EMC Contract Job Trends

EMC
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 November 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
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 458 442
Rank change year-on-year -43 -16 +217
Contract jobs citing EMC 69 100 193
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.27% 0.42%
As % of the Vendors category 0.42% 0.61% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 58 111
10th Percentile £320 £343 £300
25th Percentile £350 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £468
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +2.03% -1.47%
75th Percentile £547 £600 £613
90th Percentile £630 £608 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £452 £531 £450
% change year-on-year -14.87% +18.06% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 11
10th Percentile £42.68 £37.53 £22.75
25th Percentile £73.75 £52.94 £41.25
Median hourly rate £77.50 £62.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.51% +19.52% +110.00%
75th Percentile £81.25 £74.06 £68.63
90th Percentile - £75.13 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.50 £73.50 £60.57
% change year-on-year +5.44% +21.36% +24.93%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 16,461 16,408 21,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.61% 44.93% 45.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,296 9,661 13,519
10th Percentile £281 £293 £260
25th Percentile £404 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.80% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 838 511 665
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.91 £17.00 £19.76
Median hourly rate £25.04 £31.50 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -20.52% -28.25% +75.60%
75th Percentile £39.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.75 £71.25 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £28.50 £42.75
% change year-on-year -21.70% -33.33% +94.32%

EMC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

EMC job vacancy trend in the UK

EMC
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

EMC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EMC over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EMC in the UK

EMC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing EMC

EMC
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing EMC over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for EMC in the UK

EMC
Top 13 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England -27 61 £500 +8.11% 76
UK excluding London -23 45 £452 -14.87% 69
London -18 20 £510 +45.71% 18
Yorkshire -17 15 £333 -38.14%
North of England -34 15 £333 -38.14% 5
South East +4 14 £508 +1.50% 35
Work from Home -29 8 £350 -35.36% 40
East of England -11 6 £48 +20.00% 14
Northern Ireland - 5 £350 - 1
South West +1 2 £600 - 7
Midlands -19 2 £500 - 11
West Midlands - 2 £500 - 9
Scotland -3 1 £413 -12.47% 5

EMC
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.90%) CICS
1 2 (2.90%) Documentum
1 2 (2.90%) Tomcat
1 2 (2.90%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 10 (14.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (4.35%) PTC Creo
3 1 (1.45%) Siemens NX
3 1 (1.45%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.14%) AWS
2 6 (8.70%) Azure
2 6 (8.70%) GCP
3 5 (7.25%) Nutanix
4 4 (5.80%) Azure Storage
5 2 (2.90%) GitHub
5 2 (2.90%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.45%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 16 (23.19%) SAN
2 7 (10.14%) NAS
3 2 (2.90%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (2.90%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (2.90%) Firewall
3 2 (2.90%) iSCSI
3 2 (2.90%) LAN
3 2 (2.90%) VSAN
3 2 (2.90%) WAN
4 1 (1.45%) BGP
4 1 (1.45%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.45%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.45%) FCoE
4 1 (1.45%) Multicast
4 1 (1.45%) OSPF
4 1 (1.45%) SNMP
4 1 (1.45%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (1.45%) VLAN
4 1 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.45%) MySQL
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.90%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (36.23%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.39%) Manufacturing
3 8 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (8.70%) Finance
5 5 (7.25%) Electronics
6 2 (2.90%) Banking
6 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.45%) International Banking
7 1 (1.45%) Law
7 1 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 17 (24.64%) Consultant
2 11 (15.94%) EMC Consultant
3 9 (13.04%) Storage Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) Design Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) RF Design Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) RF Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Analyst
6 5 (7.25%) Developer
6 5 (7.25%) Electronics Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) ETL Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Electronics Test Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Hardware Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Hardware Test Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Storage Analyst
7 4 (5.80%) Technology Consultant
7 4 (5.80%) Test Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Storage and Backup Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.25%) JSON
1 5 (7.25%) RESTful
1 5 (7.25%) XML
2 2 (2.90%) LDAP
2 2 (2.90%) Middleware
2 2 (2.90%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) Data Centre
1 7 (10.14%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (5.80%) Replication
3 3 (4.35%) EMC VMAX
3 3 (4.35%) EMC VNX
3 3 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.90%) Clustering
4 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.90%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) HP Storage
5 1 (1.45%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.45%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.39%) Linux
2 9 (13.04%) Windows
3 6 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (5.80%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.35%) Solaris
6 2 (2.90%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (2.90%) zOS
7 1 (1.45%) AIX
7 1 (1.45%) CentOS
7 1 (1.45%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.45%) MVS
7 1 (1.45%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (20.29%) Validation
3 11 (15.94%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (15.94%) Technical Leadership
4 10 (14.49%) Systems Engineering
5 8 (11.59%) Change Management
6 7 (10.14%) Capacity Planning
6 7 (10.14%) Data Management
6 7 (10.14%) PDM
6 7 (10.14%) Schematic Capture
7 6 (8.70%) Capacity Management
7 6 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (8.70%) Line Management
7 6 (8.70%) Logistics
7 6 (8.70%) Mentoring
7 6 (8.70%) Performance Monitoring
7 6 (8.70%) Problem Management
7 6 (8.70%) Test Automation
8 5 (7.25%) Data Protection
8 5 (7.25%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.94%) Python
2 6 (8.70%) SQL
3 5 (7.25%) T-SQL
3 5 (7.25%) VBA
4 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.90%) Java
6 1 (1.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (24.64%) Security Cleared
2 16 (23.19%) SC Cleared
3 13 (18.84%) Degree
4 6 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.80%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.80%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.35%) EMC Certification
6 3 (4.35%) HNC
6 3 (4.35%) HND
7 1 (1.45%) CCNP
7 1 (1.45%) CCSA
7 1 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.45%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) GDPR
2 4 (5.80%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.35%) Def Stans
3 3 (4.35%) IEC 61508
3 3 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 1 (1.45%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (14.49%) Firmware
2 5 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.35%) vSphere
4 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.90%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.90%) KVM
4 2 (2.90%) NFS
5 1 (1.45%) SRDF
5 1 (1.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.45%) VMware Server
5 1 (1.45%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (14.49%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (8.70%) EMC VPLEX
3 5 (7.25%) vCenter Server
4 4 (5.80%) Control-M
5 3 (4.35%) Ansible
5 3 (4.35%) Functional Safety
5 3 (4.35%) VxRail
6 2 (2.90%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.90%) NetBackup
6 2 (2.90%) SCOM
6 2 (2.90%) Terraform
6 2 (2.90%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (1.45%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (1.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (24.64%) VMware
2 15 (21.74%) Cisco
3 10 (14.49%) Dell
3 10 (14.49%) Isilon
3 10 (14.49%) NetApp
4 8 (11.59%) Brocade
5 7 (10.14%) Microsoft
5 7 (10.14%) Pure Storage
5 7 (10.14%) Red Hat
6 4 (5.80%) Oracle
7 3 (4.35%) Commvault
7 3 (4.35%) F5
7 3 (4.35%) IBM
7 3 (4.35%) PTC
8 2 (2.90%) McAfee
8 2 (2.90%) Sophos
8 2 (2.90%) Veritas
9 1 (1.45%) Hitachi
9 1 (1.45%) HP
9 1 (1.45%) Siemens