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 October 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 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 350 321
Rank change year-on-year -152 -29 +9
Contract jobs citing Dell 184 218 256
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.66% 0.68%
As % of the Vendors category 0.80% 1.38% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 121 158
10th Percentile £128 £140 £183
25th Percentile £241 £171 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £484
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -12.14% +13.82%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £565
90th Percentile £638 £575 £637
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £375 £497
% change year-on-year +26.67% -24.47% +52.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 53 28
10th Percentile £16.46 £17.30 £11.75
25th Percentile - £18.51 £14.79
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 - £66.60
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 22,891 15,745 16,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.69% 47.63% 44.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,889 9,692 9,932
10th Percentile £310 £275 £286
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £618 £613 £625
90th Percentile £710 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,344 813 625
10th Percentile £13.98 £14.75 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.38 £17.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £25.52 £25.15 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -20.16% -27.38%
75th Percentile £57.50 £42.50 £64.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £21.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +15.02% -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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -137 148 £488 +14.71% 120
UK excluding London -106 125 £475 +26.67% 66
London -112 39 £525 +6.71% 62
Work from Home -53 38 £425 -4.92% 40
South East -55 38 £475 +11.76% 21
North of England -68 36 £522 +22.82% 16
Yorkshire -26 25 £525 +10.53% 2
Scotland -16 17 £145 -71.00% 11
South West -38 17 £175 +2.34% 4
Midlands -65 9 £375 +138.10% 5
West Midlands -40 8 £250 +22.70% 3
East of England -25 6 £513 +15.17% 6
North West -58 6 £200 -52.94% 13
North East -36 5 £553 +240.15% 1
Wales -12 3 - - 3
East Midlands -29 1 £500 +273.13% 1

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 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (0.54%) IIS
3 1 (0.54%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.54%) SharePoint 2010
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 37 (20.11%) Azure
2 30 (16.30%) Boomi
3 18 (9.78%) AWS
4 13 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.89%) Smartsheet
7 8 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (3.80%) AtomSphere
9 6 (3.26%) OpenShift
10 5 (2.72%) GitHub
10 5 (2.72%) Nutanix
11 3 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.63%) IaaS
11 3 (1.63%) iPaaS
11 3 (1.63%) Rubrik
12 2 (1.09%) Azure Storage
12 2 (1.09%) Datadog
12 2 (1.09%) GCP
12 2 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (1.09%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 53 (28.80%) SAN
2 12 (6.52%) Firewall
3 11 (5.98%) NAS
4 9 (4.89%) Fibre Channel
5 8 (4.35%) Network Security
6 7 (3.80%) BGP
6 7 (3.80%) WAN
7 6 (3.26%) DHCP
7 6 (3.26%) DNS
7 6 (3.26%) LAN
7 6 (3.26%) TCP/IP
7 6 (3.26%) VPN
8 5 (2.72%) VLAN
9 4 (2.17%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (2.17%) iSCSI
9 4 (2.17%) OSPF
9 4 (2.17%) VXLAN
9 4 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.63%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (7.61%) JIRA
2 13 (7.07%) Git
3 9 (4.89%) Postman
4 6 (3.26%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.63%) GitLab
6 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 54 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.93%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (12.50%) Finance
4 13 (7.07%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (5.43%) 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 30 (16.30%) IT Engineer
2 29 (15.76%) Storage Engineer
3 28 (15.22%) Architect
4 27 (14.67%) Field Engineer
4 27 (14.67%) Field Service Engineer
5 18 (9.78%) Consultant
5 18 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (8.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 13 (7.07%) Integration Architect
8 11 (5.98%) IT Support
8 11 (5.98%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
8 11 (5.98%) Support Engineer
9 10 (5.43%) Analyst
10 9 (4.89%) Network Engineer
11 8 (4.35%) Senior
12 7 (3.80%) Storage Architect
13 6 (3.26%) Integration Consultant
13 6 (3.26%) IT Support Engineer
13 6 (3.26%) Support Analyst
14 5 (2.72%) Field Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.41%) REST
2 19 (10.33%) Middleware
3 16 (8.70%) JSON
4 14 (7.61%) OAuth
4 14 (7.61%) 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%) SOAP
7 8 (4.35%) Terraform
8 4 (2.17%) XML
9 2 (1.09%) Restlet
9 2 (1.09%) YAML
10 1 (0.54%) 802.1X
10 1 (0.54%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (0.54%) Keycloak
10 1 (0.54%) LDAP
10 1 (0.54%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 61 (33.15%) Data Centre
2 25 (13.59%) Analytical Mindset
3 22 (11.96%) Enterprise Storage
4 21 (11.41%) Replication
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
10 5 (2.72%) Private Cloud
11 4 (2.17%) EMC VMAX
11 4 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.63%) Chip and PIN
12 3 (1.63%) Cloud Native
12 3 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.63%) Mainframe
12 3 (1.63%) Public Cloud
13 2 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (32.61%) Windows
2 36 (19.57%) Linux
3 31 (16.85%) Windows Server
4 13 (7.07%) 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%) Solaris
8 3 (1.63%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (1.63%) Unix
8 3 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.09%) Android
9 2 (1.09%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.09%) HPUX
9 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.54%) Debian
10 1 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (20.11%) Customer Service
3 32 (17.39%) Break/Fix
4 28 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 27 (14.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 27 (14.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (11.96%) DevOps
6 22 (11.96%) ITSM
7 21 (11.41%) Agile
7 21 (11.41%) Change Management
8 17 (9.24%) CI/CD
8 17 (9.24%) ITIL
9 16 (8.70%) Data Protection
10 15 (8.15%) Performance Tuning
11 14 (7.61%) Migration
11 14 (7.61%) Observability
11 14 (7.61%) Procure-to-Pay
12 13 (7.07%) High Availability
12 13 (7.07%) Test Automation
13 12 (6.52%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.61%) 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 32 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 31 (16.85%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (15.22%) SC Cleared
5 27 (14.67%) CCNA
6 26 (14.13%) MCSE
7 25 (13.59%) A+ Certification
7 25 (13.59%) Network+ Certification
8 22 (11.96%) DV Cleared
9 11 (5.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (4.35%) Degree
11 4 (2.17%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.17%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.17%) CCNP
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%) QA
1 4 (2.17%) SLA
2 2 (1.09%) SEPA
3 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.54%) NCSC
3 1 (0.54%) PMO
System Software
1 57 (30.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (9.78%) VMware ESXi
3 17 (9.24%) vSphere
4 14 (7.61%) Active Directory
5 13 (7.07%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (4.35%) Firmware
6 8 (4.35%) NFS
7 6 (3.26%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (2.72%) Hyper-V
9 4 (2.17%) Docker
9 4 (2.17%) SRDF
10 3 (1.63%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (1.63%) Time Sharing Option
10 3 (1.63%) VMware NSX
11 2 (1.09%) KVM
11 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.54%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.54%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 26 (14.13%) vCenter Server
2 18 (9.78%) Ansible
3 15 (8.15%) SCOM
4 14 (7.61%) Avamar
5 13 (7.07%) Kubernetes
6 11 (5.98%) Dell DRAC
7 9 (4.89%) VxRail
8 6 (3.26%) NetBackup
9 5 (2.72%) McAfee ePO
9 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.72%) Nessus
9 5 (2.72%) SCCM
9 5 (2.72%) vMotion
10 4 (2.17%) Prometheus
10 4 (2.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 3 (1.63%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (1.63%) Grafana
11 3 (1.63%) SnapMirror
12 2 (1.09%) Puppet
12 2 (1.09%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 73 (39.67%) VMware
2 44 (23.91%) Microsoft
3 32 (17.39%) Cisco
4 26 (14.13%) 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 13 (7.07%) Veeam
10 12 (6.52%) IBM
11 11 (5.98%) Brocade
12 8 (4.35%) Fortinet
12 8 (4.35%) Splunk
13 6 (3.26%) Hitachi
13 6 (3.26%) Tenable
14 5 (2.72%) Broadcom
14 5 (2.72%) Carbon Black
14 5 (2.72%) Red Hat