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 17 April 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
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 475 428
Rank change year-on-year -90 -47 +142
Contract jobs citing EMC 67 57 161
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.19% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% 0.41% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 32 84
10th Percentile £335 £350 £350
25th Percentile £383 £400 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £461 £460
Median % change year-on-year +3.69% +0.22% -1.87%
75th Percentile £568 £547 £591
90th Percentile £688 £600 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £428 £531
% change year-on-year +12.87% -19.49% +11.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 45
10th Percentile £42.50 £51.25 £52.86
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.19 £53.40
Median hourly rate £72.50 £64.25 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +12.84% +12.03% +123.06%
75th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £93.13 £75.13 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.75 £64.25 £57.35
% change year-on-year +11.67% +12.03% +48.96%

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 19,655 13,873 18,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.72% 47.26% 42.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,586 8,729 11,642
10th Percentile £313 £290 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £517
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.92% -1.48%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £630
90th Percentile £700 £711 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 979 529 1,074
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.00 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.72 £18.51 £14.36
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +24.44% -46.84%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £56.43
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £24.66 £21.37
% change year-on-year +7.46% +15.40% -44.49%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 53 £525 +11.06% 50
UK excluding London -80 35 £483 +12.87% 48
London -79 20 £590 +18.00% 8
North of England -65 16 £487 +13.92% 3
Yorkshire -47 10 £478 +22.56%
East of England -25 8 £675 - 16
Work from Home -24 6 £525 -4.55% 16
North West -35 6 £550 +4.76% 2
West Midlands -55 4 - - 1
Midlands -69 4 - - 2
Northern Ireland +4 3 £375 -
South West -29 3 - - 7
South East -58 1 £400 -0.50% 22

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 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.49%) PTC Creo
2 1 (1.49%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.93%) OpenShift
2 5 (7.46%) Azure
2 5 (7.46%) Rubrik
3 4 (5.97%) AWS
4 3 (4.48%) GitHub
4 3 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.49%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 33 (49.25%) SAN
2 16 (23.88%) NAS
3 14 (20.90%) Fibre Channel
4 10 (14.93%) iSCSI
5 6 (8.96%) VSAN
6 5 (7.46%) Firewall
7 4 (5.97%) FCoE
8 2 (2.99%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (2.99%) LAN
8 2 (2.99%) WAN
9 1 (1.49%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (1.49%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (1.49%) SpaceWire
9 1 (1.49%) VLAN
9 1 (1.49%) VoIP
9 1 (1.49%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (1.49%) MySQL
2 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.49%) GitLab
3 1 (1.49%) JIRA
General
1 11 (16.42%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.94%) Electronics
3 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.97%) Finance
5 3 (4.48%) Banking
5 3 (4.48%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.48%) Retail
6 2 (2.99%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.49%) Avionics
7 1 (1.49%) International Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Law
7 1 (1.49%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (1.49%) Military
7 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (25.37%) Storage Engineer
2 7 (10.45%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (8.96%) SAN Engineer
3 6 (8.96%) Senior
4 5 (7.46%) Architect
4 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Core Network Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Data Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Data Storage Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Electrical Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Electronics Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.48%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Storage Specialist
6 3 (4.48%) Systems Architect
7 2 (2.99%) Consultant
7 2 (2.99%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) REST
2 2 (2.99%) Flash
2 2 (2.99%) Middleware
3 1 (1.49%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.49%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (29.85%) Replication
2 18 (26.87%) Enterprise Storage
3 10 (14.93%) EMC VMAX
4 7 (10.45%) Data Centre
4 7 (10.45%) EMC VNX
5 3 (4.48%) Driving Licence
5 3 (4.48%) EPoS
6 2 (2.99%) Celerra
6 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.99%) CMDB
6 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.99%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.99%) EMC Centera
6 2 (2.99%) IBM XIV
6 2 (2.99%) Symmetrix
6 2 (2.99%) Symmetrix DMX
7 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.43%) Linux
2 8 (11.94%) Windows
3 3 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.99%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (2.99%) VMS
5 1 (1.49%) Unix
5 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.34%) Migration
2 14 (20.90%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (19.40%) High Availability
4 10 (14.93%) Capacity Planning
4 10 (14.93%) Change Management
4 10 (14.93%) Data Protection
4 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (13.43%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (11.94%) ITIL
6 8 (11.94%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (11.94%) Validation
7 7 (10.45%) Containerisation
7 7 (10.45%) Storage Management
8 6 (8.96%) DevOps
8 6 (8.96%) ITSM
8 6 (8.96%) Systems Engineering
9 5 (7.46%) Change Control
9 5 (7.46%) Data Migration
9 5 (7.46%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (7.46%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.90%) Python
2 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.99%) Bash
4 1 (1.49%) C
4 1 (1.49%) Java
4 1 (1.49%) SQL
4 1 (1.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (25.37%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.43%) Degree
3 7 (10.45%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.46%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.97%) CCNP
5 4 (5.97%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.97%) HP ASE
6 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.49%) CCNA
7 1 (1.49%) MCSE
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.49%) NCDA
7 1 (1.49%) NCIE
7 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.49%) PMP
7 1 (1.49%) VCAP
7 1 (1.49%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.49%) Def Stans
1 1 (1.49%) DO-160
1 1 (1.49%) GRC
1 1 (1.49%) MIL-STD-1553
1 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (11.94%) Firmware
2 6 (8.96%) NFS
2 6 (8.96%) SRDF
3 5 (7.46%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.97%) vSphere
5 3 (4.48%) Active Directory
5 3 (4.48%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (2.99%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.49%) Docker
7 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (16.42%) EMC NetWorker
2 9 (13.43%) Kubernetes
3 7 (10.45%) EMC VPLEX
4 6 (8.96%) Ansible
4 6 (8.96%) NetBackup
5 5 (7.46%) Avamar
6 4 (5.97%) EMC TimeFinder
7 3 (4.48%) Terraform
8 2 (2.99%) Grafana
8 2 (2.99%) SnapMirror
8 2 (2.99%) SnapVault
8 2 (2.99%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (2.99%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.49%) Argo
9 1 (1.49%) Kibana
9 1 (1.49%) logstash
9 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (46.27%) Cisco
2 22 (32.84%) NetApp
3 17 (25.37%) Brocade
4 16 (23.88%) Dell
5 13 (19.40%) Pure Storage
6 12 (17.91%) IBM
6 12 (17.91%) VMware
7 9 (13.43%) Isilon
8 6 (8.96%) Red Hat
8 6 (8.96%) Veeam
9 5 (7.46%) 3PAR
9 5 (7.46%) Veritas
10 3 (4.48%) Commvault
10 3 (4.48%) Hitachi
10 3 (4.48%) HP
10 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow
11 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
12 1 (1.49%) Cadence
12 1 (1.49%) Oracle
12 1 (1.49%) PTC