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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 456 461
Rank change year-on-year -91 +5 +138
Contract jobs citing EMC 65 66 141
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.22% 0.32%
As % of the Vendors category 0.35% 0.47% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 32 88
10th Percentile £135 £262 £335
25th Percentile £363 £419 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £506 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% +12.44% -0.49%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £578
90th Percentile £661 - £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £563 £501
% change year-on-year -22.22% +12.28% +8.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 15
10th Percentile £42.50 £53.13 £22.30
25th Percentile £60.31 £57.19 £30.63
Median hourly rate £72.50 £70.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% +4.44% +162.54%
75th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £84.75 £75.13 £72.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £73.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year -1.36% +8.89% +75.32%

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 18,594 13,977 19,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.03% 46.97% 43.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,922 8,686 12,040
10th Percentile £306 £285 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% -2.83%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 936 453 1,031
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.05 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +17.65% -29.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.68 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.53% +19.57% -29.23%

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 March 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 March 2026.

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 9 March 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 -92 49 £494 -3.61% 46
UK excluding London -77 33 £438 -22.22% 34
London -50 19 £525 +5.00% 14
North of England -56 14 £481 +6.89% 2
Yorkshire -53 8 £437 +7.90%
Work from Home -27 7 £463 -22.92% 16
East of England -30 7 £575 - 8
North West -29 6 £550 +12.82% 2
West Midlands -50 4 - - 3
Midlands -56 4 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 4 £375 -
South West -32 3 - - 6
South East -45 1 £64 -83.74% 17

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:

Applications
1 3 (4.62%) PTC Creo
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.54%) Siemens NX
3 1 (1.54%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.31%) OpenShift
2 5 (7.69%) Rubrik
3 2 (3.08%) AWS
3 2 (3.08%) Azure
4 1 (1.54%) GitHub
4 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (47.69%) SAN
2 15 (23.08%) Fibre Channel
3 13 (20.00%) NAS
4 11 (16.92%) iSCSI
5 5 (7.69%) VSAN
6 4 (6.15%) FCoE
7 3 (4.62%) LAN
7 3 (4.62%) WAN
8 2 (3.08%) Firewall
8 2 (3.08%) VLAN
9 1 (1.54%) BGP
9 1 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (1.54%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (1.54%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (1.54%) Ethernet
9 1 (1.54%) OSPF
9 1 (1.54%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (1.54%) Spanning Tree
9 1 (1.54%) VXLAN
9 1 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (1.54%) MySQL
2 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.54%) GitLab
General
1 8 (12.31%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.77%) Electronics
3 5 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Finance
5 3 (4.62%) Retail
6 2 (3.08%) Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.54%) Avionics
7 1 (1.54%) International Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Law
7 1 (1.54%) Military
7 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) Storage Engineer
2 8 (12.31%) Senior
3 6 (9.23%) SAN Engineer
3 6 (9.23%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Network Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Core Network Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Architect
6 3 (4.62%) Consultant
6 3 (4.62%) Data Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Data Storage Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Electrical Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Systems Architect
7 2 (3.08%) Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) Design Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Electronics Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) RF Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (3.08%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) Flash
1 2 (3.08%) REST
2 1 (1.54%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.54%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (30.77%) Enterprise Storage
2 17 (26.15%) Replication
3 9 (13.85%) EMC VMAX
4 7 (10.77%) Data Centre
5 4 (6.15%) EMC VNX
6 3 (4.62%) Driving Licence
6 3 (4.62%) EPoS
7 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.08%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.54%) CMDB
8 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.54%) FPGA
8 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.54%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.54%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.85%) Linux
2 5 (7.69%) Windows
3 4 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.54%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (24.62%) Migration
2 13 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (18.46%) High Availability
4 10 (15.38%) Change Management
4 10 (15.38%) Data Protection
5 9 (13.85%) Capacity Planning
5 9 (13.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (13.85%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (12.31%) ITIL
7 6 (9.23%) Containerisation
7 6 (9.23%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (9.23%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (9.23%) Systems Engineering
7 6 (9.23%) Validation
8 5 (7.69%) Change Control
8 5 (7.69%) ITSM
8 5 (7.69%) Project Delivery
9 4 (6.15%) Problem Management
9 4 (6.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (6.15%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.85%) Python
2 3 (4.62%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (26.15%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.85%) Degree
4 5 (7.69%) CCNP
4 5 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (6.15%) DV Cleared
5 4 (6.15%) HP ASE
6 3 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.54%) CCSA
8 1 (1.54%) VCAP
8 1 (1.54%) VCDX
8 1 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) Def Stans
1 1 (1.54%) DO-160
1 1 (1.54%) GRC
1 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (13.85%) Firmware
2 6 (9.23%) NFS
3 5 (7.69%) SRDF
4 2 (3.08%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.54%) Docker
5 1 (1.54%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (16.92%) EMC NetWorker
2 7 (10.77%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.15%) EMC TimeFinder
3 4 (6.15%) EMC VPLEX
3 4 (6.15%) NetBackup
4 3 (4.62%) Avamar
5 2 (3.08%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (1.54%) Ansible
6 1 (1.54%) Grafana
6 1 (1.54%) Kibana
6 1 (1.54%) logstash
6 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (43.08%) Cisco
2 19 (29.23%) Dell
3 17 (26.15%) NetApp
4 14 (21.54%) Brocade
5 12 (18.46%) Pure Storage
6 10 (15.38%) IBM
6 10 (15.38%) VMware
7 9 (13.85%) Isilon
8 6 (9.23%) Red Hat
9 4 (6.15%) Hitachi
9 4 (6.15%) Veritas
10 3 (4.62%) Commvault
10 3 (4.62%) PTC
11 2 (3.08%) HP
11 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
12 1 (1.54%) Cadence
12 1 (1.54%) CheckPoint
12 1 (1.54%) Microsoft
12 1 (1.54%) Oracle
12 1 (1.54%) Siemens