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 5 December 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
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 352 298
Rank change year-on-year 0 -54 +42
Contract jobs citing Dell 232 217 340
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.60% 0.76%
As % of the Vendors category 1.34% 1.32% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 130 232
10th Percentile £154 £170 £131
25th Percentile £170 £263 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £455 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.49% +13.63% -
75th Percentile £488 £563 £555
90th Percentile £575 £637 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £370 £450 £325
% change year-on-year -17.78% +38.46% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 27 7
10th Percentile £18.10 £11.75 £18.95
25th Percentile £18.87 - £20.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +9.91% -7.99%
75th Percentile - £26.47 £25.26
90th Percentile £26.20 £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 17,296 16,403 20,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.39% 45.40% 45.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,002 9,717 12,982
10th Percentile £290 £299 £256
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.91%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 857 511 676
10th Percentile £15.29 £15.50 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £19.19 £19.94
Median hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% -34.83% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.50 £64.55
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% -39.04% +96.97%

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 5 December 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 5 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Dell in the UK

Dell
Top 16 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 5 December 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 -9 210 £375 -21.05% 184
UK excluding London -46 143 £370 -17.78% 178
London +31 75 £450 +12.50% 27
North of England -38 42 £350 -30.56% 31
Midlands -14 36 £239 -52.25% 38
Work from Home -8 26 £447 -5.89% 82
South East -25 22 £413 -8.33% 49
South West -7 20 £700 +24.44% 22
West Midlands -25 20 £310 -38.00% 24
North West -12 19 £313 +68.92% 14
Yorkshire -40 17 £408 -20.87% 16
East Midlands 0 16 £158 -10.00% 12
East of England -11 12 £445 +61.82% 24
Northern Ireland -11 6 £375 +102.70% 5
North East - 6 £175 - 2
Scotland +3 5 £500 +257.14% 9

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 (6.90%) Confluence
2 9 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.88%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.43%) HCL Notes
3 1 (0.43%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 54 (23.28%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.43%) SAP ECC
3 1 (0.43%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 71 (30.60%) Microsoft 365
2 48 (20.69%) Azure
3 40 (17.24%) AWS
4 13 (5.60%) Boomi
5 11 (4.74%) Datadog
6 7 (3.02%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.02%) GCP
7 6 (2.59%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.59%) OCI
8 5 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.16%) SaaS
9 4 (1.72%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.86%) Apigee
10 2 (0.86%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.86%) PaaS
10 2 (0.86%) Slack
11 1 (0.43%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 52 (22.41%) Wireless
2 34 (14.66%) SAN
3 26 (11.21%) Firewall
4 24 (10.34%) DNS
5 23 (9.91%) VLAN
6 18 (7.76%) DHCP
7 14 (6.03%) VSAN
8 10 (4.31%) BGP
9 9 (3.88%) 3GPP
9 9 (3.88%) 4G
9 9 (3.88%) 5G
9 9 (3.88%) IPsec
9 9 (3.88%) MPLS
9 9 (3.88%) OSPF
9 9 (3.88%) Radio Access Network
9 9 (3.88%) Wireshark
10 8 (3.45%) TCP/IP
11 5 (2.16%) iSCSI
11 5 (2.16%) NAS
12 3 (1.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.16%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.86%) Data Hub
3 2 (0.86%) DataStage
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (4.31%) JIRA
2 2 (0.86%) Git
3 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.43%) GitLab
3 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.43%) Postman
General
1 43 (18.53%) Finance
2 42 (18.10%) Social Skills
3 37 (15.95%) Banking
3 37 (15.95%) Public Sector
4 25 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.78%) Telecoms
5 24 (10.34%) Manufacturing
5 24 (10.34%) Marketing
6 23 (9.91%) Electronics
7 14 (6.03%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (4.31%) Retail
9 8 (3.45%) Legal
10 5 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.72%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.86%) Local Government
13 2 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.43%) Billing
14 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (13.36%) Analyst
1 31 (13.36%) IT Support
2 30 (12.93%) Desktop Support
3 25 (10.78%) 2nd Line Support
4 23 (9.91%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 23 (9.91%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 21 (9.05%) IT Engineer
6 18 (7.76%) Administrator
7 16 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (6.03%) Architect
9 13 (5.60%) Consultant
9 13 (5.60%) Senior
9 13 (5.60%) Support Engineer
10 12 (5.17%) Field Engineer
10 12 (5.17%) Server Engineer
11 10 (4.31%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 9 (3.88%) Storage Engineer
13 8 (3.45%) Break Fix Engineer
13 8 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
13 8 (3.45%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.02%) REST
2 6 (2.59%) Middleware
3 3 (1.29%) SOAP
4 2 (0.86%) JSON
5 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.43%) LDAP
5 1 (0.43%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (28.88%) Data Centre
2 26 (11.21%) Driving Licence
3 14 (6.03%) Enterprise Storage
4 13 (5.60%) Replication
5 11 (4.74%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (3.88%) Operational Technology
7 8 (3.45%) PKI
8 7 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.72%) Clustering
10 4 (1.72%) HP Storage
10 4 (1.72%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.86%) Chip and PIN
11 2 (0.86%) EMC VMAX
11 2 (0.86%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.86%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.86%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.86%) Smartphone
11 2 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (25.43%) Windows
2 53 (22.84%) Mac OS
3 52 (22.41%) Android
4 43 (18.53%) Linux
5 21 (9.05%) Windows Server
6 19 (8.19%) Windows 10
7 18 (7.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (3.45%) Unix
9 4 (1.72%) VMS
9 4 (1.72%) Windows 7
10 3 (1.29%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.43%) CentOS
12 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (12.93%) Customer Service
2 30 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (12.50%) Break/Fix
4 25 (10.78%) Agile
5 23 (9.91%) Business Intelligence
5 23 (9.91%) Digital Marketing
5 23 (9.91%) Programme Management
6 17 (7.33%) ITIL
6 17 (7.33%) Migration
7 13 (5.60%) Asset Management
7 13 (5.60%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (5.60%) Ticket Management
8 12 (5.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (4.74%) ITSM
9 11 (4.74%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (4.31%) Capacity Planning
10 10 (4.31%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (3.88%) Decision-Making
11 9 (3.88%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (4.74%) Shell Script
2 7 (3.02%) PowerShell
3 6 (2.59%) Bash
4 5 (2.16%) Python
4 5 (2.16%) SQL
5 2 (0.86%) Java
5 2 (0.86%) Perl
5 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.43%) JCL
6 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 102 (43.97%) Security Cleared
2 88 (37.93%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.21%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (4.31%) Degree
6 9 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.59%) A+ Certification
9 5 (2.16%) MCSE
10 4 (1.72%) CCNA
10 4 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (1.72%) OCP
10 4 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.86%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.43%) CISSP
13 1 (0.43%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.91%) SLA
2 7 (3.02%) QA
3 6 (2.59%) COBIT
4 4 (1.72%) GDPR
4 4 (1.72%) NIST
5 2 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (14.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (12.93%) Active Directory
3 23 (9.91%) vSphere
4 16 (6.90%) Docker
5 12 (5.17%) Firmware
6 5 (2.16%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.29%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.29%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.86%) GPFS
10 1 (0.43%) Ceph
10 1 (0.43%) Lustre
10 1 (0.43%) NFS
10 1 (0.43%) Samba
10 1 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 21 (9.05%) Terraform
2 16 (6.90%) Ansible
2 16 (6.90%) VxRail
3 11 (4.74%) EMC NetWorker
3 11 (4.74%) NetBackup
3 11 (4.74%) vRealize
4 10 (4.31%) Dell DRAC
5 9 (3.88%) SCCM
5 9 (3.88%) vCenter Server
6 8 (3.45%) Kubernetes
7 7 (3.02%) EMC VPLEX
8 6 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (2.59%) SCOM
9 5 (2.16%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (1.29%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.86%) BladeLogic
11 2 (0.86%) Control-M
11 2 (0.86%) Grafana
11 2 (0.86%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 107 (46.12%) HP
2 88 (37.93%) Cisco
3 55 (23.71%) Apple
4 51 (21.98%) VMware
5 33 (14.22%) Microsoft
6 31 (13.36%) SAP
7 21 (9.05%) Isilon
8 18 (7.76%) IBM
9 17 (7.33%) Red Hat
10 16 (6.90%) SolarWinds
11 14 (6.03%) NetApp
12 13 (5.60%) EMC
12 13 (5.60%) Veeam
13 11 (4.74%) AppDynamics
13 11 (4.74%) Commvault
13 11 (4.74%) Veritas
14 10 (4.31%) Oracle
15 8 (3.45%) Brocade
15 8 (3.45%) F5
15 8 (3.45%) ServiceNow