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 29 January 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
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 356 283
Rank change year-on-year +7 -73 +73
Contract jobs citing Dell 260 181 342
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.57% 0.78%
As % of the Vendors category 1.48% 1.25% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 103 242
10th Percentile £154 £150 £150
25th Percentile £170 £181 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £388 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% -6.54%
75th Percentile £524 £538 £575
90th Percentile £574 £606 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £384 £403
% change year-on-year +0.98% -4.66% -5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 25 7
10th Percentile £16.17 £18.20 -
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.51 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.48 £24.18 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +20.90% -4.76%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £22.00
90th Percentile £25.77 £32.70 £22.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £17.50
% change year-on-year -21.96% +38.17% -6.67%

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 17,609 14,510 19,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.75% 46.09% 43.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,336 8,569 12,142
10th Percentile £300 £284 £250
25th Percentile £410 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 831 427 856
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £32.06
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% -14.22% +3.41%
75th Percentile £51.38 £62.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.00 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -14.16% -16.67% +18.76%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -15 223 £400 - 147
UK excluding London -24 164 £388 +0.98% 149
London +10 72 £442 +26.36% 21
North of England -48 43 £188 -60.69% 19
Midlands -35 38 £290 -27.50% 16
Work from Home +2 30 £450 -16.67% 110
South West -8 25 £550 +14.58% 19
East of England +10 24 £445 -25.83% 30
West Midlands -26 23 £310 -43.64% 10
South East -54 18 £465 +93.75% 51
Yorkshire -56 18 £350 -29.01% 9
East Midlands -13 17 £158 -10.00% 6
North West -15 17 £175 -44.00% 6
Scotland +4 10 £500 +257.14% 8
North East - 8 £175 - 5
Northern Ireland -2 6 £375 - 4
Wales -3 2 - - 8

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 16 (6.15%) Confluence
2 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.54%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 43 (16.54%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.77%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.77%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) assyst
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.38%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 61 (23.46%) Microsoft 365
2 45 (17.31%) Azure
3 36 (13.85%) AWS
4 13 (5.00%) Boomi
5 12 (4.62%) Datadog
6 8 (3.08%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.31%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.31%) GCP
7 6 (2.31%) OCI
8 5 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.54%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.54%) SaaS
10 2 (0.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (0.77%) Apigee
10 2 (0.77%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.77%) PaaS
10 2 (0.77%) Slack
10 2 (0.77%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 43 (16.54%) Wireless
2 31 (11.92%) SAN
3 26 (10.00%) Firewall
4 23 (8.85%) DNS
5 22 (8.46%) VLAN
6 19 (7.31%) DHCP
7 18 (6.92%) VSAN
8 8 (3.08%) LAN
8 8 (3.08%) TCP/IP
8 8 (3.08%) WAN
9 6 (2.31%) BGP
10 5 (1.92%) MPLS
10 5 (1.92%) NAS
10 5 (1.92%) OSPF
11 4 (1.54%) 3GPP
11 4 (1.54%) 5G
11 4 (1.54%) IPsec
11 4 (1.54%) iSCSI
11 4 (1.54%) Network Security
11 4 (1.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.92%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.15%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.77%) DataStage
3 2 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.38%) Redis
4 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.23%) JIRA
2 5 (1.92%) Git
3 4 (1.54%) GitLab
4 2 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.77%) Postman
5 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 58 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 50 (19.23%) Finance
3 38 (14.62%) Public Sector
4 31 (11.92%) Banking
5 28 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (9.23%) Manufacturing
6 24 (9.23%) Marketing
6 24 (9.23%) Telecoms
7 23 (8.85%) Electronics
8 20 (7.69%) Legal
9 16 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (4.62%) Retail
11 9 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.54%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.38%) Billing
15 1 (0.38%) French Language
15 1 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 38 (14.62%) IT Support
2 31 (11.92%) Desktop Support
3 27 (10.38%) Analyst
3 27 (10.38%) IT Engineer
4 26 (10.00%) Field Engineer
5 24 (9.23%) 2nd Line Support
6 23 (8.85%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 23 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (8.85%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
7 19 (7.31%) Support Engineer
8 15 (5.77%) Administrator
8 15 (5.77%) Consultant
8 15 (5.77%) Server Engineer
9 14 (5.38%) Architect
10 13 (5.00%) Field Service Engineer
10 13 (5.00%) Hardware Engineer
11 12 (4.62%) Senior
12 11 (4.23%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 10 (3.85%) Field Hardware Engineer
14 9 (3.46%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.46%) Middleware
2 7 (2.69%) REST
3 4 (1.54%) Keycloak
3 4 (1.54%) SOAP
3 4 (1.54%) XML
4 2 (0.77%) JSON
4 2 (0.77%) Web Services
5 1 (0.38%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.38%) Kafka
5 1 (0.38%) LDAP
5 1 (0.38%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.38%) XSD
5 1 (0.38%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 71 (27.31%) Data Centre
2 35 (13.46%) Driving Licence
3 12 (4.62%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (4.23%) Replication
5 10 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
5 10 (3.85%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.69%) PKI
7 4 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.54%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.15%) EPoS
8 3 (1.15%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.77%) Clustering
9 2 (0.77%) CUDA
9 2 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.77%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.77%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 75 (28.85%) Windows
2 48 (18.46%) Linux
3 47 (18.08%) Mac OS
4 43 (16.54%) Android
5 31 (11.92%) Windows Server
6 22 (8.46%) Windows 10
7 19 (7.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (3.08%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (2.69%) Ubuntu
9 7 (2.69%) Unix
10 4 (1.54%) VMS
10 4 (1.54%) Windows 7
11 3 (1.15%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.38%) CentOS
13 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (18.08%) Customer Service
1 47 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (14.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 33 (12.69%) Break/Fix
4 24 (9.23%) Agile
5 23 (8.85%) Business Intelligence
5 23 (8.85%) Digital Marketing
5 23 (8.85%) Programme Management
6 21 (8.08%) Migration
7 18 (6.92%) Asset Management
8 16 (6.15%) Ticket Management
9 15 (5.77%) ITIL
10 14 (5.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (5.38%) ITSM
11 13 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (4.62%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (4.62%) Service Management
13 11 (4.23%) Capacity Planning
13 11 (4.23%) Problem Management
14 10 (3.85%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (3.85%) PowerShell
2 9 (3.46%) Shell Script
3 7 (2.69%) Bash
4 5 (1.92%) Python
4 5 (1.92%) SQL
5 2 (0.77%) C
5 2 (0.77%) Java
5 2 (0.77%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.38%) Perl
6 1 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 108 (41.54%) Security Cleared
2 89 (34.23%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.46%) DV Cleared
4 17 (6.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (5.38%) A+ Certification
5 14 (5.38%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (4.23%) CCNA
6 11 (4.23%) MCSE
6 11 (4.23%) Network+ Certification
7 10 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (3.85%) Degree
8 4 (1.54%) OCP
8 4 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.77%) VCAP
10 2 (0.77%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.23%) SLA
2 6 (2.31%) COBIT
3 4 (1.54%) NIST
4 3 (1.15%) QA
5 2 (0.77%) GDPR
5 2 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.38%) NCSC
6 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 40 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
1 40 (15.38%) vSphere
2 32 (12.31%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.62%) Docker
3 12 (4.62%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (4.23%) Firmware
5 9 (3.46%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.69%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.15%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.77%) Ceph
9 2 (0.77%) Lustre
9 2 (0.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.77%) vCloud
10 1 (0.38%) GPFS
10 1 (0.38%) NFS
10 1 (0.38%) SRDF
10 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (10.00%) VxRail
2 21 (8.08%) Terraform
3 16 (6.15%) Ansible
4 15 (5.77%) vCenter Server
5 12 (4.62%) vRealize
6 11 (4.23%) EMC NetWorker
7 9 (3.46%) Dell DRAC
7 9 (3.46%) Kubernetes
7 9 (3.46%) SCCM
8 8 (3.08%) ServiceCenter
9 7 (2.69%) EMC VPLEX
9 7 (2.69%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (2.31%) Prometheus
10 6 (2.31%) SCOM
11 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (1.54%) Grafana
12 4 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (1.15%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.15%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.77%) Control-M
Vendors
1 116 (44.62%) HP
2 77 (29.62%) Cisco
3 61 (23.46%) VMware
4 54 (20.77%) Apple
5 39 (15.00%) Microsoft
6 34 (13.08%) SAP
7 22 (8.46%) Red Hat
8 21 (8.08%) IBM
9 18 (6.92%) SolarWinds
10 16 (6.15%) EMC
11 15 (5.77%) Veeam
12 13 (5.00%) Isilon
13 12 (4.62%) AppDynamics
13 12 (4.62%) Commvault
13 12 (4.62%) NetApp
14 10 (3.85%) ServiceNow
15 9 (3.46%) Canon
15 9 (3.46%) F5
15 9 (3.46%) NVIDIA
15 9 (3.46%) Oracle