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 28 November 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
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 354 309
Rank change year-on-year -21 -45 +33
Contract jobs citing Dell 228 216 341
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.59% 0.75%
As % of the Vendors category 1.33% 1.31% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 131 233
10th Percentile £154 £170 £128
25th Percentile £170 £300 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £488 £561 £570
90th Percentile £565 £635 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £365 £475 £356
% change year-on-year -23.16% +33.33% +4.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 25 7
10th Percentile £18.10 £11.75 £18.95
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £20.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +9.91% -8.16%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £25.26
90th Percentile £26.20 £35.00 £29.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £19.50
% change year-on-year -21.96% +24.00% +6.12%

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 17,140 16,485 20,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.48% 45.03% 45.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,833 9,701 13,240
10th Percentile £288 £295 £256
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £723 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 867 524 675
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.49 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £19.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.08 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.42% -32.58% +73.08%
75th Percentile £42.63 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.08 £27.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -19.73% -38.20% +96.97%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 28 November 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 -2 205 £375 -21.63% 75
UK excluding London -36 141 £365 -23.16% 72
London +32 72 £450 +12.50% 16
North of England -39 41 £350 -30.56% 14
Midlands -10 35 £188 -62.50% 14
Work from Home -1 26 £447 -5.89% 23
South East -8 24 £425 -5.56% 26
South West 0 19 £625 +11.11% 7
West Midlands -36 19 £311 -37.75% 11
North West -13 18 £313 +68.92% 6
Yorkshire -50 17 £408 -20.87% 8
East Midlands +2 16 £158 -10.00% 3
East of England -13 11 £445 +61.82% 4
Northern Ireland -11 6 £363 +95.95% 2
North East - 6 £175 -
Scotland -6 5 £500 +257.14% 7

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 16 (7.02%) Confluence
2 9 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.95%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.44%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.44%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 54 (23.68%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.88%) NetSuite
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 70 (30.70%) Microsoft 365
2 48 (21.05%) Azure
3 39 (17.11%) AWS
4 14 (6.14%) Boomi
5 10 (4.39%) Datadog
6 7 (3.07%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.07%) GCP
7 6 (2.63%) OCI
8 5 (2.19%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.19%) SaaS
9 4 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.75%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.88%) Apigee
10 2 (0.88%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.88%) PaaS
10 2 (0.88%) Slack
11 1 (0.44%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.44%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 51 (22.37%) Wireless
2 33 (14.47%) SAN
3 26 (11.40%) Firewall
4 24 (10.53%) DNS
5 23 (10.09%) VLAN
6 18 (7.89%) DHCP
7 14 (6.14%) VSAN
8 10 (4.39%) BGP
9 9 (3.95%) 3GPP
9 9 (3.95%) 4G
9 9 (3.95%) 5G
9 9 (3.95%) IPsec
9 9 (3.95%) MPLS
9 9 (3.95%) OSPF
9 9 (3.95%) Radio Access Network
9 9 (3.95%) Wireshark
10 8 (3.51%) TCP/IP
11 5 (2.19%) iSCSI
11 5 (2.19%) NAS
12 3 (1.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.75%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.32%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.88%) Data Hub
3 2 (0.88%) DataStage
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (4.39%) JIRA
2 2 (0.88%) Git
3 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.44%) GitLab
3 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.44%) Postman
General
1 43 (18.86%) Finance
2 42 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 37 (16.23%) Public Sector
4 36 (15.79%) Banking
5 25 (10.96%) Telecoms
6 24 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (10.53%) Manufacturing
6 24 (10.53%) Marketing
7 23 (10.09%) Electronics
8 14 (6.14%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (4.39%) Retail
10 7 (3.07%) Legal
11 5 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.75%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.88%) Local Government
14 1 (0.44%) Billing
14 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (13.16%) Analyst
1 30 (13.16%) Desktop Support
1 30 (13.16%) IT Support
2 25 (10.96%) 2nd Line Support
3 23 (10.09%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 23 (10.09%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 19 (8.33%) IT Engineer
5 18 (7.89%) Administrator
6 17 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (6.14%) Architect
8 13 (5.70%) Consultant
8 13 (5.70%) Senior
9 12 (5.26%) Server Engineer
9 12 (5.26%) Support Engineer
10 9 (3.95%) Field Engineer
10 9 (3.95%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 9 (3.95%) Storage Engineer
11 8 (3.51%) Systems Administrator
12 7 (3.07%) Break Fix Engineer
12 7 (3.07%) Implementation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.51%) REST
2 7 (3.07%) Middleware
3 4 (1.75%) SOAP
4 2 (0.88%) JSON
5 1 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.44%) LDAP
5 1 (0.44%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (28.07%) Data Centre
2 25 (10.96%) Driving Licence
3 14 (6.14%) Enterprise Storage
4 13 (5.70%) Replication
5 10 (4.39%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (3.95%) Operational Technology
7 8 (3.51%) PKI
8 7 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.75%) Clustering
10 4 (1.75%) HP Storage
10 4 (1.75%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.88%) Chip and PIN
12 2 (0.88%) EMC VMAX
12 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.88%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.88%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.88%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.88%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 58 (25.44%) Windows
2 52 (22.81%) Mac OS
3 51 (22.37%) Android
4 40 (17.54%) Linux
5 22 (9.65%) Windows Server
6 18 (7.89%) Windows 10
7 17 (7.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (3.07%) Unix
9 4 (1.75%) VMS
9 4 (1.75%) Windows 7
10 3 (1.32%) Windows 8
10 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.88%) CentOS
11 2 (0.88%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.44%) AIX
12 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (13.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (12.28%) Customer Service
4 27 (11.84%) Break/Fix
5 24 (10.53%) Agile
6 23 (10.09%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (10.09%) Digital Marketing
6 23 (10.09%) Programme Management
7 17 (7.46%) ITIL
7 17 (7.46%) Migration
8 14 (6.14%) Asset Management
8 14 (6.14%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (5.70%) Ticket Management
10 12 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (4.39%) Capacity Planning
11 10 (4.39%) ITSM
12 9 (3.95%) Decision-Making
12 9 (3.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (3.95%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.39%) Shell Script
2 7 (3.07%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.19%) Bash
3 5 (2.19%) Python
3 5 (2.19%) SQL
4 2 (0.88%) Java
4 2 (0.88%) Perl
4 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.44%) JCL
5 1 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 98 (42.98%) Security Cleared
2 85 (37.28%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.39%) Degree
4 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.19%) A+ Certification
8 4 (1.75%) MCSE
8 4 (1.75%) OCP
8 4 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.32%) CCNA
9 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.88%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.44%) CCNP
11 1 (0.44%) CISSP
11 1 (0.44%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.09%) SLA
2 7 (3.07%) QA
3 6 (2.63%) COBIT
4 4 (1.75%) GDPR
4 4 (1.75%) NIST
5 2 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.44%) NCSC
6 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (14.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (13.16%) Active Directory
3 23 (10.09%) vSphere
4 14 (6.14%) Docker
5 10 (4.39%) Firmware
6 5 (2.19%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.32%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.32%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.88%) GPFS
10 1 (0.44%) NFS
10 1 (0.44%) Samba
10 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 20 (8.77%) Terraform
2 16 (7.02%) Ansible
2 16 (7.02%) VxRail
3 11 (4.82%) EMC NetWorker
3 11 (4.82%) NetBackup
4 10 (4.39%) vRealize
5 9 (3.95%) Dell DRAC
5 9 (3.95%) vCenter Server
6 8 (3.51%) SCCM
7 7 (3.07%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (2.63%) Kubernetes
8 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (2.63%) SCOM
9 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (1.32%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.88%) BladeLogic
11 2 (0.88%) Control-M
11 2 (0.88%) Puppet
12 1 (0.44%) Nessus
12 1 (0.44%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 104 (45.61%) HP
2 86 (37.72%) Cisco
3 54 (23.68%) Apple
4 51 (22.37%) VMware
5 33 (14.47%) Microsoft
6 31 (13.60%) SAP
7 21 (9.21%) Isilon
8 17 (7.46%) IBM
8 17 (7.46%) Red Hat
9 15 (6.58%) SolarWinds
10 14 (6.14%) NetApp
11 13 (5.70%) EMC
11 13 (5.70%) Veeam
12 11 (4.82%) Veritas
13 10 (4.39%) AppDynamics
13 10 (4.39%) Commvault
13 10 (4.39%) Oracle
14 8 (3.51%) Brocade
14 8 (3.51%) F5
15 7 (3.07%) Intel