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 May 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 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 465 431
Rank change year-on-year -97 -34 +118
Contract jobs citing EMC 65 54 155
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.19% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 0.33% 0.39% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 29 81
10th Percentile £330 £339 £350
25th Percentile £363 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £472 £460
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% +2.61% -0.54%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £688 £596 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £402 £537
% change year-on-year +18.16% -25.14% +2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 47
10th Percentile £42.50 £38.13 £43.75
25th Percentile £55.00 £43.20 £53.40
Median hourly rate £72.50 £52.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% -8.46% +144.04%
75th Percentile £78.75 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £93.13 £54.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.75 £52.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +36.67% -8.46% +48.96%

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 19,841 13,863 18,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.57% 47.53% 42.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,610 8,683 11,336
10th Percentile £313 £284 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% -0.07% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £630
90th Percentile £703 £716 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -1.22% -0.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 996 562 1,095
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.50 £14.41
Median hourly rate £32.36 £25.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.91% +13.33% -48.57%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.02 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.22 £23.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +22.70% +6.98% -45.67%

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 May 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 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for EMC in the UK

EMC
Top 14 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 May 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 -108 51 £503 +1.53% 44
UK excluding London -90 38 £475 +18.16% 42
North of England -57 16 £487 +13.92% 1
London -80 15 £580 +16.00% 9
East of England -33 11 £475 +1004.65% 10
Yorkshire -46 10 £478 +22.56%
Work from Home -29 6 £525 +77.07% 22
North West -36 6 £550 +4.76% 1
West Midlands -53 4 - - 2
Midlands -56 4 - - 2
South West - 3 - - 8
Northern Ireland +5 2 £375 -
Scotland 0 1 - - 4
South East -69 1 £400 -0.50% 20

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 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.54%) PTC Creo
1 1 (1.54%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.38%) OpenShift
2 5 (7.69%) Azure
3 4 (6.15%) AWS
4 3 (4.62%) GitHub
4 3 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (4.62%) Rubrik
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.54%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 29 (44.62%) SAN
2 16 (24.62%) NAS
3 14 (21.54%) Fibre Channel
4 10 (15.38%) iSCSI
5 6 (9.23%) VSAN
6 5 (7.69%) Firewall
7 4 (6.15%) FCoE
8 2 (3.08%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (3.08%) LAN
8 2 (3.08%) WAN
9 1 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (1.54%) Ethernet
9 1 (1.54%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (1.54%) SpaceWire
9 1 (1.54%) VLAN
9 1 (1.54%) VoIP
9 1 (1.54%) VXLAN
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 4 (6.15%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 10 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.31%) Electronics
3 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.15%) Finance
4 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.62%) Retail
5 2 (3.08%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.08%) Banking
5 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.54%) Avionics
6 1 (1.54%) Law
6 1 (1.54%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (1.54%) Military
6 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (21.54%) Storage Engineer
2 7 (10.77%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (9.23%) SAN Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Architect
4 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Test Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Core Network Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Network Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Senior
6 3 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Electrical Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Electronics Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) EMC Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) EMC Test Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.62%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Storage Specialist
6 3 (4.62%) Systems Architect
7 2 (3.08%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) Flash
1 2 (3.08%) Middleware
1 2 (3.08%) REST
2 1 (1.54%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.54%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.15%) Enterprise Storage
1 17 (26.15%) Replication
2 10 (15.38%) EMC VMAX
3 7 (10.77%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.15%) EMC VNX
5 3 (4.62%) Driving Licence
5 3 (4.62%) EPoS
6 2 (3.08%) Celerra
6 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.08%) CMDB
6 2 (3.08%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (3.08%) EMC Centera
6 2 (3.08%) IBM XIV
6 2 (3.08%) Symmetrix
6 2 (3.08%) Symmetrix DMX
7 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.54%) FPGA
7 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.54%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.31%) Linux
1 8 (12.31%) Windows
2 2 (3.08%) Data ONTAP
2 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.08%) VMS
3 1 (1.54%) Unix
3 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.31%) Migration
2 13 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (20.00%) High Availability
3 12 (18.46%) Validation
4 10 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (13.85%) Capacity Planning
5 9 (13.85%) Change Management
6 8 (12.31%) Data Protection
6 8 (12.31%) ITIL
6 8 (12.31%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (12.31%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (10.77%) Containerisation
8 6 (9.23%) DevOps
8 6 (9.23%) ITSM
8 6 (9.23%) Storage Management
8 6 (9.23%) Systems Engineering
9 5 (7.69%) Data Migration
9 5 (7.69%) Project Delivery
9 5 (7.69%) Runbook
9 5 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.46%) Python
2 2 (3.08%) Bash
2 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.54%) C
3 1 (1.54%) Java
3 1 (1.54%) SQL
3 1 (1.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.85%) Degree
3 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared
4 6 (9.23%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (7.69%) CCNP
6 4 (6.15%) DV Cleared
6 4 (6.15%) HP ASE
7 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.08%) CCNA
7 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.54%) MCSE
8 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.54%) NCDA
8 1 (1.54%) NCIE
8 1 (1.54%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.54%) PMP
8 1 (1.54%) VCAP
8 1 (1.54%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) Def Stans
1 1 (1.54%) DO-160
1 1 (1.54%) GRC
1 1 (1.54%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 8 (12.31%) Firmware
2 6 (9.23%) NFS
2 6 (9.23%) SRDF
3 5 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (6.15%) vSphere
5 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
5 3 (4.62%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (3.08%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.54%) Docker
7 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (13.85%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.31%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (9.23%) Ansible
3 6 (9.23%) EMC VPLEX
3 6 (9.23%) NetBackup
4 5 (7.69%) Avamar
5 4 (6.15%) EMC TimeFinder
6 3 (4.62%) Terraform
7 2 (3.08%) Grafana
7 2 (3.08%) SnapMirror
7 2 (3.08%) SnapVault
7 2 (3.08%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.54%) Argo
8 1 (1.54%) Kibana
8 1 (1.54%) logstash
8 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (44.62%) Cisco
2 22 (33.85%) NetApp
3 16 (24.62%) Brocade
4 15 (23.08%) Dell
5 11 (16.92%) Pure Storage
6 10 (15.38%) IBM
7 9 (13.85%) VMware
8 6 (9.23%) Veeam
9 5 (7.69%) 3PAR
9 5 (7.69%) Isilon
9 5 (7.69%) Red Hat
9 5 (7.69%) Veritas
10 3 (4.62%) Commvault
10 3 (4.62%) Hitachi
10 3 (4.62%) HP
11 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
12 1 (1.54%) BT
12 1 (1.54%) Cadence
12 1 (1.54%) CheckPoint
12 1 (1.54%) Oracle