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 28 May 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
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 285 256
Rank change year-on-year -91 -29 +101
Contract jobs citing Dell 266 251 385
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.88% 0.90%
As % of the Vendors category 1.33% 1.84% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 125 255
10th Percentile £126 £150 £216
25th Percentile £350 £180 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -2.17% +26.90%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £608
90th Percentile £633 £630 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +26.67% -25.00% +81.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 40 19
10th Percentile £16.09 £17.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £14.88
Median hourly rate £19.10 £18.69 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +3.09% -12.44%
75th Percentile £20.09 £21.01 £44.40
90th Percentile £25.77 £24.66 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £18.51 £15.00
% change year-on-year -4.43% +23.40% -27.55%

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 20,001 13,678 18,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.95% 47.74% 42.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,624 8,506 11,301
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +0.10% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 573 1,107
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.55 £17.30 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.46% +12.44% -47.06%
75th Percentile £58.75 £56.00 £57.41
90th Percentile £76.62 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.75 £22.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +32.22% +4.85% -45.74%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -115 205 £500 +11.11% 48
UK excluding London -80 180 £475 +26.67% 31
London -72 48 £500 +5.26% 17
North of England -57 41 £519 +16.63% 7
Work from Home -44 40 £500 -7.24% 26
South East -66 38 £419 +10.20% 11
East of England -13 27 £613 +11.36% 3
Yorkshire -42 26 £520 +9.47% 4
South West -35 25 £515 +232.26% 3
Scotland -1 22 £450 -12.15% 1
Midlands -70 18 £450 +200.00% 4
West Midlands -71 13 £575 +283.33% 4
North West -39 12 £269 -36.76% 3
Wales -11 10 - -
East Midlands -22 7 £450 -
North East -28 3 - -
Northern Ireland +1 1 £375 +7.14% 2

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 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.13%) Confluence
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.75%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (3.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.88%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.75%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.38%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 40 (15.04%) Azure
2 18 (6.77%) Boomi
3 14 (5.26%) AWS
3 14 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (4.51%) OpenShift
5 6 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (1.50%) Azure Stack
6 4 (1.50%) Datadog
6 4 (1.50%) GitHub
6 4 (1.50%) Smartsheet
6 4 (1.50%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (1.13%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (1.13%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.13%) IaaS
7 3 (1.13%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (0.75%) Azure Storage
8 2 (0.75%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (30.83%) SAN
2 21 (7.89%) VSAN
3 18 (6.77%) DHCP
3 18 (6.77%) DNS
3 18 (6.77%) Firewall
4 16 (6.02%) LAN
4 16 (6.02%) WAN
5 14 (5.26%) iSCSI
5 14 (5.26%) VLAN
6 10 (3.76%) Fibre Channel
7 9 (3.38%) NAS
8 8 (3.01%) Network Security
9 6 (2.26%) VPN
10 5 (1.88%) FCoE
10 5 (1.88%) VXLAN
11 4 (1.50%) BGP
11 4 (1.50%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (1.50%) TCP/IP
12 3 (1.13%) SNMP
12 3 (1.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.01%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.38%) MySQL
4 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (3.01%) Git
1 8 (3.01%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.63%) JIRA
3 6 (2.26%) Postman
4 5 (1.88%) GitLab
5 1 (0.38%) Hudson
5 1 (0.38%) SoapUI
General
1 71 (26.69%) Social Skills
2 57 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (10.15%) Finance
4 25 (9.40%) Legal
5 14 (5.26%) Banking
5 14 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (3.01%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.13%) Retail
9 2 (0.75%) Law
9 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.38%) Billing
10 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.38%) French Language
10 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (25.56%) Field Engineer
2 57 (21.43%) IT Engineer
3 52 (19.55%) Field Service Engineer
4 31 (11.65%) IT Support
5 26 (9.77%) Support Engineer
6 25 (9.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (6.77%) Field Support Engineer
7 18 (6.77%) IT Support Engineer
8 17 (6.39%) Hardware Engineer
9 16 (6.02%) Architect
9 16 (6.02%) Storage Engineer
10 15 (5.64%) Computer Engineer
10 15 (5.64%) Field Hardware Engineer
10 15 (5.64%) Senior
11 14 (5.26%) Printer Engineer
12 13 (4.89%) Consultant
13 9 (3.38%) Data Centre Engineer
13 9 (3.38%) Technical Support
14 8 (3.01%) Analyst
14 8 (3.01%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.89%) Middleware
2 11 (4.14%) REST
3 10 (3.76%) JSON
4 7 (2.63%) SOAP
4 7 (2.63%) XML
5 5 (1.88%) BAPI
6 4 (1.50%) IDoc
6 4 (1.50%) Keycloak
6 4 (1.50%) OAuth
6 4 (1.50%) OAuth2
6 4 (1.50%) OpenAPI
6 4 (1.50%) Redfish
6 4 (1.50%) SAP ALE
6 4 (1.50%) Swagger
7 3 (1.13%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.13%) Web Services
8 2 (0.75%) SAP XI
8 2 (0.75%) YAML
9 1 (0.38%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 99 (37.22%) Data Centre
2 51 (19.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 29 (10.90%) Driving Licence
4 25 (9.40%) Enterprise Storage
5 18 (6.77%) Replication
6 16 (6.02%) Virtual Team
7 15 (5.64%) EMC VMAX
8 9 (3.38%) PKI
9 6 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.88%) Clustering
10 5 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.50%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.13%) Cloud Native
12 3 (1.13%) EMC VNX
12 3 (1.13%) EPoS
12 3 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
13 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.75%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 75 (28.20%) Windows
2 40 (15.04%) Linux
3 31 (11.65%) Windows Server
4 16 (6.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (5.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (4.14%) Windows 10
7 7 (2.63%) Ubuntu
8 6 (2.26%) Mac OS
8 6 (2.26%) VMS
9 5 (1.88%) zOS
10 4 (1.50%) Android
10 4 (1.50%) SUSE
10 4 (1.50%) Unix
11 3 (1.13%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.38%) AIX
13 1 (0.38%) Debian
13 1 (0.38%) Solaris
13 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (33.46%) Customer Service
2 84 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (24.44%) Break/Fix
4 33 (12.41%) Migration
5 32 (12.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 22 (8.27%) DevOps
7 21 (7.89%) ITSM
8 20 (7.52%) Service Management
9 18 (6.77%) High Availability
10 17 (6.39%) CI/CD
11 16 (6.02%) Agile
12 15 (5.64%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (5.64%) Observability
12 15 (5.64%) Storage Management
12 15 (5.64%) Validation
13 14 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery
14 13 (4.89%) Data Protection
14 13 (4.89%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (4.89%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (4.51%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.65%) Python
2 22 (8.27%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.14%) Bash
4 5 (1.88%) JCL
4 5 (1.88%) SQL
5 4 (1.50%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.75%) ABAP
6 2 (0.75%) C
6 2 (0.75%) REXX
7 1 (0.38%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.38%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.38%) Groovy
7 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.38%) Korn
7 1 (0.38%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 72 (27.07%) Security Cleared
2 58 (21.80%) Cisco Certification
3 53 (19.92%) A+ Certification
3 53 (19.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 51 (19.17%) CCNA
4 51 (19.17%) MCSE
4 51 (19.17%) Network+ Certification
5 44 (16.54%) SC Cleared
6 23 (8.65%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.14%) Degree
8 7 (2.63%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.63%) CCNP
9 5 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (1.50%) HP ASE
11 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.13%) NCDA
11 3 (1.13%) NCIE
12 2 (0.75%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.75%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.65%) SLA
2 9 (3.38%) PMO
3 6 (2.26%) QA
4 2 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.38%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) GRC
5 1 (0.38%) NCSC
5 1 (0.38%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 48 (18.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (13.91%) vSphere
3 21 (7.89%) VMware ESXi
4 20 (7.52%) Active Directory
5 13 (4.89%) Firmware
5 13 (4.89%) Hyper-V
5 13 (4.89%) SRDF
6 10 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (3.38%) NFS
8 8 (3.01%) VMware NSX
9 7 (2.63%) Docker
10 5 (1.88%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (1.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.75%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.75%) Ceph
12 2 (0.75%) KVM
12 2 (0.75%) Lustre
12 2 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.75%) vCloud
13 1 (0.38%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 24 (9.02%) vCenter Server
2 20 (7.52%) Ansible
2 20 (7.52%) VxRail
3 15 (5.64%) Kubernetes
4 12 (4.51%) ServiceCenter
5 11 (4.14%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.01%) Dell DRAC
7 7 (2.63%) Avamar
7 7 (2.63%) SCOM
7 7 (2.63%) Terraform
8 6 (2.26%) EMC TimeFinder
8 6 (2.26%) Grafana
8 6 (2.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 5 (1.88%) EMC VPLEX
9 5 (1.88%) NetBackup
9 5 (1.88%) SCCM
9 5 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.50%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.13%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 68 (25.56%) HP
2 66 (24.81%) VMware
3 47 (17.67%) Cisco
4 42 (15.79%) Microsoft
5 23 (8.65%) Red Hat
6 21 (7.89%) IBM
7 18 (6.77%) Brocade
8 17 (6.39%) Apple
8 17 (6.39%) EMC
9 16 (6.02%) SAP
9 16 (6.02%) ServiceNow
10 15 (5.64%) Canon
10 15 (5.64%) Pure Storage
11 12 (4.51%) Veeam
12 11 (4.14%) Broadcom
12 11 (4.14%) Thales
13 10 (3.76%) MuleSoft
13 10 (3.76%) NetApp
13 10 (3.76%) NVIDIA
14 6 (2.26%) Oracle