EMC Contract Job Trends in England

EMC
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of EMC products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited EMC over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, 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 EMC.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 415 413
Rank change year-on-year -45 -2 +190
Contract jobs citing EMC 73 89 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.31% 0.41%
As % of the Vendors category 0.49% 0.67% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 46 89
10th Percentile £335 £230 £300
25th Percentile £456 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.08% -2.03%
75th Percentile £550 £599 £600
90th Percentile £630 £600 £709
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £468
% change year-on-year +5.26% +1.50% -1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 10
10th Percentile - £54.63 £22.00
25th Percentile £73.75 £59.44 £26.13
Median hourly rate £77.50 £70.50 £58.21
Median % change year-on-year +9.93% +21.11% +129.58%
75th Percentile £81.25 £75.00 £68.63
90th Percentile - £75.13 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £70.50 £58.21
% change year-on-year +9.93% +21.11% +129.58%

All Vendors
England

EMC 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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 14,934 13,299 16,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.48% 45.90% 44.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,682 8,112 10,891
10th Percentile £294 £291 £250
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £626 £638
90th Percentile £706 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 726 385 614
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.55 £14.62
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.08 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%
75th Percentile £47.69 £65.00 £64.85
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -17.84% -34.83% +73.08%

EMC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing EMC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

EMC job vacancy trend in England

EMC
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EMC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EMC

EMC
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EMC in England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EMC in England

EMC
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EMC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EMC

EMC
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing EMC in England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for EMC in England

EMC
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EMC within the England region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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
London -41 25 £520 +38.67% 10
North of England -35 23 £481 -2.58% 10
Yorkshire -26 19 £475 -11.63% 2
South East -15 14 £508 +6.84% 20
North West -27 4 £575 +27.78% 7
Midlands -37 4 £500 - 3
West Midlands - 4 £500 - 2
East of England -21 3 £53 +32.50% 16
South West -16 1 £600 - 5
EMC
UK

EMC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 2 (2.74%) CICS
1 2 (2.74%) Tomcat
1 2 (2.74%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.37%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) Documentum
2 1 (1.37%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 10 (13.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.48%) PTC Creo
3 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.74%) Windchill
5 1 (1.37%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.96%) AWS
2 7 (9.59%) Azure
3 6 (8.22%) GCP
4 5 (6.85%) Nutanix
4 5 (6.85%) OpenShift
5 4 (5.48%) Azure Storage
6 2 (2.74%) GitHub
6 2 (2.74%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.37%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 21 (28.77%) SAN
2 12 (16.44%) NAS
3 7 (9.59%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (8.22%) iSCSI
5 3 (4.11%) VSAN
6 2 (2.74%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.74%) Firewall
6 2 (2.74%) LAN
6 2 (2.74%) VLAN
6 2 (2.74%) WAN
7 1 (1.37%) BGP
7 1 (1.37%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.37%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.37%) FCoE
7 1 (1.37%) Multicast
7 1 (1.37%) OSPF
7 1 (1.37%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (1.37%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.37%) MySQL
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.74%) JIRA
2 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (32.88%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.44%) Manufacturing
3 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.22%) Finance
5 5 (6.85%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Banking
7 2 (2.74%) Law
8 1 (1.37%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.37%) Electronics
8 1 (1.37%) International Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (20.55%) Storage Engineer
2 13 (17.81%) Consultant
3 10 (13.70%) EMC Consultant
4 9 (12.33%) Design Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) RF Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Principal Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) RF Design Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Developer
7 5 (6.85%) ETL Developer
7 5 (6.85%) Senior
8 4 (5.48%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Data Storage Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) Analyst
10 2 (2.74%) Infrastructure Architect
10 2 (2.74%) Mechanical Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) Senior Mechanical Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) Server Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) Storage Analyst
10 2 (2.74%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.85%) JSON
1 5 (6.85%) RESTful
1 5 (6.85%) XML
2 2 (2.74%) LDAP
2 2 (2.74%) Middleware
2 2 (2.74%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.44%) Enterprise Storage
1 12 (16.44%) Replication
2 9 (12.33%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.48%) EMC VMAX
4 3 (4.11%) EMC VNX
4 3 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.74%) Clustering
5 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.74%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) FPGA
6 1 (1.37%) HP Storage
6 1 (1.37%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.37%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.96%) Windows
2 7 (9.59%) Linux
3 3 (4.11%) Solaris
3 3 (4.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.74%) zOS
5 1 (1.37%) AIX
5 1 (1.37%) CentOS
5 1 (1.37%) MVS
5 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.37%) VMS
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (20.55%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (20.55%) Technical Leadership
3 12 (16.44%) High Availability
4 11 (15.07%) Validation
5 10 (13.70%) Data Protection
5 10 (13.70%) Systems Engineering
6 9 (12.33%) Change Management
6 9 (12.33%) Migration
7 8 (10.96%) Data Management
7 8 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (10.96%) PDM
7 8 (10.96%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (9.59%) Capacity Management
8 7 (9.59%) ITIL
8 7 (9.59%) Mentoring
8 7 (9.59%) Project Delivery
9 6 (8.22%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (8.22%) Logistics
9 6 (8.22%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.33%) Python
2 6 (8.22%) SQL
3 5 (6.85%) T-SQL
3 5 (6.85%) VBA
4 4 (5.48%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.74%) Java
6 1 (1.37%) Bash
Qualifications
1 22 (30.14%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.55%) Degree
2 15 (20.55%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.48%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.48%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.48%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.11%) EMC Certification
4 3 (4.11%) HNC
4 3 (4.11%) HND
5 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.37%) CCNP
5 1 (1.37%) CCSA
5 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.37%) VCAP
5 1 (1.37%) VCDX
5 1 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) GDPR
2 4 (5.48%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.48%) Def Stans
2 4 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.11%) IEC 61508
3 3 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 1 (1.37%) DO-160
4 1 (1.37%) GxP
4 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (16.44%) Firmware
2 6 (8.22%) NFS
3 5 (6.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.48%) vSphere
5 2 (2.74%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.74%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.74%) KVM
5 2 (2.74%) SRDF
5 2 (2.74%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.37%) VMware Server
6 1 (1.37%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (9.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.85%) EMC NetWorker
2 5 (6.85%) vCenter Server
3 4 (5.48%) Control-M
4 3 (4.11%) Functional Safety
4 3 (4.11%) VxRail
5 2 (2.74%) Ansible
5 2 (2.74%) NetBackup
5 2 (2.74%) SCOM
5 2 (2.74%) Terraform
5 2 (2.74%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (1.37%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (1.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (24.66%) NetApp
2 14 (19.18%) VMware
3 11 (15.07%) Cisco
4 8 (10.96%) IBM
4 8 (10.96%) Pure Storage
5 7 (9.59%) Microsoft
6 6 (8.22%) Dell
6 6 (8.22%) Isilon
6 6 (8.22%) Veritas
7 4 (5.48%) Commvault
7 4 (5.48%) Oracle
7 4 (5.48%) PTC
8 3 (4.11%) F5
9 2 (2.74%) Brocade
9 2 (2.74%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.74%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.37%) HP
10 1 (1.37%) McAfee
10 1 (1.37%) Siemens
10 1 (1.37%) Sophos