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 14 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
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 339 320
Rank change year-on-year -16 -19 +27
Contract jobs citing Dell 216 223 349
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.61% 0.75%
As % of the Vendors category 1.28% 1.35% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 131 235
10th Percentile £154 £182 £131
25th Percentile £170 £305 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.84% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £488 £565 £550
90th Percentile £546 £653 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £365 £477 £325
% change year-on-year -23.48% +46.77% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 25 6
10th Percentile £18.35 £11.75 £18.88
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.30 £19.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +6.29% -4.85%
75th Percentile - - £25.76
90th Percentile £26.83 £35.00 £30.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £19.50
% change year-on-year -21.96% +24.00% +8.33%

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 16,890 16,512 21,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.53% 45.00% 45.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,614 9,726 13,552
10th Percentile £283 £300 £259
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.62%
75th Percentile £611 £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 873 525 675
10th Percentile £15.12 £15.33 £14.57
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.16 £19.88
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -17.90% -30.64% +75.60%
75th Percentile £40.65 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.55 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £28.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -20.30% -36.00% +98.86%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -18 194 £375 -22.48% 88
UK excluding London -36 131 £365 -23.48% 76
London +32 70 £450 +12.50% 35
North of England -49 34 £200 -61.17% 11
Midlands -17 33 £188 -62.50% 10
South East -3 27 £425 -8.11% 26
Work from Home -7 25 £447 -5.89% 48
South West -2 19 £625 +11.11% 9
North West -16 18 £313 +83.82% 6
West Midlands -33 17 £311 -37.75% 8
East Midlands +1 16 £158 -53.33% 2
Yorkshire -52 10 £408 -20.87% 5
East of England -16 7 £445 +61.82% 4
North East - 6 £175 -
Scotland -9 5 £500 +257.14% 7
Northern Ireland -15 5 £350 +89.19% 10
Wales - 1 £275 - 1

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 (6.02%) Confluence
2 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.17%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.46%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.46%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 53 (24.54%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.46%) SAP ECC
2 1 (0.46%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 68 (31.48%) Microsoft 365
2 47 (21.76%) Azure
3 38 (17.59%) AWS
4 13 (6.02%) Boomi
5 9 (4.17%) Datadog
6 7 (3.24%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.24%) GCP
7 6 (2.78%) OCI
8 5 (2.31%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.31%) SaaS
9 4 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.93%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.93%) PaaS
10 2 (0.93%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 2 (0.93%) Slack
11 1 (0.46%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.46%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.46%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.46%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 49 (22.69%) Wireless
2 34 (15.74%) SAN
3 26 (12.04%) DNS
3 26 (12.04%) Firewall
4 23 (10.65%) VLAN
5 18 (8.33%) DHCP
6 15 (6.94%) VSAN
7 12 (5.56%) BGP
8 11 (5.09%) OSPF
9 9 (4.17%) 3GPP
9 9 (4.17%) 4G
9 9 (4.17%) 5G
9 9 (4.17%) IPsec
9 9 (4.17%) MPLS
9 9 (4.17%) Radio Access Network
9 9 (4.17%) Wireshark
10 8 (3.70%) TCP/IP
11 5 (2.31%) iSCSI
11 5 (2.31%) NAS
12 3 (1.39%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.85%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.39%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.93%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (3.70%) JIRA
2 2 (0.93%) Git
3 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.46%) GitLab
3 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.46%) Postman
General
1 40 (18.52%) Finance
2 37 (17.13%) Social Skills
3 36 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 34 (15.74%) Banking
5 27 (12.50%) Telecoms
6 24 (11.11%) Manufacturing
6 24 (11.11%) Marketing
7 23 (10.65%) Electronics
8 22 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (4.17%) Retail
11 7 (3.24%) Legal
12 4 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.85%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.93%) Local Government
14 1 (0.46%) Billing
14 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (13.43%) Desktop Support
1 29 (13.43%) IT Support
2 28 (12.96%) Analyst
3 25 (11.57%) 2nd Line Support
4 23 (10.65%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 23 (10.65%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 19 (8.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (8.33%) IT Engineer
7 14 (6.48%) Administrator
8 11 (5.09%) Architect
8 11 (5.09%) Consultant
8 11 (5.09%) Senior
8 11 (5.09%) Server Engineer
9 10 (4.63%) Support Engineer
10 9 (4.17%) Storage Engineer
11 8 (3.70%) Field Engineer
11 8 (3.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 7 (3.24%) Break Fix Engineer
13 6 (2.78%) Backup Administrator
13 6 (2.78%) HP Storage Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.70%) Middleware
1 8 (3.70%) REST
2 5 (2.31%) SOAP
3 2 (0.93%) JSON
4 1 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.46%) LDAP
4 1 (0.46%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (27.78%) Data Centre
2 23 (10.65%) Driving Licence
3 13 (6.02%) Enterprise Storage
4 12 (5.56%) Replication
5 9 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (4.17%) Operational Technology
6 8 (3.70%) PKI
7 7 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.85%) HP Storage
8 4 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.85%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.39%) Clustering
9 3 (1.39%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.93%) Chip and PIN
10 2 (0.93%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.93%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 59 (27.31%) Windows
2 50 (23.15%) Mac OS
3 49 (22.69%) Android
4 37 (17.13%) Linux
5 23 (10.65%) Windows Server
6 18 (8.33%) Windows 10
7 15 (6.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (2.78%) Unix
9 4 (1.85%) Windows 7
10 3 (1.39%) Windows 8
10 3 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.93%) CentOS
11 2 (0.93%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.46%) AIX
12 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.46%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.46%) VMS
12 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.46%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (15.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 26 (12.04%) Break/Fix
5 23 (10.65%) Business Intelligence
5 23 (10.65%) Digital Marketing
5 23 (10.65%) Programme Management
6 22 (10.19%) Agile
7 17 (7.87%) ITIL
8 14 (6.48%) Asset Management
8 14 (6.48%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (6.02%) Migration
9 13 (6.02%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (6.02%) Ticket Management
10 12 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (4.63%) Capacity Planning
12 9 (4.17%) Decision-Making
12 9 (4.17%) Runbook
13 8 (3.70%) Change Management
13 8 (3.70%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.17%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.24%) Shell Script
3 5 (2.31%) Bash
4 4 (1.85%) Python
5 3 (1.39%) SQL
6 1 (0.46%) JCL
6 1 (0.46%) Perl
6 1 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 96 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 82 (37.96%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.57%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.70%) Degree
6 7 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.31%) A+ Certification
9 4 (1.85%) MCSE
10 3 (1.39%) CCNA
10 3 (1.39%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.93%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.46%) CISSP
12 1 (0.46%) Dell Certification
12 1 (0.46%) MBA
12 1 (0.46%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.72%) SLA
2 7 (3.24%) QA
3 6 (2.78%) COBIT
4 4 (1.85%) GDPR
4 4 (1.85%) NIST
5 2 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.46%) NCSC
6 1 (0.46%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (14.81%) Active Directory
1 32 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (10.19%) vSphere
3 14 (6.48%) Docker
4 10 (4.63%) Firmware
5 6 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.31%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.39%) BitLocker
7 3 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.39%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.93%) Ceph
9 1 (0.46%) GPFS
9 1 (0.46%) NFS
9 1 (0.46%) Samba
9 1 (0.46%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (7.41%) Terraform
2 15 (6.94%) VxRail
3 11 (5.09%) Ansible
3 11 (5.09%) NetBackup
4 9 (4.17%) Dell DRAC
4 9 (4.17%) EMC NetWorker
4 9 (4.17%) vCenter Server
4 9 (4.17%) vRealize
5 7 (3.24%) SCCM
6 6 (2.78%) EMC VPLEX
6 6 (2.78%) Kubernetes
6 6 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (2.78%) SCOM
7 4 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (1.39%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.46%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.46%) Puppet
9 1 (0.46%) ServiceCenter
9 1 (0.46%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 98 (45.37%) HP
2 84 (38.89%) Cisco
3 52 (24.07%) Apple
4 51 (23.61%) VMware
5 32 (14.81%) Microsoft
6 29 (13.43%) SAP
7 19 (8.80%) Isilon
8 15 (6.94%) IBM
8 15 (6.94%) Red Hat
9 14 (6.48%) NetApp
9 14 (6.48%) SolarWinds
10 13 (6.02%) Veeam
11 12 (5.56%) EMC
12 11 (5.09%) Veritas
13 9 (4.17%) AppDynamics
13 9 (4.17%) Commvault
13 9 (4.17%) Oracle
14 8 (3.70%) F5
14 8 (3.70%) MuleSoft
15 7 (3.24%) Brocade