4 51 (19.47%) Network+ Certification
5 44 (16.79%) SC Cleared
6 23 (8.78%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.20%) Degree
8 7 (2.67%) CCNP
9 5 (1.91%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.53%) HP ASE
11 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.76%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.76%) VCAP
12 2 (0.76%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.78%) SLA
2 9 (3.44%) PMO
3 6 (2.29%) QA
4 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.38%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) GRC
5 1 (0.38%) NCSC
5 1 (0.38%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 44 (16.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (13.74%) vSphere
3 20 (7.63%) Active Directory
3 20 (7.63%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (4.96%) Firmware
5 12 (4.58%) Hyper-V
6 11 (4.20%) SRDF
7 8 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (3.05%) VMware NSX
8 7 (2.67%) Docker
8 7 (2.67%) NFS
9 4 (1.53%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.76%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.76%) Ceph
10 2 (0.76%) KVM
10 2 (0.76%) Lustre
10 2 (0.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.76%) vCloud
11 1 (0.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.38%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 23 (8.78%) vCenter Server
2 20 (7.63%) VxRail
3 18 (6.87%) Ansible
4 13 (4.96%) Kubernetes
5 12 (4.58%) ServiceCenter
6 10 (3.82%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.05%) Dell DRAC
8 7 (2.67%) Avamar
8 7 (2.67%) SCOM
9 6 (2.29%) EMC TimeFinder
9 6 (2.29%) Terraform
10 5 (1.91%) Grafana
10 5 (1.91%) SCCM
10 5 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.91%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (1.53%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.53%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.53%) Puppet
12 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (1.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 68 (25.95%) HP
2 62 (23.66%) VMware
3 43 (16.41%) Cisco
4 42 (16.03%) Microsoft
5 21 (8.02%) Red Hat
6 20 (7.63%) IBM
7 17 (6.49%) Apple
8 16 (6.11%) SAP
9 15 (5.73%) Brocade
9 15 (5.73%) Canon
10 14 (5.34%) Pure Storage
10 14 (5.34%) ServiceNow
11 13 (4.96%) EMC
12 11 (4.20%) Thales
12 11 (4.20%) Veeam
13 10 (3.82%) Broadcom
13 10 (3.82%) MuleSoft
13 10 (3.82%) NVIDIA
14 8 (3.05%) NetApp
15 6 (2.29%) Oracle