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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 444 568
Rank change year-on-year -21 +124 +91
Contract jobs citing EMC 54 157 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.36% 0.24%
As % of the Vendors category 0.39% 0.85% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 83 73
10th Percentile £341 £350 £236
25th Percentile £402 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £460 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% -0.54% -4.64%
75th Percentile £531 £588 £575
90th Percentile £596 £608 £626
UK excluding London median daily rate £404 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -24.86% +2.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 46 19
10th Percentile - £41.56 £20.22
25th Percentile £51.25 £53.40 £20.74
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +144.04% -1.71%
75th Percentile £75.00 £61.30 £53.87
90th Percentile - £68.75 £60.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £38.50
% change year-on-year -4.10% +48.96% -18.95%

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 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

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 30 April 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

EMC
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing EMC over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for EMC in the UK

EMC
Top 13 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 30 April 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 -33 51 £473 +5.05% 129
London +23 30 £500 +42.86% 19
UK excluding London -37 23 £404 -24.86% 121
North of England +19 11 £428 -0.58% 12
North West +17 7 £525 - 8
Work from Home +21 6 £550 +29.41% 46
East of England +35 4 - - 30
Yorkshire 0 4 £390 -9.30% 4
South East -18 4 £402 -29.60% 40
Scotland +6 2 £436 -37.05% 9
Midlands +14 1 £275 -52.17% 17
Northern Ireland -9 1 - - 1
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 6 (11.11%) Confluence
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.85%) Apache
3 1 (1.85%) IIS
3 1 (1.85%) JBoss
3 1 (1.85%) nginx
3 1 (1.85%) SAS
3 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.37%) Azure
2 7 (12.96%) AWS
3 6 (11.11%) Nutanix
4 5 (9.26%) Azure Stack
4 5 (9.26%) GitHub
4 5 (9.26%) IaaS
4 5 (9.26%) PaaS
5 4 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.56%) GCP
6 3 (5.56%) SaaS
7 2 (3.70%) Rubrik
7 2 (3.70%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (42.59%) SAN
2 9 (16.67%) NAS
3 6 (11.11%) DNS
3 6 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 4 (7.41%) Firewall
4 4 (7.41%) VoIP
4 4 (7.41%) VPN
5 3 (5.56%) MPLS
5 3 (5.56%) VSAN
6 2 (3.70%) BGP
6 2 (3.70%) DHCP
6 2 (3.70%) EIGRP
6 2 (3.70%) Ethernet
6 2 (3.70%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (3.70%) Kerberos
6 2 (3.70%) OSPF
6 2 (3.70%) SDH
6 2 (3.70%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (3.70%) SpaceWire
6 2 (3.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.70%) DB2
2 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.70%) MySQL
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.70%) Sybase ASE
3 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Git
2 6 (11.11%) JIRA
2 6 (11.11%) TeamCity
3 5 (9.26%) Subversion
4 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.70%) Selenium
5 2 (3.70%) TestNG
6 1 (1.85%) Serena SBM
General
1 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.37%) Finance
3 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.11%) Electronics
4 5 (9.26%) Aerospace
5 4 (7.41%) Banking
5 4 (7.41%) Legal
6 3 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.70%) Military
8 1 (1.85%) Aviation
8 1 (1.85%) Avionics
8 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Marketing
8 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
2 8 (14.81%) Architect
3 5 (9.26%) Administrator
3 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (7.41%) Consultant
4 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (7.41%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Backup Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) EMC Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) EMC Storage Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Storage and Backup Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Tester
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Senior
6 2 (3.70%) Storage Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Support Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) REST
2 2 (3.70%) LDAP
2 2 (3.70%) pytest
2 2 (3.70%) RESTful
3 1 (1.85%) Flash
3 1 (1.85%) Middleware
3 1 (1.85%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Clustering
1 9 (16.67%) EMC VMAX
1 9 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 7 (12.96%) Replication
3 3 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.56%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.85%) EMC VNX
5 1 (1.85%) IBM XIV
5 1 (1.85%) NVMe
5 1 (1.85%) PKI
5 1 (1.85%) Symmetrix
5 1 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (44.44%) Linux
2 21 (38.89%) Windows
3 11 (20.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (20.37%) Windows Server
4 10 (18.52%) Unix
5 6 (11.11%) Solaris
6 3 (5.56%) Windows 10
6 3 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.85%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.85%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.85%) VMS
7 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 13 (24.07%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (20.37%) High Availability
5 9 (16.67%) Problem Management
6 8 (14.81%) CI/CD
6 8 (14.81%) DevOps
6 8 (14.81%) Migration
7 7 (12.96%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (11.11%) Change Management
9 5 (9.26%) API Integration
9 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (9.26%) Observability
10 4 (7.41%) Break/Fix
10 4 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (7.41%) Risk Management
10 4 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (7.41%) Security Auditing
10 4 (7.41%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.63%) Python
2 10 (18.52%) Bash
3 8 (14.81%) Perl
3 8 (14.81%) SQL
4 6 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.56%) Java
6 2 (3.70%) C
6 2 (3.70%) C#
6 2 (3.70%) Tcl
6 2 (3.70%) VBA
7 1 (1.85%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.85%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.85%) Ruby
7 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 14 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.96%) Degree
4 3 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.70%) EMC Certification
6 1 (1.85%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.85%) CCNP
6 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.85%) HP ASE
6 1 (1.85%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) GDPR
2 6 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.85%) NIST
4 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 14 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (12.96%) Active Directory
2 7 (12.96%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (11.11%) Firmware
4 4 (7.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (5.56%) Docker
6 2 (3.70%) GPFS
6 2 (3.70%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.70%) NFS
6 2 (3.70%) vSphere
7 1 (1.85%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.85%) SRDF
7 1 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (24.07%) Ansible
2 10 (18.52%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (11.11%) Tivoli
3 6 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 6 (11.11%) VxRail
4 5 (9.26%) Puppet
4 5 (9.26%) QRadar
4 5 (9.26%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (7.41%) HP Data Protector
5 4 (7.41%) Kubernetes
5 4 (7.41%) NetBackup
5 4 (7.41%) Terraform
6 3 (5.56%) vRealize
7 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.70%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.70%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 1 (1.85%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.85%) SCCM
8 1 (1.85%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 27 (50.00%) VMware
2 22 (40.74%) Cisco
3 16 (29.63%) Red Hat
4 14 (25.93%) HP
5 13 (24.07%) Oracle
5 13 (24.07%) Splunk
6 12 (22.22%) Brocade
6 12 (22.22%) ServiceNow
7 10 (18.52%) IBM
7 10 (18.52%) NetApp
7 10 (18.52%) Veritas
8 9 (16.67%) Dell
9 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
10 6 (11.11%) CyberArk
10 6 (11.11%) Qualys
11 5 (9.26%) AppDynamics
12 4 (7.41%) Pure Storage
12 4 (7.41%) SaltStack
12 4 (7.41%) Sybase
13 2 (3.70%) SAP