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 31 August 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
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 492 436
Rank change year-on-year -108 -56 +44
Contract jobs citing EMC 74 72 138
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.22% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 0.33% 0.46% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 38 71
10th Percentile £340 £325 £350
25th Percentile £350 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.50% +5.26% +1.28%
75th Percentile £638 £530 £594
90th Percentile £670 £608 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £439 £472 £531
% change year-on-year -6.99% -11.15% +18.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 39
10th Percentile £55.09 £43.20 £52.25
25th Percentile £56.74 £55.00 £53.40
Median hourly rate £64.00 £77.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -17.42% +35.14% +11.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £81.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £74.13 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £77.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -18.71% +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 22,440 15,554 16,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.75% 47.20% 44.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,821 9,526 10,400
10th Percentile £313 £275 £287
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,170 794 740
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.69 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.29 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.44% -13.28% -31.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.01 £62.51
90th Percentile £81.36 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £21.24 £27.50
% change year-on-year +31.83% -22.76% -30.51%

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 31 August 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 31 August 2026.

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 31 August 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 -109 67 £555 +11.00% 146
UK excluding London -80 57 £439 -6.99% 144
East of England -1 22 £350 +713.95% 32
South East -64 18 £575 +14.14% 45
London -74 15 £625 +25.00% 17
Scotland -16 6 £288 -30.30% 12
Yorkshire -54 6 £519 +37.48% 2
North of England -80 6 £519 +33.08% 19
Work from Home -52 5 £581 +66.00% 66
West Midlands -42 3 £625 +25.00% 14
Midlands -47 3 £625 +25.00% 23
South West -41 2 - - 21

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 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Windchill
2 3 (4.05%) OrCAD
3 2 (2.70%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.81%) Azure
2 5 (6.76%) OpenShift
3 4 (5.41%) AWS
3 4 (5.41%) GitHub
4 3 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.70%) Azure Storage
5 2 (2.70%) Datadog
6 1 (1.35%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.35%) GCP
6 1 (1.35%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.16%) SAN
2 7 (9.46%) Firewall
3 6 (8.11%) Ethernet
3 6 (8.11%) NAS
3 6 (8.11%) WAN
4 5 (6.76%) LAN
5 3 (4.05%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (4.05%) Network Security
6 2 (2.70%) DHCP
6 2 (2.70%) DNS
6 2 (2.70%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (2.70%) IP Telephony
6 2 (2.70%) MIMO
6 2 (2.70%) MPLS
6 2 (2.70%) SDH
6 2 (2.70%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (2.70%) VSAN
6 2 (2.70%) X.21
7 1 (1.35%) SMS
7 1 (1.35%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.35%) MySQL
2 1 (1.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.35%) Git
4 1 (1.35%) GitLab
4 1 (1.35%) JIRA
4 1 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.35%) Subversion
General
1 21 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 19 (25.68%) Aerospace
3 11 (14.86%) Manufacturing
4 10 (13.51%) Electronics
5 6 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.11%) Finance
5 6 (8.11%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.41%) Military
6 4 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.05%) Law
8 2 (2.70%) Banking
9 1 (1.35%) Aviation
9 1 (1.35%) Avionics
9 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (31.08%) EMC Engineer
2 16 (21.62%) Systems Engineer
3 11 (14.86%) Test Engineer
4 9 (12.16%) Storage Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) EMC Test Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Architect
6 7 (9.46%) Lead
7 6 (8.11%) Senior
8 5 (6.76%) Designer
8 5 (6.76%) Storage Architect
9 4 (5.41%) Hardware Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Electrical Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Project Manager
10 3 (4.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 2 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
11 2 (2.70%) Engineering Specialist
11 2 (2.70%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.11%) Terraform
2 2 (2.70%) Middleware
2 2 (2.70%) REST
3 1 (1.35%) Java RMI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.92%) Enterprise Storage
2 9 (12.16%) Replication
3 8 (10.81%) EMC VMAX
4 7 (9.46%) Data Centre
4 7 (9.46%) EMC VNX
5 6 (8.11%) FPGA
6 3 (4.05%) Analogue Electronics
6 3 (4.05%) Celerra
6 3 (4.05%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (4.05%) EMC Centera
6 3 (4.05%) IBM XIV
6 3 (4.05%) PCIe
6 3 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.05%) Symmetrix
6 3 (4.05%) Symmetrix DMX
7 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.70%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.70%) PKI
7 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.35%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.62%) Windows
2 12 (16.22%) Linux
3 6 (8.11%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.41%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.05%) VMS
6 2 (2.70%) CentOS
6 2 (2.70%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.35%) AIX
7 1 (1.35%) Unix
7 1 (1.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
1 13 (17.57%) Validation
2 11 (14.86%) Migration
3 10 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (12.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (9.46%) Capacity Planning
6 7 (9.46%) Kalman Filter
6 7 (9.46%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (9.46%) Roadmaps
6 7 (9.46%) Storage Management
7 6 (8.11%) CI/CD
7 6 (8.11%) Containerisation
7 6 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (8.11%) DevOps
7 6 (8.11%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (8.11%) Schematic Capture
8 5 (6.76%) Change Management
8 5 (6.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (6.76%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.86%) Python
2 7 (9.46%) PowerShell
3 5 (6.76%) Bash
4 3 (4.05%) Java
5 1 (1.35%) C
5 1 (1.35%) JCL
5 1 (1.35%) Perl
5 1 (1.35%) SQL
5 1 (1.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (40.54%) Security Cleared
2 20 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 12 (16.22%) Degree
4 5 (6.76%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.41%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.41%) HNC
5 4 (5.41%) HND
6 3 (4.05%) NCDA
6 3 (4.05%) NCIE
6 3 (4.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.70%) CCNA
7 2 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.35%) CCNP
8 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.35%) MCSE
8 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.35%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.41%) Def Stans
2 3 (4.05%) DO-254
2 3 (4.05%) IEC 61508
3 2 (2.70%) SLA
4 1 (1.35%) DO-160
4 1 (1.35%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 14 (18.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (14.86%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (9.46%) vSphere
4 6 (8.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 6 (8.11%) Firmware
5 5 (6.76%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (5.41%) Active Directory
6 4 (5.41%) NFS
6 4 (5.41%) SRDF
7 2 (2.70%) Docker
7 2 (2.70%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.35%) GPFS
8 1 (1.35%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (1.35%) Samba
8 1 (1.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (10.81%) Ansible
1 8 (10.81%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.46%) EMC VPLEX
2 7 (9.46%) vCenter Server
3 5 (6.76%) EMC NetWorker
4 4 (5.41%) SnapMirror
5 3 (4.05%) Argo
5 3 (4.05%) Avamar
5 3 (4.05%) Functional Safety
5 3 (4.05%) NetBackup
5 3 (4.05%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.05%) SnapVault
6 2 (2.70%) Grafana
6 2 (2.70%) MOM
6 2 (2.70%) PowerCLI
6 2 (2.70%) Puppet
7 1 (1.35%) Check_MK
7 1 (1.35%) Nagios
7 1 (1.35%) OpenNMS
7 1 (1.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (25.68%) Cisco
2 16 (21.62%) NetApp
2 16 (21.62%) VMware
3 10 (13.51%) Brocade
4 8 (10.81%) Dell
4 8 (10.81%) Veeam
5 7 (9.46%) 3PAR
6 6 (8.11%) IBM
6 6 (8.11%) Microsoft
7 5 (6.76%) Isilon
8 4 (5.41%) Pure Storage
8 4 (5.41%) Red Hat
9 3 (4.05%) Altera
9 3 (4.05%) BT
9 3 (4.05%) CheckPoint
9 3 (4.05%) Intel
9 3 (4.05%) Openreach
9 3 (4.05%) Palo Alto
9 3 (4.05%) ServiceNow
9 3 (4.05%) SolarWinds