EMC Contracts

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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 436 529
Rank change year-on-year -45 +93 +155
Contract jobs citing EMC 58 155 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.36% 0.28%
As % of the Vendors category 0.39% 0.83% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 84 79
10th Percentile £332 £333 £254
25th Percentile £402 £379 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £460 £454
Median % change year-on-year +7.70% +1.22% -9.11%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £587
90th Percentile £615 £608 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £409 £537 £463
% change year-on-year -23.88% +16.11% -5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 45 17
10th Percentile £42.36 £39.38 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £53.40 £20.22
Median hourly rate £66.25 £57.35 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year +15.52% +164.65% -9.37%
75th Percentile £81.25 £61.30 £53.75
90th Percentile - £68.75 £58.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.25 £57.35 £35.33
% change year-on-year +15.52% +62.33% -24.41%

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 14,890 18,640 24,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.53% 42.88% 43.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,101 11,577 16,146
10th Percentile £280 £271 £270
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £733 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 714 1,161 648
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.40 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.00 £18.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% -39.55% +83.51%
75th Percentile £53.25 £59.95 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.56 £29.30
% change year-on-year +0.31% -23.00% +50.10%

EMC
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing EMC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for EMC in the UK

EMC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing EMC.

Daily rate trend for EMC in the UK

EMC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EMC over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EMC in the UK

EMC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing EMC.

Hourly rate trend for EMC in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing EMC over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for EMC in the UK

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Top 14 Contract 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 3 July 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 -35 52 £500 +11.11% 171
UK excluding London -32 38 £409 -23.88% 150
London +20 19 £500 +42.86% 25
North of England +2 13 £405 -5.81% 18
South East -9 10 £496 -18.02% 49
Work from Home -1 8 £350 -18.51% 55
Yorkshire -5 8 £390 -9.30% 4
East of England +28 6 £43 - 52
North West - 5 £538 - 14
Scotland +2 3 £413 - 6
Northern Ireland -7 3 £350 - 1
South West +27 2 £600 -2.04% 15
Midlands +4 1 £275 -52.17% 15
West Midlands - 1 £275 - 11

EMC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.62%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) Documentum
3 1 (1.72%) Apache
3 1 (1.72%) IIS
3 1 (1.72%) JBoss
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.72%) nginx
3 1 (1.72%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.52%) Azure
2 8 (13.79%) AWS
3 6 (10.34%) GCP
3 6 (10.34%) Nutanix
4 5 (8.62%) Azure Storage
5 3 (5.17%) GitHub
6 2 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.45%) IaaS
6 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.45%) PaaS
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.72%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.72%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.72%) SaaS
7 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (44.83%) SAN
2 12 (20.69%) NAS
3 5 (8.62%) DNS
3 5 (8.62%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.17%) Firewall
5 2 (3.45%) DHCP
5 2 (3.45%) SpaceWire
5 2 (3.45%) VLAN
5 2 (3.45%) VPN
5 2 (3.45%) VSAN
6 1 (1.72%) DECT
6 1 (1.72%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.72%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.72%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.72%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.72%) Network Security
6 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.72%) VoIP
6 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.45%) DB2
3 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.72%) Power BI
3 1 (1.72%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Git
2 5 (8.62%) JIRA
3 4 (6.90%) TeamCity
4 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.17%) Subversion
5 2 (3.45%) Selenium
5 2 (3.45%) TestNG
General
1 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.24%) Finance
3 8 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.34%) Electronics
5 5 (8.62%) Aerospace
6 4 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.90%) Legal
6 4 (6.90%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.45%) Banking
8 1 (1.72%) Aviation
8 1 (1.72%) Avionics
8 1 (1.72%) Law
8 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (12.07%) Consultant
1 7 (12.07%) Storage Engineer
2 6 (10.34%) Electronics Engineer
3 5 (8.62%) Administrator
3 5 (8.62%) Hardware Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) EMC Consultant
4 4 (6.90%) Hardware Test Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) Test Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Architect
5 3 (5.17%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Developer
5 3 (5.17%) EMC Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) EMC Storage Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (5.17%) Senior
5 3 (5.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) REST
2 4 (6.90%) RESTful
3 2 (3.45%) JSON
3 2 (3.45%) pytest
3 2 (3.45%) XML
4 1 (1.72%) Flash
4 1 (1.72%) LDAP
4 1 (1.72%) Middleware
4 1 (1.72%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) EMC VMAX
2 7 (12.07%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (8.62%) Replication
4 4 (6.90%) Clustering
5 3 (5.17%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.72%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.72%) EMC VNX
7 1 (1.72%) IBM XIV
7 1 (1.72%) IoT
7 1 (1.72%) NVMe
7 1 (1.72%) PKI
7 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.72%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 18 (31.03%) Linux
2 12 (20.69%) Windows
3 9 (15.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (13.79%) Unix
5 6 (10.34%) Windows Server
6 4 (6.90%) Solaris
7 2 (3.45%) Windows 10
7 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.72%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.72%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.72%) VMS
8 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (31.03%) Storage Management
2 15 (25.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (17.24%) Migration
4 10 (17.24%) Validation
5 9 (15.52%) Problem Management
6 8 (13.79%) High Availability
7 7 (12.07%) Change Management
7 7 (12.07%) CI/CD
7 7 (12.07%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (12.07%) DevOps
7 7 (12.07%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (8.62%) Observability
8 5 (8.62%) Test Automation
9 4 (6.90%) Data Migration
9 4 (6.90%) Performance Monitoring
9 4 (6.90%) Risk Management
9 4 (6.90%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.76%) Python
2 8 (13.79%) Bash
3 5 (8.62%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.90%) Perl
4 4 (6.90%) SQL
4 4 (6.90%) VBA
5 2 (3.45%) C
5 2 (3.45%) Java
5 2 (3.45%) Tcl
5 2 (3.45%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.72%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.72%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (1.72%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.86%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.34%) Degree
4 5 (8.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (6.90%) AWS Certification
5 4 (6.90%) Azure Certification
6 3 (5.17%) EMC Certification
7 1 (1.72%) CCNP
7 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.72%) HNC
7 1 (1.72%) HND
7 1 (1.72%) HP ASE
7 1 (1.72%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) GDPR
2 6 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.72%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.72%) DO-254
4 1 (1.72%) IEC 61508
4 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.90%) Firmware
2 4 (6.90%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 4 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (5.17%) Docker
4 2 (3.45%) GPFS
4 2 (3.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.72%) NFS
5 1 (1.72%) SRDF
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (20.69%) Ansible
2 9 (15.52%) EMC NetWorker
3 5 (8.62%) Puppet
4 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
4 4 (6.90%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (6.90%) Terraform
4 4 (6.90%) Tivoli
4 4 (6.90%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (5.17%) EMC VPLEX
5 3 (5.17%) HP Data Protector
5 3 (5.17%) NetBackup
5 3 (5.17%) QRadar
5 3 (5.17%) vRealize
6 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.45%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.45%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 1 (1.72%) Control-M
7 1 (1.72%) EMC TimeFinder
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.72%) Netcool
Vendors
1 22 (37.93%) VMware
2 18 (31.03%) Cisco
3 14 (24.14%) NetApp
4 12 (20.69%) Brocade
5 11 (18.97%) Red Hat
6 10 (17.24%) HP
6 10 (17.24%) ServiceNow
7 9 (15.52%) Dell
7 9 (15.52%) Splunk
7 9 (15.52%) Veritas
8 8 (13.79%) IBM
8 8 (13.79%) Pure Storage
9 5 (8.62%) AppDynamics
9 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
9 5 (8.62%) Oracle
10 4 (6.90%) CyberArk
10 4 (6.90%) Isilon
10 4 (6.90%) Qualys
11 3 (5.17%) SaltStack
11 3 (5.17%) Sybase