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 8 January 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
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 350 294
Rank change year-on-year -15 -56 +51
Contract jobs citing Dell 233 185 325
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.57% 0.77%
As % of the Vendors category 1.36% 1.25% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 104 240
10th Percentile £153 £150 £142
25th Percentile £170 £196 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £400 £395
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +1.27% -7.06%
75th Percentile £500 £541 £550
90th Percentile £575 £600 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £400 £375
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 25 7
10th Percentile £16.17 £11.75 £17.60
25th Percentile £18.38 £18.51 £18.88
Median hourly rate £20.09 £24.18 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +20.90% -16.35%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £22.00
90th Percentile - £35.00 £22.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £19.00
% change year-on-year -21.96% +27.26% +5.56%

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 17,105 14,765 18,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.35% 45.75% 44.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,975 8,766 11,900
10th Percentile £300 £285 £253
25th Percentile £410 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 808 432 657
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.96 £19.44 £18.93
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.24 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% -38.79% +61.82%
75th Percentile £47.00 £60.19 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.48 £25.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -14.08% -45.51% +91.17%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 8 January 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 -21 205 £350 -13.85% 128
UK excluding London -46 150 £350 -12.50% 133
London +9 62 £438 +9.38% 16
North of England -47 40 £188 -62.80% 17
Midlands -20 37 £239 -52.25% 9
Work from Home -5 29 £450 -7.69% 94
West Midlands -31 23 £310 -48.33% 4
South West -7 22 £700 +39.30% 28
South East -38 21 £450 +150.00% 44
East of England -1 19 £445 -25.83% 24
North West -12 18 £175 -5.41% 5
East Midlands -13 16 £158 -10.00% 5
Yorkshire -57 16 £350 -32.04% 7
Scotland +1 6 £500 +257.14% 10
Northern Ireland -6 6 £375 - 4
North East - 6 £175 - 6
Wales -1 1 - - 6

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 17 (7.30%) Confluence
2 9 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.72%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.43%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 47 (20.17%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.43%) assyst
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.43%) SAP ECC
3 1 (0.43%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (28.33%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (16.74%) Azure
3 34 (14.59%) AWS
4 12 (5.15%) Boomi
4 12 (5.15%) Datadog
5 7 (3.00%) GCP
6 6 (2.58%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.58%) OCI
7 5 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.15%) SaaS
8 4 (1.72%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.72%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.86%) Apigee
9 2 (0.86%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.86%) PaaS
9 2 (0.86%) Slack
10 1 (0.43%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 47 (20.17%) Wireless
2 25 (10.73%) Firewall
3 23 (9.87%) SAN
4 22 (9.44%) VLAN
5 17 (7.30%) DNS
6 16 (6.87%) VSAN
7 12 (5.15%) DHCP
8 7 (3.00%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.15%) BGP
9 5 (2.15%) iSCSI
10 4 (1.72%) 3GPP
10 4 (1.72%) 4G
10 4 (1.72%) 5G
10 4 (1.72%) IPsec
10 4 (1.72%) MPLS
10 4 (1.72%) OSPF
10 4 (1.72%) Radio Access Network
10 4 (1.72%) Wireshark
11 3 (1.29%) SSH
11 3 (1.29%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.15%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.86%) DataStage
4 1 (0.43%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (4.29%) JIRA
2 2 (0.86%) Git
2 2 (0.86%) Postman
3 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.43%) GitLab
3 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
General
1 52 (22.32%) Social Skills
2 46 (19.74%) Finance
3 36 (15.45%) Public Sector
4 33 (14.16%) Banking
5 28 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (10.30%) Manufacturing
6 24 (10.30%) Marketing
6 24 (10.30%) Telecoms
7 23 (9.87%) Electronics
8 13 (5.58%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (4.72%) Legal
10 10 (4.29%) Retail
11 6 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.72%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.43%) Billing
14 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 36 (15.45%) IT Support
2 34 (14.59%) Desktop Support
3 30 (12.88%) Analyst
4 23 (9.87%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 23 (9.87%) 2nd Line Support
4 23 (9.87%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 21 (9.01%) IT Engineer
6 19 (8.15%) Support Engineer
7 18 (7.73%) Field Engineer
8 17 (7.30%) Consultant
9 16 (6.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (6.44%) Administrator
11 14 (6.01%) Architect
12 12 (5.15%) Server Engineer
13 11 (4.72%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 11 (4.72%) Senior
14 9 (3.86%) Field Service Engineer
14 9 (3.86%) IT Support Engineer
14 9 (3.86%) Storage Engineer
14 9 (3.86%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.00%) Middleware
1 7 (3.00%) REST
2 3 (1.29%) SOAP
3 2 (0.86%) JSON
3 2 (0.86%) XML
4 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.43%) LDAP
4 1 (0.43%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 66 (28.33%) Data Centre
2 31 (13.30%) Driving Licence
3 12 (5.15%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (5.15%) Replication
4 7 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.00%) PKI
5 6 (2.58%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.15%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.72%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.29%) Clustering
8 3 (1.29%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.86%) Chip and PIN
9 2 (0.86%) CUDA
9 2 (0.86%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.86%) VxBlock/Vblock
10 1 (0.43%) Blackberry
10 1 (0.43%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 61 (26.18%) Windows
2 51 (21.89%) Mac OS
3 47 (20.17%) Android
4 45 (19.31%) Linux
5 23 (9.87%) Windows 10
6 21 (9.01%) Windows Server
7 18 (7.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (3.00%) Ubuntu
8 7 (3.00%) Unix
9 4 (1.72%) VMS
9 4 (1.72%) Windows 7
10 3 (1.29%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.43%) CentOS
11 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (15.45%) Customer Service
3 32 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 28 (12.02%) Break/Fix
5 24 (10.30%) Agile
6 23 (9.87%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (9.87%) Digital Marketing
6 23 (9.87%) Programme Management
7 20 (8.58%) Migration
8 19 (8.15%) Asset Management
9 17 (7.30%) Ticket Management
10 16 (6.87%) ITIL
11 14 (6.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (5.58%) ITSM
13 11 (4.72%) Capacity Planning
13 11 (4.72%) Knowledge Transfer
13 11 (4.72%) Problem Management
13 11 (4.72%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (4.72%) Time Management
14 10 (4.29%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.43%) Shell Script
2 6 (2.58%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.15%) Bash
3 5 (2.15%) SQL
4 3 (1.29%) Python
5 2 (0.86%) Java
5 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.43%) Perl
6 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 102 (43.78%) Security Cleared
2 86 (36.91%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.44%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (4.72%) A+ Certification
6 10 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (4.29%) Degree
7 8 (3.43%) MCSE
8 7 (3.00%) CCNA
8 7 (3.00%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (1.72%) OCP
9 4 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.86%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.86%) Dell Certification
10 2 (0.86%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.86%) VCAP
10 2 (0.86%) VCDX
11 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.87%) SLA
2 7 (3.00%) QA
3 6 (2.58%) COBIT
4 4 (1.72%) NIST
5 3 (1.29%) GDPR
6 2 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.43%) NCSC
7 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (13.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (12.88%) vSphere
3 27 (11.59%) Active Directory
4 13 (5.58%) Firmware
5 12 (5.15%) Docker
6 10 (4.29%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (2.15%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.15%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.29%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.86%) Ceph
10 2 (0.86%) Lustre
10 2 (0.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.43%) GPFS
11 1 (0.43%) NFS
11 1 (0.43%) SRDF
11 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 21 (9.01%) Terraform
1 21 (9.01%) VxRail
2 15 (6.44%) Ansible
3 14 (6.01%) vCenter Server
4 12 (5.15%) vRealize
5 11 (4.72%) EMC NetWorker
6 10 (4.29%) Dell DRAC
6 10 (4.29%) SCCM
7 8 (3.43%) Kubernetes
8 7 (3.00%) EMC VPLEX
9 6 (2.58%) SCOM
10 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.15%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (2.15%) ServiceCenter
11 4 (1.72%) Grafana
11 4 (1.72%) Prometheus
12 3 (1.29%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.86%) Control-M
13 2 (0.86%) Puppet
14 1 (0.43%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 111 (47.64%) HP
2 76 (32.62%) Cisco
3 54 (23.18%) Apple
4 49 (21.03%) VMware
5 33 (14.16%) Microsoft
5 33 (14.16%) SAP
6 19 (8.15%) Red Hat
7 17 (7.30%) SolarWinds
8 16 (6.87%) Veeam
9 15 (6.44%) IBM
10 14 (6.01%) EMC
11 13 (5.58%) Isilon
12 12 (5.15%) AppDynamics
12 12 (5.15%) Commvault
13 10 (4.29%) ServiceNow
14 9 (3.86%) NVIDIA
15 8 (3.43%) Brocade
15 8 (3.43%) NetApp
15 8 (3.43%) Oracle
16 7 (3.00%) Computacenter