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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 432 472
Rank change year-on-year -65 +40 +179
Contract jobs citing EMC 71 127 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.46% 0.75% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 66 96
10th Percentile £325 - £261
25th Percentile £402 £350 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £468
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +4.70% -1.47%
75th Percentile £530 £597 £613
90th Percentile £620 £608 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £538 £425
% change year-on-year -10.33% +26.47% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 10
10th Percentile £43.20 £51.38 £22.75
25th Percentile £73.75 £53.40 £38.75
Median hourly rate £77.50 £57.35 £51.96
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% +10.37% +117.31%
75th Percentile £81.25 £61.30 £57.50
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.50 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year +35.14% +9.24% +16.67%

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 15,579 17,006 21,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.28% 44.16% 44.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,565 10,199 14,188
10th Percentile £275 £281 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.40% - +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 796 678 648
10th Percentile £14.72 £14.26 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.45 £15.62 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -31.66% +83.61%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.28 £30.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.07% -29.41% +112.50%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 61 £500 +8.11% 74
UK excluding London -23 49 £482 -10.33% 68
London -6 19 £500 +42.86% 10
South East -8 17 £504 -16.74% 28
North of England -2 14 £550 +2.33% 11
Yorkshire -4 13 - - 3
Work from Home -2 9 £350 -30.00% 25
Northern Ireland - 6 £350 - 1
East of England +9 5 £43 +7.50% 17
Scotland -3 3 £413 -12.47% 2
South West +25 2 £600 +25.00% 9
Midlands -23 2 £500 -13.04% 5
West Midlands - 2 £500 - 4
North West - 1 £550 - 8

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 2 (2.82%) CICS
1 2 (2.82%) Documentum
1 2 (2.82%) Tomcat
1 2 (2.82%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) IIS
2 1 (1.41%) SAS
2 1 (1.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 8 (11.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.41%) PTC Creo
4 1 (1.41%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.27%) AWS
1 8 (11.27%) Azure
2 6 (8.45%) GCP
3 5 (7.04%) Azure Storage
3 5 (7.04%) Nutanix
4 2 (2.82%) GitHub
5 1 (1.41%) Cohesity
5 1 (1.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (23.94%) SAN
2 7 (9.86%) NAS
3 3 (4.23%) Firewall
4 2 (2.82%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (2.82%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (2.82%) iSCSI
4 2 (2.82%) LAN
4 2 (2.82%) VLAN
4 2 (2.82%) VSAN
4 2 (2.82%) WAN
5 1 (1.41%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.41%) DECT
5 1 (1.41%) DHCP
5 1 (1.41%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.41%) FCoE
5 1 (1.41%) Multicast
5 1 (1.41%) SNMP
5 1 (1.41%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (1.41%) VoIP
5 1 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.82%) DB2
2 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.82%) JIRA
2 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.49%) Manufacturing
3 6 (8.45%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (8.45%) Finance
4 5 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.04%) Electronics
5 3 (4.23%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.82%) Law
6 2 (2.82%) Legal
7 1 (1.41%) Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (23.94%) Consultant
2 11 (15.49%) EMC Consultant
3 7 (9.86%) Design Engineer
3 7 (9.86%) Storage Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) Developer
4 6 (8.45%) Principal Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) RF Design Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) RF Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Electronics Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) ETL Developer
5 5 (7.04%) Hardware Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Electronics Test Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Hardware Test Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Storage Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) Storage Consultant
6 4 (5.63%) Technology Consultant
6 4 (5.63%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Storage and Backup Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) JSON
1 5 (7.04%) RESTful
1 5 (7.04%) XML
2 2 (2.82%) LDAP
2 2 (2.82%) Middleware
3 1 (1.41%) Flash
3 1 (1.41%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.04%) EMC VMAX
2 5 (7.04%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.82%) Clustering
4 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.82%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.82%) Replication
5 1 (1.41%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.41%) HP Storage
5 1 (1.41%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.41%) IoT
5 1 (1.41%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.72%) Linux
2 10 (14.08%) Windows
3 8 (11.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (8.45%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.23%) Solaris
6 2 (2.82%) Unix
6 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (2.82%) zOS
7 1 (1.41%) AIX
7 1 (1.41%) CentOS
7 1 (1.41%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.41%) MVS
7 1 (1.41%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.41%) VMS
7 1 (1.41%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (19.72%) Validation
3 12 (16.90%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (14.08%) Systems Engineering
4 10 (14.08%) Technical Leadership
5 9 (12.68%) Problem Management
6 8 (11.27%) Change Management
7 7 (9.86%) Capacity Planning
7 7 (9.86%) Data Management
7 7 (9.86%) Migration
7 7 (9.86%) PDM
7 7 (9.86%) Performance Monitoring
7 7 (9.86%) Schematic Capture
7 7 (9.86%) Storage Management
8 6 (8.45%) Capacity Management
8 6 (8.45%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (8.45%) Line Management
8 6 (8.45%) Mentoring
8 6 (8.45%) Performance Optimisation
8 6 (8.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.08%) Python
2 8 (11.27%) SQL
3 5 (7.04%) T-SQL
3 5 (7.04%) VBA
4 2 (2.82%) Java
4 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.41%) Bash
5 1 (1.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (19.72%) SC Cleared
1 14 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.90%) Degree
3 9 (12.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (7.04%) EMC Certification
5 4 (5.63%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.63%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.23%) HNC
6 3 (4.23%) HND
7 1 (1.41%) CCNP
7 1 (1.41%) CCSA
7 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.41%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) GDPR
2 5 (7.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.63%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.23%) Def Stans
4 3 (4.23%) IEC 61508
4 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 1 (1.41%) DO-254
5 1 (1.41%) GxP
System Software
1 8 (11.27%) Firmware
2 6 (8.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.23%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.23%) vSphere
4 2 (2.82%) GPFS
4 2 (2.82%) KVM
4 2 (2.82%) NFS
5 1 (1.41%) Docker
5 1 (1.41%) SRDF
5 1 (1.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.41%) VMware Server
5 1 (1.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (9.86%) EMC NetWorker
1 7 (9.86%) EMC VPLEX
2 5 (7.04%) vCenter Server
3 4 (5.63%) Ansible
3 4 (5.63%) Control-M
4 3 (4.23%) Functional Safety
4 3 (4.23%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.23%) VxRail
5 2 (2.82%) NetBackup
5 2 (2.82%) SCOM
5 2 (2.82%) Terraform
5 2 (2.82%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 1 (1.41%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (26.76%) VMware
2 15 (21.13%) Cisco
3 13 (18.31%) NetApp
4 10 (14.08%) Brocade
4 10 (14.08%) Dell
5 8 (11.27%) Isilon
5 8 (11.27%) Red Hat
6 7 (9.86%) Pure Storage
7 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
8 5 (7.04%) Veritas
9 3 (4.23%) F5
9 3 (4.23%) IBM
9 3 (4.23%) Oracle
10 2 (2.82%) Commvault
10 2 (2.82%) Google
10 2 (2.82%) HP
10 2 (2.82%) McAfee
10 2 (2.82%) Sophos
10 2 (2.82%) Sybase
10 2 (2.82%) Veeam