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 8 December 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
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 338 302
Rank change year-on-year -17 -36 +37
Contract jobs citing Dell 233 213 345
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.60% 0.76%
As % of the Vendors category 1.36% 1.31% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 129 234
10th Percentile £154 £167 £128
25th Percentile £170 £263 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £459 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.30% +14.75% -
75th Percentile £488 £565 £550
90th Percentile £575 £639 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £463 £325
% change year-on-year -18.92% +42.31% -3.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 25 7
10th Percentile £18.12 £11.75 £18.95
25th Percentile £18.87 - £20.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +9.91% -7.99%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £25.26
90th Percentile £32.93 £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 17,187 16,208 20,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.37% 45.39% 45.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,917 9,626 13,106
10th Percentile £290 £290 £255
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 864 500 679
10th Percentile £15.23 £15.46 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.09 £18.69 £19.88
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.39 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% -33.97% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.35 £62.51 £64.70
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% -39.04% +97.78%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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 8 December 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 -10 211 £375 -21.05% 77
UK excluding London -38 142 £375 -18.92% 65
London +25 76 £449 +12.13% 22
North of England -38 40 £350 -30.56% 10
Midlands -17 37 £239 -52.25% 9
Work from Home -15 27 £447 -5.89% 24
South East -30 22 £413 -8.33% 26
West Midlands -24 21 £310 -38.00% 6
South West -12 20 £700 +24.44% 7
North West -9 17 £425 +129.73% 5
Yorkshire -50 17 £408 -20.87% 5
East Midlands -4 16 £158 -10.00% 3
East of England -7 12 £445 +61.82% 10
Northern Ireland -11 6 £375 +113.07% 3
North East - 6 £175 - 1
Scotland +2 5 £500 +257.14% 2

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 17 (7.30%) Confluence
2 9 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.86%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.43%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.43%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 52 (22.32%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.43%) SAP ECC
3 1 (0.43%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 70 (30.04%) Microsoft 365
2 49 (21.03%) Azure
3 41 (17.60%) AWS
4 13 (5.58%) Boomi
5 12 (5.15%) Datadog
6 7 (3.00%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.00%) GCP
7 6 (2.58%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.58%) OCI
8 5 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.15%) SaaS
9 4 (1.72%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.86%) Apigee
10 2 (0.86%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.86%) PaaS
10 2 (0.86%) Slack
11 1 (0.43%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 53 (22.75%) Wireless
2 34 (14.59%) SAN
3 26 (11.16%) Firewall
4 24 (10.30%) DNS
4 24 (10.30%) VLAN
5 18 (7.73%) DHCP
6 16 (6.87%) VSAN
7 10 (4.29%) BGP
8 9 (3.86%) 3GPP
8 9 (3.86%) 4G
8 9 (3.86%) 5G
8 9 (3.86%) IPsec
8 9 (3.86%) MPLS
8 9 (3.86%) OSPF
8 9 (3.86%) Radio Access Network
8 9 (3.86%) Wireshark
9 8 (3.43%) TCP/IP
10 5 (2.15%) iSCSI
10 5 (2.15%) NAS
11 3 (1.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.15%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.86%) Data Hub
3 2 (0.86%) DataStage
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (4.29%) JIRA
2 2 (0.86%) Git
3 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.43%) GitLab
3 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.43%) Postman
General
1 44 (18.88%) Finance
2 43 (18.45%) Social Skills
3 39 (16.74%) Banking
4 38 (16.31%) Public Sector
5 25 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (10.73%) Telecoms
6 24 (10.30%) Manufacturing
6 24 (10.30%) Marketing
7 23 (9.87%) Electronics
8 14 (6.01%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (4.29%) Retail
10 8 (3.43%) Legal
11 6 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.72%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.86%) Local Government
14 2 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.43%) Billing
15 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (13.73%) Analyst
1 32 (13.73%) IT Support
2 30 (12.88%) Desktop Support
3 23 (9.87%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 23 (9.87%) 2nd Line Support
3 23 (9.87%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 22 (9.44%) IT Engineer
5 18 (7.73%) Administrator
6 16 (6.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (6.01%) Architect
7 14 (6.01%) Support Engineer
8 13 (5.58%) Consultant
8 13 (5.58%) Field Engineer
8 13 (5.58%) Senior
9 12 (5.15%) Server Engineer
10 11 (4.72%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 9 (3.86%) IT Support Engineer
11 9 (3.86%) Storage Engineer
12 8 (3.43%) Break Fix Engineer
12 8 (3.43%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.00%) REST
2 6 (2.58%) Middleware
3 3 (1.29%) SOAP
4 2 (0.86%) JSON
5 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.43%) LDAP
5 1 (0.43%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (29.18%) Data Centre
2 27 (11.59%) Driving Licence
3 14 (6.01%) Enterprise Storage
3 14 (6.01%) Replication
4 12 (5.15%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (3.86%) Operational Technology
6 8 (3.43%) PKI
7 7 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.72%) Clustering
9 4 (1.72%) HP Storage
9 4 (1.72%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.86%) Chip and PIN
10 2 (0.86%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (0.86%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.86%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.86%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.86%) Smartphone
10 2 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (24.89%) Windows
2 54 (23.18%) Mac OS
3 53 (22.75%) Android
4 44 (18.88%) Linux
5 21 (9.01%) Windows Server
6 18 (7.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (7.73%) Windows 10
7 8 (3.43%) Unix
8 4 (1.72%) VMS
8 4 (1.72%) Windows 7
9 3 (1.29%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.43%) CentOS
11 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (12.88%) Customer Service
4 29 (12.45%) Break/Fix
5 26 (11.16%) Agile
6 23 (9.87%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (9.87%) Digital Marketing
6 23 (9.87%) Programme Management
7 18 (7.73%) ITIL
7 18 (7.73%) Migration
8 13 (5.58%) Asset Management
8 13 (5.58%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (5.58%) Ticket Management
9 12 (5.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (5.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (4.72%) Capacity Planning
11 10 (4.29%) Decision-Making
11 10 (4.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (4.29%) ITSM
12 9 (3.86%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.72%) Shell Script
2 7 (3.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (2.58%) Bash
4 5 (2.15%) Python
4 5 (2.15%) SQL
5 2 (0.86%) Java
5 2 (0.86%) Perl
5 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.43%) JCL
6 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 104 (44.64%) Security Cleared
2 89 (38.20%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.59%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (4.29%) Degree
6 7 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.58%) A+ Certification
8 5 (2.15%) MCSE
9 4 (1.72%) CCNA
9 4 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (1.72%) OCP
9 4 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.86%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.43%) VCAP
12 1 (0.43%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.87%) SLA
2 7 (3.00%) QA
3 6 (2.58%) COBIT
4 4 (1.72%) GDPR
4 4 (1.72%) NIST
5 2 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (15.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (12.88%) Active Directory
3 25 (10.73%) vSphere
4 16 (6.87%) Docker
5 12 (5.15%) Firmware
6 5 (2.15%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.72%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.29%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.86%) GPFS
10 1 (0.43%) Ceph
10 1 (0.43%) Lustre
10 1 (0.43%) NFS
10 1 (0.43%) Samba
10 1 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.43%) SRDF
10 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 21 (9.01%) Terraform
2 17 (7.30%) VxRail
3 16 (6.87%) Ansible
4 12 (5.15%) vRealize
5 11 (4.72%) EMC NetWorker
5 11 (4.72%) NetBackup
6 10 (4.29%) Dell DRAC
6 10 (4.29%) SCCM
7 9 (3.86%) vCenter Server
8 8 (3.43%) Kubernetes
9 7 (3.00%) EMC VPLEX
10 6 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (2.58%) SCOM
11 5 (2.15%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (1.29%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.86%) BladeLogic
13 2 (0.86%) Control-M
13 2 (0.86%) Grafana
13 2 (0.86%) Prometheus
13 2 (0.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 109 (46.78%) HP
2 90 (38.63%) Cisco
3 56 (24.03%) Apple
4 53 (22.75%) VMware
5 31 (13.30%) Microsoft
5 31 (13.30%) SAP
6 21 (9.01%) Isilon
7 19 (8.15%) IBM
8 17 (7.30%) Red Hat
8 17 (7.30%) SolarWinds
9 14 (6.01%) EMC
9 14 (6.01%) NetApp
10 13 (5.58%) Veeam
11 12 (5.15%) AppDynamics
11 12 (5.15%) Commvault
12 11 (4.72%) Veritas
13 10 (4.29%) Oracle
14 9 (3.86%) ServiceNow
15 8 (3.43%) Brocade
15 8 (3.43%) F5