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 2 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
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 297 266
Rank change year-on-year -62 -31 +94
Contract jobs citing Dell 277 250 393
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.85% 0.90%
As % of the Vendors category 1.40% 1.79% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 125 268
10th Percentile £126 £150 £220
25th Percentile £301 £173 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £474
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.24% +22.99%
75th Percentile £569 £560 £631
90th Percentile £628 £628 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £260 £500
% change year-on-year +73.08% -48.00% +66.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 39 18
10th Percentile £16.09 £17.30 £12.88
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.61 £18.87 £19.07
Median % change year-on-year +3.93% -1.02% -7.92%
75th Percentile £23.15 £24.18 £54.70
90th Percentile £25.77 £24.66 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £18.87 £16.25
% change year-on-year -6.25% +16.12% -21.52%

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 19,836 13,936 18,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.93% 47.52% 42.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,657 8,733 11,440
10th Percentile £313 £290 £263
25th Percentile £413 £408 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £517
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.43% -1.48%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £627
90th Percentile £704 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 994 562 1,096
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.86 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £14.48
Median hourly rate £30.88 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.73% +17.56% -48.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £21.50
% change year-on-year +13.73% +12.47% -45.71%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -84 219 £475 +15.15% 64
UK excluding London -85 185 £450 +73.08% 40
London -62 57 £488 +5.41% 24
North of England -42 44 £500 +17.65% 6
Work from Home -38 33 £500 -7.41% 30
East of England -12 31 £613 +11.36% 6
South East -81 30 £388 +81.07% 14
Yorkshire -29 29 £519 +15.33% 4
South West -39 26 £518 +233.87% 7
Midlands -69 24 £450 +200.00% 6
Scotland -1 19 £450 - 2
West Midlands -63 19 £379 +152.67% 6
North West -40 12 £269 -36.76% 2
Wales -2 10 - -
East Midlands -31 7 £450 +157.14%
Northern Ireland +5 3 £375 -
North East -19 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 (2.17%) Confluence
1 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.72%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 8 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.44%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.81%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.72%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.36%) assyst
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 39 (14.08%) Azure
2 21 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (7.22%) AWS
4 16 (5.78%) Boomi
5 13 (4.69%) OpenShift
6 6 (2.17%) Datadog
7 5 (1.81%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.44%) Azure Stack
8 4 (1.44%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (1.08%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.08%) IaaS
9 3 (1.08%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.72%) Apigee
10 2 (0.72%) GitHub
10 2 (0.72%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (28.16%) SAN
2 23 (8.30%) VSAN
3 19 (6.86%) Firewall
4 18 (6.50%) DHCP
4 18 (6.50%) DNS
5 16 (5.78%) LAN
5 16 (5.78%) WAN
6 14 (5.05%) iSCSI
6 14 (5.05%) VLAN
7 12 (4.33%) Wireless
8 9 (3.25%) Fibre Channel
8 9 (3.25%) Network Security
9 6 (2.17%) NAS
9 6 (2.17%) VPN
10 5 (1.81%) FCoE
10 5 (1.81%) VXLAN
11 4 (1.44%) BGP
11 4 (1.44%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (1.08%) SNMP
12 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.44%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.08%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.72%) DataStage
3 2 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.36%) MySQL
4 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (2.17%) Git
1 6 (2.17%) Jenkins
1 6 (2.17%) JIRA
2 4 (1.44%) GitLab
2 4 (1.44%) Postman
3 1 (0.36%) Hudson
3 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
General
1 71 (25.63%) Social Skills
2 59 (21.30%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (9.03%) Finance
3 25 (9.03%) Legal
4 21 (7.58%) Banking
5 14 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (3.97%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.44%) Retail
10 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.36%) Billing
12 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.36%) French Language
12 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (25.27%) Field Engineer
2 60 (21.66%) IT Engineer
3 51 (18.41%) Field Service Engineer
4 32 (11.55%) IT Support
5 31 (11.19%) Support Engineer
6 27 (9.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (7.58%) Field Support Engineer
7 21 (7.58%) IT Support Engineer
8 17 (6.14%) Hardware Engineer
9 16 (5.78%) Senior
10 15 (5.42%) Computer Engineer
10 15 (5.42%) Field Hardware Engineer
11 14 (5.05%) Printer Engineer
12 13 (4.69%) Architect
12 13 (4.69%) Consultant
13 11 (3.97%) Administrator
13 11 (3.97%) Analyst
14 10 (3.61%) Data Centre Engineer
14 10 (3.61%) Server Engineer
15 9 (3.25%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.25%) Middleware
1 9 (3.25%) REST
2 7 (2.53%) JSON
2 7 (2.53%) XML
3 6 (2.17%) SOAP
4 4 (1.44%) Keycloak
5 3 (1.08%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.08%) Redfish
5 3 (1.08%) Web Services
6 2 (0.72%) BAPI
6 2 (0.72%) IDoc
6 2 (0.72%) OAuth
6 2 (0.72%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.72%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.72%) SAP ALE
6 2 (0.72%) SAP XI
6 2 (0.72%) Swagger
7 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.36%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.36%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 98 (35.38%) Data Centre
2 50 (18.05%) Analytical Mindset
3 34 (12.27%) Driving Licence
4 19 (6.86%) Enterprise Storage
5 17 (6.14%) Replication
6 16 (5.78%) Virtual Team
7 12 (4.33%) EMC VMAX
8 8 (2.89%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (2.17%) Clustering
10 4 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.44%) PKI
11 3 (1.08%) EPoS
11 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.72%) CUDA
12 2 (0.72%) Device Driver
12 2 (0.72%) HP Storage
12 2 (0.72%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 73 (26.35%) Windows
2 46 (16.61%) Linux
3 28 (10.11%) Windows Server
4 21 (7.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (5.78%) Windows 10
6 15 (5.42%) Mac OS
7 14 (5.05%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (3.97%) Android
9 8 (2.89%) VMS
10 7 (2.53%) Ubuntu
10 7 (2.53%) Unix
11 4 (1.44%) SUSE
11 4 (1.44%) zOS
12 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.36%) Debian
13 1 (0.36%) Solaris
13 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (32.85%) Customer Service
2 85 (30.69%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (24.55%) Break/Fix
4 37 (13.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 35 (12.64%) Migration
6 19 (6.86%) Service Management
7 17 (6.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (5.78%) DevOps
8 16 (5.78%) High Availability
8 16 (5.78%) ITSM
9 15 (5.42%) Agile
9 15 (5.42%) Validation
10 13 (4.69%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (4.33%) CI/CD
11 12 (4.33%) Data Protection
11 12 (4.33%) Storage Management
11 12 (4.33%) Time Management
12 11 (3.97%) Asset Management
12 11 (3.97%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (3.97%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.58%) Python
2 19 (6.86%) PowerShell
3 11 (3.97%) Bash
4 9 (3.25%) Shell Script
5 7 (2.53%) SQL
6 4 (1.44%) JCL
7 2 (0.72%) ABAP
7 2 (0.72%) C
7 2 (0.72%) Java
7 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.36%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.36%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.36%) Groovy
8 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.36%) Korn
8 1 (0.36%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (0.36%) Perl
8 1 (0.36%) REXX
Qualifications
1 82 (29.60%) Security Cleared
2 57 (20.58%) Cisco Certification
3 56 (20.22%) SC Cleared
4 52 (18.77%) A+ Certification
4 52 (18.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 50 (18.05%) CCNA
5 50 (18.05%) MCSE
5 50 (18.05%) Network+ Certification
6 23 (8.30%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.61%) Degree
8 7 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.53%) CCNP
9 6 (2.17%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.44%) HP ASE
10 4 (1.44%) OCP
10 4 (1.44%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.72%) VCAP
11 2 (0.72%) VCDX
12 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.03%) SLA
2 9 (3.25%) PMO
3 5 (1.81%) QA
4 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.36%) GDPR
5 1 (0.36%) GRC
5 1 (0.36%) NCSC
5 1 (0.36%) NIST
5 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 40 (14.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (14.08%) vSphere
3 20 (7.22%) Active Directory
3 20 (7.22%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (4.33%) Firmware
4 12 (4.33%) Hyper-V
5 11 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (3.61%) SRDF
7 8 (2.89%) Docker
7 8 (2.89%) VMware NSX
8 7 (2.53%) NFS
9 4 (1.44%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.72%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.72%) Ceph
10 2 (0.72%) Lustre
10 2 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.72%) vCloud
11 1 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.36%) KVM
11 1 (0.36%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 23 (8.30%) VxRail
2 22 (7.94%) Ansible
3 17 (6.14%) vCenter Server
4 12 (4.33%) Kubernetes
4 12 (4.33%) ServiceCenter
4 12 (4.33%) Terraform
5 10 (3.61%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.25%) Dell DRAC
7 7 (2.53%) EMC NetWorker
7 7 (2.53%) SCCM
8 6 (2.17%) EMC TimeFinder
8 6 (2.17%) vRealize
9 5 (1.81%) EMC VPLEX
9 5 (1.81%) Grafana
9 5 (1.81%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.44%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.44%) NetBackup
10 4 (1.44%) Puppet
10 4 (1.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 79 (28.52%) HP
2 56 (20.22%) VMware
3 55 (19.86%) Cisco
4 34 (12.27%) Microsoft
5 26 (9.39%) Apple
5 26 (9.39%) Red Hat
6 22 (7.94%) IBM
7 17 (6.14%) Pure Storage
8 16 (5.78%) Brocade
8 16 (5.78%) EMC
9 15 (5.42%) Canon
9 15 (5.42%) SAP
9 15 (5.42%) ServiceNow
10 12 (4.33%) Veeam
11 10 (3.61%) Broadcom
11 10 (3.61%) NVIDIA
12 8 (2.89%) SolarWinds
13 7 (2.53%) Isilon
13 7 (2.53%) NetApp
14 6 (2.17%) MuleSoft