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 May 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
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 303 253
Rank change year-on-year -59 -50 +100
Contract jobs citing Dell 277 246 393
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.85% 0.91%
As % of the Vendors category 1.40% 1.78% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 123 266
10th Percentile £126 £148 £220
25th Percentile £288 £171 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £429 £480
Median % change year-on-year +10.85% -10.68% +29.66%
75th Percentile £569 £568 £631
90th Percentile £625 £629 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £260 £506
% change year-on-year +73.08% -48.57% +83.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 40 19
10th Percentile £16.09 £17.30 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.35 £18.69 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% +3.09% -12.44%
75th Percentile £21.46 £21.80 £44.40
90th Percentile £25.77 £24.66 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £18.51 £16.25
% change year-on-year -4.43% +13.91% -21.52%

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 19,748 13,810 18,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.61% 47.45% 42.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,551 8,637 11,343
10th Percentile £313 £285 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £630
90th Percentile £703 £714 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -1.51% -0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 988 563 1,092
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.56 £14.41
Median hourly rate £32.11 £26.04 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.32% +15.73% -48.50%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.61 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £24.09 £21.50
% change year-on-year +16.23% +12.05% -45.64%

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 May 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 8 May 2026.

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 8 May 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 -93 218 £475 +11.76% 54
UK excluding London -76 187 £450 +73.08% 38
London -55 54 £475 +2.70% 17
North of England -45 44 £510 +19.88% 6
Work from Home -25 36 £500 -7.41% 23
South East -82 34 £388 +78.57% 13
East of England -10 31 £613 +11.36% 6
Yorkshire -30 29 £520 +12.32% 5
South West -48 24 £319 +105.65% 6
Midlands -71 24 £450 +200.00% 4
Scotland -7 20 £425 -17.03% 3
West Midlands -59 19 £450 +200.00% 4
North West -41 12 £269 -36.76% 1
Wales -4 10 - -
East Midlands -25 7 £450 +157.14%
North East -16 3 - -
Northern Ireland +4 2 £375 -

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 7 (2.53%) Confluence
2 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.72%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 7 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.44%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.81%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.72%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.36%) assyst
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 41 (14.80%) Azure
2 19 (6.86%) Boomi
2 19 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (6.50%) AWS
4 14 (5.05%) OpenShift
5 6 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (2.17%) Datadog
6 4 (1.44%) Azure Stack
6 4 (1.44%) Smartsheet
6 4 (1.44%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (1.08%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (1.08%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.08%) IaaS
7 3 (1.08%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (0.72%) Apigee
8 2 (0.72%) GitHub
8 2 (0.72%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 79 (28.52%) SAN
2 23 (8.30%) VSAN
3 18 (6.50%) Firewall
4 17 (6.14%) DHCP
4 17 (6.14%) DNS
5 16 (5.78%) LAN
5 16 (5.78%) WAN
6 14 (5.05%) iSCSI
6 14 (5.05%) VLAN
7 10 (3.61%) Wireless
8 9 (3.25%) Fibre Channel
9 8 (2.89%) Network Security
10 7 (2.53%) NAS
11 6 (2.17%) VPN
12 5 (1.81%) FCoE
12 5 (1.81%) VXLAN
13 4 (1.44%) BGP
13 4 (1.44%) Ethernet VPN
14 3 (1.08%) SNMP
14 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.44%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.72%) DataStage
3 2 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.36%) MySQL
4 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (3.25%) JIRA
2 8 (2.89%) Git
3 6 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.17%) Postman
4 4 (1.44%) GitLab
5 1 (0.36%) Hudson
5 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
General
1 74 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 58 (20.94%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (9.39%) Finance
4 25 (9.03%) Legal
5 18 (6.50%) Banking
6 14 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.97%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.44%) Retail
11 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.36%) Billing
13 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.36%) French Language
13 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (25.63%) Field Engineer
2 61 (22.02%) IT Engineer
3 52 (18.77%) Field Service Engineer
4 33 (11.91%) IT Support
5 31 (11.19%) Support Engineer
6 26 (9.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (7.58%) Field Support Engineer
7 21 (7.58%) IT Support Engineer
8 17 (6.14%) Architect
8 17 (6.14%) Hardware Engineer
8 17 (6.14%) Senior
9 15 (5.42%) Computer Engineer
9 15 (5.42%) Field Hardware Engineer
10 14 (5.05%) Printer Engineer
11 13 (4.69%) Consultant
12 11 (3.97%) Administrator
12 11 (3.97%) Analyst
13 10 (3.61%) Data Centre Engineer
13 10 (3.61%) Server Engineer
14 9 (3.25%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.33%) Middleware
1 12 (4.33%) REST
2 10 (3.61%) JSON
3 7 (2.53%) XML
4 6 (2.17%) SOAP
5 5 (1.81%) BAPI
6 4 (1.44%) IDoc
6 4 (1.44%) Keycloak
6 4 (1.44%) OAuth
6 4 (1.44%) OAuth2
6 4 (1.44%) OpenAPI
6 4 (1.44%) SAP ALE
6 4 (1.44%) Swagger
7 3 (1.08%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.08%) Redfish
7 3 (1.08%) Web Services
8 2 (0.72%) SAP XI
9 1 (0.36%) Kafka
9 1 (0.36%) XSD
9 1 (0.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 98 (35.38%) Data Centre
2 51 (18.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 33 (11.91%) Driving Licence
4 21 (7.58%) Enterprise Storage
5 17 (6.14%) Replication
6 16 (5.78%) Virtual Team
7 12 (4.33%) EMC VMAX
8 8 (2.89%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (2.17%) Clustering
9 6 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.81%) PKI
11 4 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.08%) EPoS
12 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.08%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.72%) Cloud Native
13 2 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
13 2 (0.72%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.72%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 72 (25.99%) Windows
2 42 (15.16%) Linux
3 28 (10.11%) Windows Server
4 18 (6.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (5.78%) Windows 10
6 14 (5.05%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (4.69%) Mac OS
8 10 (3.61%) Android
9 7 (2.53%) Ubuntu
9 7 (2.53%) VMS
10 5 (1.81%) Unix
11 4 (1.44%) SUSE
11 4 (1.44%) zOS
12 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.36%) Debian
13 1 (0.36%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (32.85%) Customer Service
2 86 (31.05%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (24.55%) Break/Fix
4 34 (12.27%) Migration
5 33 (11.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (6.86%) DevOps
6 19 (6.86%) ITSM
6 19 (6.86%) Service Management
7 18 (6.50%) Agile
8 17 (6.14%) High Availability
9 15 (5.42%) CI/CD
9 15 (5.42%) Data Protection
9 15 (5.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (5.42%) Validation
10 13 (4.69%) Observability
10 13 (4.69%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (4.33%) Time Management
12 11 (3.97%) Asset Management
13 10 (3.61%) Disaster Recovery
13 10 (3.61%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.58%) Python
2 18 (6.50%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.25%) Bash
4 7 (2.53%) Shell Script
4 7 (2.53%) SQL
5 4 (1.44%) JCL
6 2 (0.72%) ABAP
6 2 (0.72%) C
6 2 (0.72%) Java
6 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.36%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.36%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.36%) Groovy
7 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.36%) Korn
7 1 (0.36%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.36%) Perl
7 1 (0.36%) REXX
Qualifications
1 81 (29.24%) Security Cleared
2 58 (20.94%) Cisco Certification
3 54 (19.49%) SC Cleared
4 53 (19.13%) A+ Certification
5 52 (18.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 51 (18.41%) CCNA
6 51 (18.41%) MCSE
6 51 (18.41%) Network+ Certification
7 22 (7.94%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.97%) Degree
9 8 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (2.53%) CCNP
11 5 (1.81%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.44%) HP ASE
12 4 (1.44%) OCP
12 4 (1.44%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.72%) VCAP
14 2 (0.72%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.03%) SLA
2 9 (3.25%) PMO
3 5 (1.81%) QA
4 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.36%) GDPR
5 1 (0.36%) GRC
5 1 (0.36%) NCSC
5 1 (0.36%) NIST
5 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
System Software
1 40 (14.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (13.72%) vSphere
3 19 (6.86%) Active Directory
3 19 (6.86%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (4.33%) Hyper-V
5 11 (3.97%) Firmware
5 11 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (3.61%) SRDF
7 8 (2.89%) VMware NSX
8 7 (2.53%) NFS
9 6 (2.17%) Docker
10 4 (1.44%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.72%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.72%) Ceph
11 2 (0.72%) Lustre
11 2 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.72%) vCloud
12 1 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.36%) KVM
12 1 (0.36%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 23 (8.30%) VxRail
2 22 (7.94%) Ansible
3 18 (6.50%) vCenter Server
4 12 (4.33%) ServiceCenter
5 11 (3.97%) Kubernetes
6 10 (3.61%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.61%) Terraform
7 7 (2.53%) Dell DRAC
7 7 (2.53%) SCCM
8 6 (2.17%) EMC TimeFinder
8 6 (2.17%) vRealize
9 5 (1.81%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (1.81%) Grafana
9 5 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.44%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (1.44%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.44%) NetBackup
10 4 (1.44%) Puppet
10 4 (1.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 78 (28.16%) HP
2 56 (20.22%) VMware
3 52 (18.77%) Cisco
4 36 (13.00%) Microsoft
5 24 (8.66%) Apple
6 23 (8.30%) Red Hat
7 22 (7.94%) IBM
8 18 (6.50%) Pure Storage
8 18 (6.50%) SAP
8 18 (6.50%) ServiceNow
9 15 (5.42%) Brocade
9 15 (5.42%) Canon
9 15 (5.42%) EMC
10 11 (3.97%) Veeam
11 10 (3.61%) Broadcom
11 10 (3.61%) NVIDIA
12 9 (3.25%) MuleSoft
13 8 (2.89%) NetApp
13 8 (2.89%) SolarWinds
14 7 (2.53%) Thales