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 9 October 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
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 487 463
Rank change year-on-year -109 -24 -11
Contract jobs citing EMC 89 71 99
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Vendors category 0.39% 0.45% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 37 56
10th Percentile £143 £322 £338
25th Percentile £350 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £472
Median % change year-on-year - +6.04% +0.75%
75th Percentile £591 £530 £591
90th Percentile £638 £620 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £442 £500
% change year-on-year -20.86% -11.55% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 8
10th Percentile - £42.68 -
25th Percentile £56.74 £73.75 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.00 £77.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% +44.19% +4.53%
75th Percentile £67.50 £81.25 £58.83
90th Percentile £73.53 - £64.29
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £77.50 £57.68
% change year-on-year -18.71% +34.37% +9.86%

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 22,721 15,802 16,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.69% 47.64% 44.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,733 9,722 9,953
10th Percentile £310 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £620 £613 £625
90th Percentile £710 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,391 808 602
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.75 £14.86
25th Percentile £16.10 £17.74 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.19 £25.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -23.08% -24.86%
75th Percentile £57.25 £38.80 £64.88
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £21.10 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.86% -29.67% -29.41%

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 9 October 2026.

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 9 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for EMC in the UK

EMC
Top 12 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 9 October 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
England -95 76 £525 +5.00% 330
UK excluding London -72 71 £350 -20.86% 288
East of England -9 25 £350 +629.17% 52
South East -56 19 £575 +13.30% 79
London -96 15 £625 +25.00% 43
Work from Home -61 12 £519 +48.29% 117
Scotland -17 11 £208 -49.70% 23
South West -24 8 £500 -16.67% 50
Yorkshire -43 5 £145 -56.39% 5
North of England -73 5 £145 -56.39% 39
Midlands -41 3 £625 +25.00% 40
West Midlands -43 3 £625 +25.00% 23

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 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (7.87%) Windchill
2 4 (4.49%) OrCAD
3 2 (2.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.12%) PTC Creo
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.99%) Azure
2 4 (4.49%) AWS
2 4 (4.49%) OpenShift
3 2 (2.25%) GCP
3 2 (2.25%) GitHub
3 2 (2.25%) Rubrik
4 1 (1.12%) Azure Storage
4 1 (1.12%) Cloudflare
4 1 (1.12%) Cohesity
4 1 (1.12%) Datadog
4 1 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.12%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.36%) Ethernet
1 11 (12.36%) SAN
2 6 (6.74%) Firewall
3 5 (5.62%) WAN
4 4 (4.49%) LAN
4 4 (4.49%) NAS
4 4 (4.49%) Network Security
5 3 (3.37%) DNS
5 3 (3.37%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (3.37%) iSCSI
5 3 (3.37%) RS-232
6 2 (2.25%) DHCP
6 2 (2.25%) IP Telephony
6 2 (2.25%) MIMO
6 2 (2.25%) MPLS
6 2 (2.25%) SDH
6 2 (2.25%) VSAN
6 2 (2.25%) Wireless
6 2 (2.25%) X.21
7 1 (1.12%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (8.99%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.12%) Git
2 1 (1.12%) GitLab
2 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (1.12%) Subversion
General
1 29 (32.58%) Aerospace
2 23 (25.84%) Social Skills
3 18 (20.22%) Electronics
4 17 (19.10%) Manufacturing
5 10 (11.24%) Finance
6 7 (7.87%) Military
7 6 (6.74%) Telecoms
8 5 (5.62%) Avionics
8 5 (5.62%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (5.62%) Retail
9 4 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (4.49%) Aviation
10 3 (3.37%) Law
10 3 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.25%) Automotive
12 1 (1.12%) Banking
12 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.12%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (1.12%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (30.34%) EMC Engineer
2 16 (17.98%) Systems Engineer
3 11 (12.36%) Storage Engineer
4 10 (11.24%) Lead
5 9 (10.11%) Test Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Electrical Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) EMC Test Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Architect
7 7 (7.87%) Design Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Senior
9 4 (4.49%) Designer
9 4 (4.49%) Electronics Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Hardware Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (3.37%) EMC Storage Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Product Manager
10 3 (3.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Storage Architect
10 3 (3.37%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.62%) Terraform
2 1 (1.12%) Java RMI
2 1 (1.12%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.98%) Enterprise Storage
2 9 (10.11%) Analogue Electronics
2 9 (10.11%) FPGA
3 8 (8.99%) Replication
4 7 (7.87%) Data Centre
4 7 (7.87%) Driving Licence
4 7 (7.87%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (5.62%) PCIe
5 5 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.49%) EMC VMAX
7 3 (3.37%) EMC VNX
7 3 (3.37%) Robotics
8 2 (2.25%) GNSS
8 2 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.25%) PKI
8 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.12%) Lidar
9 1 (1.12%) NVMe
9 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.47%) Windows
2 12 (13.48%) Linux
3 7 (7.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (7.87%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.37%) Data ONTAP
4 3 (3.37%) VMS
5 2 (2.25%) AIX
5 2 (2.25%) CentOS
5 2 (2.25%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.12%) Solaris
6 1 (1.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
1 16 (17.98%) Validation
2 10 (11.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (11.24%) Schematic Capture
3 9 (10.11%) Migration
3 9 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (8.99%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (7.87%) Change Management
5 7 (7.87%) Roadmaps
5 7 (7.87%) Storage Management
5 7 (7.87%) Systems Engineering
6 6 (6.74%) Inventory Management
6 6 (6.74%) ITIL
6 6 (6.74%) Kalman Filter
6 6 (6.74%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (6.74%) PLM
7 5 (5.62%) Agile
7 5 (5.62%) Configuration Management
7 5 (5.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (5.62%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.99%) PowerShell
1 8 (8.99%) Python
2 4 (4.49%) C
3 3 (3.37%) Bash
4 2 (2.25%) Java
4 2 (2.25%) SQL
5 1 (1.12%) Bicep
5 1 (1.12%) C++
5 1 (1.12%) JCL
5 1 (1.12%) Perl
5 1 (1.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 38 (42.70%) Security Cleared
2 29 (32.58%) SC Cleared
3 17 (19.10%) Degree
4 7 (7.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (6.74%) HNC
5 6 (6.74%) HND
6 5 (5.62%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.37%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.25%) CCNA
8 2 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.25%) NCDA
8 2 (2.25%) NCIE
9 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.12%) CCA
9 1 (1.12%) CCNP
9 1 (1.12%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (1.12%) EMC Certification
9 1 (1.12%) MCSE
9 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) Def Stans
1 5 (5.62%) IEC 61508
2 4 (4.49%) DO-254
3 2 (2.25%) DO-160
3 2 (2.25%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (17.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (12.36%) Firmware
2 11 (12.36%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (7.87%) vSphere
4 5 (5.62%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.62%) NFS
5 4 (4.49%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (3.37%) Docker
6 3 (3.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (3.37%) SRDF
7 2 (2.25%) GPFS
7 2 (2.25%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.25%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.12%) DFS Replication
8 1 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (1.12%) Samba
Systems Management
1 7 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.74%) vCenter Server
3 5 (5.62%) Ansible
3 5 (5.62%) Functional Safety
4 4 (4.49%) NetBackup
5 3 (3.37%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (3.37%) EMC VPLEX
5 3 (3.37%) MOM
6 2 (2.25%) Argo
6 2 (2.25%) Avamar
6 2 (2.25%) PowerCLI
6 2 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.25%) Puppet
6 2 (2.25%) SnapMirror
7 1 (1.12%) Check_MK
7 1 (1.12%) Grafana
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.12%) Nagios
7 1 (1.12%) SnapVault
7 1 (1.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (22.47%) NetApp
2 19 (21.35%) VMware
3 18 (20.22%) Cisco
4 13 (14.61%) Dell
5 12 (13.48%) IBM
6 7 (7.87%) Brocade
6 7 (7.87%) Microsoft
7 6 (6.74%) Isilon
8 5 (5.62%) Hitachi
8 5 (5.62%) Veeam
9 4 (4.49%) Altera
9 4 (4.49%) Intel
9 4 (4.49%) Pure Storage
9 4 (4.49%) Red Hat
9 4 (4.49%) Xilinx
10 3 (3.37%) 3PAR
10 3 (3.37%) BT
10 3 (3.37%) Openreach
11 2 (2.25%) CheckPoint
11 2 (2.25%) Google