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 21 November 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
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 352 308
Rank change year-on-year -11 -44 +34
Contract jobs citing Dell 223 220 349
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.60% 0.75%
As % of the Vendors category 1.31% 1.34% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 132 236
10th Percentile £154 £173 £131
25th Percentile £170 £300 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.32% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £491 £565 £550
90th Percentile £568 £651 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £477 £338
% change year-on-year -21.38% +41.33% -0.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 7
10th Percentile £18.22 £11.75 £18.95
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.92 £20.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +9.91% -8.16%
75th Percentile - £25.32 £25.26
90th Percentile £26.41 £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 17,053 16,375 21,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.54% 44.88% 45.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,738 9,632 13,459
10th Percentile £287 £300 £260
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.45%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £718 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 887 522 674
10th Percentile £15.33 £15.51 £14.59
25th Percentile £18.25 £19.09 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.18% -32.58% +72.61%
75th Percentile £42.63 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.98 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £27.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% -38.20% +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 21 November 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 21 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Dell in the UK

Dell
Top 17 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 21 November 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 0 200 £395 -17.71% 121
UK excluding London -38 136 £375 -21.38% 88
London +7 72 £450 +12.50% 48
North of England -43 38 £350 -32.04% 10
Midlands -17 33 £188 -62.50% 14
South East -2 27 £425 -8.11% 40
Work from Home -9 26 £447 -5.89% 54
South West 0 19 £625 +11.11% 10
North West -10 18 £313 +83.82% 4
West Midlands -25 17 £311 -37.75% 11
East Midlands +1 16 £158 -53.33% 3
Yorkshire -51 14 £500 -2.91% 6
East of England -10 8 £445 +61.82% 2
North East - 6 £175 -
Scotland -8 5 £500 +257.14% 7
Northern Ireland -15 5 £350 +89.19% 4
Wales - 1 £275 - 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 13 (5.83%) Confluence
2 9 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.04%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.45%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.45%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 54 (24.22%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.90%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.45%) SAP ECC
3 1 (0.45%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 70 (31.39%) Microsoft 365
2 46 (20.63%) Azure
3 37 (16.59%) AWS
4 12 (5.38%) Boomi
5 9 (4.04%) Datadog
6 7 (3.14%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.14%) GCP
7 6 (2.69%) OCI
8 5 (2.24%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.24%) SaaS
9 4 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.79%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.90%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.90%) PaaS
10 2 (0.90%) Slack
11 1 (0.45%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.45%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.45%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 1 (0.45%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 51 (22.87%) Wireless
2 34 (15.25%) SAN
3 26 (11.66%) DNS
3 26 (11.66%) Firewall
4 23 (10.31%) VLAN
5 18 (8.07%) DHCP
6 15 (6.73%) VSAN
7 12 (5.38%) BGP
8 11 (4.93%) OSPF
9 9 (4.04%) 3GPP
9 9 (4.04%) 4G
9 9 (4.04%) 5G
9 9 (4.04%) IPsec
9 9 (4.04%) MPLS
9 9 (4.04%) Radio Access Network
9 9 (4.04%) Wireshark
10 8 (3.59%) TCP/IP
11 5 (2.24%) iSCSI
11 5 (2.24%) NAS
12 3 (1.35%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.79%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.35%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.90%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (3.59%) JIRA
2 2 (0.90%) Git
3 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.45%) GitLab
3 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.45%) Postman
General
1 42 (18.83%) Finance
2 41 (18.39%) Social Skills
3 36 (16.14%) Banking
3 36 (16.14%) Public Sector
4 27 (12.11%) Telecoms
5 24 (10.76%) Manufacturing
5 24 (10.76%) Marketing
6 23 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (10.31%) Electronics
7 13 (5.83%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (4.04%) Retail
9 7 (3.14%) Legal
10 4 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.79%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.90%) Local Government
12 1 (0.45%) Billing
12 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (13.45%) Desktop Support
1 30 (13.45%) IT Support
2 28 (12.56%) Analyst
3 25 (11.21%) 2nd Line Support
4 23 (10.31%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 23 (10.31%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 19 (8.52%) IT Engineer
6 18 (8.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (7.17%) Administrator
8 14 (6.28%) Architect
9 12 (5.38%) Senior
9 12 (5.38%) Server Engineer
9 12 (5.38%) Support Engineer
10 11 (4.93%) Consultant
11 9 (4.04%) Field Engineer
11 9 (4.04%) Storage Engineer
12 8 (3.59%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 7 (3.14%) Break Fix Engineer
13 7 (3.14%) IT Support Engineer
13 7 (3.14%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.14%) Middleware
1 7 (3.14%) REST
2 4 (1.79%) SOAP
3 2 (0.90%) JSON
4 1 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.45%) LDAP
4 1 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (27.35%) Data Centre
2 25 (11.21%) Driving Licence
3 14 (6.28%) Enterprise Storage
4 12 (5.38%) Replication
5 9 (4.04%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (4.04%) Operational Technology
6 8 (3.59%) PKI
7 7 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.79%) Clustering
8 4 (1.79%) HP Storage
8 4 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.79%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.90%) Chip and PIN
10 2 (0.90%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 60 (26.91%) Windows
2 52 (23.32%) Mac OS
3 51 (22.87%) Android
4 38 (17.04%) Linux
5 23 (10.31%) Windows Server
6 19 (8.52%) Windows 10
7 16 (7.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (3.14%) Unix
9 4 (1.79%) VMS
9 4 (1.79%) Windows 7
10 3 (1.35%) Windows 8
10 3 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.90%) CentOS
11 2 (0.90%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.45%) AIX
12 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (14.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (12.56%) Customer Service
2 28 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (12.11%) Break/Fix
4 23 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (10.31%) Digital Marketing
4 23 (10.31%) Programme Management
5 22 (9.87%) Agile
6 17 (7.62%) ITIL
6 17 (7.62%) Migration
7 14 (6.28%) Asset Management
7 14 (6.28%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (5.83%) Ticket Management
9 12 (5.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (5.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (4.48%) Capacity Planning
11 9 (4.04%) Decision-Making
11 9 (4.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (4.04%) ITSM
11 9 (4.04%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.48%) Shell Script
2 8 (3.59%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.24%) Bash
3 5 (2.24%) Python
4 3 (1.35%) SQL
5 2 (0.90%) Perl
6 1 (0.45%) JCL
6 1 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 98 (43.95%) Security Cleared
2 84 (37.67%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.21%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.59%) Degree
6 6 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.24%) A+ Certification
8 4 (1.79%) MCSE
8 4 (1.79%) OCP
8 4 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.35%) CCNA
9 3 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.90%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.45%) CISSP
11 1 (0.45%) Dell Certification
11 1 (0.45%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.87%) SLA
2 7 (3.14%) QA
3 6 (2.69%) COBIT
4 4 (1.79%) GDPR
4 4 (1.79%) NIST
5 2 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.45%) NCSC
6 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (14.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (13.90%) Active Directory
3 22 (9.87%) vSphere
4 14 (6.28%) Docker
5 10 (4.48%) Firmware
6 5 (2.24%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.35%) BitLocker
7 3 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.35%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.90%) Ceph
8 2 (0.90%) GPFS
9 1 (0.45%) NFS
9 1 (0.45%) Samba
9 1 (0.45%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 20 (8.97%) Terraform
2 16 (7.17%) Ansible
3 15 (6.73%) VxRail
4 11 (4.93%) NetBackup
5 9 (4.04%) Dell DRAC
5 9 (4.04%) EMC NetWorker
5 9 (4.04%) vCenter Server
5 9 (4.04%) vRealize
6 8 (3.59%) SCCM
7 6 (2.69%) EMC VPLEX
7 6 (2.69%) Kubernetes
7 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.69%) SCOM
8 4 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (1.35%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.90%) BladeLogic
11 1 (0.45%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.45%) Puppet
11 1 (0.45%) ServiceCenter
11 1 (0.45%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 102 (45.74%) HP
2 86 (38.57%) Cisco
3 54 (24.22%) Apple
4 50 (22.42%) VMware
5 33 (14.80%) Microsoft
6 30 (13.45%) SAP
7 19 (8.52%) Isilon
8 16 (7.17%) IBM
8 16 (7.17%) Red Hat
9 14 (6.28%) NetApp
9 14 (6.28%) SolarWinds
10 13 (5.83%) Veeam
11 12 (5.38%) EMC
12 11 (4.93%) Veritas
13 9 (4.04%) AppDynamics
13 9 (4.04%) Commvault
13 9 (4.04%) Oracle
14 8 (3.59%) F5
15 7 (3.14%) Brocade
15 7 (3.14%) MuleSoft