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 10 September 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
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 335 308
Rank change year-on-year -150 -27 +18
Contract jobs citing Dell 188 220 277
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.67% 0.72%
As % of the Vendors category 0.82% 1.41% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 118 181
10th Percentile £126 £139 £185
25th Percentile £213 £203 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £446 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -6.11% +15.15%
75th Percentile £575 £505 £565
90th Percentile £637 £616 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £375 £478
% change year-on-year +26.67% -21.47% +59.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 42 30
10th Percentile £16.02 £17.30 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.71 £18.51 £13.93
Median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -21.34% +19.35%
75th Percentile - £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile £23.98 - £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.33 £18.51 £24.18
% change year-on-year +4.43% -23.45% +24.00%

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 22,804 15,574 16,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.85% 47.21% 44.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,992 9,525 10,215
10th Percentile £313 £275 £289
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £626
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,252 784 693
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £14.18
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.36 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.34 £25.15 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.71% -18.87% -27.06%
75th Percentile £63.26 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £21.28 £30.00
% change year-on-year +22.84% -29.07% -25.00%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -158 147 £475 +6.26% 73
UK excluding London -124 124 £475 +26.67% 44
London -103 41 £525 +4.37% 36
Work from Home -54 38 £413 -7.72% 13
South East -63 35 £475 +19.50% 12
North of England -64 34 £520 +16.22% 13
Yorkshire -28 27 £525 +10.53% 4
Scotland -32 19 £145 +3.20% 9
South West -47 18 £149 -13.01% 5
Midlands -69 10 £375 +150.00% 3
West Midlands -47 9 £250 +66.67% 3
East of England -33 5 £580 +9.43% 2
North West -63 5 £200 -54.02% 8
Wales -8 4 - -
North East -48 2 £313 -19.29% 1
East Midlands -28 1 £500 +294.63%

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 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.60%) Confluence
3 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) IIS
4 1 (0.53%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (4.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.19%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.06%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.53%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 41 (21.81%) Azure
2 24 (12.77%) Boomi
3 20 (10.64%) AWS
4 12 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.79%) OpenShift
6 8 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (3.19%) AtomSphere
9 5 (2.66%) GitHub
9 5 (2.66%) Smartsheet
10 4 (2.13%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.13%) IaaS
11 3 (1.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.60%) GCP
11 3 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.60%) iPaaS
11 3 (1.60%) Nutanix
11 3 (1.60%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.60%) Rubrik
12 2 (1.06%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 57 (30.32%) SAN
2 14 (7.45%) Firewall
3 12 (6.38%) NAS
4 10 (5.32%) Fibre Channel
4 10 (5.32%) VLAN
5 9 (4.79%) VPN
6 8 (4.26%) DHCP
6 8 (4.26%) DNS
6 8 (4.26%) Network Security
7 7 (3.72%) BGP
7 7 (3.72%) VSAN
7 7 (3.72%) WAN
8 6 (3.19%) iSCSI
8 6 (3.19%) LAN
9 5 (2.66%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (2.66%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.66%) VXLAN
10 4 (2.13%) OSPF
11 3 (1.60%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.13%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (4.79%) Git
1 9 (4.79%) JIRA
2 6 (3.19%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.66%) Postman
4 3 (1.60%) GitLab
5 1 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 51 (27.13%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.62%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.77%) Finance
4 11 (5.85%) Banking
4 11 (5.85%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.60%) Legal
5 3 (1.60%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.60%) Retail
6 2 (1.06%) Law
7 1 (0.53%) Billing
7 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (18.09%) Field Engineer
1 34 (18.09%) IT Engineer
2 32 (17.02%) Field Service Engineer
3 26 (13.83%) Storage Engineer
4 21 (11.17%) Architect
5 18 (9.57%) Consultant
6 17 (9.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (7.98%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 12 (6.38%) IT Support
9 11 (5.85%) Senior
9 11 (5.85%) Support Engineer
10 10 (5.32%) Analyst
10 10 (5.32%) Network Engineer
11 9 (4.79%) Integration Architect
12 8 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
13 7 (3.72%) IT Support Engineer
14 6 (3.19%) Field Support Engineer
14 6 (3.19%) Integration Consultant
14 6 (3.19%) Storage Architect
14 6 (3.19%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.51%) REST
2 14 (7.45%) Middleware
3 11 (5.85%) JSON
4 9 (4.79%) OAuth
4 9 (4.79%) OAuth2
4 9 (4.79%) Terraform
5 8 (4.26%) BAPI
6 7 (3.72%) SOAP
7 6 (3.19%) OpenAPI
7 6 (3.19%) SAP ALE
7 6 (3.19%) Swagger
8 4 (2.13%) IDoc
9 3 (1.60%) XML
10 2 (1.06%) Redfish
10 2 (1.06%) Restlet
10 2 (1.06%) YAML
11 1 (0.53%) 802.1X
11 1 (0.53%) Apache NiFi
11 1 (0.53%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 71 (37.77%) Data Centre
2 30 (15.96%) Analytical Mindset
3 25 (13.30%) Replication
4 23 (12.23%) Enterprise Storage
5 16 (8.51%) Driving Licence
5 16 (8.51%) PKI
6 7 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.66%) Clustering
7 5 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.66%) EMC VMAX
7 5 (2.66%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.13%) EMC VNX
8 4 (2.13%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.13%) Operational Technology
8 4 (2.13%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.60%) Chip and PIN
9 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.60%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 60 (31.91%) Windows
2 37 (19.68%) Linux
3 29 (15.43%) Windows Server
4 16 (8.51%) VMS
5 7 (3.72%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (3.72%) zOS
6 6 (3.19%) Windows 10
7 5 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (2.13%) SUSE
9 3 (1.60%) AIX
9 3 (1.60%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (1.60%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.60%) Solaris
9 3 (1.60%) Unix
10 2 (1.06%) Android
10 2 (1.06%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.06%) HPUX
10 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.53%) Debian
11 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (21.81%) Customer Service
3 40 (21.28%) Break/Fix
4 27 (14.36%) Disaster Recovery
5 25 (13.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 22 (11.70%) ITSM
7 20 (10.64%) Migration
8 19 (10.11%) Agile
8 19 (10.11%) Change Management
9 18 (9.57%) DevOps
10 17 (9.04%) High Availability
10 17 (9.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (7.98%) Data Protection
12 14 (7.45%) CI/CD
12 14 (7.45%) ITIL
12 14 (7.45%) Validation
13 13 (6.91%) Performance Tuning
14 11 (5.85%) Project Management
14 11 (5.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 11 (5.85%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.11%) PowerShell
2 12 (6.38%) Python
3 7 (3.72%) Bash
4 5 (2.66%) JCL
5 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.60%) SQL
6 2 (1.06%) REXX
6 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.06%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.53%) ABAP
7 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.53%) Bicep
7 1 (0.53%) Groovy
7 1 (0.53%) Java
7 1 (0.53%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 51 (27.13%) Security Cleared
2 37 (19.68%) Cisco Certification
2 37 (19.68%) Microsoft Certification
3 32 (17.02%) CCNA
4 31 (16.49%) MCSE
5 30 (15.96%) A+ Certification
5 30 (15.96%) Network+ Certification
6 23 (12.23%) DV Cleared
6 23 (12.23%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (4.26%) Degree
8 7 (3.72%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.66%) CCNP
10 4 (2.13%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.60%) CISSP
11 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.60%) NCDA
11 3 (1.60%) NCIE
11 3 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.13%) QA
1 4 (2.13%) SLA
2 2 (1.06%) PMO
2 2 (1.06%) SEPA
3 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 54 (28.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (10.64%) vSphere
3 18 (9.57%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (9.04%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (7.45%) Active Directory
6 13 (6.91%) Firmware
7 10 (5.32%) Hyper-V
7 10 (5.32%) NFS
8 5 (2.66%) Time Sharing Option
9 4 (2.13%) Docker
9 4 (2.13%) SRDF
9 4 (2.13%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (1.06%) BitLocker
11 2 (1.06%) KVM
12 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.53%) QEMU
12 1 (0.53%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.53%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 30 (15.96%) vCenter Server
2 20 (10.64%) Ansible
3 13 (6.91%) Avamar
3 13 (6.91%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.91%) SCOM
4 12 (6.38%) Dell DRAC
5 9 (4.79%) VxRail
6 6 (3.19%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 6 (3.19%) vMotion
7 5 (2.66%) NetBackup
7 5 (2.66%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.13%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.60%) EMC VPLEX
9 3 (1.60%) Grafana
9 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.60%) SCCM
9 3 (1.60%) SnapMirror
10 2 (1.06%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (1.06%) Nessus
Vendors
1 72 (38.30%) VMware
2 39 (20.74%) Microsoft
3 36 (19.15%) Cisco
4 27 (14.36%) HP
5 19 (10.11%) NetApp
6 15 (7.98%) ServiceNow
7 14 (7.45%) Thales
8 13 (6.91%) IBM
9 12 (6.38%) Brocade
10 11 (5.85%) SAP
10 11 (5.85%) Veeam
11 10 (5.32%) EMC
11 10 (5.32%) MuleSoft
12 8 (4.26%) Broadcom
12 8 (4.26%) Pure Storage
12 8 (4.26%) Red Hat
13 4 (2.13%) Citrix
13 4 (2.13%) Hitachi
13 4 (2.13%) Oracle
13 4 (2.13%) Splunk