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 16 July 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
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 298 263
Rank change year-on-year -138 -35 +67
Contract jobs citing Dell 222 252 378
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.78% 0.89%
As % of the Vendors category 1.02% 1.63% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 128 236
10th Percentile £126 £150 £211
25th Percentile £325 £219 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -7.00% +35.14%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £608
90th Percentile £638 £627 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +15.15% -17.50% +81.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 45 25
10th Percentile £16.09 £17.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £15.22
Median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -20.71% +14.95%
75th Percentile £20.09 £25.15 £28.75
90th Percentile £22.93 - £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.69 £18.87 £16.85
% change year-on-year -11.58% +12.02% -18.64%

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 21,724 15,443 18,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.28% 47.53% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,519 9,438 11,491
10th Percentile £313 £281 £272
25th Percentile £413 £403 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £714 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.38% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,096 758 1,110
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.31 £17.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% +0.60% -38.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.74 £60.75
90th Percentile £84.38 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.50 £24.47
% change year-on-year +51.07% -8.03% -18.45%

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 16 July 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 16 July 2026.

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 16 July 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 -136 170 £475 +2.15% 36
UK excluding London -116 152 £475 +15.15% 30
London -86 39 £525 +1.84% 10
North of England -75 38 £519 +17.62% 4
South East -69 37 £418 -14.36% 14
Work from Home -74 33 £500 -5.66% 19
Yorkshire -36 27 £520 +10.64% 3
Scotland -13 20 £475 +5.56% 1
South West -37 19 £123 -20.97% 5
Midlands -70 16 £450 +200.00% 1
East of England -18 15 £613 +11.36% 3
West Midlands -64 12 £450 +200.00% 1
Wales -5 8 - -
North West -61 8 £275 -36.05% 1
East Midlands -13 4 £450 -
North East -38 3 £200 -68.00%

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 5 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.90%) Confluence
3 2 (0.90%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.45%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.70%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.45%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.45%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 37 (16.67%) Azure
2 24 (10.81%) Boomi
3 15 (6.76%) AWS
4 12 (5.41%) OpenShift
5 11 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (2.25%) Smartsheet
9 4 (1.80%) AtomSphere
9 4 (1.80%) Azure Stack
9 4 (1.80%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.80%) GitHub
9 4 (1.80%) IaaS
9 4 (1.80%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.80%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (1.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (1.35%) iPaaS
11 2 (0.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (0.90%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.90%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 74 (33.33%) SAN
2 17 (7.66%) VSAN
3 14 (6.31%) iSCSI
4 13 (5.86%) DHCP
4 13 (5.86%) DNS
4 13 (5.86%) Firewall
5 12 (5.41%) WAN
6 11 (4.95%) LAN
7 10 (4.50%) Fibre Channel
7 10 (4.50%) NAS
8 9 (4.05%) Network Security
9 8 (3.60%) VLAN
10 7 (3.15%) VPN
11 5 (2.25%) FCoE
12 4 (1.80%) BGP
12 4 (1.80%) Ethernet VPN
12 4 (1.80%) TCP/IP
12 4 (1.80%) VXLAN
13 3 (1.35%) SNMP
13 3 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.60%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.45%) MySQL
4 1 (0.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (4.95%) Git
2 9 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.60%) JIRA
4 6 (2.70%) Postman
5 5 (2.25%) GitLab
6 1 (0.45%) Hudson
6 1 (0.45%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 57 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 51 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (10.36%) Finance
4 13 (5.86%) Legal
5 9 (4.05%) Banking
5 9 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.35%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.90%) Law
9 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.45%) Billing
9 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Retail
9 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (24.32%) Field Engineer
2 47 (21.17%) IT Engineer
3 46 (20.72%) Field Service Engineer
4 24 (10.81%) IT Support
5 23 (10.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (9.91%) Storage Engineer
7 21 (9.46%) Support Engineer
8 17 (7.66%) Architect
9 16 (7.21%) Field Support Engineer
9 16 (7.21%) IT Support Engineer
10 14 (6.31%) Senior
11 12 (5.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 12 (5.41%) Consultant
12 10 (4.50%) Hardware Engineer
13 8 (3.60%) Computer Engineer
13 8 (3.60%) Data Centre Engineer
13 8 (3.60%) Field Hardware Engineer
13 8 (3.60%) Printer Engineer
14 7 (3.15%) Analyst
14 7 (3.15%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.76%) REST
2 14 (6.31%) Middleware
3 13 (5.86%) JSON
4 9 (4.05%) SOAP
5 7 (3.15%) BAPI
5 7 (3.15%) OAuth
5 7 (3.15%) OAuth2
5 7 (3.15%) XML
6 5 (2.25%) IDoc
6 5 (2.25%) OpenAPI
6 5 (2.25%) SAP ALE
6 5 (2.25%) Swagger
7 4 (1.80%) Redfish
8 3 (1.35%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.35%) Web Services
9 2 (0.90%) JMS
9 2 (0.90%) Keycloak
9 2 (0.90%) SAP XI
9 2 (0.90%) YAML
10 1 (0.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (37.39%) Data Centre
2 46 (20.72%) Analytical Mindset
3 25 (11.26%) Enterprise Storage
4 19 (8.56%) Replication
5 15 (6.76%) Driving Licence
5 15 (6.76%) EMC VMAX
6 13 (5.86%) PKI
7 9 (4.05%) Virtual Team
8 7 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.25%) Clustering
10 4 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.80%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.35%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.35%) EMC VNX
11 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.90%) BYOD
12 2 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.90%) Device Driver
12 2 (0.90%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 63 (28.38%) Windows
2 30 (13.51%) Windows Server
3 26 (11.71%) Linux
4 11 (4.95%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (3.60%) VMS
7 6 (2.70%) Windows 10
8 5 (2.25%) zOS
9 4 (1.80%) SUSE
10 3 (1.35%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (1.35%) Unix
10 3 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.90%) Android
11 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.45%) AIX
12 1 (0.45%) Debian
12 1 (0.45%) Solaris
12 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (31.08%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (29.73%) Customer Service
3 60 (27.03%) Break/Fix
4 31 (13.96%) Migration
5 29 (13.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (10.81%) DevOps
7 21 (9.46%) CI/CD
8 20 (9.01%) ITSM
9 17 (7.66%) Agile
10 15 (6.76%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (6.31%) Change Management
11 14 (6.31%) Data Protection
11 14 (6.31%) High Availability
11 14 (6.31%) Performance Tuning
11 14 (6.31%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (5.41%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (5.41%) Storage Management
12 12 (5.41%) Validation
13 11 (4.95%) Observability
13 11 (4.95%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (11.26%) Python
2 19 (8.56%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.95%) Bash
4 6 (2.70%) SQL
5 5 (2.25%) JCL
6 2 (0.90%) ABAP
6 2 (0.90%) C
6 2 (0.90%) Groovy
6 2 (0.90%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.90%) REXX
6 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.45%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.45%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.45%) Java
7 1 (0.45%) Korn
7 1 (0.45%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 52 (23.42%) Cisco Certification
2 49 (22.07%) Security Cleared
3 48 (21.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 45 (20.27%) A+ Certification
4 45 (20.27%) CCNA
4 45 (20.27%) MCSE
4 45 (20.27%) Network+ Certification
5 24 (10.81%) SC Cleared
6 23 (10.36%) DV Cleared
7 9 (4.05%) Degree
8 7 (3.15%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.15%) CCNP
9 6 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.80%) HP ASE
11 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.35%) NCDA
11 3 (1.35%) NCIE
11 3 (1.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.31%) SLA
2 9 (4.05%) PMO
3 6 (2.70%) QA
4 2 (0.90%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.45%) GDPR
5 1 (0.45%) GRC
5 1 (0.45%) NCSC
5 1 (0.45%) NIST
5 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 50 (22.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (11.71%) vSphere
3 16 (7.21%) Active Directory
4 15 (6.76%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (5.41%) Hyper-V
5 12 (5.41%) SRDF
5 12 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (4.50%) Firmware
6 10 (4.50%) NFS
7 7 (3.15%) VMware NSX
8 5 (2.25%) Docker
8 5 (2.25%) Time Sharing Option
9 3 (1.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.90%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.90%) KVM
10 2 (0.90%) vCloud
11 1 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.45%) QEMU
11 1 (0.45%) Samba
11 1 (0.45%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 25 (11.26%) vCenter Server
2 21 (9.46%) Ansible
3 14 (6.31%) Kubernetes
4 12 (5.41%) VxRail
5 11 (4.95%) Avamar
5 11 (4.95%) SCOM
6 9 (4.05%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.60%) Dell DRAC
8 7 (3.15%) ServiceCenter
8 7 (3.15%) Terraform
9 6 (2.70%) EMC TimeFinder
9 6 (2.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (1.80%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (1.80%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.80%) NetBackup
10 4 (1.80%) Puppet
10 4 (1.80%) SCCM
11 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 65 (29.28%) VMware
2 43 (19.37%) HP
3 41 (18.47%) Cisco
4 40 (18.02%) Microsoft
5 17 (7.66%) Brocade
6 15 (6.76%) Pure Storage
6 15 (6.76%) SAP
7 14 (6.31%) EMC
7 14 (6.31%) IBM
7 14 (6.31%) Red Hat
8 13 (5.86%) MuleSoft
8 13 (5.86%) ServiceNow
8 13 (5.86%) Thales
9 11 (4.95%) Broadcom
10 10 (4.50%) NetApp
11 8 (3.60%) Apple
11 8 (3.60%) Canon
11 8 (3.60%) Veeam
12 7 (3.15%) Oracle
13 5 (2.25%) SolarWinds