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 1 April 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
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 299 256
Rank change year-on-year -70 -43 +102
Contract jobs citing Dell 272 230 412
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.79% 0.93%
As % of the Vendors category 1.40% 1.68% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 119 285
10th Percentile £154 £150 £176
25th Percentile £200 £180 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -1.16% +7.50%
75th Percentile £552 £550 £608
90th Percentile £625 £615 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £400 £455
% change year-on-year +8.13% -12.09% +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 29 11
10th Percentile £16.09 £18.45 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.85 £24.18 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% +20.90% -3.40%
75th Percentile £23.15 £24.66 £43.50
90th Percentile £25.77 £35.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £22.89 £17.50
% change year-on-year -22.70% +30.77% -6.67%

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 19,377 13,685 18,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.37% 47.12% 42.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,439 8,647 11,818
10th Percentile £313 £293 £255
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £514
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.29% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £700 £710 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 966 482 1,045
10th Percentile £15.28 £15.46 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.07 £14.48
Median hourly rate £26.50 £28.75 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +23.84% -41.96%
75th Percentile £58.88 £62.50 £56.25
90th Percentile £78.25 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.13 £21.50
% change year-on-year -7.83% +26.16% -38.62%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -87 221 £450 +9.09% 68
UK excluding London -76 177 £433 +8.13% 55
London -57 61 £450 +12.50% 14
North of England -47 47 £350 -17.65% 10
Work from Home -41 33 £500 -6.37% 33
Midlands -61 32 £313 +92.31% 7
East of England -8 31 £613 +11.36% 11
Yorkshire -35 28 £500 +29.03% 4
West Midlands -55 24 £314 +109.50% 6
South West -34 22 £525 +57.89% 9
South East -83 21 £450 +123.62% 19
Scotland +7 15 £500 +11.11% 1
North West -45 12 £175 -58.82% 6
East Midlands -23 10 £158 -10.00% 1
Wales -7 8 - - 1
North East -6 7 £175 -72.00%
Northern Ireland +3 3 £375 -

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 9 (3.31%) Confluence
2 8 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 25 (9.19%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.57%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.74%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.37%) assyst
4 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.37%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 42 (15.44%) Azure
2 41 (15.07%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (9.93%) AWS
4 14 (5.15%) Boomi
5 12 (4.41%) Datadog
5 12 (4.41%) OpenShift
6 7 (2.57%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.47%) Azure Stack
9 3 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.10%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.10%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (0.74%) Apigee
10 2 (0.74%) IaaS
11 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 56 (20.59%) SAN
2 29 (10.66%) VSAN
3 27 (9.93%) Wireless
4 19 (6.99%) DHCP
4 19 (6.99%) DNS
5 17 (6.25%) Firewall
6 15 (5.51%) LAN
6 15 (5.51%) WAN
7 14 (5.15%) iSCSI
8 13 (4.78%) VLAN
9 9 (3.31%) Fibre Channel
10 7 (2.57%) Network Security
11 5 (1.84%) FCoE
11 5 (1.84%) NAS
11 5 (1.84%) VPN
12 3 (1.10%) InfiniBand
12 3 (1.10%) Multicast
12 3 (1.10%) SNMP
12 3 (1.10%) VXLAN
13 2 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.84%) MongoDB
1 5 (1.84%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.74%) DataStage
3 2 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.37%) MySQL
4 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Jenkins
1 4 (1.47%) JIRA
2 3 (1.10%) Git
2 3 (1.10%) GitLab
2 3 (1.10%) Postman
3 1 (0.37%) Hudson
3 1 (0.37%) SoapUI
General
1 68 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.81%) Finance
3 42 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (9.56%) Public Sector
5 25 (9.19%) Legal
6 22 (8.09%) Banking
7 17 (6.25%) Telecoms
8 16 (5.88%) Manufacturing
9 15 (5.51%) Electronics
9 15 (5.51%) Marketing
10 14 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.47%) Retail
14 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.37%) Billing
15 1 (0.37%) French Language
Job Titles
1 51 (18.75%) Field Engineer
2 44 (16.18%) IT Support
3 43 (15.81%) IT Engineer
4 32 (11.76%) Field Service Engineer
5 29 (10.66%) Support Engineer
6 27 (9.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (8.09%) Desktop Support
8 19 (6.99%) Analyst
8 19 (6.99%) IT Support Engineer
9 17 (6.25%) Field Support Engineer
9 17 (6.25%) Hardware Engineer
10 16 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
10 16 (5.88%) Senior
11 15 (5.51%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
11 15 (5.51%) Computer Engineer
11 15 (5.51%) Field Hardware Engineer
11 15 (5.51%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
12 14 (5.15%) Printer Engineer
13 13 (4.78%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 11 (4.04%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.94%) Middleware
2 6 (2.21%) REST
3 5 (1.84%) SOAP
3 5 (1.84%) XML
4 4 (1.47%) Keycloak
5 3 (1.10%) JSON
5 3 (1.10%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (1.10%) Redfish
5 3 (1.10%) Web Services
6 1 (0.37%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.37%) IDoc
6 1 (0.37%) JDBC
6 1 (0.37%) JMS
6 1 (0.37%) Kafka
6 1 (0.37%) LDAP
6 1 (0.37%) SAP XI
6 1 (0.37%) XSD
6 1 (0.37%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 92 (33.82%) Data Centre
2 32 (11.76%) Driving Licence
3 31 (11.40%) Analytical Mindset
4 18 (6.62%) Enterprise Storage
5 16 (5.88%) Replication
6 15 (5.51%) Linux Command Line
6 15 (5.51%) Virtual Team
7 11 (4.04%) EMC VMAX
8 6 (2.21%) Clustering
9 4 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.47%) PKI
10 3 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.10%) EPoS
11 2 (0.74%) CUDA
11 2 (0.74%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.74%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 74 (27.21%) Windows
2 51 (18.75%) Linux
3 33 (12.13%) Mac OS
4 29 (10.66%) Android
4 29 (10.66%) Windows Server
5 24 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (6.62%) Windows 10
7 12 (4.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (2.94%) Unix
8 8 (2.94%) VMS
9 6 (2.21%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.47%) SUSE
11 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.74%) zOS
13 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.37%) CentOS
13 1 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (27.21%) Customer Service
2 67 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (18.01%) Break/Fix
4 37 (13.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 34 (12.50%) Migration
6 18 (6.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (6.62%) Service Management
7 17 (6.25%) Agile
7 17 (6.25%) High Availability
8 15 (5.51%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (5.51%) Digital Marketing
8 15 (5.51%) ITSM
8 15 (5.51%) Programme Management
9 14 (5.15%) Validation
10 13 (4.78%) DevOps
11 12 (4.41%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (4.41%) Time Management
12 11 (4.04%) Storage Management
13 10 (3.68%) Data Protection
13 10 (3.68%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.25%) Python
2 16 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.04%) Bash
3 11 (4.04%) Shell Script
4 7 (2.57%) SQL
5 2 (0.74%) C
5 2 (0.74%) Java
5 2 (0.74%) JCL
5 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.37%) ABAP
6 1 (0.37%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.37%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (0.37%) Groovy
6 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.37%) Korn
6 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 93 (34.19%) Security Cleared
2 69 (25.37%) SC Cleared
3 36 (13.24%) Cisco Certification
4 33 (12.13%) A+ Certification
4 33 (12.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 31 (11.40%) CCNA
5 31 (11.40%) MCSE
5 31 (11.40%) Network+ Certification
6 22 (8.09%) DV Cleared
7 12 (4.41%) Degree
8 5 (1.84%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.84%) CCNP
9 4 (1.47%) HP ASE
9 4 (1.47%) OCP
9 4 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.74%) VCAP
11 2 (0.74%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.19%) SLA
2 9 (3.31%) PMO
3 3 (1.10%) QA
4 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.74%) GDPR
5 1 (0.37%) GRC
5 1 (0.37%) NCSC
5 1 (0.37%) NIST
5 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (16.91%) vSphere
2 43 (15.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (8.46%) Active Directory
4 19 (6.99%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (4.41%) Firmware
6 11 (4.04%) Hyper-V
7 9 (3.31%) Docker
7 9 (3.31%) SRDF
7 9 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (2.21%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.47%) NFS
10 2 (0.74%) Ceph
10 2 (0.74%) Lustre
10 2 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.74%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.74%) vCloud
11 1 (0.37%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.37%) GPFS
11 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 30 (11.03%) VxRail
2 17 (6.25%) Ansible
3 14 (5.15%) vCenter Server
4 13 (4.78%) Terraform
4 13 (4.78%) vRealize
5 12 (4.41%) Kubernetes
5 12 (4.41%) ServiceCenter
6 8 (2.94%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.57%) Dell DRAC
7 7 (2.57%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (2.21%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (2.21%) EMC TimeFinder
8 6 (2.21%) SCCM
9 5 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.47%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.47%) Puppet
11 3 (1.10%) Grafana
11 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.10%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 101 (37.13%) HP
2 72 (26.47%) Cisco
3 58 (21.32%) VMware
4 43 (15.81%) Apple
5 34 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 28 (10.29%) SAP
7 27 (9.93%) IBM
8 26 (9.56%) Red Hat
9 16 (5.88%) Pure Storage
10 15 (5.51%) Canon
10 15 (5.51%) EMC
10 15 (5.51%) ServiceNow
11 14 (5.15%) SolarWinds
12 13 (4.78%) Brocade
12 13 (4.78%) Commvault
13 12 (4.41%) AppDynamics
14 10 (3.68%) NVIDIA
15 9 (3.31%) Veeam
16 8 (2.94%) Broadcom
17 6 (2.21%) Splunk