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 7 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
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 337 314
Rank change year-on-year -38 -23 +29
Contract jobs citing Dell 216 225 358
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.61% 0.77%
As % of the Vendors category 1.30% 1.36% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 135 244
10th Percentile £154 £176 £131
25th Percentile £170 £306 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.32% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £488 £561 £550
90th Percentile £553 £646 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £477 £302
% change year-on-year -25.05% +57.95% -10.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 22 6
10th Percentile £18.28 £11.75 £18.88
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.49 £19.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +6.29% -4.85%
75th Percentile - £27.61 £25.76
90th Percentile - £35.00 £30.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £19.50
% change year-on-year -21.96% +24.00% +9.86%

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 16,625 16,492 21,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.56% 44.90% 45.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,418 9,726 13,628
10th Percentile £283 £300 £260
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
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 £717 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 849 510 673
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.59
25th Percentile £17.96 £17.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.00 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% -27.04% +75.44%
75th Percentile £39.50 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.72 £71.45 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £29.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -23.05% -32.16% +94.32%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -16 192 £395 -17.71% 195
UK excluding London -40 133 £358 -25.05% 170
London +8 67 £450 +12.50% 71
North of England -35 37 £200 -61.17% 22
Midlands -13 30 £204 -59.25% 22
South East +4 27 £425 -5.56% 81
Work from Home -1 26 £447 -5.89% 93
South West +4 20 £625 +11.11% 12
North West -21 18 £313 +83.82% 13
East Midlands -4 16 £158 -53.33% 3
West Midlands -36 14 £310 -38.00% 18
Yorkshire -40 13 £408 -20.87% 5
East of England -13 7 £445 +54.78% 10
Northern Ireland -13 6 £350 +89.19% 9
North East - 6 £175 - 4
Scotland +6 5 £500 +257.14% 15
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 51 (23.61%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.85%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.39%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.46%) SAP ECC
2 1 (0.46%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 66 (30.56%) Microsoft 365
2 46 (21.30%) Azure
3 36 (16.67%) AWS
4 14 (6.48%) Boomi
5 8 (3.70%) GCP
6 7 (3.24%) Datadog
6 7 (3.24%) Entra ID
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%) GitHub
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%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 44 (20.37%) Wireless
2 36 (16.67%) SAN
3 27 (12.50%) DNS
4 26 (12.04%) Firewall
5 23 (10.65%) VLAN
6 19 (8.80%) DHCP
7 13 (6.02%) VSAN
8 12 (5.56%) BGP
9 11 (5.09%) OSPF
10 9 (4.17%) 3GPP
10 9 (4.17%) 4G
10 9 (4.17%) 5G
10 9 (4.17%) IPsec
10 9 (4.17%) MPLS
10 9 (4.17%) Radio Access Network
10 9 (4.17%) TCP/IP
10 9 (4.17%) Wireshark
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 11 (5.09%) JIRA
2 3 (1.39%) Git
2 3 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.93%) Postman
4 1 (0.46%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.46%) GitLab
4 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.46%) WebStorm
General
1 41 (18.98%) Finance
2 38 (17.59%) Social Skills
3 34 (15.74%) Public Sector
4 30 (13.89%) Banking
5 27 (12.50%) Telecoms
6 24 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (11.11%) Manufacturing
6 24 (11.11%) Marketing
7 23 (10.65%) Electronics
8 11 (5.09%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (4.17%) Retail
10 7 (3.24%) Legal
11 4 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.85%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.93%) Local Government
13 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.46%) Automotive
14 1 (0.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 28 (12.96%) Desktop Support
2 27 (12.50%) Analyst
2 27 (12.50%) IT Support
3 25 (11.57%) 2nd Line Support
4 23 (10.65%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 23 (10.65%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 18 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (7.41%) IT Engineer
7 15 (6.94%) Administrator
8 12 (5.56%) Architect
8 12 (5.56%) Consultant
9 11 (5.09%) Senior
9 11 (5.09%) Server Engineer
10 10 (4.63%) Storage Engineer
11 9 (4.17%) Support Engineer
12 7 (3.24%) Implementation Specialist
12 7 (3.24%) Systems Administrator
13 6 (2.78%) Backup Administrator
13 6 (2.78%) Break Fix Engineer
13 6 (2.78%) HP Storage Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.17%) Middleware
2 7 (3.24%) REST
3 6 (2.78%) SOAP
4 3 (1.39%) JSON
5 2 (0.93%) XML
6 1 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.46%) Flash
6 1 (0.46%) LDAP
6 1 (0.46%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.46%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 57 (26.39%) Data Centre
2 24 (11.11%) Driving Licence
3 13 (6.02%) Enterprise Storage
4 11 (5.09%) Replication
5 9 (4.17%) Operational Technology
6 8 (3.70%) PKI
7 7 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.24%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.31%) HP Storage
9 4 (1.85%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.85%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.39%) Clustering
10 3 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.39%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.93%) Chip and PIN
11 2 (0.93%) EMC VMAX
11 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.93%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 58 (26.85%) Windows
2 45 (20.83%) Mac OS
3 44 (20.37%) Android
4 37 (17.13%) Linux
5 23 (10.65%) Windows Server
6 16 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (6.48%) Windows 10
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%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.46%) VMS
12 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.46%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (12.04%) Customer Service
4 24 (11.11%) Break/Fix
5 23 (10.65%) Business Intelligence
5 23 (10.65%) Digital Marketing
5 23 (10.65%) Programme Management
6 21 (9.72%) Agile
7 20 (9.26%) ITIL
8 17 (7.87%) Asset Management
9 16 (7.41%) Ticket Management
10 15 (6.94%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (6.02%) Migration
11 13 (6.02%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (4.63%) Capacity Planning
13 9 (4.17%) Change Management
13 9 (4.17%) Runbook
14 8 (3.70%) Decision-Making
14 8 (3.70%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.63%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.24%) Shell Script
3 5 (2.31%) Bash
3 5 (2.31%) Python
4 4 (1.85%) SQL
5 1 (0.46%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.46%) JCL
5 1 (0.46%) Perl
5 1 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 90 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 78 (36.11%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.19%) 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%) Dell Certification
12 1 (0.46%) ITIL 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 33 (15.28%) Active Directory
2 30 (13.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (9.26%) vSphere
4 14 (6.48%) Docker
5 10 (4.63%) Firmware
6 7 (3.24%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (2.78%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.39%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.39%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.93%) Ceph
10 1 (0.46%) GPFS
10 1 (0.46%) NFS
10 1 (0.46%) Samba
10 1 (0.46%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (7.41%) Terraform
2 13 (6.02%) VxRail
3 12 (5.56%) Ansible
4 11 (5.09%) NetBackup
5 10 (4.63%) vCenter Server
6 9 (4.17%) Dell DRAC
6 9 (4.17%) EMC NetWorker
7 7 (3.24%) EMC VPLEX
7 7 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (3.24%) SCOM
7 7 (3.24%) vRealize
8 6 (2.78%) Kubernetes
9 5 (2.31%) SCCM
10 4 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (1.39%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.93%) Grafana
13 1 (0.46%) Avamar
13 1 (0.46%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 98 (45.37%) HP
2 79 (36.57%) Cisco
3 51 (23.61%) VMware
4 47 (21.76%) Apple
5 35 (16.20%) Microsoft
6 29 (13.43%) SAP
7 19 (8.80%) Isilon
8 16 (7.41%) Red Hat
9 14 (6.48%) IBM
9 14 (6.48%) NetApp
10 13 (6.02%) Veeam
11 12 (5.56%) SolarWinds
12 11 (5.09%) EMC
12 11 (5.09%) Veritas
13 9 (4.17%) Oracle
14 8 (3.70%) AppDynamics
14 8 (3.70%) Brocade
14 8 (3.70%) F5
14 8 (3.70%) MuleSoft
15 7 (3.24%) Salesforce