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 15 December 2025, 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
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 355 296
Rank change year-on-year -10 -59 +42
Contract jobs citing Dell 229 203 347
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.59% 0.78%
As % of the Vendors category 1.33% 1.30% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 127 244
10th Percentile £154 £164 £131
25th Percentile £170 £259 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £459 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.48% +14.75% -1.23%
75th Percentile £488 £565 £550
90th Percentile £575 £658 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £475 £375
% change year-on-year -26.32% +26.67% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 22 7
10th Percentile £17.86 £11.75 £18.95
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.27 £19.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +9.91% -7.99%
75th Percentile - £27.98 £23.13
90th Percentile £32.93 £35.00 £28.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £19.25
% change year-on-year -21.96% +25.61% +4.76%

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 17,261 15,639 20,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.36% 45.61% 45.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,977 9,327 12,754
10th Percentile £293 £285 £253
25th Percentile £408 £412 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.70% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 867 472 663
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.67
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.28 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% -35.56% +75.03%
75th Percentile £44.84 £61.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £26.81 £45.00
% change year-on-year -17.95% -40.42% +100.00%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 -7 207 £350 -22.22% 70
UK excluding London -42 138 £350 -26.32% 68
London +8 76 £449 +12.13% 15
North of England -41 36 £263 -47.92% 12
Midlands -27 35 £239 -52.25% 10
Work from Home -4 26 £449 -6.81% 23
South East -25 21 £400 +32.78% 25
West Midlands -29 21 £310 -38.00% 7
South West -7 20 £700 +21.74% 8
Yorkshire -52 16 £350 -32.04% 5
East of England -6 15 £445 +61.82% 7
East Midlands -6 14 £158 -10.00% 3
North West -17 14 £175 -5.41% 6
Northern Ireland -6 6 £375 - 2
North East - 6 £175 - 2
Scotland -3 5 £500 +257.14% 5

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 17 (7.42%) Confluence
2 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.75%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.44%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.44%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 53 (23.14%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.87%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.44%) assyst
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.44%) SAP ECC
3 1 (0.44%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 72 (31.44%) Microsoft 365
2 49 (21.40%) Azure
3 35 (15.28%) AWS
4 13 (5.68%) Boomi
5 12 (5.24%) Datadog
6 7 (3.06%) GCP
7 6 (2.62%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.62%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.62%) OCI
8 5 (2.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.18%) SaaS
9 4 (1.75%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.87%) Apigee
10 2 (0.87%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.87%) PaaS
10 2 (0.87%) Slack
11 1 (0.44%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.44%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 52 (22.71%) Wireless
2 33 (14.41%) SAN
3 21 (9.17%) Firewall
4 19 (8.30%) DNS
4 19 (8.30%) VLAN
5 17 (7.42%) VSAN
6 13 (5.68%) DHCP
7 8 (3.49%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.18%) BGP
8 5 (2.18%) iSCSI
9 4 (1.75%) 3GPP
9 4 (1.75%) 4G
9 4 (1.75%) 5G
9 4 (1.75%) IPsec
9 4 (1.75%) MPLS
9 4 (1.75%) NAS
9 4 (1.75%) OSPF
9 4 (1.75%) Radio Access Network
9 4 (1.75%) Wireshark
10 3 (1.31%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.18%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.31%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.87%) Data Hub
3 2 (0.87%) DataStage
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (4.37%) JIRA
2 2 (0.87%) Git
3 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.44%) GitLab
3 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.44%) Postman
General
1 46 (20.09%) Social Skills
2 45 (19.65%) Finance
3 38 (16.59%) Banking
4 37 (16.16%) Public Sector
5 25 (10.92%) Telecoms
6 24 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (10.48%) Manufacturing
6 24 (10.48%) Marketing
7 23 (10.04%) Electronics
8 14 (6.11%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (4.37%) Retail
10 8 (3.49%) Legal
11 6 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.75%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.87%) Local Government
14 2 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (14.85%) IT Support
2 33 (14.41%) Desktop Support
3 32 (13.97%) Analyst
4 23 (10.04%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 23 (10.04%) 2nd Line Support
4 23 (10.04%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 19 (8.30%) IT Engineer
6 17 (7.42%) Administrator
7 16 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (6.99%) Support Engineer
8 15 (6.55%) Architect
9 14 (6.11%) Senior
10 13 (5.68%) Consultant
10 13 (5.68%) Field Engineer
11 12 (5.24%) Server Engineer
12 11 (4.80%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 9 (3.93%) IT Support Engineer
13 9 (3.93%) Storage Engineer
14 7 (3.06%) Implementation Specialist
14 7 (3.06%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.06%) REST
2 6 (2.62%) Middleware
3 3 (1.31%) SOAP
4 2 (0.87%) JSON
5 1 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.44%) LDAP
5 1 (0.44%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (28.38%) Data Centre
2 26 (11.35%) Driving Licence
3 15 (6.55%) Replication
4 14 (6.11%) Enterprise Storage
5 12 (5.24%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (3.49%) PKI
7 7 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.75%) HP Storage
9 4 (1.75%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.31%) Clustering
10 3 (1.31%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.87%) CUDA
11 2 (0.87%) EMC VMAX
11 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.87%) Smartphone
11 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.87%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 59 (25.76%) Windows
2 55 (24.02%) Mac OS
3 52 (22.71%) Android
4 43 (18.78%) Linux
5 21 (9.17%) Windows 10
5 21 (9.17%) Windows Server
6 17 (7.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (3.49%) Unix
8 4 (1.75%) VMS
8 4 (1.75%) Windows 7
9 3 (1.31%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.44%) CentOS
11 1 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (13.97%) Customer Service
1 32 (13.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 32 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (11.79%) Break/Fix
3 26 (11.35%) Agile
4 23 (10.04%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (10.04%) Digital Marketing
4 23 (10.04%) Programme Management
5 19 (8.30%) ITIL
5 19 (8.30%) Migration
6 14 (6.11%) Asset Management
7 13 (5.68%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (5.68%) Ticket Management
8 12 (5.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (5.24%) ITSM
8 12 (5.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (4.80%) Capacity Planning
10 10 (4.37%) Decision-Making
10 10 (4.37%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (4.37%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.80%) Shell Script
2 7 (3.06%) PowerShell
3 6 (2.62%) Bash
4 5 (2.18%) SQL
5 4 (1.75%) Python
6 2 (0.87%) Java
6 2 (0.87%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.44%) JCL
7 1 (0.44%) Perl
7 1 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 101 (44.10%) Security Cleared
2 85 (37.12%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.79%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.80%) Degree
4 11 (4.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.49%) A+ Certification
7 7 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.18%) MCSE
9 4 (1.75%) CCNA
9 4 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (1.75%) OCP
9 4 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.87%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.87%) VCAP
11 2 (0.87%) VCDX
12 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.61%) SLA
2 7 (3.06%) QA
3 6 (2.62%) COBIT
4 4 (1.75%) GDPR
4 4 (1.75%) NIST
5 2 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.44%) NCSC
6 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (14.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (13.10%) Active Directory
3 26 (11.35%) vSphere
4 13 (5.68%) Firmware
5 12 (5.24%) Docker
6 7 (3.06%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (2.18%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.18%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.31%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.31%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.87%) Ceph
9 2 (0.87%) Lustre
9 2 (0.87%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.44%) GPFS
10 1 (0.44%) NFS
10 1 (0.44%) Samba
10 1 (0.44%) SRDF
10 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 21 (9.17%) Terraform
2 18 (7.86%) VxRail
3 15 (6.55%) Ansible
4 12 (5.24%) vRealize
5 11 (4.80%) EMC NetWorker
5 11 (4.80%) NetBackup
6 10 (4.37%) Dell DRAC
6 10 (4.37%) SCCM
6 10 (4.37%) vCenter Server
7 9 (3.93%) Kubernetes
8 7 (3.06%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (2.62%) SCOM
10 5 (2.18%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (1.31%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.31%) ServiceCenter
12 2 (0.87%) Control-M
12 2 (0.87%) Grafana
12 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.87%) Puppet
Vendors
1 108 (47.16%) HP
2 88 (38.43%) Cisco
3 56 (24.45%) Apple
4 52 (22.71%) VMware
5 33 (14.41%) Microsoft
6 31 (13.54%) SAP
7 20 (8.73%) Isilon
8 17 (7.42%) SolarWinds
9 16 (6.99%) IBM
9 16 (6.99%) Red Hat
10 14 (6.11%) EMC
11 13 (5.68%) NetApp
11 13 (5.68%) Veeam
12 12 (5.24%) AppDynamics
12 12 (5.24%) Commvault
13 11 (4.80%) Veritas
14 10 (4.37%) Oracle
15 9 (3.93%) ServiceNow
16 8 (3.49%) Brocade
17 7 (3.06%) Intel