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 5 January 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
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 443 435
Rank change year-on-year -74 -8 +173
Contract jobs citing EMC 69 83 164
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.26% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 0.40% 0.56% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 44 98
10th Percentile £325 £240 £305
25th Percentile £363 £350 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £467
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +7.14% -1.75%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £606
90th Percentile £600 £609 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £503 £459
% change year-on-year -12.94% +9.48% -3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 11
10th Percentile - £54.63 £22.00
25th Percentile £73.75 £59.44 £29.50
Median hourly rate £77.50 £70.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.93% +28.18% +113.92%
75th Percentile £81.25 £75.00 £68.63
90th Percentile - £75.13 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.50 £74.25 £66.82
% change year-on-year +4.38% +11.13% +73.55%

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 17,146 14,723 19,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.57% 45.72% 44.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,005 8,733 12,065
10th Percentile £300 £285 £252
25th Percentile £410 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 804 431 659
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.96 £19.30 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.35 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% -38.54% +64.06%
75th Percentile £46.25 £60.38 £63.29
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -14.00% -44.70% +88.38%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 5 January 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 -69 58 £500 - 46
UK excluding London -49 40 £438 -12.94% 40
London -26 21 £520 +22.35% 9
North of England -38 20 £481 -2.58% 10
Yorkshire -33 16 £475 -11.63% 4
South East -15 8 £538 +56.48% 14
Work from Home -21 7 £400 -33.83% 22
Northern Ireland - 6 £375 -
North West -27 4 £575 +27.78% 5
Midlands -33 4 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 4 £500 - 1
East of England -17 2 £53 +32.50% 13

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 (2.90%) CICS
1 2 (2.90%) Tomcat
1 2 (2.90%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.35%) PTC Creo
3 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.45%) Siemens NX
4 1 (1.45%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.25%) OpenShift
2 4 (5.80%) AWS
3 3 (4.35%) Azure
4 2 (2.90%) GCP
4 2 (2.90%) GitHub
4 2 (2.90%) Nutanix
4 2 (2.90%) Rubrik
5 1 (1.45%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 27 (39.13%) SAN
2 9 (13.04%) NAS
3 8 (11.59%) Fibre Channel
4 7 (10.14%) iSCSI
5 3 (4.35%) VSAN
6 2 (2.90%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (2.90%) Firewall
6 2 (2.90%) LAN
6 2 (2.90%) VLAN
6 2 (2.90%) WAN
7 1 (1.45%) BGP
7 1 (1.45%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.45%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.45%) FCoE
7 1 (1.45%) Multicast
7 1 (1.45%) OSPF
7 1 (1.45%) SNMP
7 1 (1.45%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (1.45%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.45%) MySQL
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.90%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.04%) Manufacturing
3 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.80%) Finance
4 3 (4.35%) Banking
4 3 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.45%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.45%) Electronics
5 1 (1.45%) International Banking
5 1 (1.45%) Law
5 1 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (27.54%) Storage Engineer
2 13 (18.84%) Consultant
3 7 (10.14%) EMC Consultant
4 6 (8.70%) Design Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Analyst
5 5 (7.25%) RF Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Senior
6 4 (5.80%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) RF Design Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Storage Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Administrator
7 3 (4.35%) Backup Consultant
7 3 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Data Storage Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Storage and Backup Consultant
7 3 (4.35%) Storage Consultant
7 3 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (4.35%) Technology Consultant
8 2 (2.90%) SAN Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.90%) JSON
1 2 (2.90%) LDAP
1 2 (2.90%) Middleware
1 2 (2.90%) REST
1 2 (2.90%) RESTful
1 2 (2.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.29%) Enterprise Storage
2 13 (18.84%) Replication
3 9 (13.04%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.80%) EMC VMAX
4 4 (5.80%) EMC VNX
5 2 (2.90%) Clustering
5 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.90%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) FPGA
6 1 (1.45%) HP Storage
6 1 (1.45%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.45%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.84%) Linux
2 7 (10.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (10.14%) Windows
3 3 (4.35%) Solaris
4 2 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.90%) zOS
5 1 (1.45%) AIX
5 1 (1.45%) CentOS
5 1 (1.45%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.45%) MVS
5 1 (1.45%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.45%) VMS
5 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (17.39%) Change Management
2 12 (17.39%) High Availability
2 12 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
3 11 (15.94%) Capacity Planning
4 10 (14.49%) Data Protection
5 9 (13.04%) Migration
6 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (11.59%) ITIL
7 7 (10.14%) Systems Engineering
7 7 (10.14%) Validation
8 6 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (8.70%) Project Delivery
9 5 (7.25%) Containerisation
9 5 (7.25%) Data Management
9 5 (7.25%) Mentoring
9 5 (7.25%) PDM
9 5 (7.25%) Performance Monitoring
9 5 (7.25%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.70%) Python
2 4 (5.80%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.35%) SQL
4 2 (2.90%) Java
4 2 (2.90%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.90%) VBA
5 1 (1.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 21 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.29%) SC Cleared
3 12 (17.39%) Degree
4 6 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.80%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.90%) EMC Certification
7 2 (2.90%) HNC
7 2 (2.90%) HND
8 1 (1.45%) CCNP
8 1 (1.45%) CCSA
8 1 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.45%) Server+ Certification
8 1 (1.45%) VCAP
8 1 (1.45%) VCDX
8 1 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) Def Stans
2 2 (2.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.90%) GDPR
2 2 (2.90%) IEC 61508
2 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 1 (1.45%) DO-160
3 1 (1.45%) GxP
3 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (17.39%) Firmware
2 7 (10.14%) NFS
3 4 (5.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.80%) vSphere
4 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.90%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.90%) KVM
4 2 (2.90%) SRDF
4 2 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.45%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.45%) VMware Server
5 1 (1.45%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (15.94%) EMC NetWorker
2 7 (10.14%) EMC VPLEX
2 7 (10.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.35%) Ansible
3 3 (4.35%) vCenter Server
3 3 (4.35%) VxRail
4 2 (2.90%) Control-M
4 2 (2.90%) Functional Safety
4 2 (2.90%) NetBackup
4 2 (2.90%) SCOM
4 2 (2.90%) Terraform
4 2 (2.90%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (1.45%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (1.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (28.99%) Cisco
2 17 (24.64%) VMware
3 15 (21.74%) NetApp
4 14 (20.29%) Dell
5 12 (17.39%) Isilon
6 10 (14.49%) Brocade
7 8 (11.59%) IBM
7 8 (11.59%) Red Hat
8 6 (8.70%) Veritas
9 5 (7.25%) Microsoft
9 5 (7.25%) Pure Storage
10 4 (5.80%) Commvault
10 4 (5.80%) Oracle
11 3 (4.35%) F5
11 3 (4.35%) HP
11 3 (4.35%) PTC
12 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
13 1 (1.45%) Dell Compellent
13 1 (1.45%) Keysight
13 1 (1.45%) Meraki