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 2 February 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
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 448 460
Rank change year-on-year -84 +12 +139
Contract jobs citing EMC 58 84 148
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.27% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 0.33% 0.59% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 45 85
10th Percentile £135 £243 £320
25th Percentile £338 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -20.20% +7.45% -2.03%
75th Percentile £519 £600 £575
90th Percentile £600 £609 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £399 £480 £501
% change year-on-year -16.88% -4.19% +5.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 16
10th Percentile £77.38 £60.30 £22.38
25th Percentile - £63.75 £52.23
Median hourly rate £81.00 £73.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% +8.89% +170.00%
75th Percentile £81.19 £75.00 £70.38
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.15 £76.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 £74.25 £67.50
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +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 17,487 14,355 19,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.51% 46.20% 43.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,256 8,481 12,469
10th Percentile £300 £280 £250
25th Percentile £410 £408 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.33%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 420 920
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.78 £20.14 £15.83
Median hourly rate £23.75 £28.21 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.80% -5.98% -3.69%
75th Percentile £52.27 £61.50 £58.71
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.15 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.48 £25.00 £26.97
% change year-on-year -14.08% -7.31% +3.74%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -101 45 £481 -3.80% 49
UK excluding London -65 32 £399 -16.88% 40
London -52 18 £525 +10.53% 12
North of England -47 13 £475 +5.56% 6
Yorkshire -52 9 £437 -7.27% 2
Work from Home -26 7 £366 -39.90% 17
Northern Ireland - 6 £375 -
South East -22 5 £64 -81.37% 9
North West -29 4 £575 +27.78% 4
Midlands -48 4 £500 - 7
West Midlands - 4 £500 - 6
East of England -21 3 £264 +560.00% 8
South West -28 1 - - 11

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 (5.17%) PTC Creo
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.72%) Siemens NX
3 1 (1.72%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.34%) OpenShift
2 2 (3.45%) AWS
2 2 (3.45%) Azure
2 2 (3.45%) Rubrik
3 1 (1.72%) GitHub
3 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (46.55%) SAN
2 9 (15.52%) NAS
3 7 (12.07%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (10.34%) iSCSI
5 2 (3.45%) LAN
5 2 (3.45%) VLAN
5 2 (3.45%) WAN
6 1 (1.72%) BGP
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.72%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.72%) Firewall
6 1 (1.72%) OSPF
6 1 (1.72%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (1.72%) VSAN
6 1 (1.72%) VXLAN
6 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.72%) MySQL
1 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.72%) GitLab
General
1 11 (18.97%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.07%) Manufacturing
3 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Retail
5 2 (3.45%) Banking
6 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.72%) Avionics
6 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Electronics
6 1 (1.72%) Finance
6 1 (1.72%) International Banking
6 1 (1.72%) Law
6 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (29.31%) Storage Engineer
2 6 (10.34%) Consultant
2 6 (10.34%) Design Engineer
2 6 (10.34%) RF Engineer
3 5 (8.62%) Senior
4 4 (6.90%) Analyst
4 4 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) RF Design Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Administrator
5 3 (5.17%) Backup Consultant
5 3 (5.17%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Data Storage Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Network Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Storage Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) Storage and Backup Consultant
5 3 (5.17%) Storage Consultant
5 3 (5.17%) Storage Specialist
5 3 (5.17%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (5.17%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.72%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Enterprise Storage
1 12 (20.69%) Replication
2 4 (6.90%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.90%) EMC VMAX
2 4 (6.90%) EMC VNX
3 3 (5.17%) Driving Licence
3 3 (5.17%) EPoS
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.72%) CMDB
4 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) FPGA
4 1 (1.72%) HP Storage
4 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.72%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.97%) Linux
2 7 (12.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (6.90%) Windows
4 1 (1.72%) AIX
4 1 (1.72%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.72%) Solaris
4 1 (1.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (20.69%) Change Management
3 11 (18.97%) Capacity Planning
4 10 (17.24%) High Availability
4 10 (17.24%) Migration
5 9 (15.52%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (12.07%) Data Protection
7 7 (12.07%) ITIL
7 7 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.34%) Containerisation
8 6 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (8.62%) Data Management
9 5 (8.62%) ITSM
9 5 (8.62%) Mentoring
9 5 (8.62%) PDM
9 5 (8.62%) Performance Monitoring
9 5 (8.62%) Problem Management
10 4 (6.90%) Logistics
10 4 (6.90%) Schematic Capture
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.62%) Python
2 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (32.76%) Security Cleared
2 12 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.52%) Degree
4 6 (10.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (6.90%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.72%) CCNP
7 1 (1.72%) CCSA
7 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.72%) VCAP
7 1 (1.72%) VCDX
7 1 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) Def Stans
1 1 (1.72%) DO-160
1 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Firmware
2 6 (10.34%) NFS
3 2 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.72%) Docker
4 1 (1.72%) SRDF
4 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (18.97%) EMC NetWorker
2 7 (12.07%) EMC VPLEX
2 7 (12.07%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (1.72%) Ansible
4 1 (1.72%) Grafana
4 1 (1.72%) Kibana
4 1 (1.72%) logstash
4 1 (1.72%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (43.10%) Cisco
2 16 (27.59%) Dell
3 15 (25.86%) NetApp
4 11 (18.97%) Brocade
4 11 (18.97%) Isilon
4 11 (18.97%) VMware
5 10 (17.24%) IBM
6 7 (12.07%) Red Hat
7 5 (8.62%) Veritas
8 4 (6.90%) Hitachi
8 4 (6.90%) Pure Storage
9 3 (5.17%) HP
9 3 (5.17%) PTC
10 2 (3.45%) Commvault
10 2 (3.45%) Oracle
10 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.72%) Dell Compellent
11 1 (1.72%) F5
11 1 (1.72%) Keysight
11 1 (1.72%) Meraki