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 17 August 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
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 328 273
Rank change year-on-year -130 -55 +60
Contract jobs citing Dell 203 233 332
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.70% 0.86%
As % of the Vendors category 0.91% 1.49% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 110 225
10th Percentile £126 £140 £220
25th Percentile £350 £200 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £449 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -10.30% +25.00%
75th Percentile £585 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £614 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +15.15% -17.50% +81.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 50 27
10th Percentile £16.09 £17.30 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £12.75
Median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -20.71% +9.17%
75th Percentile £19.59 £25.15 £26.47
90th Percentile £19.98 - £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.67 £18.87 £15.60
% change year-on-year -1.09% +21.00% -20.03%

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 22,333 15,640 16,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.74% 47.25% 43.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,840 9,561 10,600
10th Percentile £313 £278 £290
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £610 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.41% -4.23% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,148 809 830
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.99 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.36 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.68% -10.18% -30.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.60 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.27 £21.39 £27.50
% change year-on-year +41.51% -22.22% -17.22%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -141 159 £500 +11.11% 119
UK excluding London -112 139 £475 +15.15% 54
South East -58 41 £475 +15.15% 28
London -92 38 £525 - 72
North of England -65 36 £519 +16.37% 8
Work from Home -56 35 £500 -2.91% 46
Yorkshire -18 28 £520 +10.64% 1
South West -53 20 £123 -28.36% 5
Scotland -11 16 £289 -50.41% 3
Midlands -56 12 £500 +233.33% 6
West Midlands -53 11 £413 +175.00% 4
Wales -9 8 - -
East of England -22 7 £650 +18.18% 5
North West -49 7 £200 -54.29% 7
East Midlands -25 1 £500 +273.13% 2
North East -45 1 £200 -48.39%

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 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.48%) Confluence
3 2 (0.99%) NetWeaver
3 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.49%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.96%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.49%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 39 (19.21%) Azure
2 26 (12.81%) Boomi
3 17 (8.37%) AWS
4 11 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (4.93%) OpenShift
6 8 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (2.96%) AtomSphere
9 5 (2.46%) GitHub
9 5 (2.46%) IaaS
9 5 (2.46%) Smartsheet
10 4 (1.97%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.48%) GCP
11 3 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.48%) iPaaS
11 3 (1.48%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.48%) Rubrik
11 3 (1.48%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.99%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 67 (33.00%) SAN
2 14 (6.90%) Firewall
3 11 (5.42%) iSCSI
4 10 (4.93%) VSAN
5 9 (4.43%) DHCP
5 9 (4.43%) DNS
5 9 (4.43%) Fibre Channel
5 9 (4.43%) NAS
5 9 (4.43%) Network Security
5 9 (4.43%) VPN
6 7 (3.45%) VLAN
7 6 (2.96%) BGP
7 6 (2.96%) Ethernet VPN
7 6 (2.96%) VXLAN
7 6 (2.96%) WAN
8 5 (2.46%) LAN
9 3 (1.48%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (1.48%) SNMP
9 3 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.99%) FCoE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.46%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.49%) MySQL
3 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.49%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (4.43%) Git
1 9 (4.43%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.45%) JIRA
3 5 (2.46%) Postman
4 3 (1.48%) GitLab
5 1 (0.49%) Hudson
5 1 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 50 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 47 (23.15%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (10.34%) Finance
4 9 (4.43%) Banking
5 7 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.96%) Legal
7 4 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.99%) Law
8 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.99%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.49%) Billing
9 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (23.15%) Field Engineer
2 46 (22.66%) IT Engineer
3 43 (21.18%) Field Service Engineer
4 27 (13.30%) Storage Engineer
5 21 (10.34%) Architect
5 21 (10.34%) IT Support
6 20 (9.85%) Support Engineer
7 19 (9.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (8.37%) Consultant
9 16 (7.88%) IT Support Engineer
10 15 (7.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 15 (7.39%) Field Support Engineer
11 13 (6.40%) Senior
12 9 (4.43%) Network Engineer
13 8 (3.94%) Integration Architect
13 8 (3.94%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
14 7 (3.45%) Analyst
14 7 (3.45%) Integration Consultant
15 6 (2.96%) Hardware Engineer
15 6 (2.96%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.39%) REST
2 14 (6.90%) Middleware
3 12 (5.91%) JSON
4 8 (3.94%) BAPI
4 8 (3.94%) OAuth
4 8 (3.94%) OAuth2
4 8 (3.94%) SOAP
5 6 (2.96%) OpenAPI
5 6 (2.96%) SAP ALE
5 6 (2.96%) Swagger
6 5 (2.46%) IDoc
7 4 (1.97%) Redfish
7 4 (1.97%) XML
8 3 (1.48%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.99%) JMS
9 2 (0.99%) SAP XI
9 2 (0.99%) YAML
10 1 (0.49%) 802.1X
10 1 (0.49%) JDBC
10 1 (0.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 77 (37.93%) Data Centre
2 42 (20.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 26 (12.81%) Enterprise Storage
4 22 (10.84%) Replication
5 15 (7.39%) PKI
6 13 (6.40%) Driving Licence
7 11 (5.42%) EMC VMAX
8 7 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.46%) Clustering
9 5 (2.46%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.97%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.97%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.48%) EMC VNX
11 3 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.48%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.99%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.99%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 57 (28.08%) Windows
2 34 (16.75%) Linux
3 28 (13.79%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.90%) VMS
5 9 (4.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (3.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (2.46%) Windows 10
7 5 (2.46%) zOS
8 4 (1.97%) SUSE
9 3 (1.48%) AIX
9 3 (1.48%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (1.48%) Solaris
9 3 (1.48%) Unix
10 2 (0.99%) Android
10 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.99%) HPUX
10 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.49%) Debian
11 1 (0.49%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (30.54%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (26.11%) Break/Fix
3 50 (24.63%) Customer Service
4 27 (13.30%) Migration
5 25 (12.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (11.82%) DevOps
7 23 (11.33%) ITSM
8 20 (9.85%) CI/CD
9 19 (9.36%) Agile
10 18 (8.87%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (8.37%) Change Management
12 16 (7.88%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (7.39%) Data Protection
13 15 (7.39%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (6.90%) High Availability
15 13 (6.40%) Performance Tuning
15 13 (6.40%) Validation
16 12 (5.91%) Observability
17 11 (5.42%) ITIL
17 11 (5.42%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (9.85%) Python
2 19 (9.36%) PowerShell
3 10 (4.93%) Bash
4 5 (2.46%) JCL
4 5 (2.46%) SQL
5 4 (1.97%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.99%) ABAP
6 2 (0.99%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.99%) REXX
7 1 (0.49%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.49%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.49%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.49%) Bicep
7 1 (0.49%) Groovy
7 1 (0.49%) Java
7 1 (0.49%) Korn
7 1 (0.49%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (25.12%) Security Cleared
2 49 (24.14%) Cisco Certification
3 46 (22.66%) Microsoft Certification
4 42 (20.69%) CCNA
4 42 (20.69%) MCSE
5 41 (20.20%) A+ Certification
5 41 (20.20%) Network+ Certification
6 24 (11.82%) DV Cleared
7 22 (10.84%) SC Cleared
8 9 (4.43%) Degree
9 7 (3.45%) Azure Certification
9 7 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.96%) CCNP
11 3 (1.48%) CISSP
11 3 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.48%) MCSA
11 3 (1.48%) NCDA
11 3 (1.48%) NCIE
11 3 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.96%) PMO
1 6 (2.96%) QA
1 6 (2.96%) SLA
2 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.99%) NCSC
3 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.49%) GDPR
3 1 (0.49%) GRC
3 1 (0.49%) NIST
3 1 (0.49%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.49%) SEPA
System Software
1 49 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (9.36%) vSphere
3 15 (7.39%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (6.40%) Active Directory
6 12 (5.91%) Firmware
7 11 (5.42%) Hyper-V
8 10 (4.93%) NFS
9 8 (3.94%) SRDF
10 6 (2.96%) Docker
11 5 (2.46%) Time Sharing Option
11 5 (2.46%) VMware NSX
12 3 (1.48%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.99%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.99%) KVM
14 1 (0.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.49%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.49%) QEMU
14 1 (0.49%) Samba
14 1 (0.49%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 28 (13.79%) vCenter Server
2 23 (11.33%) Ansible
3 15 (7.39%) Kubernetes
4 13 (6.40%) Avamar
4 13 (6.40%) SCOM
5 11 (5.42%) Dell DRAC
6 10 (4.93%) Terraform
7 8 (3.94%) VxRail
8 7 (3.45%) Prometheus
9 6 (2.96%) NetBackup
9 6 (2.96%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (1.97%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.97%) Puppet
10 4 (1.97%) vMotion
11 3 (1.48%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (1.48%) Grafana
11 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.48%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.48%) SCCM
Vendors
1 65 (32.02%) VMware
2 37 (18.23%) Microsoft
3 34 (16.75%) Cisco
3 34 (16.75%) HP
4 15 (7.39%) NetApp
4 15 (7.39%) SAP
5 14 (6.90%) Thales
6 13 (6.40%) Brocade
6 13 (6.40%) MuleSoft
6 13 (6.40%) ServiceNow
7 12 (5.91%) Broadcom
7 12 (5.91%) Pure Storage
8 11 (5.42%) EMC
9 10 (4.93%) IBM
9 10 (4.93%) Red Hat
9 10 (4.93%) Veeam
10 6 (2.96%) Oracle
11 5 (2.46%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.46%) Splunk
12 4 (1.97%) 3PAR