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 19 February 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
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 452 443
Rank change year-on-year -88 -9 +140
Contract jobs citing EMC 61 77 147
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.25% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% 0.54% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 40 88
10th Percentile £135 £230 £289
25th Percentile £353 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% +9.89% -1.62%
75th Percentile £528 £600 £575
90th Percentile £605 £609 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £525 £501
% change year-on-year -23.90% +4.79% +6.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 16
10th Percentile - £66.15 £22.38
25th Percentile £66.25 £69.75 £52.23
Median hourly rate £76.75 £74.25 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +10.00% +170.00%
75th Percentile £81.00 £75.06 £70.38
90th Percentile £86.33 £75.18 £76.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% +75.32%

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 18,193 14,299 19,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.68% 46.42% 43.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,643 8,602 11,971
10th Percentile £300 £275 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -0.43% -1.42%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £712 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 407 930
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.98
25th Percentile £17.97 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £30.00 £26.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +12.28% -20.24%
75th Percentile £57.63 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.45 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.05% +4.33% -13.33%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -100 47 £487 -2.60% 56
UK excluding London -48 33 £400 -23.90% 46
London -75 18 £600 +33.33% 11
North of England -70 13 £475 +11.11% 6
Yorkshire -52 8 £437 +7.90%
North West -29 5 £575 +27.78% 6
Work from Home -35 5 £400 -34.32% 20
Northern Ireland - 5 £375 -
East of England -24 4 £264 +560.00% 12
South East -27 4 £64 -84.94% 16
West Midlands -55 4 £500 +81.82% 5
Midlands -62 4 £500 +81.82% 6
South West -22 3 - - 8

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 (4.92%) PTC Creo
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.64%) Siemens NX
3 1 (1.64%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.48%) OpenShift
2 2 (3.28%) AWS
2 2 (3.28%) Azure
2 2 (3.28%) Rubrik
3 1 (1.64%) GitHub
3 1 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (44.26%) SAN
2 9 (14.75%) Fibre Channel
2 9 (14.75%) NAS
3 8 (13.11%) iSCSI
4 3 (4.92%) VSAN
5 2 (3.28%) FCoE
5 2 (3.28%) LAN
5 2 (3.28%) VLAN
5 2 (3.28%) WAN
6 1 (1.64%) BGP
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.64%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.64%) Firewall
6 1 (1.64%) OSPF
6 1 (1.64%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (1.64%) VoIP
6 1 (1.64%) VXLAN
6 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.64%) MySQL
1 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.64%) GitLab
General
1 9 (14.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.84%) Manufacturing
3 4 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.56%) Electronics
4 3 (4.92%) Retail
5 2 (3.28%) Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.64%) Avionics
6 1 (1.64%) Finance
6 1 (1.64%) International Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Law
6 1 (1.64%) Military
6 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (27.87%) Storage Engineer
2 6 (9.84%) Senior
3 5 (8.20%) Design Engineer
3 5 (8.20%) Network Engineer
3 5 (8.20%) RF Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Core Network Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) SAN Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Administrator
5 3 (4.92%) Architect
5 3 (4.92%) Consultant
5 3 (4.92%) Data Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Data Storage Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Electrical Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) RF Design Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Storage Specialist
5 3 (4.92%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (4.92%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.28%) REST
2 1 (1.64%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.64%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.95%) Enterprise Storage
2 13 (21.31%) Replication
3 6 (9.84%) EMC VMAX
4 4 (6.56%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.56%) EMC VNX
5 3 (4.92%) Driving Licence
5 3 (4.92%) EPoS
6 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.64%) CMDB
6 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) FPGA
6 1 (1.64%) HP Storage
6 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.64%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.75%) Linux
2 5 (8.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (6.56%) Windows
4 1 (1.64%) AIX
4 1 (1.64%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.64%) Solaris
4 1 (1.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 12 (19.67%) Migration
2 11 (18.03%) High Availability
3 10 (16.39%) Change Management
4 9 (14.75%) Capacity Planning
4 9 (14.75%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (11.48%) Data Protection
6 7 (11.48%) ITIL
6 7 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (11.48%) Systems Engineering
7 6 (9.84%) Containerisation
7 6 (9.84%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (8.20%) ITSM
9 4 (6.56%) Data Management
9 4 (6.56%) Mentoring
9 4 (6.56%) PDM
9 4 (6.56%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (6.56%) Project Delivery
9 4 (6.56%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.48%) Python
2 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (29.51%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.03%) Degree
2 11 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (6.56%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.92%) CCNP
4 3 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.28%) HP ASE
6 1 (1.64%) CCSA
6 1 (1.64%) VCAP
6 1 (1.64%) VCDX
6 1 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) Def Stans
1 1 (1.64%) DO-160
1 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (14.75%) Firmware
2 6 (9.84%) NFS
3 3 (4.92%) SRDF
4 2 (3.28%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.64%) Docker
5 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (14.75%) EMC NetWorker
2 7 (11.48%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.20%) EMC VPLEX
4 2 (3.28%) EMC TimeFinder
4 2 (3.28%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (1.64%) Ansible
5 1 (1.64%) Grafana
5 1 (1.64%) Kibana
5 1 (1.64%) logstash
5 1 (1.64%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (44.26%) Cisco
2 16 (26.23%) Dell
3 15 (24.59%) NetApp
4 11 (18.03%) Brocade
5 10 (16.39%) IBM
6 9 (14.75%) Isilon
6 9 (14.75%) VMware
7 6 (9.84%) Pure Storage
7 6 (9.84%) Red Hat
8 5 (8.20%) Veritas
9 4 (6.56%) Hitachi
10 3 (4.92%) HP
10 3 (4.92%) PTC
11 2 (3.28%) Commvault
11 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
12 1 (1.64%) ANSYS
12 1 (1.64%) Dell Compellent
12 1 (1.64%) F5
12 1 (1.64%) Keysight
12 1 (1.64%) Meraki