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 25 September 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
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 368 315
Rank change year-on-year -137 -53 +10
Contract jobs citing Dell 184 204 265
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.62% 0.69%
As % of the Vendors category 0.80% 1.30% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 110 166
10th Percentile £128 £136 £191
25th Percentile £222 £200 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £484
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -12.14% +17.27%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £565
90th Percentile £638 £578 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £375 £497
% change year-on-year +26.67% -24.47% +53.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 52 30
10th Percentile £16.46 £17.30 £11.75
25th Percentile - £18.51 £13.93
Median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -21.34% +2.09%
75th Percentile - £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile £25.39 - £68.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £24.18
% change year-on-year +2.44% -21.96% +24.00%

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 22,864 15,696 17,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.67% 47.57% 44.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,944 9,651 10,126
10th Percentile £310 £275 £287
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £615 £613 £625
90th Percentile £703 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,300 810 649
10th Percentile £13.98 £14.75 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.79 £15.63
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -22.62% -25.97%
75th Percentile £59.19 £42.50 £64.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.54 £21.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +19.91% -29.00% -29.41%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -146 148 £500 +17.65% 138
UK excluding London -107 124 £475 +26.67% 74
London -115 40 £525 +5.85% 75
Work from Home -44 37 £425 -4.92% 41
South East -65 37 £475 +18.75% 29
North of England -52 36 £525 +20.34% 13
Yorkshire -22 26 £525 +10.53% 2
South West -40 18 £175 -38.70% 3
Scotland -21 17 £145 -54.72% 14
Midlands -60 9 £375 +150.00% 3
West Midlands -42 8 £250 +33.33% 1
East of England -33 5 £511 +14.89% 11
North East -41 5 £553 +268.50% 2
North West -62 5 £200 -53.49% 9
Wales -11 3 - - 1
East Midlands -23 1 £500 +294.63% 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 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) IIS
3 1 (0.54%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (7.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (5.43%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.09%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.54%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 39 (21.20%) Azure
2 29 (15.76%) Boomi
3 18 (9.78%) AWS
4 12 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (4.89%) Smartsheet
7 6 (3.26%) AtomSphere
7 6 (3.26%) OpenShift
8 5 (2.72%) GitHub
9 3 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.63%) IaaS
9 3 (1.63%) iPaaS
9 3 (1.63%) Nutanix
9 3 (1.63%) Rubrik
10 2 (1.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.09%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.09%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.09%) GCP
10 2 (1.09%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 55 (29.89%) SAN
2 14 (7.61%) Firewall
3 12 (6.52%) NAS
4 10 (5.43%) Fibre Channel
4 10 (5.43%) Network Security
5 7 (3.80%) BGP
5 7 (3.80%) VLAN
5 7 (3.80%) VPN
6 6 (3.26%) DHCP
6 6 (3.26%) DNS
6 6 (3.26%) TCP/IP
6 6 (3.26%) WAN
7 5 (2.72%) Ethernet VPN
7 5 (2.72%) iSCSI
7 5 (2.72%) LAN
7 5 (2.72%) VXLAN
8 4 (2.17%) OSPF
8 4 (2.17%) VSAN
9 3 (1.63%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (7.07%) Git
1 13 (7.07%) JIRA
2 9 (4.89%) Postman
3 6 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.63%) GitLab
5 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 54 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (11.96%) Finance
4 13 (7.07%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (5.98%) Banking
6 5 (2.72%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.72%) Retail
7 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.09%) Law
9 1 (0.54%) Billing
9 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.54%) Local Government
9 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (16.85%) IT Engineer
2 29 (15.76%) Storage Engineer
3 28 (15.22%) Field Engineer
3 28 (15.22%) Field Service Engineer
4 26 (14.13%) Architect
5 18 (9.78%) Consultant
6 17 (9.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (8.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 13 (7.07%) Integration Architect
9 12 (6.52%) IT Support
10 11 (5.98%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
10 11 (5.98%) Support Engineer
11 10 (5.43%) Analyst
12 9 (4.89%) Network Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) Senior
13 7 (3.80%) IT Support Engineer
14 6 (3.26%) Field Support Engineer
14 6 (3.26%) Integration Consultant
14 6 (3.26%) Storage Architect
14 6 (3.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.87%) REST
2 19 (10.33%) Middleware
3 15 (8.15%) JSON
4 13 (7.07%) OAuth
4 13 (7.07%) OAuth2
5 12 (6.52%) BAPI
6 10 (5.43%) OpenAPI
6 10 (5.43%) SAP ALE
6 10 (5.43%) Swagger
7 8 (4.35%) IDoc
7 8 (4.35%) Terraform
8 7 (3.80%) SOAP
9 3 (1.63%) XML
10 2 (1.09%) Restlet
10 2 (1.09%) YAML
11 1 (0.54%) 802.1X
11 1 (0.54%) Apache NiFi
11 1 (0.54%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.54%) LDAP
11 1 (0.54%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 62 (33.70%) Data Centre
2 26 (14.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 24 (13.04%) Replication
4 22 (11.96%) Enterprise Storage
5 20 (10.87%) PKI
6 17 (9.24%) Driving Licence
7 11 (5.98%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (4.89%) Operational Technology
9 7 (3.80%) SCADA
10 5 (2.72%) EMC VNX
11 4 (2.17%) EMC VMAX
11 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
11 4 (2.17%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.63%) Chip and PIN
12 3 (1.63%) Cloud Native
12 3 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.63%) Mainframe
13 2 (1.09%) Clustering
13 2 (1.09%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 61 (33.15%) Windows
2 39 (21.20%) Linux
3 30 (16.30%) Windows Server
4 15 (8.15%) VMS
5 6 (3.26%) Windows 10
5 6 (3.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (2.72%) zOS
7 4 (2.17%) AIX
7 4 (2.17%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.17%) Solaris
8 3 (1.63%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (1.63%) Unix
9 2 (1.09%) Android
9 2 (1.09%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.09%) HPUX
9 2 (1.09%) SUSE
9 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.54%) Debian
10 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (24.46%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (20.65%) Customer Service
3 33 (17.93%) Break/Fix
4 28 (15.22%) Disaster Recovery
5 27 (14.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 26 (14.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (11.96%) DevOps
7 22 (11.96%) ITSM
8 21 (11.41%) Agile
8 21 (11.41%) Change Management
9 17 (9.24%) CI/CD
9 17 (9.24%) Data Protection
9 17 (9.24%) ITIL
9 17 (9.24%) Migration
10 16 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (8.15%) High Availability
12 14 (7.61%) Observability
12 14 (7.61%) Procure-to-Pay
13 13 (7.07%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (7.07%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.70%) PowerShell
2 10 (5.43%) Python
3 6 (3.26%) Bash
4 3 (1.63%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.63%) JCL
4 3 (1.63%) SQL
5 2 (1.09%) REXX
5 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.54%) ABAP
6 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.54%) Bicep
6 1 (0.54%) Groovy
6 1 (0.54%) Java
6 1 (0.54%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 55 (29.89%) Security Cleared
2 33 (17.93%) Cisco Certification
2 33 (17.93%) Microsoft Certification
3 28 (15.22%) CCNA
3 28 (15.22%) SC Cleared
4 27 (14.67%) MCSE
5 26 (14.13%) A+ Certification
5 26 (14.13%) Network+ Certification
6 21 (11.41%) DV Cleared
7 11 (5.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (4.35%) Degree
9 6 (3.26%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.72%) CCNP
11 4 (2.17%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.63%) CISSP
12 3 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.63%) MCSA
12 3 (1.63%) NCDA
12 3 (1.63%) NCIE
12 3 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.17%) SLA
2 3 (1.63%) QA
3 2 (1.09%) SEPA
4 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.54%) NCSC
System Software
1 58 (31.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (10.87%) VMware ESXi
3 19 (10.33%) vSphere
4 15 (8.15%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (7.07%) Active Directory
6 10 (5.43%) Firmware
7 9 (4.89%) NFS
8 7 (3.80%) Hyper-V
9 6 (3.26%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (2.17%) Docker
10 4 (2.17%) SRDF
10 4 (2.17%) VMware NSX
11 3 (1.63%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (1.63%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (1.09%) KVM
12 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.54%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.54%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 28 (15.22%) vCenter Server
2 19 (10.33%) Ansible
3 15 (8.15%) SCOM
4 14 (7.61%) Avamar
5 13 (7.07%) Kubernetes
6 11 (5.98%) Dell DRAC
6 11 (5.98%) VxRail
7 6 (3.26%) NetBackup
8 5 (2.72%) McAfee ePO
8 5 (2.72%) Nessus
8 5 (2.72%) vMotion
9 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (2.17%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.17%) SCCM
9 4 (2.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 3 (1.63%) EMC VPLEX
10 3 (1.63%) Grafana
10 3 (1.63%) SnapMirror
11 2 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 75 (40.76%) VMware
2 42 (22.83%) Microsoft
3 33 (17.93%) Cisco
4 24 (13.04%) HP
5 23 (12.50%) NetApp
6 18 (9.78%) ServiceNow
7 15 (8.15%) SAP
7 15 (8.15%) Thales
8 14 (7.61%) EMC
8 14 (7.61%) MuleSoft
9 12 (6.52%) Brocade
9 12 (6.52%) IBM
9 12 (6.52%) Veeam
10 8 (4.35%) Fortinet
10 8 (4.35%) Splunk
11 6 (3.26%) Hitachi
11 6 (3.26%) Tenable
12 5 (2.72%) Carbon Black
12 5 (2.72%) Pure Storage
12 5 (2.72%) Red Hat