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 23 October 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
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 338 313
Rank change year-on-year -23 -25 +29
Contract jobs citing Dell 208 240 357
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.65% 0.75%
As % of the Vendors category 1.30% 1.44% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 146 235
10th Percentile £145 £177 £133
25th Percentile £170 £305 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £477 £400
Median % change year-on-year -19.29% +19.25% -
75th Percentile £488 £563 £550
90th Percentile £534 £644 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £484 £315
% change year-on-year -27.65% +53.57% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 27 7
10th Percentile £18.22 £11.75 £18.95
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.68 £20.63
Median hourly rate £25.08 £24.18 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +2.89% -1.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £25.26
90th Percentile - £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 15,974 16,641 21,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.67% 44.78% 45.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 9,799 13,798
10th Percentile £278 £290 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.10% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 813 552 674
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.85 £19.25
Median hourly rate £24.62 £32.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% -25.86% +79.15%
75th Percentile £38.25 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £76.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.48 £30.00 £42.15
% change year-on-year -28.40% -28.83% +97.05%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 23 October 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 -28 183 £375 -24.47% 134
UK excluding London -40 127 £350 -27.65% 112
London +12 64 £450 +12.50% 38
North of England -36 35 £200 -61.17% 20
Midlands -21 29 £188 -62.50% 20
South East +8 27 £425 -8.11% 43
Work from Home -2 24 £447 -5.89% 74
North West -16 19 £200 -60.86% 14
South West +11 18 £400 -27.27% 16
East Midlands +6 16 £158 -53.33% 3
West Midlands -22 13 £310 -38.00% 17
Yorkshire -39 11 £465 -9.71% 5
Scotland -2 6 £500 +257.14% 5
East of England -8 6 £445 +54.78% 5
Northern Ireland -15 5 £350 +89.19% 1
North East - 5 £175 - 2
Wales 0 1 £275 +25.00% 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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 10 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.33%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.48%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.48%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 48 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.92%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.44%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.48%) SAP ECC
2 1 (0.48%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 61 (29.33%) Microsoft 365
2 45 (21.63%) Azure
3 32 (15.38%) AWS
4 14 (6.73%) Boomi
5 8 (3.85%) GCP
6 7 (3.37%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.88%) Datadog
7 6 (2.88%) OCI
8 5 (2.40%) SaaS
9 4 (1.92%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.96%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.96%) GitHub
10 2 (0.96%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 2 (0.96%) Slack
11 1 (0.48%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.48%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.48%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.48%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.48%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.48%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 39 (18.75%) Wireless
2 35 (16.83%) SAN
3 28 (13.46%) DNS
4 27 (12.98%) Firewall
5 23 (11.06%) VLAN
6 20 (9.62%) DHCP
7 12 (5.77%) BGP
7 12 (5.77%) VSAN
8 11 (5.29%) OSPF
9 9 (4.33%) 3GPP
9 9 (4.33%) 4G
9 9 (4.33%) 5G
9 9 (4.33%) IPsec
9 9 (4.33%) MPLS
9 9 (4.33%) Radio Access Network
9 9 (4.33%) TCP/IP
9 9 (4.33%) Wireshark
10 5 (2.40%) iSCSI
10 5 (2.40%) NAS
11 3 (1.44%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.96%) Data Hub
3 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (5.29%) JIRA
2 3 (1.44%) Git
2 3 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.96%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.96%) Postman
4 1 (0.48%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.48%) GitLab
4 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.48%) WebStorm
General
1 40 (19.23%) Finance
2 36 (17.31%) Social Skills
3 35 (16.83%) Public Sector
4 27 (12.98%) Banking
5 26 (12.50%) Telecoms
6 23 (11.06%) Manufacturing
6 23 (11.06%) Marketing
7 22 (10.58%) Electronics
8 21 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (4.33%) Retail
10 7 (3.37%) Legal
11 4 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.92%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.96%) Local Government
13 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.48%) Automotive
14 1 (0.48%) Billing
Job Titles
1 28 (13.46%) Desktop Support
2 25 (12.02%) Analyst
3 24 (11.54%) 2nd Line Support
4 23 (11.06%) IT Support
5 22 (10.58%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 20 (9.62%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
7 17 (8.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (8.17%) IT Engineer
8 15 (7.21%) Administrator
9 12 (5.77%) Architect
9 12 (5.77%) Server Engineer
10 11 (5.29%) Consultant
10 11 (5.29%) Senior
11 10 (4.81%) Storage Engineer
11 10 (4.81%) Support Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Implementation Specialist
12 7 (3.37%) Systems Administrator
13 6 (2.88%) Break Fix Engineer
13 6 (2.88%) Field Engineer
13 6 (2.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.33%) Middleware
2 7 (3.37%) REST
3 6 (2.88%) SOAP
4 3 (1.44%) JSON
5 2 (0.96%) XML
6 1 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.48%) Flash
6 1 (0.48%) LDAP
6 1 (0.48%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.48%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 52 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 27 (12.98%) Driving Licence
3 13 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
4 10 (4.81%) Replication
5 9 (4.33%) Operational Technology
6 7 (3.37%) PKI
7 6 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.40%) HP Storage
9 4 (1.92%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.92%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.44%) Clustering
10 3 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.44%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.96%) Chip and PIN
11 2 (0.96%) EMC VMAX
11 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.96%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 55 (26.44%) Windows
2 39 (18.75%) Mac OS
3 38 (18.27%) Android
4 31 (14.90%) Linux
5 21 (10.10%) Windows Server
6 14 (6.73%) Windows 10
7 12 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (2.40%) Windows 8
9 4 (1.92%) Windows 7
10 3 (1.44%) Unix
10 3 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.96%) CentOS
11 2 (0.96%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.96%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.96%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.48%) AIX
12 1 (0.48%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.48%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 27 (12.98%) Customer Service
4 24 (11.54%) Break/Fix
5 22 (10.58%) Business Intelligence
5 22 (10.58%) Digital Marketing
5 22 (10.58%) Programme Management
6 20 (9.62%) Agile
6 20 (9.62%) Asset Management
7 19 (9.13%) Ticket Management
8 18 (8.65%) ITIL
9 13 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (5.77%) Migration
10 12 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (4.33%) Capacity Planning
11 9 (4.33%) Runbook
12 8 (3.85%) Change Management
12 8 (3.85%) Decision-Making
13 7 (3.37%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.33%) PowerShell
2 6 (2.88%) SQL
3 5 (2.40%) Python
4 4 (1.92%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.96%) Bash
6 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.48%) JCL
6 1 (0.48%) Perl
6 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 85 (40.87%) Security Cleared
2 76 (36.54%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.65%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.37%) Degree
6 6 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.40%) A+ Certification
8 4 (1.92%) MCSE
9 3 (1.44%) CCNA
9 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.44%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.96%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.48%) Dell Certification
11 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.48%) MBA
11 1 (0.48%) Server+ Certification
11 1 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.62%) SLA
2 7 (3.37%) QA
3 6 (2.88%) COBIT
4 4 (1.92%) GDPR
4 4 (1.92%) NIST
5 2 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.48%) NCSC
6 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (15.87%) Active Directory
2 27 (12.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (9.13%) vSphere
4 11 (5.29%) Docker
5 9 (4.33%) Firmware
6 6 (2.88%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.44%) BitLocker
7 3 (1.44%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.44%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.96%) Ceph
8 2 (0.96%) XenApp
9 1 (0.48%) GPFS
9 1 (0.48%) NFS
9 1 (0.48%) Samba
9 1 (0.48%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (6.25%) Terraform
2 12 (5.77%) Ansible
2 12 (5.77%) VxRail
3 11 (5.29%) NetBackup
4 8 (3.85%) vCenter Server
5 7 (3.37%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (2.88%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (2.88%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (2.88%) SCOM
6 6 (2.88%) vRealize
7 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.40%) SCCM
8 3 (1.44%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.44%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.96%) Grafana
9 2 (0.96%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (0.96%) Norton AntiVirus
10 1 (0.48%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.48%) Nessus
10 1 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 96 (46.15%) HP
2 74 (35.58%) Cisco
3 49 (23.56%) VMware
4 42 (20.19%) Apple
5 34 (16.35%) Microsoft
6 27 (12.98%) SAP
7 18 (8.65%) Isilon
8 14 (6.73%) NetApp
9 13 (6.25%) IBM
9 13 (6.25%) SolarWinds
10 12 (5.77%) Red Hat
10 12 (5.77%) Veeam
11 11 (5.29%) Veritas
12 10 (4.81%) EMC
13 9 (4.33%) Oracle
14 8 (3.85%) Citrix
14 8 (3.85%) F5
14 8 (3.85%) MuleSoft
15 7 (3.37%) AppDynamics
15 7 (3.37%) Salesforce