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 18 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
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 354 304
Rank change year-on-year -146 -50 +8
Contract jobs citing Dell 187 208 274
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.63% 0.71%
As % of the Vendors category 0.82% 1.33% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 114 177
10th Percentile £127 £137 £183
25th Percentile £211 £200 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £574 £500 £565
90th Percentile £633 £593 £629
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £375 £480
% change year-on-year +26.67% -21.88% +52.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 45 31
10th Percentile £15.99 £17.30 £11.75
25th Percentile £18.83 £18.51 £14.36
Median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -21.96% +10.92%
75th Percentile - £25.15 £26.47
90th Percentile £25.75 - £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.33 £18.69 £24.18
% change year-on-year +3.42% -22.70% +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 22,759 15,624 17,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.83% 47.42% 44.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,928 9,586 10,230
10th Percentile £310 £275 £285
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.30% -4.13% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,273 791 679
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.75 £14.38
25th Percentile £16.70 £17.45 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.66 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -16.17% -32.58%
75th Percentile £62.75 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.92 £21.35 £29.89
% change year-on-year +21.43% -28.58% -29.68%

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 18 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 18 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 -131 147 £475 +9.20% 168
UK excluding London -120 123 £475 +26.67% 75
London -91 40 £525 +8.58% 103
Work from Home -49 39 £425 -4.92% 45
South East -58 36 £475 +19.50% 25
North of England -60 35 £522 +18.03% 17
Yorkshire -24 26 £525 +10.53% 5
South West -39 18 £149 -47.90% 7
Scotland -17 17 £145 -54.72% 14
Midlands -60 10 £375 +150.00% 4
West Midlands -47 9 £250 +48.15% 4
East of England -29 5 £511 +14.89% 7
North West -59 5 £200 -53.49% 11
North East -46 4 £426 +9.81% 1
Wales -11 3 - - 1
East Midlands -26 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 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.60%) Confluence
3 1 (0.53%) IIS
3 1 (0.53%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (6.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (5.35%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.07%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.53%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 44 (23.53%) Azure
2 28 (14.97%) Boomi
3 20 (10.70%) AWS
4 12 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.81%) OpenShift
6 9 (4.81%) Smartsheet
7 6 (3.21%) AtomSphere
8 5 (2.67%) GitHub
9 4 (2.14%) Azure Stack
10 3 (1.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.60%) IaaS
10 3 (1.60%) iPaaS
10 3 (1.60%) Nutanix
10 3 (1.60%) Rubrik
11 2 (1.07%) Datadog
11 2 (1.07%) GCP
11 2 (1.07%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 56 (29.95%) SAN
2 14 (7.49%) Firewall
3 12 (6.42%) NAS
4 10 (5.35%) Fibre Channel
5 9 (4.81%) Network Security
5 9 (4.81%) VLAN
6 8 (4.28%) VPN
7 7 (3.74%) BGP
7 7 (3.74%) DHCP
8 6 (3.21%) DNS
8 6 (3.21%) TCP/IP
8 6 (3.21%) VSAN
8 6 (3.21%) WAN
9 5 (2.67%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (2.67%) iSCSI
9 5 (2.67%) LAN
9 5 (2.67%) VXLAN
10 4 (2.14%) OSPF
11 3 (1.60%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.07%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (6.95%) Git
1 13 (6.95%) JIRA
2 9 (4.81%) Postman
3 6 (3.21%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.60%) GitLab
5 1 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 55 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.83%) Finance
4 12 (6.42%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (5.88%) Banking
6 5 (2.67%) Retail
7 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.60%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.07%) Law
9 1 (0.53%) Billing
9 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (17.65%) IT Engineer
2 31 (16.58%) Field Engineer
2 31 (16.58%) Field Service Engineer
3 27 (14.44%) Storage Engineer
4 25 (13.37%) Architect
5 18 (9.63%) Consultant
6 17 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (8.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 12 (6.42%) Integration Architect
8 12 (6.42%) IT Support
9 11 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
9 11 (5.88%) Support Engineer
10 10 (5.35%) Analyst
11 9 (4.81%) Network Engineer
11 9 (4.81%) Senior
12 7 (3.74%) IT Support Engineer
13 6 (3.21%) Field Support Engineer
13 6 (3.21%) Integration Consultant
13 6 (3.21%) Storage Architect
13 6 (3.21%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.70%) REST
2 18 (9.63%) Middleware
3 15 (8.02%) JSON
4 13 (6.95%) OAuth
4 13 (6.95%) OAuth2
5 12 (6.42%) BAPI
6 10 (5.35%) OpenAPI
6 10 (5.35%) SAP ALE
6 10 (5.35%) Swagger
7 9 (4.81%) Terraform
8 8 (4.28%) IDoc
9 7 (3.74%) SOAP
10 3 (1.60%) XML
11 2 (1.07%) Redfish
11 2 (1.07%) Restlet
11 2 (1.07%) YAML
12 1 (0.53%) 802.1X
12 1 (0.53%) Apache NiFi
12 1 (0.53%) Keycloak
12 1 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 68 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 29 (15.51%) Analytical Mindset
3 25 (13.37%) Replication
4 22 (11.76%) Enterprise Storage
5 19 (10.16%) PKI
6 15 (8.02%) Driving Licence
7 11 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (3.74%) Operational Technology
9 5 (2.67%) EMC VNX
9 5 (2.67%) Private Cloud
9 5 (2.67%) SCADA
10 4 (2.14%) Clustering
10 4 (2.14%) EMC VMAX
10 4 (2.14%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.60%) Chip and PIN
11 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.60%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 59 (31.55%) Windows
2 38 (20.32%) Linux
3 29 (15.51%) Windows Server
4 15 (8.02%) VMS
5 6 (3.21%) Windows 10
5 6 (3.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.67%) zOS
7 4 (2.14%) SUSE
8 3 (1.60%) AIX
8 3 (1.60%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (1.60%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.60%) Solaris
8 3 (1.60%) Unix
9 2 (1.07%) Android
9 2 (1.07%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.07%) HPUX
9 2 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.53%) Debian
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (21.39%) Customer Service
3 37 (19.79%) Break/Fix
4 28 (14.97%) Disaster Recovery
5 26 (13.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (12.30%) ITSM
8 22 (11.76%) DevOps
9 21 (11.23%) Agile
9 21 (11.23%) Change Management
10 18 (9.63%) Migration
11 17 (9.09%) CI/CD
11 17 (9.09%) Data Protection
11 17 (9.09%) High Availability
11 17 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (8.02%) ITIL
12 15 (8.02%) Observability
13 14 (7.49%) Procure-to-Pay
13 14 (7.49%) Validation
14 13 (6.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 11 (5.88%) Python
3 7 (3.74%) Bash
4 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.60%) JCL
4 3 (1.60%) SQL
5 2 (1.07%) REXX
5 2 (1.07%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.07%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.53%) ABAP
6 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.53%) Bicep
6 1 (0.53%) Groovy
6 1 (0.53%) Java
6 1 (0.53%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 52 (27.81%) Security Cleared
2 36 (19.25%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (19.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 31 (16.58%) CCNA
4 30 (16.04%) MCSE
5 29 (15.51%) A+ Certification
5 29 (15.51%) Network+ Certification
6 25 (13.37%) SC Cleared
7 21 (11.23%) DV Cleared
8 11 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (3.74%) Azure Certification
9 7 (3.74%) Degree
10 5 (2.67%) CCNP
11 4 (2.14%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.60%) NCDA
12 3 (1.60%) NCIE
12 3 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.14%) QA
1 4 (2.14%) SLA
2 2 (1.07%) PMO
2 2 (1.07%) SEPA
3 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 55 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (10.16%) VMware ESXi
2 19 (10.16%) vSphere
3 17 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (6.42%) Active Directory
4 12 (6.42%) Firmware
5 9 (4.81%) Hyper-V
5 9 (4.81%) NFS
6 4 (2.14%) Docker
6 4 (2.14%) SRDF
6 4 (2.14%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.14%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (1.60%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (1.07%) KVM
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.53%) QEMU
9 1 (0.53%) Samba
9 1 (0.53%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 30 (16.04%) vCenter Server
2 20 (10.70%) Ansible
3 15 (8.02%) SCOM
4 14 (7.49%) Avamar
5 13 (6.95%) Kubernetes
6 12 (6.42%) Dell DRAC
7 11 (5.88%) VxRail
8 5 (2.67%) NetBackup
8 5 (2.67%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.67%) vMotion
9 4 (2.14%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (2.14%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (2.14%) Nessus
9 4 (2.14%) SCCM
9 4 (2.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 3 (1.60%) EMC VPLEX
10 3 (1.60%) Grafana
10 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (1.60%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 73 (39.04%) VMware
2 40 (21.39%) Microsoft
3 35 (18.72%) Cisco
4 22 (11.76%) HP
5 21 (11.23%) NetApp
6 19 (10.16%) ServiceNow
7 15 (8.02%) SAP
7 15 (8.02%) Thales
8 14 (7.49%) MuleSoft
9 12 (6.42%) EMC
9 12 (6.42%) IBM
10 11 (5.88%) Brocade
10 11 (5.88%) Veeam
11 8 (4.28%) Red Hat
11 8 (4.28%) Splunk
12 7 (3.74%) Pure Storage
13 6 (3.21%) Fortinet
13 6 (3.21%) Hitachi
14 5 (2.67%) Broadcom
14 5 (2.67%) Tenable