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 16 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 EMC.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 144 138
Rank change year-on-year -66 -6 +36
Contract jobs citing EMC 19 17 46
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.29% 0.49% 1.00%
As % of the Vendors category 0.66% 0.95% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 17
10th Percentile £484 £402 £388
25th Percentile £534 £470 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £504 £605
Median % change year-on-year +14.14% -16.74% +42.35%
75th Percentile £589 £531 £608
90th Percentile £592 £550 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +4.90% +8.11% -1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 27
10th Percentile - £69.10 -
25th Percentile £56.74 - £53.40
Median hourly rate £61.16 £81.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -24.49% +41.24% +9.24%
75th Percentile £67.50 - £61.30
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £77.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -18.71% +35.14% +11.53%

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 2,893 1,791 2,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.70% 51.44% 49.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,797 1,203 1,369
10th Percentile £278 £205 £251
25th Percentile £431 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £615 £597 £631
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
England median daily rate £514 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.65% -4.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 106 114
10th Percentile £14.31 £14.20 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.69 £14.91 £27.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £20.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +91.25% -65.13% +10.37%
75th Percentile £70.00 £35.89 £61.60
90th Percentile £93.81 £79.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £33.25
% change year-on-year +19.28% -24.36% -22.22%

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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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 16 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
Hampshire -26 14 - - 16
Berkshire -31 3 £575 +15.00% 14
Thames Valley -42 3 £575 +15.00% 25
Surrey - 2 £500 - 9
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England

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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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Cloudflare
2 1 (5.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) GitLab
1 1 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 9 (47.37%) Aerospace
2 8 (42.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) EMC Engineer
1 14 (73.68%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Product Delivery Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Product Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Digital Delivery Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Digital Product Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (5.26%) iSeries
1 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
1 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (15.79%) Agile
2 3 (15.79%) Data Management
2 3 (15.79%) Digital Engineering
2 3 (15.79%) ITIL
2 3 (15.79%) Observability
2 3 (15.79%) Physics
2 3 (15.79%) PRINCE2
2 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
2 3 (15.79%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (10.53%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (10.53%) Budget Management
3 2 (10.53%) Change Management
3 2 (10.53%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (10.53%) Service Management
3 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Debt
4 1 (5.26%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) SC Cleared
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
1 1 (5.26%) Firmware
1 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) MOM
2 1 (5.26%) Argo
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) VMware
2 1 (5.26%) Commvault
2 1 (5.26%) HP
2 1 (5.26%) IBM
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) New Relic
2 1 (5.26%) Veeam