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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 313 316
Rank change year-on-year -40 +3 +51
Contract jobs citing Dell 210 276 360
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.72% 0.73%
As % of the Vendors category 1.35% 1.63% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 178 243
10th Percentile £138 £183 £135
25th Percentile £195 £305 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £476 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% +4.94%
75th Percentile £496 £563 £563
90th Percentile £590 £628 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £479 £315
% change year-on-year -21.63% +51.90% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 31 8
10th Percentile £17.30 £11.75 £18.64
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.36 £19.11
Median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £21.80
Median % change year-on-year -21.96% +10.92% -8.82%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.47 £24.75
90th Percentile - £71.25 £28.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.69 £24.18 £19.50
% change year-on-year -22.70% +24.00% +6.85%

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 15,556 16,900 22,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.23% 44.19% 44.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,537 10,137 14,284
10th Percentile £275 £285 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £737
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 796 677 655
10th Percentile £14.72 £14.26 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.45 £15.62 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -31.56% +83.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £64.45
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.28 £30.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -29.07% -27.71% +107.50%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -15 178 £435 -12.39% 146
UK excluding London -32 133 £375 -21.63% 139
London +5 59 £475 +17.28% 26
South East +20 32 £398 -18.46% 39
North of England -21 31 £442 -14.13% 27
Midlands -15 25 £150 -68.42% 26
Work from Home -22 25 £447 -1.65% 28
South West +15 22 £286 -42.90% 19
North West -15 15 £430 +43.33% 12
Yorkshire -22 13 £475 -7.77% 13
West Midlands -23 13 £150 -69.23% 16
East Midlands +4 12 £127 -27.60% 9
Scotland -3 11 £141 -58.37% 8
Northern Ireland -13 6 £350 +89.19% 1
East of England 0 5 £445 +48.33% 19
North East - 4 £388 - 2
Wales +2 1 £275 +25.00% 1

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 13 (6.19%) Confluence
2 9 (4.29%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.95%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.48%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.48%) Mule
5 1 (0.48%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 23 (10.95%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.43%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.95%) Magento
1 2 (0.95%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.95%) Oracle Retail
1 2 (0.95%) SAP CX
1 2 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.95%) Shopify
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.48%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 40 (19.05%) Azure
2 34 (16.19%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (12.86%) AWS
4 16 (7.62%) Boomi
5 8 (3.81%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.33%) GCP
6 7 (3.33%) SaaS
7 6 (2.86%) GitHub
8 5 (2.38%) IaaS
9 4 (1.90%) Google Workspace
9 4 (1.90%) OCI
9 4 (1.90%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 3 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.43%) Lucidchart
10 3 (1.43%) PaaS
11 2 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.95%) Datadog
11 2 (0.95%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.95%) Oracle CX
11 2 (0.95%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (19.05%) SAN
2 28 (13.33%) DNS
3 25 (11.90%) Firewall
4 21 (10.00%) VLAN
5 18 (8.57%) DHCP
6 15 (7.14%) Wireless
7 13 (6.19%) BGP
7 13 (6.19%) OSPF
8 9 (4.29%) 3GPP
8 9 (4.29%) 4G
8 9 (4.29%) 5G
8 9 (4.29%) IPsec
8 9 (4.29%) MPLS
8 9 (4.29%) Radio Access Network
8 9 (4.29%) TCP/IP
8 9 (4.29%) Wireshark
9 8 (3.81%) VSAN
10 6 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (2.38%) Fibre Channel
11 5 (2.38%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.95%) Data Hub
1 2 (0.95%) Power BI
1 2 (0.95%) Tableau
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (7.14%) JIRA
2 4 (1.90%) Git
2 4 (1.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.95%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.95%) GitLab
3 2 (0.95%) Postman
4 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.48%) Maven
4 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.48%) WebStorm
General
1 40 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 27 (12.86%) Finance
3 23 (10.95%) Banking
4 20 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.24%) Retail
7 7 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.33%) Legal
7 7 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.90%) Law
9 3 (1.43%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.43%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.95%) Electronics
10 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.95%) Local Government
10 2 (0.95%) Marketing
10 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 23 (10.95%) IT Engineer
2 19 (9.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (8.10%) Analyst
3 17 (8.10%) Desktop Support
4 14 (6.67%) Administrator
4 14 (6.67%) Consultant
5 13 (6.19%) Server Engineer
6 12 (5.71%) Architect
7 11 (5.24%) Support Engineer
8 10 (4.76%) Storage Engineer
9 8 (3.81%) Senior
10 7 (3.33%) Desktop Engineer
10 7 (3.33%) Systems Administrator
11 6 (2.86%) Backup Administrator
11 6 (2.86%) Break Fix Engineer
11 6 (2.86%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 6 (2.86%) Field Engineer
11 6 (2.86%) HP Storage Administrator
11 6 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.86%) Storage Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.81%) REST
2 7 (3.33%) Middleware
2 7 (3.33%) SOAP
3 4 (1.90%) JSON
4 3 (1.43%) Web Services
4 3 (1.43%) XML
5 2 (0.95%) EDI
5 2 (0.95%) Kafka
5 2 (0.95%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (0.95%) SAP PI
5 2 (0.95%) YAML
6 1 (0.48%) Flash
6 1 (0.48%) JWT
6 1 (0.48%) OAuth
6 1 (0.48%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.48%) RAML
6 1 (0.48%) RESTful
6 1 (0.48%) Restlet
6 1 (0.48%) SAML
6 1 (0.48%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.90%) Driving Licence
2 31 (14.76%) Data Centre
3 13 (6.19%) Enterprise Storage
4 10 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.76%) Operational Technology
5 9 (4.29%) Replication
6 6 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.38%) HP Storage
8 4 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.90%) PKI
9 3 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.43%) Clustering
9 3 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.43%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.43%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.95%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.95%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.95%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (0.95%) Handset
10 2 (0.95%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 65 (30.95%) Windows
2 26 (12.38%) Linux
3 23 (10.95%) Windows 10
4 20 (9.52%) Windows Server
5 14 (6.67%) Mac OS
6 12 (5.71%) Android
7 11 (5.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (2.38%) Windows 8
9 4 (1.90%) Windows 7
9 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.95%) CentOS
11 2 (0.95%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.95%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.95%) Unix
11 2 (0.95%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.48%) AIX
12 1 (0.48%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (14.76%) Customer Service
2 30 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (12.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 26 (12.38%) Break/Fix
5 25 (11.90%) Asset Management
6 23 (10.95%) Ticket Management
7 19 (9.05%) ITIL
8 15 (7.14%) Agile
9 14 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (5.24%) CI/CD
10 11 (5.24%) Runbook
11 10 (4.76%) DevOps
11 10 (4.76%) Migration
11 10 (4.76%) Problem Management
12 9 (4.29%) Capacity Planning
12 9 (4.29%) Change Management
12 9 (4.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (4.29%) Time Management
13 7 (3.33%) Data Protection
13 7 (3.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.71%) PowerShell
2 5 (2.38%) Python
2 5 (2.38%) SQL
3 3 (1.43%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.48%) Bash
4 1 (0.48%) DataWeave
4 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.48%) JCL
4 1 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 81 (38.57%) Security Cleared
2 71 (33.81%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.05%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.81%) A+ Certification
5 8 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.86%) Degree
6 6 (2.86%) Dell Certification
7 5 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.38%) MCSE
8 4 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.43%) CCNA
9 3 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.95%) MCP
10 2 (0.95%) MCSA
10 2 (0.95%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.95%) PMP
10 2 (0.95%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.43%) SLA
2 7 (3.33%) QA
3 4 (1.90%) COBIT
3 4 (1.90%) NIST
3 4 (1.90%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.43%) GDPR
5 2 (0.95%) PMO
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (14.76%) Active Directory
2 22 (10.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.76%) Docker
3 10 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (4.76%) vSphere
4 7 (3.33%) Firmware
4 7 (3.33%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.90%) Ceph
5 4 (1.90%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.43%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.95%) XenApp
8 1 (0.48%) GPFS
8 1 (0.48%) Samba
8 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (6.67%) NetBackup
2 11 (5.24%) Ansible
2 11 (5.24%) Terraform
3 7 (3.33%) EMC NetWorker
3 7 (3.33%) EMC VPLEX
3 7 (3.33%) SCCM
4 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.86%) vCenter Server
4 6 (2.86%) VxRail
5 3 (1.43%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (1.43%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.43%) SCOM
6 2 (0.95%) Argo
6 2 (0.95%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (0.95%) Malwarebytes
6 2 (0.95%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (0.95%) Nessus
6 2 (0.95%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.48%) Puppet
7 1 (0.48%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 80 (38.10%) HP
2 48 (22.86%) Cisco
3 46 (21.90%) VMware
4 39 (18.57%) Microsoft
5 19 (9.05%) Isilon
6 16 (7.62%) Apple
7 15 (7.14%) Red Hat
8 13 (6.19%) NetApp
8 13 (6.19%) Veritas
9 12 (5.71%) Citrix
9 12 (5.71%) EMC
9 12 (5.71%) ServiceNow
10 10 (4.76%) Veeam
11 9 (4.29%) MuleSoft
11 9 (4.29%) Oracle
11 9 (4.29%) SolarWinds
12 8 (3.81%) SAP
13 7 (3.33%) IBM
13 7 (3.33%) Salesforce
13 7 (3.33%) Wyse