Dell Contracts

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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 268 348
Rank change year-on-year -36 +80 +102
Contract jobs citing Dell 252 386 373
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 0.89% 0.67%
As % of the Vendors category 1.69% 2.07% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 244 253
10th Percentile £150 £211 £135
25th Percentile £200 £356 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £388
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +29.03% -10.40%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £550
90th Percentile £626 £730 £637
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £500 £300
% change year-on-year -17.50% +66.67% -21.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 23 16
10th Percentile £17.30 £12.25 £18.21
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.25 £20.02
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.80 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +14.95% -13.40%
75th Percentile £25.00 £26.47 £21.67
90th Percentile £25.15 £71.25 £24.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £17.50 £20.71
% change year-on-year +7.83% -15.48% +2.88%

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 14,890 18,640 24,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.53% 42.88% 43.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,101 11,577 16,146
10th Percentile £280 £271 £270
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £733 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 714 1,161 648
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.40 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.00 £18.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% -39.55% +83.51%
75th Percentile £53.25 £59.95 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.56 £29.30
% change year-on-year +0.31% -23.00% +50.10%

Dell
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Dell as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Dell in the UK

Dell
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Dell.

Daily rate trend for Dell in the UK

Dell
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dell over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dell in the UK

Dell
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Dell.

Hourly rate trend for Dell in the UK

Dell
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Dell over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Dell in the UK

Dell
Top 17 Contract 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 3 July 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 -37 204 £464 -9.34% 203
UK excluding London -6 167 £413 -17.50% 148
London -30 58 £500 +8.70% 75
South East +21 44 £500 +5.26% 52
Work from Home -26 39 £515 +14.44% 76
North of England +4 31 £441 +7.62% 26
South West -2 30 £155 -77.86% 22
Midlands +21 26 £150 -62.50% 14
West Midlands +12 20 £150 -62.50% 10
Scotland +1 20 £512 -5.49% 8
North West +5 18 £430 +7.50% 14
East of England +24 11 £550 +91.30% 18
Yorkshire +2 11 £470 +13.25% 10
East Midlands +7 6 - - 4
Wales +7 5 £200 -9.09% 9
Northern Ireland -16 3 £350 +89.19% 1
North East - 3 £625 - 2

Dell
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.37%) Confluence
2 8 (3.17%) IIS
3 6 (2.38%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.40%) Mule
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.78%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.79%) Magento
2 2 (0.79%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.79%) SAP CX
2 2 (0.79%) Shopify
3 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.40%) StreamServe
3 1 (0.40%) UltiPro
3 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (15.48%) Azure
2 30 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (7.14%) AWS
3 18 (7.14%) Boomi
4 13 (5.16%) GitHub
5 8 (3.17%) IaaS
6 7 (2.78%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.98%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.98%) PaaS
8 4 (1.59%) OCI
8 4 (1.59%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 3 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.19%) Lucidchart
9 3 (1.19%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.79%) Datadog
10 2 (0.79%) GCP
10 2 (0.79%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.79%) Oracle CX
10 2 (0.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (13.10%) SAN
2 27 (10.71%) DNS
3 24 (9.52%) Firewall
4 20 (7.94%) DHCP
5 14 (5.56%) VSAN
6 10 (3.97%) TCP/IP
7 9 (3.57%) BGP
7 9 (3.57%) OSPF
7 9 (3.57%) Wireless
8 8 (3.17%) NAS
8 8 (3.17%) VPN
9 7 (2.78%) LAN
9 7 (2.78%) VLAN
10 6 (2.38%) 4G
10 6 (2.38%) 5G
10 6 (2.38%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (1.98%) NetScaler
11 5 (1.98%) Network Security
11 5 (1.98%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.98%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.59%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (0.79%) Power BI
3 2 (0.79%) Tableau
4 1 (0.40%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.40%) MS Access
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (5.95%) JIRA
2 6 (2.38%) GitLab
2 6 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.79%) Git
3 2 (0.79%) Postman
4 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.40%) Maven
4 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.40%) WebStorm
General
1 63 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 47 (18.65%) Finance
3 21 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.95%) Banking
6 10 (3.97%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.57%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.38%) Legal
9 5 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.98%) Law
9 5 (1.98%) Marketing
10 4 (1.59%) Electronics
10 4 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.59%) Retail
11 3 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Local Government
13 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 32 (12.70%) Support Engineer
2 29 (11.51%) IT Engineer
3 26 (10.32%) Desktop Support
4 22 (8.73%) Desktop Engineer
5 20 (7.94%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 17 (6.75%) Lead
7 15 (5.95%) Storage Engineer
8 13 (5.16%) Architect
8 13 (5.16%) Senior
8 13 (5.16%) Server Engineer
9 12 (4.76%) Break Fix Engineer
9 12 (4.76%) Data Centre Engineer
9 12 (4.76%) Windows Engineer
10 9 (3.57%) Consultant
10 9 (3.57%) IT Support
11 8 (3.17%) Administrator
11 8 (3.17%) Analyst
11 8 (3.17%) Hardware Engineer
11 8 (3.17%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.57%) SOAP
2 8 (3.17%) Middleware
2 8 (3.17%) REST
3 5 (1.98%) Web Services
3 5 (1.98%) XML
4 4 (1.59%) JSON
4 4 (1.59%) YAML
5 2 (0.79%) EDI
5 2 (0.79%) Kafka
5 2 (0.79%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (0.79%) SAP PI
5 2 (0.79%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.40%) .NET
6 1 (0.40%) Flash
6 1 (0.40%) OAuth
6 1 (0.40%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.40%) RAML
6 1 (0.40%) Restlet
6 1 (0.40%) SAML
6 1 (0.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 59 (23.41%) Driving Licence
2 46 (18.25%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.35%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
5 12 (4.76%) Clustering
6 9 (3.57%) Replication
7 7 (2.78%) PKI
8 6 (2.38%) Operational Technology
8 6 (2.38%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.98%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.59%) HP Storage
11 3 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.79%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.79%) CMDB
12 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.79%) Handset
12 2 (0.79%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 85 (33.73%) Windows
2 39 (15.48%) Windows Server
3 37 (14.68%) Linux
4 27 (10.71%) Windows 10
5 17 (6.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (4.37%) Android
7 10 (3.97%) Mac OS
8 8 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.98%) AIX
9 5 (1.98%) CentOS
9 5 (1.98%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.59%) Solaris
11 3 (1.19%) zOS
12 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.79%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.79%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.79%) Unix
12 2 (0.79%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.79%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 40 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (13.49%) Break/Fix
4 33 (13.10%) Asset Management
4 33 (13.10%) Ticket Management
5 23 (9.13%) Customer Service
6 22 (8.73%) ITIL
7 18 (7.14%) Agile
8 17 (6.75%) Customer Experience
9 16 (6.35%) CI/CD
9 16 (6.35%) Mathematics
10 14 (5.56%) Project Delivery
10 14 (5.56%) Project Management
11 13 (5.16%) High Availability
11 13 (5.16%) Problem Management
12 12 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (4.37%) Data Protection
13 11 (4.37%) Technical Leadership
14 10 (3.97%) DevOps
14 10 (3.97%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (13.10%) PowerShell
2 16 (6.35%) Python
3 11 (4.37%) SQL
4 9 (3.57%) Shell Script
5 3 (1.19%) JCL
6 2 (0.79%) ABAP
6 2 (0.79%) Bash
6 2 (0.79%) REXX
7 1 (0.40%) C
7 1 (0.40%) DataWeave
7 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.40%) Perl
7 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.40%) VB
7 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.40%) VB6
Qualifications
1 115 (45.63%) Security Cleared
2 97 (38.49%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.92%) DV Cleared
4 22 (8.73%) Dell Certification
5 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.98%) Degree
6 5 (1.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (1.59%) A+ Certification
7 4 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (1.59%) VCAP
8 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.79%) CCNA
9 2 (0.79%) CISSP
9 2 (0.79%) MCSA
9 2 (0.79%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.79%) PMP
9 2 (0.79%) RHCE
9 2 (0.79%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.89%) SLA
2 7 (2.78%) QA
3 6 (2.38%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.79%) GDPR
4 2 (0.79%) PMO
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 44 (17.46%) Active Directory
2 20 (7.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (6.35%) vSphere
5 10 (3.97%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.78%) XenApp
7 6 (2.38%) Docker
7 6 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (1.98%) XenDesktop
9 4 (1.59%) Ceph
9 4 (1.59%) Hyper-V
9 4 (1.59%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.79%) NFS
10 2 (0.79%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.40%) Firmware
11 1 (0.40%) GPFS
11 1 (0.40%) Samba
11 1 (0.40%) SRDF
11 1 (0.40%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (7.54%) Ansible
2 17 (6.75%) NetBackup
3 11 (4.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (4.37%) VxRail
4 10 (3.97%) Terraform
5 9 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (3.17%) vCenter Server
7 7 (2.78%) SCCM
8 6 (2.38%) WSUS
9 5 (1.98%) Kubernetes
10 4 (1.59%) Data Guard
10 4 (1.59%) Dell DRAC
10 4 (1.59%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (1.59%) Oracle Flashback
10 4 (1.59%) PowerCLI
11 3 (1.19%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (1.19%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (1.19%) HP Data Protector
11 3 (1.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 115 (45.63%) HP
2 71 (28.17%) Microsoft
3 59 (23.41%) VMware
4 41 (16.27%) Cisco
5 25 (9.92%) Red Hat
6 18 (7.14%) ServiceNow
7 17 (6.75%) IBM
8 16 (6.35%) Veritas
9 14 (5.56%) Citrix
10 13 (5.16%) Oracle
10 13 (5.16%) Wyse
11 11 (4.37%) Isilon
11 11 (4.37%) MuleSoft
11 11 (4.37%) SAP
12 10 (3.97%) Apple
12 10 (3.97%) SolarWinds
13 9 (3.57%) EMC
14 8 (3.17%) 3PAR
14 8 (3.17%) Salesforce
15 7 (2.78%) NetApp