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 3 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
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 302 247
Rank change year-on-year -63 -55 +107
Contract jobs citing Dell 272 233 413
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.80% 0.94%
As % of the Vendors category 1.40% 1.70% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 119 285
10th Percentile £154 £150 £180
25th Percentile £236 £180 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £433
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -1.73% +8.13%
75th Percentile £555 £550 £608
90th Percentile £625 £615 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £460
% change year-on-year +12.50% -13.04% +41.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 30 11
10th Percentile £16.09 £18.20 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.85 £21.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.81% +6.50% -3.40%
75th Percentile £23.15 £24.54 £43.50
90th Percentile £25.77 £29.83 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £21.01 £17.50
% change year-on-year -15.80% +20.06% -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 19,432 13,698 18,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.31% 47.11% 42.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,476 8,655 11,765
10th Percentile £313 £294 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £700 £712 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.59% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 485 1,043
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.75 £14.45
Median hourly rate £27.00 £28.60 £22.58
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +26.66% -43.55%
75th Percentile £59.46 £61.25 £56.37
90th Percentile £78.65 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £26.81 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.76% +24.71% -38.67%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -80 220 £450 +9.09% 68
UK excluding London -86 178 £450 +12.50% 55
London -56 60 £450 +12.50% 14
North of England -45 47 £350 -17.65% 10
Work from Home -35 33 £500 -6.37% 33
Midlands -53 32 £316 +94.46% 7
East of England -16 31 £613 +11.36% 11
Yorkshire -42 28 £500 +29.03% 4
West Midlands -60 24 £314 +109.50% 6
South West -36 22 £525 +57.89% 9
South East -85 21 £450 +123.62% 19
Scotland +6 16 £500 +11.11% 1
North West -49 12 £175 -58.82% 6
East Midlands -21 10 £450 +157.14% 1
Wales -6 8 - - 1
North East -8 7 £175 -72.00%
Northern Ireland -1 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 23 (8.46%) 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 43 (15.81%) Azure
2 39 (14.34%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (10.29%) 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 Logic Apps
11 1 (0.37%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 56 (20.59%) SAN
2 29 (10.66%) VSAN
3 25 (9.19%) 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 4 (1.47%) VXLAN
13 3 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
13 3 (1.10%) InfiniBand
13 3 (1.10%) Multicast
13 3 (1.10%) SNMP
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 42 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (15.07%) Finance
4 25 (9.19%) Legal
5 24 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 22 (8.09%) Banking
7 15 (5.51%) Telecoms
8 14 (5.15%) Manufacturing
8 14 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (4.78%) Electronics
9 13 (4.78%) Marketing
10 11 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.47%) Retail
13 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.37%) Billing
14 1 (0.37%) French Language
Job Titles
1 51 (18.75%) Field Engineer
2 43 (15.81%) IT Engineer
3 42 (15.44%) IT Support
4 32 (11.76%) Field Service Engineer
5 29 (10.66%) Support Engineer
6 27 (9.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (7.35%) 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%) Senior
11 15 (5.51%) Computer Engineer
11 15 (5.51%) Field Hardware Engineer
12 14 (5.15%) 2nd Line Support
12 14 (5.15%) Printer Engineer
13 13 (4.78%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
13 13 (4.78%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 13 (4.78%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
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 91 (33.46%) 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 75 (27.57%) Windows
2 52 (19.12%) Linux
3 31 (11.40%) Mac OS
4 29 (10.66%) Windows Server
5 27 (9.93%) Android
6 24 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (6.62%) Windows 10
8 12 (4.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (2.94%) Unix
9 8 (2.94%) VMS
10 6 (2.21%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.47%) SUSE
12 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.74%) zOS
14 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.37%) CentOS
14 1 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
14 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%) ITSM
8 15 (5.51%) Validation
9 13 (4.78%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (4.78%) DevOps
9 13 (4.78%) Digital Marketing
9 13 (4.78%) Programme Management
10 12 (4.41%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (4.41%) Time Management
11 11 (4.04%) Storage Management
12 10 (3.68%) Data Protection
12 10 (3.68%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 17 (6.25%) Python
2 11 (4.04%) Bash
2 11 (4.04%) Shell Script
3 7 (2.57%) SQL
4 2 (0.74%) C
4 2 (0.74%) Java
4 2 (0.74%) JCL
4 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.37%) ABAP
5 1 (0.37%) ActionScript
5 1 (0.37%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (0.37%) Groovy
5 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.37%) Korn
5 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 92 (33.82%) Security Cleared
2 68 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 37 (13.60%) 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 6 (2.21%) CCNP
9 5 (1.84%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.47%) HP ASE
10 4 (1.47%) OCP
10 4 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.74%) VCAP
12 2 (0.74%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.19%) SLA
2 9 (3.31%) PMO
3 4 (1.47%) 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 13 (4.78%) Firmware
6 11 (4.04%) Hyper-V
7 10 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (3.31%) Docker
8 9 (3.31%) SRDF
9 7 (2.57%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.47%) NFS
11 2 (0.74%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.74%) Ceph
11 2 (0.74%) Lustre
11 2 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.74%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.74%) vCloud
12 1 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.37%) GPFS
12 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 30 (11.03%) VxRail
2 18 (6.62%) 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
7 7 (2.57%) SCCM
8 6 (2.21%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (2.21%) EMC TimeFinder
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%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (1.10%) NetBackup
11 3 (1.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 100 (36.76%) HP
2 71 (26.10%) Cisco
3 59 (21.69%) VMware
4 41 (15.07%) Apple
5 35 (12.87%) Microsoft
6 27 (9.93%) IBM
7 26 (9.56%) Red Hat
7 26 (9.56%) SAP
8 16 (5.88%) Pure Storage
9 15 (5.51%) Canon
9 15 (5.51%) EMC
9 15 (5.51%) ServiceNow
10 14 (5.15%) SolarWinds
11 13 (4.78%) Brocade
11 13 (4.78%) Commvault
12 12 (4.41%) AppDynamics
13 10 (3.68%) NVIDIA
14 9 (3.31%) Veeam
15 8 (2.94%) Broadcom
16 6 (2.21%) Splunk