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 30 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
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 167 164
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 +65
Contract jobs citing EMC 9 4 39
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.20% 0.11% 0.79%
As % of the Vendors category 0.40% 0.22% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 14
10th Percentile £202 £307 £137
25th Percentile £410 £375 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £459
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -1.96% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £518 £511
90th Percentile - £572 £608
England median daily rate £500 £478 £450
% change year-on-year +4.71% +6.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 7
10th Percentile - - £45.35
25th Percentile - - £58.21
Median hourly rate £81.00 - £68.63
75th Percentile - - £73.32
90th Percentile - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £77.50 £70.50 £58.21
% change year-on-year +9.93% +21.11% +126.41%

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 2,232 1,806 2,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 50.59% 50.31% 52.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,595 1,194 1,657
10th Percentile £222 £240 £205
25th Percentile £402 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +0.49% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £675 £679 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 49 121
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.99 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.43 £24.18 £24.34
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% -24.65% +108.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £67.75
90th Percentile £89.63 £71.97 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.79 £30.00 £46.06
% change year-on-year -20.71% -34.86% +70.57%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EMC in the South East over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EMC in the South East

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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

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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 30 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
Isle of Wight - 5 - - 2
Hampshire -12 4 £538 +105.15% 7
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 (11.11%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) VSAN
2 1 (11.11%) NAS
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
General
1 6 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Design Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) RF Design Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) RF Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Server Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Mechanical Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Mechanical Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
2 1 (11.11%) CentOS
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Data Management
2 5 (55.56%) Line Management
2 5 (55.56%) Logistics
2 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
2 5 (55.56%) PDM
2 5 (55.56%) Schematic Capture
2 5 (55.56%) Systems Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (22.22%) Converged Infrastructure
4 1 (11.11%) CAD
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (11.11%) Operational Stability
4 1 (11.11%) PLM
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Firmware
2 3 (33.33%) vSphere
3 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (11.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) VxRail
2 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) PTC
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat