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 30 July 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
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 478 428
Rank change year-on-year -107 -50 +64
Contract jobs citing EMC 71 66 147
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.20% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.32% 0.43% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 36 83
10th Percentile - £341 £350
25th Percentile £350 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% +8.70% -0.54%
75th Percentile £638 £532 £588
90th Percentile £688 £588 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £439 £472 £537
% change year-on-year -6.99% -12.10% +19.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 40
10th Percentile £50.50 £41.12 £30.63
25th Percentile £56.74 £51.25 £53.40
Median hourly rate £65.00 £77.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +35.14% +13.02%
75th Percentile £73.75 £81.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £77.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -16.13% +35.14% +9.24%

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 21,889 15,498 17,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.32% 47.23% 43.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,607 9,498 10,855
10th Percentile £313 £280 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £706 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £476 £500
% change year-on-year +4.99% -4.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,101 774 891
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.66 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.02 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -8.55% -34.21%
75th Percentile £65.25 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.32 £25.30
% change year-on-year +52.32% -11.80% -27.19%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -112 61 £528 +5.50% 72
UK excluding London -90 48 £439 -6.99% 69
London -68 17 £625 +25.00% 8
East of England -7 15 £350 +713.95% 18
South East -67 14 £400 -20.60% 28
North of England -78 8 £519 +13.44% 7
Yorkshire -53 6 £519 +37.48%
Work from Home -56 6 £525 +23.53% 29
Scotland -11 5 £288 -30.30% 2
South West -35 3 - - 6
Midlands -56 3 £625 +127.27% 9
West Midlands -62 3 £625 +127.27% 6
North West -53 2 £525 -2.33% 5

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 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.86%) Azure
2 6 (8.45%) OpenShift
3 4 (5.63%) GitHub
3 4 (5.63%) Rubrik
4 3 (4.23%) AWS
4 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.82%) Azure Storage
5 2 (2.82%) Datadog
6 1 (1.41%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 17 (23.94%) SAN
2 10 (14.08%) NAS
3 9 (12.68%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (8.45%) VSAN
5 5 (7.04%) Firewall
5 5 (7.04%) iSCSI
6 4 (5.63%) FCoE
6 4 (5.63%) WAN
7 3 (4.23%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (4.23%) Ethernet
7 3 (4.23%) LAN
7 3 (4.23%) Network Security
8 2 (2.82%) IP Telephony
8 2 (2.82%) MIMO
8 2 (2.82%) MPLS
8 2 (2.82%) SDH
8 2 (2.82%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (2.82%) VoIP
8 2 (2.82%) X.21
9 1 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.41%) MySQL
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.41%) Git
3 1 (1.41%) GitLab
3 1 (1.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.41%) Subversion
General
1 15 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.68%) Electronics
3 8 (11.27%) Manufacturing
4 7 (9.86%) Finance
5 6 (8.45%) Aerospace
5 6 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.45%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Banking
7 2 (2.82%) Law
8 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.41%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.41%) Military
8 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (26.76%) Systems Engineer
2 18 (25.35%) EMC Engineer
3 10 (14.08%) Storage Engineer
4 9 (12.68%) Architect
5 8 (11.27%) Test Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) EMC Test Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Senior
7 5 (7.04%) Designer
7 5 (7.04%) Network Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) SAN Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Storage Architect
9 3 (4.23%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Core Network Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Electrical Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Electronics Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Project Manager
9 3 (4.23%) Security Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Systems Architect
10 2 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.82%) Flash
1 2 (2.82%) Middleware
1 2 (2.82%) REST
2 1 (1.41%) Java RMI
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.35%) Enterprise Storage
2 13 (18.31%) EMC VMAX
3 12 (16.90%) Replication
4 10 (14.08%) Data Centre
5 7 (9.86%) EMC VNX
6 3 (4.23%) Celerra
6 3 (4.23%) EMC Centera
6 3 (4.23%) IBM XIV
6 3 (4.23%) Symmetrix
6 3 (4.23%) Symmetrix DMX
7 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.82%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.82%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.41%) CMDB
8 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.41%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.13%) Windows
2 11 (15.49%) Linux
3 4 (5.63%) Data ONTAP
4 3 (4.23%) VMS
4 3 (4.23%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.41%) AIX
5 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.94%) Migration
2 16 (22.54%) Validation
3 9 (12.68%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (11.27%) Storage Management
5 7 (9.86%) Capacity Planning
5 7 (9.86%) Cloud Security
5 7 (9.86%) Data Migration
5 7 (9.86%) DevOps
5 7 (9.86%) High Availability
5 7 (9.86%) Kalman Filter
5 7 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (9.86%) Systems Engineering
6 6 (8.45%) CI/CD
6 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (8.45%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (7.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (7.04%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (7.04%) Roadmaps
7 5 (7.04%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.72%) Python
2 7 (9.86%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.04%) Bash
4 3 (4.23%) Java
5 1 (1.41%) C
5 1 (1.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (23.94%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.49%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.68%) Degree
4 6 (8.45%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (7.04%) CCNP
6 4 (5.63%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.63%) HP ASE
7 3 (4.23%) NCDA
7 3 (4.23%) NCIE
7 3 (4.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.82%) CCNA
8 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.41%) MCSE
9 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.41%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) SLA
2 1 (1.41%) GRC
2 1 (1.41%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 11 (15.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (11.27%) SRDF
3 7 (9.86%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (8.45%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 5 (7.04%) Firmware
5 5 (7.04%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (7.04%) vSphere
6 3 (4.23%) NFS
7 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
7 2 (2.82%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (2.82%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.41%) Docker
8 1 (1.41%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (1.41%) Samba
8 1 (1.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) Ansible
1 8 (11.27%) EMC NetWorker
2 7 (9.86%) EMC VPLEX
2 7 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.86%) NetBackup
3 6 (8.45%) Avamar
3 6 (8.45%) Terraform
4 5 (7.04%) vCenter Server
5 4 (5.63%) EMC TimeFinder
5 4 (5.63%) SnapMirror
6 3 (4.23%) Argo
6 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.23%) SnapVault
7 2 (2.82%) Grafana
7 2 (2.82%) PowerCLI
7 2 (2.82%) Puppet
8 1 (1.41%) Check_MK
8 1 (1.41%) Nagios
8 1 (1.41%) OpenNMS
8 1 (1.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (36.62%) Cisco
2 16 (22.54%) Brocade
3 15 (21.13%) NetApp
4 14 (19.72%) VMware
5 13 (18.31%) Dell
6 11 (15.49%) Pure Storage
7 8 (11.27%) 3PAR
7 8 (11.27%) Veeam
8 6 (8.45%) Isilon
8 6 (8.45%) Red Hat
9 4 (5.63%) IBM
9 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
10 3 (4.23%) BT
10 3 (4.23%) Openreach
10 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
10 3 (4.23%) SolarWinds
11 2 (2.82%) Cadence
11 2 (2.82%) Commvault
11 2 (2.82%) Oracle
11 2 (2.82%) Tenable