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 15 April 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
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 294 252
Rank change year-on-year -73 -42 +111
Contract jobs citing Dell 275 239 410
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.82% 0.94%
As % of the Vendors category 1.40% 1.72% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 124 286
10th Percentile £150 £150 £190
25th Percentile £302 £180 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +16.13%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £608
90th Percentile £633 £625 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £320 £474
% change year-on-year +40.63% -32.42% +57.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 32 13
10th Percentile £16.09 £18.14 £13.85
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.85 £21.01 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% -4.50% +6.25%
75th Percentile £23.71 £24.30 £71.25
90th Percentile £25.77 £28.79 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £21.01 £17.50
% change year-on-year -15.80% +20.06% -15.48%

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 19,604 13,856 18,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.75% 47.30% 42.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,559 8,734 11,576
10th Percentile £313 £293 £262
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £517
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.87% -1.52%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £627
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.56% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 979 530 1,062
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £14.36
Median hourly rate £28.88 £28.21 £22.21
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% +26.98% -47.74%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £55.97
90th Percentile £78.75 £77.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £24.83 £21.37
% change year-on-year +2.22% +16.19% -45.97%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -99 221 £450 +12.50% 53
UK excluding London -72 182 £450 +40.63% 42
London -49 59 £463 +1.37% 15
North of England -49 46 £383 -10.00% 7
Work from Home -21 34 £500 -7.06% 21
East of England -9 31 £613 +11.36% 6
Midlands -54 31 £364 +142.83% 5
Yorkshire -33 30 £500 +11.11% 3
South West -33 24 £525 +191.67% 8
West Midlands -58 24 £314 +109.50% 2
South East -82 23 £419 +107.30% 17
Scotland +3 16 £500 +11.11% 1
North West -45 11 £188 -55.88% 4
Wales -5 10 - -
East Midlands -22 9 £450 +157.14% 3
North East -17 5 £175 -72.00%
Northern Ireland 0 3 £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 9 (3.27%) Confluence
2 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 15 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.73%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.36%) assyst
4 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 44 (16.00%) Azure
2 29 (10.55%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (10.18%) AWS
4 15 (5.45%) Boomi
5 13 (4.73%) Datadog
5 13 (4.73%) OpenShift
6 7 (2.55%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.45%) Azure Stack
8 4 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (1.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.09%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.09%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (0.73%) Apigee
10 2 (0.73%) IaaS
10 2 (0.73%) iPaaS
11 1 (0.36%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 64 (23.27%) SAN
2 30 (10.91%) VSAN
3 19 (6.91%) DHCP
3 19 (6.91%) DNS
3 19 (6.91%) Firewall
3 19 (6.91%) Wireless
4 16 (5.82%) LAN
4 16 (5.82%) WAN
5 14 (5.09%) iSCSI
6 13 (4.73%) VLAN
7 9 (3.27%) Fibre Channel
8 8 (2.91%) Network Security
9 6 (2.18%) NAS
10 5 (1.82%) FCoE
10 5 (1.82%) VPN
10 5 (1.82%) VXLAN
11 4 (1.45%) BGP
11 4 (1.45%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (1.09%) SNMP
12 3 (1.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.82%) MongoDB
2 4 (1.45%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.73%) DataStage
4 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.36%) MySQL
5 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.45%) JIRA
3 3 (1.09%) Git
3 3 (1.09%) GitLab
3 3 (1.09%) Postman
4 1 (0.36%) Hudson
4 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
General
1 68 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (12.36%) Finance
4 25 (9.09%) Legal
5 20 (7.27%) Banking
6 18 (6.55%) Public Sector
7 14 (5.09%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.27%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.91%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.55%) Electronics
11 7 (2.55%) Marketing
12 6 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.45%) Retail
14 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.36%) Billing
15 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.36%) French Language
Job Titles
1 58 (21.09%) Field Engineer
2 49 (17.82%) IT Engineer
3 39 (14.18%) Field Service Engineer
4 37 (13.45%) IT Support
5 30 (10.91%) Support Engineer
6 26 (9.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (7.27%) IT Support Engineer
8 19 (6.91%) Analyst
8 19 (6.91%) Field Support Engineer
9 17 (6.18%) Hardware Engineer
10 15 (5.45%) Computer Engineer
10 15 (5.45%) Field Hardware Engineer
10 15 (5.45%) Senior
11 14 (5.09%) Desktop Support
11 14 (5.09%) Printer Engineer
12 13 (4.73%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 12 (4.36%) Architect
13 12 (4.36%) Consultant
14 11 (4.00%) Administrator
15 10 (3.64%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.27%) Middleware
2 8 (2.91%) REST
3 7 (2.55%) SOAP
3 7 (2.55%) XML
4 5 (1.82%) JSON
5 4 (1.45%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.09%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (1.09%) Redfish
6 3 (1.09%) Web Services
7 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.36%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.36%) IDoc
7 1 (0.36%) JDBC
7 1 (0.36%) JMS
7 1 (0.36%) Kafka
7 1 (0.36%) LDAP
7 1 (0.36%) SAP XI
7 1 (0.36%) XSD
7 1 (0.36%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 94 (34.18%) Data Centre
2 38 (13.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 32 (11.64%) Driving Licence
4 19 (6.91%) Enterprise Storage
5 17 (6.18%) Replication
6 15 (5.45%) Linux Command Line
6 15 (5.45%) Virtual Team
7 12 (4.36%) EMC VMAX
8 6 (2.18%) Clustering
9 4 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.09%) EPoS
10 3 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) PKI
11 2 (0.73%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.73%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.73%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.73%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 72 (26.18%) Windows
2 53 (19.27%) Linux
3 27 (9.82%) Windows Server
4 24 (8.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (8.36%) Mac OS
6 19 (6.91%) Android
7 17 (6.18%) Windows 10
8 12 (4.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (2.91%) Unix
9 8 (2.91%) VMS
10 6 (2.18%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.45%) SUSE
12 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (1.09%) zOS
13 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.36%) CentOS
13 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (29.09%) Customer Service
2 75 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (20.36%) Break/Fix
4 36 (13.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 36 (13.09%) Migration
5 19 (6.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (6.55%) Agile
6 18 (6.55%) Service Management
7 17 (6.18%) High Availability
8 15 (5.45%) ITSM
8 15 (5.45%) Validation
9 14 (5.09%) DevOps
10 13 (4.73%) Storage Management
10 13 (4.73%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (4.36%) Time Management
12 11 (4.00%) Data Protection
12 11 (4.00%) Disaster Recovery
13 10 (3.64%) Capacity Planning
13 10 (3.64%) CI/CD
13 10 (3.64%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (6.91%) Python
2 18 (6.55%) PowerShell
3 12 (4.36%) Bash
4 11 (4.00%) Shell Script
5 7 (2.55%) SQL
6 3 (1.09%) JCL
7 2 (0.73%) C
7 2 (0.73%) Java
7 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.36%) ABAP
8 1 (0.36%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.36%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.36%) Groovy
8 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.36%) Korn
8 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 87 (31.64%) Security Cleared
2 62 (22.55%) SC Cleared
3 45 (16.36%) Cisco Certification
4 40 (14.55%) A+ Certification
5 39 (14.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 38 (13.82%) CCNA
6 38 (13.82%) MCSE
6 38 (13.82%) Network+ Certification
7 22 (8.00%) DV Cleared
8 13 (4.73%) Degree
9 7 (2.55%) CCNP
10 6 (2.18%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.45%) HP ASE
12 4 (1.45%) OCP
12 4 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.73%) VCAP
13 2 (0.73%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.09%) SLA
2 9 (3.27%) PMO
3 4 (1.45%) QA
4 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.73%) GDPR
5 1 (0.36%) GRC
5 1 (0.36%) NCSC
5 1 (0.36%) NIST
5 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (16.73%) vSphere
2 44 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (7.64%) Active Directory
4 20 (7.27%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (4.73%) Firmware
6 12 (4.36%) Hyper-V
7 10 (3.64%) SRDF
7 10 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (3.27%) Docker
9 8 (2.91%) VMware NSX
10 6 (2.18%) NFS
11 3 (1.09%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.73%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.73%) Ceph
12 2 (0.73%) Lustre
12 2 (0.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.73%) vCloud
13 1 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.36%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.36%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 30 (10.91%) VxRail
2 19 (6.91%) Ansible
3 15 (5.45%) vCenter Server
4 14 (5.09%) Terraform
5 13 (4.73%) Kubernetes
5 13 (4.73%) vRealize
6 12 (4.36%) ServiceCenter
7 9 (3.27%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.55%) Dell DRAC
8 7 (2.55%) EMC NetWorker
8 7 (2.55%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (2.55%) SCCM
9 6 (2.18%) EMC TimeFinder
10 5 (1.82%) EMC VPLEX
10 5 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.45%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.45%) Grafana
11 4 (1.45%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.45%) Puppet
12 3 (1.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 92 (33.45%) HP
2 68 (24.73%) Cisco
3 59 (21.45%) VMware
4 33 (12.00%) Apple
5 32 (11.64%) Microsoft
6 28 (10.18%) IBM
7 27 (9.82%) Red Hat
8 21 (7.64%) SAP
9 17 (6.18%) Pure Storage
10 16 (5.82%) EMC
11 15 (5.45%) Brocade
11 15 (5.45%) Canon
11 15 (5.45%) ServiceNow
11 15 (5.45%) SolarWinds
12 13 (4.73%) Commvault
13 12 (4.36%) AppDynamics
14 10 (3.64%) NVIDIA
14 10 (3.64%) Veeam
15 9 (3.27%) Broadcom
16 7 (2.55%) Isilon