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 2 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
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 306 264
Rank change year-on-year -116 -42 +85
Contract jobs citing Dell 236 246 381
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.79% 0.88%
As % of the Vendors category 1.12% 1.68% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 125 240
10th Percentile £126 £150 £209
25th Percentile £313 £190 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -7.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £574 £560 £612
90th Percentile £635 £628 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £430 £500
% change year-on-year +10.47% -14.00% +66.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 42 23
10th Percentile £16.09 £17.30 £12.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -20.71% +14.95%
75th Percentile £20.09 £25.00 £26.47
90th Percentile £25.77 £25.15 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.81 £18.87 £17.50
% change year-on-year -10.92% +7.83% -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 21,090 14,680 18,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.98% 47.41% 42.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,140 9,003 11,556
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,092 694 1,154
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.30 £14.84
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% +2.65% -39.64%
75th Percentile £62.81 £53.69 £59.95
90th Percentile £80.09 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.63 £24.00
% change year-on-year +43.61% -5.71% -25.70%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -134 178 £475 +2.15% 63
UK excluding London -118 159 £475 +10.47% 41
London -85 43 £500 - 23
South East -61 36 £386 -22.75% 20
North of England -70 35 £520 +17.73% 7
Work from Home -59 34 £500 -2.91% 34
Yorkshire -30 25 £520 +10.64% 2
Scotland -5 23 £450 -12.15%
South West -41 22 £345 +122.58% 7
East of England -12 19 £613 +11.36% 2
Midlands -59 16 £450 +200.00% 3
West Midlands -66 12 £450 +200.00% 3
Wales -9 9 - -
North West -62 6 £438 +1.74% 5
East Midlands -20 4 £450 -
North East -29 4 £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 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.85%) Confluence
3 2 (0.85%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.42%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (3.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.12%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.42%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 40 (16.95%) Azure
2 20 (8.47%) Boomi
3 14 (5.93%) AWS
4 12 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (5.08%) OpenShift
5 6 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (1.69%) Azure Stack
6 4 (1.69%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.69%) GitHub
6 4 (1.69%) OneDrive
6 4 (1.69%) Smartsheet
6 4 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (1.27%) IaaS
7 3 (1.27%) iPaaS
8 2 (0.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (0.85%) Azure Storage
8 2 (0.85%) GCP
8 2 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 78 (33.05%) SAN
2 18 (7.63%) DHCP
2 18 (7.63%) DNS
3 17 (7.20%) VSAN
3 17 (7.20%) WAN
4 16 (6.78%) LAN
5 14 (5.93%) iSCSI
6 13 (5.51%) Firewall
7 10 (4.24%) Fibre Channel
7 10 (4.24%) NAS
8 9 (3.81%) Network Security
9 8 (3.39%) VLAN
10 7 (2.97%) VPN
11 5 (2.12%) FCoE
12 4 (1.69%) BGP
12 4 (1.69%) Ethernet VPN
12 4 (1.69%) TCP/IP
12 4 (1.69%) VXLAN
13 3 (1.27%) SNMP
13 3 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.39%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.42%) MySQL
4 1 (0.42%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (3.81%) Git
2 8 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.97%) JIRA
4 6 (2.54%) GitLab
5 5 (2.12%) Postman
6 1 (0.42%) Hudson
6 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 61 (25.85%) Social Skills
2 54 (22.88%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (10.17%) Finance
4 20 (8.47%) Legal
5 11 (4.66%) Banking
6 9 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.54%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.27%) Retail
10 2 (0.85%) Law
11 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.42%) Billing
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) French Language
11 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (24.58%) Field Engineer
2 49 (20.76%) IT Engineer
3 48 (20.34%) Field Service Engineer
4 26 (11.02%) IT Support
5 24 (10.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (8.90%) Support Engineer
7 18 (7.63%) Storage Engineer
8 16 (6.78%) Architect
8 16 (6.78%) Field Support Engineer
8 16 (6.78%) IT Support Engineer
9 14 (5.93%) Senior
10 11 (4.66%) Hardware Engineer
11 10 (4.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 10 (4.24%) Computer Engineer
11 10 (4.24%) Consultant
11 10 (4.24%) Field Hardware Engineer
11 10 (4.24%) Printer Engineer
12 9 (3.81%) Data Centre Engineer
13 8 (3.39%) Server Engineer
14 7 (2.97%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.51%) Middleware
1 13 (5.51%) REST
2 12 (5.08%) JSON
3 8 (3.39%) SOAP
4 7 (2.97%) XML
5 6 (2.54%) BAPI
6 5 (2.12%) Keycloak
6 5 (2.12%) OAuth
6 5 (2.12%) OAuth2
7 4 (1.69%) IDoc
7 4 (1.69%) OpenAPI
7 4 (1.69%) Redfish
7 4 (1.69%) SAP ALE
7 4 (1.69%) Swagger
8 3 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.27%) Web Services
9 2 (0.85%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.85%) SAP XI
9 2 (0.85%) YAML
10 1 (0.42%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 87 (36.86%) Data Centre
2 48 (20.34%) Analytical Mindset
3 25 (10.59%) Enterprise Storage
4 18 (7.63%) Driving Licence
5 17 (7.20%) Replication
6 15 (6.36%) EMC VMAX
7 11 (4.66%) PKI
7 11 (4.66%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.12%) Clustering
10 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.69%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.27%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.27%) EMC VNX
11 3 (1.27%) EPoS
11 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.85%) Device Driver
12 2 (0.85%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 72 (30.51%) Windows
2 35 (14.83%) Windows Server
3 28 (11.86%) Linux
4 15 (6.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (4.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.97%) Windows 10
7 6 (2.54%) VMS
8 5 (2.12%) zOS
9 4 (1.69%) SUSE
10 3 (1.27%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (1.27%) Unix
10 3 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.85%) Android
11 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.42%) AIX
12 1 (0.42%) Debian
12 1 (0.42%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (32.20%) Customer Service
2 75 (31.78%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (26.69%) Break/Fix
4 32 (13.56%) Migration
5 30 (12.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 23 (9.75%) DevOps
7 20 (8.47%) ITSM
8 19 (8.05%) CI/CD
9 18 (7.63%) High Availability
10 15 (6.36%) Agile
10 15 (6.36%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (6.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (5.93%) Service Management
12 13 (5.51%) Data Protection
12 13 (5.51%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (5.08%) Change Management
13 12 (5.08%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (5.08%) Storage Management
13 12 (5.08%) Validation
14 10 (4.24%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.59%) Python
2 24 (10.17%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.66%) Bash
4 5 (2.12%) JCL
4 5 (2.12%) SQL
5 3 (1.27%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.85%) ABAP
6 2 (0.85%) C
6 2 (0.85%) Groovy
6 2 (0.85%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.85%) REXX
7 1 (0.42%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.42%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.42%) Java
7 1 (0.42%) Korn
7 1 (0.42%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 54 (22.88%) Cisco Certification
1 54 (22.88%) Security Cleared
2 49 (20.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 47 (19.92%) A+ Certification
3 47 (19.92%) CCNA
3 47 (19.92%) MCSE
3 47 (19.92%) Network+ Certification
4 26 (11.02%) SC Cleared
5 23 (9.75%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.81%) Degree
7 7 (2.97%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.97%) CCNP
8 4 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.69%) HP ASE
9 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.27%) NCDA
9 3 (1.27%) NCIE
9 3 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.05%) SLA
2 9 (3.81%) PMO
3 6 (2.54%) QA
4 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.42%) GDPR
5 1 (0.42%) GRC
5 1 (0.42%) NCSC
5 1 (0.42%) NIST
5 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 50 (21.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (12.29%) vSphere
3 20 (8.47%) Active Directory
4 15 (6.36%) Hyper-V
4 15 (6.36%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (5.08%) SRDF
6 10 (4.24%) Firmware
6 10 (4.24%) NFS
6 10 (4.24%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (2.97%) VMware NSX
8 5 (2.12%) Time Sharing Option
9 4 (1.69%) Docker
10 3 (1.27%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.85%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.85%) KVM
11 2 (0.85%) vCloud
12 1 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.42%) QEMU
12 1 (0.42%) Samba
12 1 (0.42%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 22 (9.32%) vCenter Server
2 21 (8.90%) Ansible
3 15 (6.36%) VxRail
4 14 (5.93%) Kubernetes
5 9 (3.81%) Avamar
5 9 (3.81%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.81%) SCOM
5 9 (3.81%) ServiceCenter
6 7 (2.97%) Dell DRAC
6 7 (2.97%) Terraform
7 6 (2.54%) EMC TimeFinder
7 6 (2.54%) NetBackup
7 6 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (1.69%) EMC VPLEX
8 4 (1.69%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.69%) Puppet
8 4 (1.69%) SCCM
9 3 (1.27%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 68 (28.81%) VMware
2 53 (22.46%) HP
3 43 (18.22%) Cisco
3 43 (18.22%) Microsoft
4 19 (8.05%) IBM
5 17 (7.20%) Brocade
6 16 (6.78%) EMC
6 16 (6.78%) Red Hat
7 15 (6.36%) Pure Storage
7 15 (6.36%) SAP
8 14 (5.93%) Thales
9 13 (5.51%) ServiceNow
10 12 (5.08%) MuleSoft
10 12 (5.08%) NetApp
11 11 (4.66%) Apple
11 11 (4.66%) Broadcom
12 10 (4.24%) Canon
13 8 (3.39%) Veeam
14 6 (2.54%) 3PAR
14 6 (2.54%) Oracle