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 23 December 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
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 447 436
Rank change year-on-year -65 -11 +183
Contract jobs citing EMC 80 96 173
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.28% 0.40%
As % of the Vendors category 0.46% 0.62% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 53 103
10th Percentile £325 £236 £302
25th Percentile £400 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £468
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +2.56% -1.47%
75th Percentile £547 £600 £604
90th Percentile £600 £608 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -7.24% +16.67% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 10
10th Percentile - £54.63 £22.00
25th Percentile £73.75 £59.44 £26.13
Median hourly rate £77.50 £70.50 £58.21
Median % change year-on-year +9.93% +21.11% +126.41%
75th Percentile £81.25 £75.00 £68.63
90th Percentile - £75.13 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.50 £74.25 £68.63
% change year-on-year +4.38% +8.19% +78.26%

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 17,466 15,440 19,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.19% 45.73% 45.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,122 9,193 12,424
10th Percentile £293 £285 £250
25th Percentile £408 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £722 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 858 457 650
10th Percentile £15.15 £15.62 £14.73
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.75 £28.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% -38.97% +78.45%
75th Percentile £44.40 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.72 £26.13 £45.88
% change year-on-year -16.87% -43.06% +103.91%

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 23 December 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 23 December 2025.

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 23 December 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 -50 71 £500 +4.71% 114
UK excluding London -29 49 £487 -7.24% 99
London -31 25 £520 +38.67% 19
North of England -31 22 £481 -2.58% 25
Yorkshire -27 18 £475 -11.63% 11
South East -5 14 £508 +6.84% 34
Work from Home -20 8 £450 -25.00% 70
Northern Ireland - 6 £375 -
North West -27 4 £575 +27.78% 12
Midlands -36 4 £500 - 10
West Midlands - 4 £500 - 5
East of England -23 3 £53 +32.50% 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 (2.50%) CICS
1 2 (2.50%) Tomcat
1 2 (2.50%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.25%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.00%) PTC Creo
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.50%) Windchill
5 1 (1.25%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.00%) AWS
2 7 (8.75%) Azure
3 6 (7.50%) GCP
4 5 (6.25%) Nutanix
4 5 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 4 (5.00%) Azure Storage
6 2 (2.50%) GitHub
6 2 (2.50%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.25%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 29 (36.25%) SAN
2 13 (16.25%) NAS
3 8 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
4 7 (8.75%) iSCSI
5 3 (3.75%) VSAN
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.50%) Firewall
6 2 (2.50%) LAN
6 2 (2.50%) VLAN
6 2 (2.50%) WAN
7 1 (1.25%) BGP
7 1 (1.25%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.25%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.25%) FCoE
7 1 (1.25%) Multicast
7 1 (1.25%) OSPF
7 1 (1.25%) SNMP
7 1 (1.25%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (1.25%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.25%) MySQL
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.00%) Manufacturing
3 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.75%) Finance
5 4 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Banking
7 2 (2.50%) Law
8 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.25%) Electronics
8 1 (1.25%) International Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (21.25%) Storage Engineer
2 15 (18.75%) Consultant
3 9 (11.25%) Design Engineer
3 9 (11.25%) EMC Consultant
4 7 (8.75%) RF Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Principal Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) RF Design Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Analyst
6 5 (6.25%) Developer
6 5 (6.25%) ETL Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Senior
7 4 (5.00%) Storage Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Administrator
8 3 (3.75%) Backup Consultant
8 3 (3.75%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Data Storage Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Storage and Backup Consultant
8 3 (3.75%) Systems Administrator
8 3 (3.75%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.25%) JSON
1 5 (6.25%) RESTful
1 5 (6.25%) XML
2 2 (2.50%) LDAP
2 2 (2.50%) Middleware
2 2 (2.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 13 (16.25%) Replication
3 9 (11.25%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.00%) EMC VMAX
4 4 (5.00%) EMC VNX
5 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.50%) Clustering
6 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.50%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) FPGA
7 1 (1.25%) HP Storage
7 1 (1.25%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.25%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.25%) Linux
2 7 (8.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (8.75%) Windows
3 3 (3.75%) Solaris
4 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.50%) zOS
5 1 (1.25%) AIX
5 1 (1.25%) CentOS
5 1 (1.25%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.25%) MVS
5 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.25%) VMS
5 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.75%) Disaster Recovery
2 16 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
4 13 (16.25%) Change Management
5 12 (15.00%) High Availability
6 11 (13.75%) Capacity Planning
7 10 (12.50%) Data Protection
7 10 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
7 10 (12.50%) Validation
8 9 (11.25%) Migration
9 8 (10.00%) Data Management
9 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (10.00%) ITIL
9 8 (10.00%) PDM
9 8 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (8.75%) Capacity Management
10 7 (8.75%) Mentoring
10 7 (8.75%) Project Delivery
11 6 (7.50%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (7.50%) Schematic Capture
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.25%) Python
2 6 (7.50%) SQL
3 5 (6.25%) T-SQL
3 5 (6.25%) VBA
4 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.50%) Java
6 1 (1.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 26 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 19 (23.75%) SC Cleared
3 15 (18.75%) Degree
4 6 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.75%) EMC Certification
6 3 (3.75%) HNC
6 3 (3.75%) HND
7 1 (1.25%) CCNP
7 1 (1.25%) CCSA
7 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.25%) Server+ Certification
7 1 (1.25%) VCAP
7 1 (1.25%) VCDX
7 1 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) GDPR
2 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.00%) Def Stans
2 4 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.75%) IEC 61508
3 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 1 (1.25%) DO-160
4 1 (1.25%) GxP
4 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (17.50%) Firmware
2 7 (8.75%) NFS
3 5 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.00%) vSphere
5 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.50%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.50%) KVM
5 2 (2.50%) SRDF
5 2 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.25%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.25%) VMware Server
6 1 (1.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (13.75%) EMC NetWorker
2 7 (8.75%) EMC VPLEX
2 7 (8.75%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.25%) vCenter Server
4 4 (5.00%) Control-M
5 3 (3.75%) Ansible
5 3 (3.75%) Functional Safety
5 3 (3.75%) VxRail
6 2 (2.50%) NetBackup
6 2 (2.50%) SCOM
6 2 (2.50%) Terraform
6 2 (2.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (1.25%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (1.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (25.00%) VMware
2 19 (23.75%) NetApp
3 18 (22.50%) Cisco
4 14 (17.50%) Dell
5 12 (15.00%) Isilon
6 10 (12.50%) Brocade
7 9 (11.25%) Pure Storage
8 8 (10.00%) IBM
8 8 (10.00%) Red Hat
9 7 (8.75%) Microsoft
10 6 (7.50%) Veritas
11 4 (5.00%) Commvault
11 4 (5.00%) Oracle
11 4 (5.00%) PTC
12 3 (3.75%) F5
13 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
14 1 (1.25%) Dell Compellent
14 1 (1.25%) ICL
14 1 (1.25%) Keysight
14 1 (1.25%) Meraki