EMC Contract Job Trends in the South East

EMC
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 24 October 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
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 165 168
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 +60
Contract jobs citing EMC 15 11 42
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.41% 0.26% 0.76%
As % of the Vendors category 0.78% 0.53% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 15
10th Percentile £321 £341 £157
25th Percentile £496 £425 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £553 £468
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% +18.06% -9.13%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £532
90th Percentile £550 - £550
England median daily rate £500 £450 £468
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.85% -1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile - - £46.75
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £81.00 - £60.57
75th Percentile - - £70.97
90th Percentile - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £77.50 £56.50 £51.96
% change year-on-year +37.17% +8.74% +116.91%

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,933 2,095 2,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.70% 49.35% 52.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,306 1,300 1,868
10th Percentile £205 £260 £205
25th Percentile £375 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £511
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +0.73% +2.25%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £612
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 74 134
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.25 £19.15
Median hourly rate £20.00 £57.65 £48.45
Median % change year-on-year -65.31% +18.99% +115.32%
75th Percentile £33.05 £67.38 £65.19
90th Percentile £74.75 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.04 £35.00 £44.20
% change year-on-year -28.46% -20.81% +76.80%

EMC
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

EMC job vacancy trend in the South East

EMC
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing EMC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing EMC

EMC
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EMC in the South East over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EMC in the South East

EMC
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing EMC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing EMC

EMC
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EMC within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
Isle of Wight - 6 - -
Thames Valley +10 4 £500 -17.36% 9
Berkshire +10 4 £500 -17.36% 3
Hampshire +9 4 £538 +75.65% 4
East Sussex - 1 - -
EMC
England

EMC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) Azure Storage
1 4 (26.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) NAS
1 5 (33.33%) SAN
2 2 (13.33%) VSAN
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (53.33%) Manufacturing
3 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Design Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) Principal Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) RF Design Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) RF Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Server Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Analogue Hardware Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Mechanical Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Hardware Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Mechanical Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.67%) CentOS
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Data Management
2 6 (40.00%) Line Management
2 6 (40.00%) Logistics
2 6 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 6 (40.00%) PDM
2 6 (40.00%) Schematic Capture
2 6 (40.00%) Systems Engineering
2 6 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (26.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (26.67%) Storage Management
5 2 (13.33%) Converged Infrastructure
6 1 (6.67%) High Availability
6 1 (6.67%) Kalman Filter
6 1 (6.67%) Operational Stability
6 1 (6.67%) Power Management
6 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Virtual Environments
6 1 (6.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) AWS Certification
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
1 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) DO-254
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Firmware
2 3 (20.00%) vSphere
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) VxRail
2 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) NetApp
1 4 (26.67%) Pure Storage
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) PTC
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat