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 12 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
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 354 307
Rank change year-on-year -132 -47 +20
Contract jobs citing Dell 188 214 278
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.65% 0.72%
As % of the Vendors category 0.82% 1.38% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 118 182
10th Percentile £127 £139 £187
25th Percentile £213 £203 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £441 £476
Median % change year-on-year +7.65% -7.30% +15.39%
75th Percentile £576 £500 £565
90th Percentile £638 £616 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £375 £480
% change year-on-year +26.67% -21.88% +60.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 42 30
10th Percentile £16.22 £17.30 £11.75
25th Percentile £19.08 £18.51 £13.93
Median hourly rate £19.33 £18.87 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -21.34% +10.05%
75th Percentile £19.46 £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile £25.16 - £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.33 £18.51 £24.18
% change year-on-year +4.43% -23.45% +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 22,867 15,556 17,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.91% 47.12% 44.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,033 9,517 10,292
10th Percentile £313 £276 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £626
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,255 792 694
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.42 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% -18.33% -27.54%
75th Percentile £62.25 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.95 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.19 £21.24 £30.00
% change year-on-year +23.31% -29.20% -25.00%

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 12 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 12 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 -157 150 £475 +6.26% 110
UK excluding London -111 124 £475 +26.67% 45
London -99 41 £525 +4.37% 73
Work from Home -51 38 £413 -7.72% 25
North of England -63 36 £523 +16.89% 12
South East -55 35 £475 +19.50% 12
Yorkshire -26 28 £525 +10.53% 4
South West -47 18 £149 -13.01% 7
Scotland -18 17 £145 +3.20% 9
Midlands -65 10 £375 +150.00% 3
West Midlands -53 9 £250 +66.67% 3
East of England -22 6 £513 +15.17% 2
North West -55 5 £200 -54.02% 6
Wales -14 3 - -
North East -46 3 £426 +9.81% 2
East Midlands -28 1 £500 +294.63%

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 6 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.60%) Confluence
3 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) IIS
4 1 (0.53%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (4.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.19%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.06%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.53%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 41 (21.81%) Azure
2 24 (12.77%) Boomi
3 20 (10.64%) AWS
4 12 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.79%) OpenShift
6 8 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (3.19%) AtomSphere
9 5 (2.66%) GitHub
9 5 (2.66%) Smartsheet
10 4 (2.13%) Azure Stack
10 4 (2.13%) IaaS
11 3 (1.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.60%) GCP
11 3 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.60%) iPaaS
11 3 (1.60%) Nutanix
11 3 (1.60%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.60%) Rubrik
12 2 (1.06%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 56 (29.79%) SAN
2 15 (7.98%) Firewall
3 12 (6.38%) NAS
4 10 (5.32%) Fibre Channel
4 10 (5.32%) Network Security
4 10 (5.32%) VLAN
5 9 (4.79%) DHCP
5 9 (4.79%) VPN
6 8 (4.26%) DNS
7 7 (3.72%) BGP
7 7 (3.72%) VSAN
7 7 (3.72%) WAN
8 6 (3.19%) iSCSI
8 6 (3.19%) LAN
8 6 (3.19%) TCP/IP
9 5 (2.66%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (2.66%) VXLAN
10 4 (2.13%) OSPF
11 3 (1.60%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.13%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (4.79%) Git
1 9 (4.79%) JIRA
2 6 (3.19%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.66%) Postman
4 3 (1.60%) GitLab
5 1 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 51 (27.13%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.62%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.77%) Finance
4 12 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (5.85%) Banking
6 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.60%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.60%) Retail
7 2 (1.06%) Law
8 1 (0.53%) Billing
8 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.53%) Legal
8 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (17.55%) IT Engineer
2 31 (16.49%) Field Engineer
2 31 (16.49%) Field Service Engineer
3 26 (13.83%) Storage Engineer
4 22 (11.70%) Architect
5 18 (9.57%) Consultant
5 18 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (7.98%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 12 (6.38%) IT Support
8 11 (5.85%) Senior
8 11 (5.85%) Support Engineer
9 10 (5.32%) Analyst
9 10 (5.32%) Network Engineer
10 9 (4.79%) Integration Architect
11 8 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
12 7 (3.72%) IT Support Engineer
13 6 (3.19%) Field Support Engineer
13 6 (3.19%) Integration Consultant
13 6 (3.19%) Storage Architect
13 6 (3.19%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.51%) REST
2 14 (7.45%) Middleware
3 11 (5.85%) JSON
4 9 (4.79%) OAuth
4 9 (4.79%) OAuth2
4 9 (4.79%) Terraform
5 8 (4.26%) BAPI
6 7 (3.72%) SOAP
7 6 (3.19%) OpenAPI
7 6 (3.19%) SAP ALE
7 6 (3.19%) Swagger
8 4 (2.13%) IDoc
9 3 (1.60%) XML
10 2 (1.06%) Redfish
10 2 (1.06%) Restlet
10 2 (1.06%) YAML
11 1 (0.53%) 802.1X
11 1 (0.53%) Apache NiFi
11 1 (0.53%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 70 (37.23%) Data Centre
2 29 (15.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 25 (13.30%) Replication
4 23 (12.23%) Enterprise Storage
5 17 (9.04%) PKI
6 14 (7.45%) Driving Licence
7 7 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.19%) Operational Technology
9 5 (2.66%) Clustering
9 5 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.66%) EMC VMAX
9 5 (2.66%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.13%) EMC VNX
10 4 (2.13%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.13%) SCADA
11 3 (1.60%) Chip and PIN
11 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.60%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 59 (31.38%) Windows
2 40 (21.28%) Linux
3 30 (15.96%) Windows Server
4 16 (8.51%) VMS
5 7 (3.72%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (3.72%) zOS
6 6 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.19%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.13%) SUSE
8 3 (1.60%) AIX
8 3 (1.60%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (1.60%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.60%) Solaris
8 3 (1.60%) Unix
9 2 (1.06%) Android
9 2 (1.06%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.06%) HPUX
9 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (20.74%) Break/Fix
3 38 (20.21%) Customer Service
4 27 (14.36%) Disaster Recovery
4 27 (14.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 22 (11.70%) ITSM
6 21 (11.17%) Migration
7 19 (10.11%) Agile
7 19 (10.11%) Change Management
7 19 (10.11%) DevOps
7 19 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (9.04%) High Availability
9 15 (7.98%) Data Protection
10 14 (7.45%) CI/CD
10 14 (7.45%) ITIL
10 14 (7.45%) Validation
11 13 (6.91%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (5.85%) Project Management
12 11 (5.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (5.85%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.11%) PowerShell
2 12 (6.38%) Python
3 7 (3.72%) Bash
4 5 (2.66%) JCL
5 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.60%) SQL
6 2 (1.06%) REXX
6 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.06%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.53%) ABAP
7 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.53%) Bicep
7 1 (0.53%) Groovy
7 1 (0.53%) Java
7 1 (0.53%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 51 (27.13%) Security Cleared
2 36 (19.15%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (19.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 31 (16.49%) CCNA
4 30 (15.96%) MCSE
5 29 (15.43%) A+ Certification
5 29 (15.43%) Network+ Certification
6 23 (12.23%) DV Cleared
6 23 (12.23%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (4.26%) Degree
8 7 (3.72%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.66%) CCNP
10 4 (2.13%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.60%) NCDA
11 3 (1.60%) NCIE
11 3 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.13%) QA
1 4 (2.13%) SLA
2 2 (1.06%) PMO
2 2 (1.06%) SEPA
3 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 56 (29.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (10.64%) VMware ESXi
2 20 (10.64%) vSphere
3 17 (9.04%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (7.45%) Active Directory
5 13 (6.91%) Firmware
6 11 (5.85%) NFS
7 10 (5.32%) Hyper-V
8 5 (2.66%) Time Sharing Option
9 4 (2.13%) Docker
9 4 (2.13%) SRDF
9 4 (2.13%) VMware NSX
10 3 (1.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (1.60%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (1.06%) BitLocker
11 2 (1.06%) KVM
12 1 (0.53%) QEMU
12 1 (0.53%) Samba
12 1 (0.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.53%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 30 (15.96%) vCenter Server
2 21 (11.17%) Ansible
3 13 (6.91%) Avamar
3 13 (6.91%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.91%) SCOM
4 12 (6.38%) Dell DRAC
5 11 (5.85%) VxRail
6 6 (3.19%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 6 (3.19%) vMotion
7 5 (2.66%) NetBackup
7 5 (2.66%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.13%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.60%) EMC VPLEX
9 3 (1.60%) Grafana
9 3 (1.60%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.60%) Nessus
9 3 (1.60%) SCCM
9 3 (1.60%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 74 (39.36%) VMware
2 40 (21.28%) Microsoft
3 36 (19.15%) Cisco
4 25 (13.30%) HP
5 20 (10.64%) NetApp
6 15 (7.98%) ServiceNow
7 14 (7.45%) Thales
8 13 (6.91%) IBM
9 12 (6.38%) Brocade
10 11 (5.85%) SAP
10 11 (5.85%) Veeam
11 10 (5.32%) EMC
11 10 (5.32%) MuleSoft
12 9 (4.79%) Red Hat
13 8 (4.26%) Broadcom
13 8 (4.26%) Pure Storage
14 6 (3.19%) Fortinet
15 4 (2.13%) Citrix
15 4 (2.13%) Hitachi
15 4 (2.13%) Oracle