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 21 August 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
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 337 280
Rank change year-on-year -132 -57 +51
Contract jobs citing Dell 199 228 320
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.70% 0.82%
As % of the Vendors category 0.89% 1.47% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 111 215
10th Percentile £126 £145 £220
25th Percentile £331 £213 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £591
90th Percentile £638 £613 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% +81.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 48 27
10th Percentile £16.03 £17.30 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £12.75
Median hourly rate £19.33 £19.94 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -16.24% +9.17%
75th Percentile £19.85 £25.15 £26.47
90th Percentile £23.48 - £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £18.87 £15.60
% change year-on-year +0.68% +21.00% -20.03%

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 22,372 15,511 17,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.77% 47.32% 43.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,838 9,480 10,542
10th Percentile £313 £275 £290
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
75th Percentile £610 £612 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,143 812 808
10th Percentile £14.51 £14.69 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £27.86
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -9.73% -31.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.00 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.24 £26.56
% change year-on-year +41.24% -20.04% -24.11%

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 21 August 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
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 21 August 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 -150 155 £500 +8.11% 41
UK excluding London -110 136 £475 +18.75% 34
South East -60 39 £475 +15.15% 12
London -103 38 £525 - 10
Work from Home -58 36 £500 +5.60% 19
North of England -70 36 £520 +16.22% 7
Yorkshire -23 29 £523 +11.17% 1
South West -57 21 £123 -28.36% 4
Scotland -15 17 £289 -50.41% 3
Midlands -61 10 £375 +150.00% 5
West Midlands -54 9 £250 +66.67% 4
Wales -12 7 - -
East of England -16 7 £650 +18.18% 4
North West -52 6 £200 -54.15% 6
East Midlands -27 1 £500 +273.13% 1
North East -39 1 £200 -48.39%

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 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.51%) Confluence
3 2 (1.01%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) IIS
4 1 (0.50%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (5.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.02%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.01%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.50%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 40 (20.10%) Azure
2 25 (12.56%) Boomi
3 17 (8.54%) AWS
4 10 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (5.03%) OpenShift
5 8 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (3.02%) AtomSphere
8 5 (2.51%) GitHub
8 5 (2.51%) IaaS
8 5 (2.51%) Smartsheet
9 4 (2.01%) Azure Stack
9 4 (2.01%) iPaaS
10 3 (1.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (1.51%) GCP
10 3 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.51%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.51%) Rubrik
10 3 (1.51%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (1.01%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 65 (32.66%) SAN
2 14 (7.04%) Firewall
3 11 (5.53%) iSCSI
4 10 (5.03%) DHCP
4 10 (5.03%) DNS
4 10 (5.03%) Fibre Channel
4 10 (5.03%) NAS
4 10 (5.03%) VSAN
5 9 (4.52%) Network Security
5 9 (4.52%) VPN
6 8 (4.02%) VLAN
7 6 (3.02%) BGP
7 6 (3.02%) Ethernet VPN
7 6 (3.02%) VXLAN
7 6 (3.02%) WAN
8 5 (2.51%) LAN
9 3 (1.51%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (1.51%) SNMP
9 3 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.01%) Connectrix
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.01%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.01%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (4.52%) Git
1 9 (4.52%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.52%) JIRA
3 5 (2.51%) Postman
4 3 (1.51%) GitLab
5 1 (0.50%) Hudson
5 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 47 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 44 (22.11%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.06%) Finance
4 10 (5.03%) Banking
5 7 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.51%) Legal
7 4 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.51%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.01%) Law
10 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.50%) Billing
10 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (22.11%) Field Engineer
1 44 (22.11%) IT Engineer
2 41 (20.60%) Field Service Engineer
3 26 (13.07%) Storage Engineer
4 22 (11.06%) Architect
5 19 (9.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (9.05%) IT Support
7 16 (8.04%) Consultant
7 16 (8.04%) Support Engineer
8 15 (7.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 13 (6.53%) IT Support Engineer
10 12 (6.03%) Field Support Engineer
11 11 (5.53%) Senior
12 9 (4.52%) Analyst
12 9 (4.52%) Integration Architect
12 9 (4.52%) Network Engineer
13 8 (4.02%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
14 6 (3.02%) Integration Consultant
14 6 (3.02%) Storage Architect
15 5 (2.51%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.54%) REST
2 15 (7.54%) Middleware
3 12 (6.03%) JSON
4 11 (5.53%) Terraform
5 9 (4.52%) OAuth
5 9 (4.52%) OAuth2
6 8 (4.02%) BAPI
6 8 (4.02%) SOAP
7 6 (3.02%) OpenAPI
7 6 (3.02%) SAP ALE
7 6 (3.02%) Swagger
8 4 (2.01%) IDoc
8 4 (2.01%) Redfish
8 4 (2.01%) XML
9 3 (1.51%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (1.01%) Restlet
10 2 (1.01%) YAML
11 1 (0.50%) 802.1X
11 1 (0.50%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.50%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 75 (37.69%) Data Centre
2 39 (19.60%) Analytical Mindset
3 25 (12.56%) Enterprise Storage
4 22 (11.06%) Replication
5 15 (7.54%) PKI
6 14 (7.04%) Driving Licence
7 11 (5.53%) EMC VMAX
8 7 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.51%) Clustering
10 4 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.01%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.01%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.51%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.51%) EMC VNX
11 3 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.01%) BYOD
12 2 (1.01%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.01%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 57 (28.64%) Windows
2 34 (17.09%) Linux
3 29 (14.57%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.04%) VMS
5 8 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (2.51%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.51%) zOS
7 4 (2.01%) SUSE
8 3 (1.51%) AIX
8 3 (1.51%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (1.51%) Solaris
8 3 (1.51%) Unix
9 2 (1.01%) Android
9 2 (1.01%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.01%) HPUX
9 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.50%) Debian
10 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (28.64%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (25.13%) Break/Fix
3 46 (23.12%) Customer Service
4 25 (12.56%) Migration
5 24 (12.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 23 (11.56%) DevOps
6 23 (11.56%) ITSM
7 20 (10.05%) Disaster Recovery
8 19 (9.55%) Agile
8 19 (9.55%) CI/CD
9 17 (8.54%) Change Management
10 16 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (8.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (7.04%) Data Protection
11 14 (7.04%) High Availability
12 13 (6.53%) Observability
12 13 (6.53%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (6.03%) Validation
14 11 (5.53%) Asset Management
14 11 (5.53%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.05%) Python
2 19 (9.55%) PowerShell
3 9 (4.52%) Bash
4 5 (2.51%) JCL
5 4 (2.01%) Shell Script
5 4 (2.01%) SQL
6 3 (1.51%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.01%) REXX
7 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.50%) ABAP
8 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.50%) Bicep
8 1 (0.50%) Groovy
8 1 (0.50%) Java
8 1 (0.50%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 53 (26.63%) Security Cleared
2 47 (23.62%) Cisco Certification
3 44 (22.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 40 (20.10%) CCNA
4 40 (20.10%) MCSE
5 39 (19.60%) A+ Certification
5 39 (19.60%) Network+ Certification
6 24 (12.06%) DV Cleared
6 24 (12.06%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (4.02%) Degree
8 7 (3.52%) Azure Certification
9 6 (3.02%) CCNP
10 3 (1.51%) CISSP
10 3 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.51%) MCSA
10 3 (1.51%) NCDA
10 3 (1.51%) NCIE
10 3 (1.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.02%) PMO
2 5 (2.51%) SLA
3 4 (2.01%) QA
4 2 (1.01%) NCSC
4 2 (1.01%) SEPA
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.50%) GDPR
5 1 (0.50%) GRC
5 1 (0.50%) NIST
5 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 50 (25.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (10.05%) vSphere
3 15 (7.54%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (7.54%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (6.53%) Active Directory
4 13 (6.53%) Firmware
5 11 (5.53%) Hyper-V
6 10 (5.03%) NFS
7 8 (4.02%) SRDF
8 5 (2.51%) Docker
8 5 (2.51%) Time Sharing Option
8 5 (2.51%) VMware NSX
9 3 (1.51%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (1.01%) BitLocker
10 2 (1.01%) KVM
11 1 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.50%) QEMU
11 1 (0.50%) Samba
11 1 (0.50%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 29 (14.57%) vCenter Server
2 24 (12.06%) Ansible
3 14 (7.04%) Kubernetes
4 13 (6.53%) Avamar
4 13 (6.53%) SCOM
5 11 (5.53%) Dell DRAC
6 8 (4.02%) VxRail
7 7 (3.52%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.02%) NetBackup
8 6 (3.02%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 5 (2.51%) vMotion
10 4 (2.01%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.01%) Puppet
11 3 (1.51%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (1.51%) Grafana
11 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.51%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.51%) SCCM
11 3 (1.51%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 66 (33.17%) VMware
2 36 (18.09%) Microsoft
3 35 (17.59%) Cisco
4 33 (16.58%) HP
5 15 (7.54%) NetApp
6 14 (7.04%) ServiceNow
6 14 (7.04%) Thales
7 13 (6.53%) Brocade
8 12 (6.03%) Broadcom
8 12 (6.03%) Pure Storage
8 12 (6.03%) SAP
9 11 (5.53%) EMC
9 11 (5.53%) MuleSoft
10 10 (5.03%) Veeam
11 9 (4.52%) IBM
11 9 (4.52%) Red Hat
12 5 (2.51%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.51%) Splunk
13 4 (2.01%) 3PAR
13 4 (2.01%) Isilon