EMC VPLEX Contract Job Trends

EMC VPLEX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring EMC VPLEX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 - 620
Rank change year-on-year - - +198
Contract jobs citing EMC VPLEX 6 0 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% - 0.024%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.11% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 8
10th Percentile - - £288
25th Percentile £325 - £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.53%
75th Percentile £375 - £485
90th Percentile £390 - £553
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -26.53%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

EMC VPLEX falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,657 5,155 6,732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.38% 14.20% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,753 3,332 4,804
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £632 £650
90th Percentile £680 £725 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £514
% change year-on-year -1.55% -2.72% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 56 167
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.79 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.80 £28.63
Median hourly rate £29.25 £35.08 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.63% -29.84% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £60.63 £75.63
90th Percentile £78.63 £76.25 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.79 £35.08 £46.18
% change year-on-year -32.20% -24.03% +109.91%

EMC VPLEX
Job Vacancy Trend

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

EMC VPLEX job vacancy trend in the UK

EMC VPLEX
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing EMC VPLEX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing EMC VPLEX

EMC VPLEX
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EMC VPLEX within the UK over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Work from Home - 5 £350 - 1
Northern Ireland - 5 £350 - 2
UK excluding London - 5 £350 - 2
London - 1 £350 -
England - 1 £350 -

EMC VPLEX
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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Technology Consultant
2 3 (50.00%) Administrator
2 3 (50.00%) Backup Consultant
2 3 (50.00%) Storage Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Storage and Backup Consultant
2 3 (50.00%) Storage Consultant
2 3 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 6 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 6 (100.00%) Problem Management
2 5 (83.33%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Brocade
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Dell
1 6 (100.00%) EMC
1 6 (100.00%) Isilon
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (100.00%) VMware