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 6 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
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 324 270
Rank change year-on-year -143 -54 +60
Contract jobs citing Dell 209 238 339
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.72% 0.87%
As % of the Vendors category 0.95% 1.53% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 119 221
10th Percentile £126 £139 £220
25th Percentile £331 £186 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +31.15%
75th Percentile £577 £544 £608
90th Percentile £638 £615 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% +81.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 43 27
10th Percentile £16.09 £17.30 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £13.38
Median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -20.71% +18.41%
75th Percentile £20.08 £25.15 £46.88
90th Percentile £24.63 - £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.67 £18.87 £15.60
% change year-on-year -1.09% +21.00% -18.99%

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 22,096 15,563 17,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.45% 47.29% 43.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,681 9,530 10,669
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £605 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 788 855
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.50 £13.57
25th Percentile £19.22 £17.24 £15.62
Median hourly rate £34.85 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.57% -10.18% -33.85%
75th Percentile £65.25 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.32 £27.50
% change year-on-year +45.64% -18.85% -22.54%

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 6 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Dell over the 6 months to 6 August 2026.

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 6 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 -120 161 £475 +5.56% 100
UK excluding London -120 147 £475 +18.75% 58
South East -56 42 £475 +19.50% 25
North of England -65 36 £519 +16.11% 11
London -82 33 £525 - 48
Work from Home -57 32 £516 +14.61% 32
Yorkshire -31 27 £520 +10.53% 3
South West -54 20 £123 -28.36% 7
Scotland -3 18 £450 -21.67% 1
Midlands -64 13 £475 +216.67% 8
East of England -19 11 £650 +18.18% 6
West Midlands -59 11 £413 +175.00% 6
Wales -5 8 - - 1
North West -61 8 £275 -37.68% 8
East Midlands -15 2 £475 +254.48% 2
North East -43 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 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.44%) Confluence
2 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.96%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.48%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (4.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.87%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.48%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 37 (17.70%) Azure
2 24 (11.48%) Boomi
3 16 (7.66%) AWS
4 12 (5.74%) OpenShift
5 11 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.35%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (2.87%) AtomSphere
9 5 (2.39%) GitHub
9 5 (2.39%) IaaS
9 5 (2.39%) Smartsheet
10 4 (1.91%) Azure Stack
10 4 (1.91%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.44%) GCP
11 3 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.44%) iPaaS
11 3 (1.44%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.96%) Azure Storage
12 2 (0.96%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 70 (33.49%) SAN
2 14 (6.70%) VSAN
3 13 (6.22%) Firewall
3 13 (6.22%) iSCSI
4 10 (4.78%) DHCP
4 10 (4.78%) DNS
5 9 (4.31%) Fibre Channel
5 9 (4.31%) Network Security
6 8 (3.83%) NAS
6 8 (3.83%) VPN
6 8 (3.83%) WAN
7 7 (3.35%) LAN
8 6 (2.87%) VLAN
9 5 (2.39%) FCoE
10 4 (1.91%) BGP
10 4 (1.91%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (1.91%) VXLAN
11 3 (1.44%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (1.44%) SNMP
11 3 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.87%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.48%) MySQL
3 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (4.31%) Git
1 9 (4.31%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.35%) JIRA
3 5 (2.39%) Postman
4 3 (1.44%) GitLab
5 1 (0.48%) Hudson
5 1 (0.48%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 53 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 48 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (8.61%) Finance
4 10 (4.78%) Legal
5 8 (3.83%) Banking
6 6 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.44%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.96%) Law
10 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.48%) Billing
10 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (23.92%) Field Engineer
2 47 (22.49%) IT Engineer
3 44 (21.05%) Field Service Engineer
4 25 (11.96%) Storage Engineer
5 24 (11.48%) IT Support
6 23 (11.00%) Support Engineer
7 21 (10.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (9.09%) Architect
9 17 (8.13%) IT Support Engineer
10 16 (7.66%) Field Support Engineer
11 15 (7.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 13 (6.22%) Consultant
12 13 (6.22%) Senior
13 8 (3.83%) Data Centre Engineer
13 8 (3.83%) Hardware Engineer
14 7 (3.35%) Analyst
14 7 (3.35%) Integration Architect
14 7 (3.35%) Network Engineer
14 7 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
15 6 (2.87%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.70%) REST
2 12 (5.74%) JSON
2 12 (5.74%) Middleware
3 8 (3.83%) SOAP
4 7 (3.35%) BAPI
4 7 (3.35%) OAuth
4 7 (3.35%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.39%) IDoc
5 5 (2.39%) OpenAPI
5 5 (2.39%) SAP ALE
5 5 (2.39%) Swagger
5 5 (2.39%) XML
6 4 (1.91%) Redfish
7 3 (1.44%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (0.96%) JMS
8 2 (0.96%) SAP XI
8 2 (0.96%) YAML
9 1 (0.48%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.48%) SAML
9 1 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 76 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 43 (20.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 27 (12.92%) Enterprise Storage
4 21 (10.05%) Replication
5 15 (7.18%) Driving Licence
5 15 (7.18%) EMC VMAX
5 15 (7.18%) PKI
6 7 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.35%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.39%) Clustering
8 4 (1.91%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.91%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.44%) EMC VNX
9 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.96%) BYOD
10 2 (0.96%) Device Driver
10 2 (0.96%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.96%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 62 (29.67%) Windows
2 30 (14.35%) Windows Server
3 28 (13.40%) Linux
4 10 (4.78%) VMS
4 10 (4.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.87%) Windows 10
7 5 (2.39%) zOS
8 4 (1.91%) SUSE
9 3 (1.44%) AIX
9 3 (1.44%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (1.44%) Solaris
9 3 (1.44%) Unix
10 2 (0.96%) Android
10 2 (0.96%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.96%) HPUX
10 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (30.62%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (28.23%) Customer Service
3 57 (27.27%) Break/Fix
4 31 (14.83%) Migration
5 27 (12.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (11.48%) DevOps
7 23 (11.00%) ITSM
8 21 (10.05%) CI/CD
9 19 (9.09%) Agile
10 17 (8.13%) Change Management
11 16 (7.66%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (7.18%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (6.70%) Data Protection
13 14 (6.70%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (6.22%) High Availability
14 13 (6.22%) Performance Tuning
15 12 (5.74%) Observability
15 12 (5.74%) Storage Management
15 12 (5.74%) Validation
16 10 (4.78%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.48%) Python
2 19 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 10 (4.78%) Bash
4 5 (2.39%) JCL
4 5 (2.39%) SQL
5 4 (1.91%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.96%) ABAP
6 2 (0.96%) Groovy
6 2 (0.96%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.96%) REXX
7 1 (0.48%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.48%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.48%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.48%) Bicep
7 1 (0.48%) Java
7 1 (0.48%) Korn
7 1 (0.48%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 54 (25.84%) Security Cleared
2 52 (24.88%) Cisco Certification
3 47 (22.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 43 (20.57%) CCNA
4 43 (20.57%) MCSE
5 42 (20.10%) A+ Certification
5 42 (20.10%) Network+ Certification
6 24 (11.48%) DV Cleared
6 24 (11.48%) SC Cleared
7 10 (4.78%) Degree
8 8 (3.83%) CCNP
9 7 (3.35%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.91%) HP ASE
12 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.44%) MCSA
12 3 (1.44%) NCDA
12 3 (1.44%) NCIE
12 3 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.26%) SLA
2 7 (3.35%) PMO
3 6 (2.87%) QA
4 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.96%) NCSC
5 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.48%) GDPR
5 1 (0.48%) GRC
5 1 (0.48%) NIST
5 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
System Software
1 49 (23.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (9.09%) vSphere
3 14 (6.70%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.70%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (6.22%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (5.74%) SRDF
6 11 (5.26%) Firmware
6 11 (5.26%) Hyper-V
7 10 (4.78%) NFS
8 6 (2.87%) Docker
9 5 (2.39%) Time Sharing Option
9 5 (2.39%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.44%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.96%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.96%) KVM
12 1 (0.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.48%) QEMU
12 1 (0.48%) Samba
12 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 27 (12.92%) vCenter Server
2 22 (10.53%) Ansible
3 15 (7.18%) Kubernetes
4 13 (6.22%) Avamar
4 13 (6.22%) SCOM
5 11 (5.26%) Dell DRAC
6 9 (4.31%) Terraform
7 8 (3.83%) VxRail
8 7 (3.35%) Prometheus
9 6 (2.87%) EMC TimeFinder
9 6 (2.87%) NetBackup
9 6 (2.87%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (1.91%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.91%) Puppet
10 4 (1.91%) SCCM
10 4 (1.91%) ServiceCenter
11 3 (1.44%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 62 (29.67%) VMware
2 43 (20.57%) HP
3 39 (18.66%) Microsoft
4 38 (18.18%) Cisco
5 17 (8.13%) Brocade
6 14 (6.70%) Pure Storage
6 14 (6.70%) SAP
6 14 (6.70%) ServiceNow
6 14 (6.70%) Thales
7 13 (6.22%) Broadcom
7 13 (6.22%) EMC
7 13 (6.22%) IBM
7 13 (6.22%) NetApp
8 12 (5.74%) MuleSoft
8 12 (5.74%) Red Hat
9 7 (3.35%) Oracle
9 7 (3.35%) Veeam
10 6 (2.87%) Canon
11 5 (2.39%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.39%) Splunk