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 26 April 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
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 301 262
Rank change year-on-year -66 -39 +104
Contract jobs citing Dell 265 248 396
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.84% 0.91%
As % of the Vendors category 1.34% 1.78% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 124 273
10th Percentile £134 £150 £202
25th Percentile £345 £173 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £427 £460
Median % change year-on-year +11.31% -7.23% +15.00%
75th Percentile £569 £564 £625
90th Percentile £640 £629 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £260 £500
% change year-on-year +92.31% -48.00% +66.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 38 15
10th Percentile £16.09 £17.30 £13.35
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.85 £18.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% -14.23% +6.25%
75th Percentile £23.71 £24.18 £68.13
90th Percentile £25.77 £24.66 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £18.87 £17.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% +7.83% -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 19,705 13,939 18,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.17% 47.47% 42.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,590 8,769 11,529
10th Percentile £313 £290 £262
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £627
90th Percentile £703 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 991 558 1,076
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £18.13 £14.39
Median hourly rate £30.50 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.44% +20.56% -48.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.38 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £24.19 £21.46
% change year-on-year +11.62% +12.72% -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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -84 211 £500 +17.65% 59
UK excluding London -78 174 £500 +92.31% 43
London -64 58 £475 +1.33% 21
North of England -53 41 £500 +17.65% 7
Work from Home -23 33 £500 -7.41% 27
East of England -13 31 £650 +18.18% 4
Yorkshire -42 28 £519 +15.33% 5
South East -93 27 £388 +81.07% 15
South West -40 24 £523 +237.10% 9
Midlands -58 23 £450 +200.00% 7
West Midlands -60 18 £379 +152.67% 5
Scotland +6 17 £475 +5.56% 3
Wales -3 10 - -
North West -39 10 £269 -36.76% 2
East Midlands -33 7 £450 +157.14% 2
Northern Ireland +4 3 £375 -
North East -18 3 - -

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 (2.26%) Confluence
1 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.51%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.38%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 9 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.51%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.75%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.38%) assyst
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 38 (14.34%) Azure
2 22 (8.30%) AWS
2 22 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (4.91%) Boomi
3 13 (4.91%) OpenShift
4 7 (2.64%) Datadog
5 6 (2.26%) Amazon S3
6 5 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.51%) Azure Stack
7 4 (1.51%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (1.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (1.13%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.13%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.13%) IaaS
8 3 (1.13%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (0.75%) Apigee
9 2 (0.75%) iPaaS
10 1 (0.38%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 69 (26.04%) SAN
2 24 (9.06%) VSAN
3 19 (7.17%) Firewall
4 18 (6.79%) DHCP
4 18 (6.79%) DNS
5 16 (6.04%) LAN
5 16 (6.04%) WAN
6 14 (5.28%) iSCSI
6 14 (5.28%) VLAN
7 12 (4.53%) Wireless
8 9 (3.40%) Fibre Channel
8 9 (3.40%) Network Security
9 6 (2.26%) NAS
9 6 (2.26%) VPN
10 5 (1.89%) FCoE
10 5 (1.89%) VXLAN
11 4 (1.51%) BGP
11 4 (1.51%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (1.13%) InfiniBand
12 3 (1.13%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.51%) MongoDB
1 4 (1.51%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.75%) DataStage
3 2 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.38%) MySQL
4 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.51%) Git
2 4 (1.51%) GitLab
2 4 (1.51%) JIRA
3 3 (1.13%) Postman
4 1 (0.38%) Hudson
4 1 (0.38%) SoapUI
General
1 70 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 51 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (9.43%) Finance
3 25 (9.43%) Legal
4 20 (7.55%) Banking
5 14 (5.28%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (4.15%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.51%) Retail
10 3 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.38%) French Language
12 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (23.02%) Field Engineer
2 52 (19.62%) IT Engineer
3 42 (15.85%) Field Service Engineer
4 31 (11.70%) IT Support
5 30 (11.32%) Support Engineer
6 27 (10.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (7.55%) IT Support Engineer
8 19 (7.17%) Field Support Engineer
9 17 (6.42%) Hardware Engineer
10 16 (6.04%) Senior
11 15 (5.66%) Computer Engineer
11 15 (5.66%) Field Hardware Engineer
12 14 (5.28%) Printer Engineer
13 13 (4.91%) Consultant
14 12 (4.53%) Analyst
15 11 (4.15%) Architect
16 10 (3.77%) Administrator
16 10 (3.77%) Data Centre Engineer
16 10 (3.77%) Server Engineer
17 9 (3.40%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.64%) Middleware
1 7 (2.64%) REST
1 7 (2.64%) XML
2 6 (2.26%) SOAP
3 5 (1.89%) JSON
4 4 (1.51%) Keycloak
5 3 (1.13%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.13%) Redfish
5 3 (1.13%) Web Services
6 1 (0.38%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.38%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.38%) IDoc
6 1 (0.38%) JDBC
6 1 (0.38%) JMS
6 1 (0.38%) Kafka
6 1 (0.38%) SAP XI
6 1 (0.38%) XSD
6 1 (0.38%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 88 (33.21%) Data Centre
2 41 (15.47%) Analytical Mindset
3 33 (12.45%) Driving Licence
4 19 (7.17%) Enterprise Storage
5 17 (6.42%) Replication
6 16 (6.04%) Virtual Team
7 12 (4.53%) EMC VMAX
8 9 (3.40%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (2.26%) Clustering
10 4 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.13%) EPoS
11 3 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.13%) PKI
12 2 (0.75%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.75%) Device Driver
12 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.75%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.75%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 73 (27.55%) Windows
2 46 (17.36%) Linux
3 27 (10.19%) Windows Server
4 22 (8.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (6.42%) Windows 10
6 16 (6.04%) Mac OS
7 14 (5.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (4.53%) Android
9 8 (3.02%) VMS
10 7 (2.64%) Ubuntu
10 7 (2.64%) Unix
11 4 (1.51%) SUSE
12 3 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.13%) zOS
13 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.38%) Debian
13 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (31.32%) Customer Service
2 76 (28.68%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (22.26%) Break/Fix
4 38 (14.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 35 (13.21%) Migration
6 19 (7.17%) Service Management
7 18 (6.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (6.04%) High Availability
9 15 (5.66%) ITSM
9 15 (5.66%) Validation
10 14 (5.28%) DevOps
11 13 (4.91%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (4.53%) Agile
12 12 (4.53%) Storage Management
12 12 (4.53%) Time Management
13 11 (4.15%) Data Protection
13 11 (4.15%) Disaster Recovery
14 10 (3.77%) Asset Management
14 10 (3.77%) CI/CD
14 10 (3.77%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (7.55%) Python
2 19 (7.17%) PowerShell
3 12 (4.53%) Bash
4 10 (3.77%) Shell Script
5 7 (2.64%) SQL
6 3 (1.13%) JCL
7 2 (0.75%) C
7 2 (0.75%) Java
7 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.38%) ABAP
8 1 (0.38%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.38%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.38%) Groovy
8 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.38%) Korn
8 1 (0.38%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (30.57%) Security Cleared
2 55 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 48 (18.11%) Cisco Certification
4 43 (16.23%) A+ Certification
4 43 (16.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 41 (15.47%) CCNA
5 41 (15.47%) MCSE
5 41 (15.47%) Network+ Certification
6 23 (8.68%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.15%) Degree
8 7 (2.64%) CCNP
9 6 (2.26%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.51%) HP ASE
11 4 (1.51%) OCP
11 4 (1.51%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.75%) VCAP
12 2 (0.75%) VCDX
13 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.81%) SLA
2 9 (3.40%) PMO
3 5 (1.89%) QA
4 2 (0.75%) 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 40 (15.09%) vSphere
2 39 (14.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (7.92%) Active Directory
4 20 (7.55%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (4.53%) Firmware
5 12 (4.53%) Hyper-V
6 10 (3.77%) SRDF
6 10 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (3.40%) Docker
8 8 (3.02%) VMware NSX
9 6 (2.26%) NFS
10 3 (1.13%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.75%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.75%) Ceph
11 2 (0.75%) Lustre
11 2 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.75%) vCloud
12 1 (0.38%) GPFS
12 1 (0.38%) KVM
12 1 (0.38%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 24 (9.06%) VxRail
2 20 (7.55%) Ansible
3 16 (6.04%) vCenter Server
4 13 (4.91%) Kubernetes
4 13 (4.91%) Terraform
5 12 (4.53%) ServiceCenter
6 10 (3.77%) Dell DRAC
6 10 (3.77%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.64%) EMC NetWorker
7 7 (2.64%) SCCM
7 7 (2.64%) vRealize
8 6 (2.26%) EMC TimeFinder
8 6 (2.26%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (1.89%) EMC VPLEX
9 5 (1.89%) Grafana
9 5 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.51%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.51%) NetBackup
10 4 (1.51%) Puppet
11 3 (1.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 80 (30.19%) HP
2 56 (21.13%) Cisco
3 55 (20.75%) VMware
4 33 (12.45%) Microsoft
5 26 (9.81%) Apple
5 26 (9.81%) Red Hat
6 22 (8.30%) IBM
7 17 (6.42%) Pure Storage
8 16 (6.04%) EMC
9 15 (5.66%) Brocade
9 15 (5.66%) Canon
9 15 (5.66%) ServiceNow
10 13 (4.91%) SAP
11 12 (4.53%) Veeam
12 10 (3.77%) NVIDIA
13 9 (3.40%) Broadcom
13 9 (3.40%) SolarWinds
14 7 (2.64%) Commvault
14 7 (2.64%) Isilon
14 7 (2.64%) NetApp