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 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
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 343 287
Rank change year-on-year -146 -56 +50
Contract jobs citing Dell 193 216 302
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.66% 0.78%
As % of the Vendors category 0.86% 1.40% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 109 204
10th Percentile £126 £144 £213
25th Percentile £250 £213 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £447 £484
Median % change year-on-year +6.26% -7.60% +17.27%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £623 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £375 £480
% change year-on-year +26.67% -21.88% +74.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 43 28
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.30 £11.75
25th Percentile £17.79 £18.51 £13.13
Median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -20.71% +9.17%
75th Percentile £19.85 £25.15 £25.32
90th Percentile £22.91 - £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.33 £18.69 £16.19
% change year-on-year +3.42% +15.44% -16.97%

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 22,439 15,440 16,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.74% 47.20% 43.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,832 9,435 10,465
10th Percentile £313 £275 £285
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £611 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,162 795 772
10th Percentile £14.36 £14.66 £13.02
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £27.86
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -9.73% -35.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.14 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.95 £67.80 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.13 £21.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year +32.42% -18.31% -34.67%

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 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 28 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 -136 151 £488 +6.85% 153
UK excluding London -112 127 £475 +26.67% 59
London -107 42 £525 - 100
Work from Home -45 38 £425 -10.24% 48
South East -55 36 £475 +20.25% 23
North of England -63 31 £520 +16.33% 18
Yorkshire -29 25 £525 +11.70% 7
South West -37 20 £123 -28.36% 7
Scotland -5 18 £276 +96.44% 3
Midlands -60 10 £375 +150.00% 5
West Midlands -56 9 £250 +66.67% 3
East of England -21 7 £650 +18.18% 4
Wales -14 6 - -
North West -56 5 £200 -54.15% 11
East Midlands -27 1 £500 +301.61% 2
North East -42 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 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.55%) Confluence
3 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) IIS
4 1 (0.52%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (4.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.11%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.04%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.52%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 39 (20.21%) Azure
2 24 (12.44%) Boomi
3 19 (9.84%) AWS
4 11 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.66%) OpenShift
6 8 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.63%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (3.11%) AtomSphere
9 5 (2.59%) GitHub
9 5 (2.59%) IaaS
9 5 (2.59%) Smartsheet
10 4 (2.07%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.55%) GCP
11 3 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.55%) iPaaS
11 3 (1.55%) Nutanix
11 3 (1.55%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.55%) Rubrik
12 2 (1.04%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 61 (31.61%) SAN
2 13 (6.74%) Firewall
3 11 (5.70%) NAS
4 9 (4.66%) DHCP
4 9 (4.66%) DNS
4 9 (4.66%) Network Security
4 9 (4.66%) VPN
5 8 (4.15%) Fibre Channel
5 8 (4.15%) VLAN
6 7 (3.63%) VSAN
7 6 (3.11%) iSCSI
7 6 (3.11%) WAN
8 5 (2.59%) BGP
8 5 (2.59%) Ethernet VPN
8 5 (2.59%) LAN
8 5 (2.59%) VXLAN
9 3 (1.55%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (1.55%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.55%) SNMP
9 3 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.07%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (4.66%) Git
2 7 (3.63%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.63%) JIRA
3 5 (2.59%) Postman
4 3 (1.55%) GitLab
5 1 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 50 (25.91%) Social Skills
2 41 (21.24%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.44%) Finance
4 11 (5.70%) Banking
5 8 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.55%) Legal
6 3 (1.55%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.04%) Law
8 1 (0.52%) Billing
8 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (21.24%) IT Engineer
2 40 (20.73%) Field Engineer
3 38 (19.69%) Field Service Engineer
4 27 (13.99%) Storage Engineer
5 21 (10.88%) Architect
6 18 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (8.81%) Consultant
8 15 (7.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 15 (7.77%) IT Support
9 13 (6.74%) Senior
9 13 (6.74%) Support Engineer
10 10 (5.18%) Analyst
10 10 (5.18%) IT Support Engineer
11 9 (4.66%) Field Support Engineer
11 9 (4.66%) Integration Architect
11 9 (4.66%) Network Engineer
12 8 (4.15%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
13 6 (3.11%) Integration Consultant
13 6 (3.11%) Storage Architect
13 6 (3.11%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.29%) REST
2 14 (7.25%) Middleware
3 11 (5.70%) JSON
4 10 (5.18%) Terraform
5 9 (4.66%) OAuth
5 9 (4.66%) OAuth2
6 8 (4.15%) BAPI
7 7 (3.63%) SOAP
8 6 (3.11%) OpenAPI
8 6 (3.11%) SAP ALE
8 6 (3.11%) Swagger
9 4 (2.07%) IDoc
9 4 (2.07%) Redfish
10 3 (1.55%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (1.55%) XML
11 2 (1.04%) Restlet
11 2 (1.04%) YAML
12 1 (0.52%) 802.1X
12 1 (0.52%) JMS
12 1 (0.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (38.34%) Data Centre
2 36 (18.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 25 (12.95%) Enterprise Storage
4 23 (11.92%) Replication
5 14 (7.25%) PKI
6 13 (6.74%) Driving Licence
7 7 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.11%) EMC VMAX
9 5 (2.59%) Clustering
9 5 (2.59%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (2.07%) EMC VNX
10 4 (2.07%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.55%) Chip and PIN
11 3 (1.55%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.04%) Device Driver
12 2 (1.04%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 55 (28.50%) Windows
2 34 (17.62%) Linux
3 28 (14.51%) Windows Server
4 15 (7.77%) VMS
5 7 (3.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.11%) Windows 10
6 6 (3.11%) zOS
7 4 (2.07%) SUSE
8 3 (1.55%) AIX
8 3 (1.55%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (1.55%) Solaris
9 2 (1.04%) Android
9 2 (1.04%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.04%) HPUX
9 2 (1.04%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.04%) Unix
9 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.52%) Debian
10 1 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (27.98%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (25.39%) Break/Fix
3 44 (22.80%) Customer Service
4 24 (12.44%) Disaster Recovery
4 24 (12.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 23 (11.92%) ITSM
6 22 (11.40%) Migration
7 20 (10.36%) DevOps
8 19 (9.84%) Agile
8 19 (9.84%) Change Management
9 17 (8.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (8.29%) CI/CD
11 15 (7.77%) High Availability
12 14 (7.25%) Data Protection
13 13 (6.74%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (6.74%) Performance Tuning
14 12 (6.22%) ITIL
14 12 (6.22%) Observability
15 11 (5.70%) Asset Management
15 11 (5.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.33%) PowerShell
2 16 (8.29%) Python
3 9 (4.66%) Bash
4 5 (2.59%) JCL
5 3 (1.55%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.55%) SQL
6 2 (1.04%) REXX
6 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.04%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.52%) ABAP
7 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.52%) Bicep
7 1 (0.52%) Groovy
7 1 (0.52%) Java
7 1 (0.52%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 52 (26.94%) Security Cleared
2 43 (22.28%) Microsoft Certification
3 42 (21.76%) Cisco Certification
4 37 (19.17%) CCNA
4 37 (19.17%) MCSE
5 36 (18.65%) A+ Certification
5 36 (18.65%) Network+ Certification
6 24 (12.44%) DV Cleared
7 23 (11.92%) SC Cleared
8 8 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (4.15%) Degree
9 7 (3.63%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.07%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.07%) CCNP
11 3 (1.55%) CISSP
11 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.55%) MCSA
11 3 (1.55%) NCDA
11 3 (1.55%) NCIE
11 3 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.59%) SLA
2 4 (2.07%) PMO
2 4 (2.07%) QA
3 2 (1.04%) SEPA
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 50 (25.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (9.84%) vSphere
3 16 (8.29%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (7.77%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (7.25%) Firmware
6 11 (5.70%) Active Directory
7 10 (5.18%) Hyper-V
7 10 (5.18%) NFS
8 5 (2.59%) Time Sharing Option
9 4 (2.07%) Docker
9 4 (2.07%) SRDF
9 4 (2.07%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.55%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (1.04%) BitLocker
11 2 (1.04%) KVM
12 1 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.52%) QEMU
12 1 (0.52%) Samba
12 1 (0.52%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 29 (15.03%) vCenter Server
2 22 (11.40%) Ansible
3 13 (6.74%) Avamar
3 13 (6.74%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.74%) SCOM
4 11 (5.70%) Dell DRAC
5 7 (3.63%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.63%) VxRail
6 6 (3.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 5 (2.59%) NetBackup
7 5 (2.59%) vMotion
8 4 (2.07%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.55%) EMC VPLEX
9 3 (1.55%) Grafana
9 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.55%) SCCM
9 3 (1.55%) SnapMirror
10 2 (1.04%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (1.04%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 67 (34.72%) VMware
2 38 (19.69%) Microsoft
3 34 (17.62%) Cisco
4 29 (15.03%) HP
5 16 (8.29%) NetApp
5 16 (8.29%) ServiceNow
6 14 (7.25%) Thales
7 12 (6.22%) Brocade
8 11 (5.70%) SAP
9 10 (5.18%) Broadcom
9 10 (5.18%) IBM
9 10 (5.18%) MuleSoft
9 10 (5.18%) Veeam
10 9 (4.66%) Pure Storage
11 8 (4.15%) EMC
11 8 (4.15%) Red Hat
12 4 (2.07%) Citrix
12 4 (2.07%) Oracle
12 4 (2.07%) Palo Alto
12 4 (2.07%) Splunk