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 29 September 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
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 483 460
Rank change year-on-year -123 -23 -1
Contract jobs citing EMC 87 68 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.21% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 0.38% 0.44% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 34 58
10th Percentile £143 £325 £343
25th Percentile £350 £402 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +5.26% +1.50%
75th Percentile £589 £530 £606
90th Percentile £638 £635 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £492 £525
% change year-on-year -28.86% -6.29% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 20
10th Percentile £52.90 £42.68 £23.80
25th Percentile £56.74 £73.75 £53.18
Median hourly rate £63.00 £77.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% +35.14% +11.53%
75th Percentile £69.38 £81.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £74.63 - -
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 22,749 15,514 16,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.65% 47.59% 44.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,847 9,563 9,961
10th Percentile £310 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £618 £613 £625
90th Percentile £705 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,319 804 634
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.75 £14.59
25th Percentile £16.44 £17.74 £15.65
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -19.52% -28.57%
75th Percentile £57.50 £42.50 £64.25
90th Percentile £78.30 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £21.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.37% -29.00% -30.23%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -114 77 £519 +3.03% 279
UK excluding London -76 71 £350 -28.86% 252
East of England -7 25 £350 +713.95% 43
South East -63 19 £575 +11.38% 73
London -93 14 £625 +25.00% 32
Work from Home -57 11 £550 +57.14% 90
Scotland -20 9 £208 -49.70% 21
Yorkshire -45 8 £499 - 7
North of England -79 8 £499 - 34
South West -34 7 £500 -16.67% 47
Midlands -41 3 £625 +25.00% 29
West Midlands -43 3 £625 +25.00% 18

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 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (6.90%) Windchill
2 4 (4.60%) OrCAD
3 2 (2.30%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.15%) PTC Creo
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.20%) Azure
2 6 (6.90%) OpenShift
3 4 (4.60%) GitHub
4 3 (3.45%) AWS
4 3 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.30%) Azure Storage
5 2 (2.30%) Datadog
5 2 (2.30%) GCP
5 2 (2.30%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.15%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.79%) SAN
2 9 (10.34%) Ethernet
3 6 (6.90%) NAS
4 5 (5.75%) Firewall
4 5 (5.75%) WAN
5 4 (4.60%) LAN
6 3 (3.45%) Network Security
7 2 (2.30%) DHCP
7 2 (2.30%) DNS
7 2 (2.30%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (2.30%) IP Telephony
7 2 (2.30%) iSCSI
7 2 (2.30%) MIMO
7 2 (2.30%) MPLS
7 2 (2.30%) SDH
7 2 (2.30%) VSAN
7 2 (2.30%) X.21
8 1 (1.15%) 4G
8 1 (1.15%) SMS
8 1 (1.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.15%) Git
3 1 (1.15%) GitLab
3 1 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.15%) Subversion
General
1 28 (32.18%) Aerospace
2 24 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 15 (17.24%) Electronics
3 15 (17.24%) Manufacturing
4 8 (9.20%) Finance
5 6 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.90%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.75%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.75%) Military
6 5 (5.75%) Retail
7 4 (4.60%) Aviation
7 4 (4.60%) Avionics
8 3 (3.45%) Law
8 3 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.30%) Banking
10 1 (1.15%) Automotive
10 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.15%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 26 (29.89%) EMC Engineer
2 17 (19.54%) Systems Engineer
3 12 (13.79%) Storage Engineer
4 10 (11.49%) Test Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) Architect
5 9 (10.34%) Lead
6 8 (9.20%) EMC Test Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Electrical Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Design Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Senior
9 5 (5.75%) Storage Architect
10 4 (4.60%) Designer
10 4 (4.60%) Hardware Engineer
11 3 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
11 3 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (3.45%) Product Delivery Manager
11 3 (3.45%) Product Manager
11 3 (3.45%) VMware Engineer
12 2 (2.30%) Digital Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) Terraform
2 1 (1.15%) Java RMI
2 1 (1.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.39%) Enterprise Storage
2 10 (11.49%) Replication
3 8 (9.20%) Data Centre
3 8 (9.20%) FPGA
4 7 (8.05%) Driving Licence
5 6 (6.90%) Analogue Electronics
5 6 (6.90%) EMC VMAX
6 5 (5.75%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (5.75%) EMC VNX
7 4 (4.60%) PCIe
7 4 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.30%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.30%) PKI
8 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.30%) Robotics
9 1 (1.15%) Celerra
9 1 (1.15%) CMDB
9 1 (1.15%) iSeries
9 1 (1.15%) Symmetrix
9 1 (1.15%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.99%) Windows
2 13 (14.94%) Linux
3 7 (8.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (6.90%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.60%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (3.45%) VMS
7 2 (2.30%) AIX
7 2 (2.30%) CentOS
7 2 (2.30%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.15%) Solaris
8 1 (1.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (1.15%) Unix
8 1 (1.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (14.94%) Validation
3 10 (11.49%) Migration
4 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (9.20%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (9.20%) Schematic Capture
6 7 (8.05%) Change Management
6 7 (8.05%) CI/CD
6 7 (8.05%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (8.05%) Roadmaps
6 7 (8.05%) Storage Management
7 6 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (6.90%) Containerisation
7 6 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (6.90%) DevOps
7 6 (6.90%) Inventory Management
7 6 (6.90%) Observability
7 6 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (6.90%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.64%) Python
2 7 (8.05%) PowerShell
3 5 (5.75%) Bash
4 3 (3.45%) Java
5 2 (2.30%) C
5 2 (2.30%) SQL
6 1 (1.15%) JCL
6 1 (1.15%) Perl
6 1 (1.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 25 (28.74%) SC Cleared
3 15 (17.24%) Degree
4 6 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (5.75%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.75%) HNC
5 5 (5.75%) HND
6 4 (4.60%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.45%) NCDA
7 3 (3.45%) NCIE
7 3 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.30%) CCNA
8 2 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.15%) CCNP
9 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.15%) MCSE
9 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) Def Stans
2 4 (4.60%) DO-254
2 4 (4.60%) IEC 61508
3 2 (2.30%) DO-160
3 2 (2.30%) SLA
4 1 (1.15%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 17 (19.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (13.79%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (10.34%) Firmware
4 8 (9.20%) vSphere
5 5 (5.75%) NFS
6 4 (4.60%) Active Directory
6 4 (4.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 4 (4.60%) SRDF
7 3 (3.45%) Docker
7 3 (3.45%) Hyper-V
7 3 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.30%) GPFS
9 1 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (1.15%) Samba
9 1 (1.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.05%) vCenter Server
3 6 (6.90%) Ansible
4 5 (5.75%) EMC NetWorker
4 5 (5.75%) EMC VPLEX
5 4 (4.60%) Functional Safety
5 4 (4.60%) NetBackup
5 4 (4.60%) SnapMirror
6 3 (3.45%) Argo
6 3 (3.45%) MOM
6 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.45%) SnapVault
7 2 (2.30%) Grafana
7 2 (2.30%) PowerCLI
7 2 (2.30%) Puppet
8 1 (1.15%) Avamar
8 1 (1.15%) Check_MK
8 1 (1.15%) Nagios
8 1 (1.15%) OpenNMS
8 1 (1.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (24.14%) Cisco
1 21 (24.14%) NetApp
2 19 (21.84%) VMware
3 14 (16.09%) Dell
4 11 (12.64%) IBM
5 10 (11.49%) Brocade
6 7 (8.05%) Microsoft
6 7 (8.05%) Veeam
7 5 (5.75%) 3PAR
7 5 (5.75%) Hitachi
7 5 (5.75%) Red Hat
8 4 (4.60%) Altera
8 4 (4.60%) Intel
8 4 (4.60%) Isilon
8 4 (4.60%) Pure Storage
8 4 (4.60%) Xilinx
9 3 (3.45%) BT
9 3 (3.45%) Openreach
9 3 (3.45%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.30%) Google