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 10 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
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 476 420
Rank change year-on-year -115 -56 +47
Contract jobs citing EMC 81 74 143
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.22% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 0.36% 0.48% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 39 75
10th Percentile £270 £325 £350
25th Percentile £350 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% +5.26% +1.50%
75th Percentile £597 £537 £594
90th Percentile £638 £630 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £472 £525
% change year-on-year -20.55% -10.10% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 39
10th Percentile £51.13 £43.20 £52.25
25th Percentile £56.74 £73.75 £53.40
Median hourly rate £63.00 £77.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% +35.14% +9.24%
75th Percentile £69.38 £81.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £73.88 - -
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 22,804 15,574 16,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.85% 47.21% 44.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,992 9,525 10,215
10th Percentile £313 £275 £289
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £626
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,252 784 693
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £14.18
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.36 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.34 £25.15 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.71% -18.87% -27.06%
75th Percentile £63.26 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £21.28 £30.00
% change year-on-year +22.84% -29.07% -25.00%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -112 72 £530 +6.00% 146
UK excluding London -101 65 £375 -20.55% 139
East of England -10 23 £350 +713.95% 32
South East -63 19 £575 +14.14% 40
London -84 14 £625 +25.00% 21
Scotland -35 8 £270 -34.55% 11
Yorkshire -52 8 £499 +32.05% 3
North of England -79 8 £499 +27.82% 16
Work from Home -67 7 £581 +66.00% 68
South West -40 4 - - 20
West Midlands -42 3 £625 +25.00% 16
Midlands -53 3 £625 +25.00% 24

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 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Windchill
2 3 (3.70%) OrCAD
3 2 (2.47%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.23%) PTC Creo
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.11%) Azure
2 6 (7.41%) OpenShift
3 5 (6.17%) AWS
4 4 (4.94%) GitHub
5 3 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.47%) Azure Storage
6 2 (2.47%) Datadog
6 2 (2.47%) GCP
7 1 (1.23%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.23%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.35%) SAN
2 7 (8.64%) NAS
3 6 (7.41%) Ethernet
3 6 (7.41%) Firewall
4 5 (6.17%) WAN
5 4 (4.94%) LAN
6 3 (3.70%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (3.70%) Network Security
7 2 (2.47%) DHCP
7 2 (2.47%) DNS
7 2 (2.47%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (2.47%) IP Telephony
7 2 (2.47%) iSCSI
7 2 (2.47%) MIMO
7 2 (2.47%) MPLS
7 2 (2.47%) SDH
7 2 (2.47%) VSAN
7 2 (2.47%) X.21
8 1 (1.23%) SpaceWire
8 1 (1.23%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.23%) MySQL
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.23%) Git
4 1 (1.23%) GitLab
4 1 (1.23%) JIRA
4 1 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.23%) Subversion
General
1 23 (28.40%) Aerospace
1 23 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.05%) Manufacturing
3 11 (13.58%) Electronics
4 7 (8.64%) Finance
5 6 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.41%) Telecoms
6 5 (6.17%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.94%) Military
7 4 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.70%) Law
8 3 (3.70%) Retail
9 2 (2.47%) Aviation
9 2 (2.47%) Avionics
9 2 (2.47%) Banking
10 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.23%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (29.63%) EMC Engineer
2 16 (19.75%) Systems Engineer
3 11 (13.58%) Test Engineer
4 9 (11.11%) Storage Engineer
5 8 (9.88%) Architect
5 8 (9.88%) EMC Test Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Lead
7 5 (6.17%) Senior
7 5 (6.17%) Storage Architect
8 4 (4.94%) Design Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Designer
8 4 (4.94%) Electrical Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Hardware Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Product Delivery Manager
9 3 (3.70%) Product Manager
9 3 (3.70%) Project Manager
10 2 (2.47%) Digital Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.41%) Terraform
2 3 (3.70%) REST
3 2 (2.47%) Middleware
4 1 (1.23%) Java RMI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.52%) Enterprise Storage
2 9 (11.11%) Replication
3 8 (9.88%) EMC VMAX
4 7 (8.64%) Data Centre
4 7 (8.64%) EMC VNX
5 6 (7.41%) FPGA
6 5 (6.17%) Driving Licence
7 4 (4.94%) Analogue Electronics
8 3 (3.70%) Celerra
8 3 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (3.70%) EMC Centera
8 3 (3.70%) IBM XIV
8 3 (3.70%) PCIe
8 3 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (3.70%) Symmetrix
8 3 (3.70%) Symmetrix DMX
9 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.47%) PKI
9 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (23.46%) Windows
2 13 (16.05%) Linux
3 6 (7.41%) Windows Server
4 5 (6.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.94%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (3.70%) VMS
7 2 (2.47%) CentOS
7 2 (2.47%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.23%) AIX
8 1 (1.23%) Unix
8 1 (1.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (16.05%) Validation
3 11 (13.58%) Migration
4 10 (12.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (9.88%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (9.88%) Roadmaps
6 7 (8.64%) Capacity Planning
6 7 (8.64%) Change Management
6 7 (8.64%) CI/CD
6 7 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (8.64%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (8.64%) Storage Management
7 6 (7.41%) Containerisation
7 6 (7.41%) DevOps
7 6 (7.41%) ITIL
7 6 (7.41%) Kalman Filter
7 6 (7.41%) Observability
7 6 (7.41%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (7.41%) Schematic Capture
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.81%) Python
2 7 (8.64%) PowerShell
3 5 (6.17%) Bash
4 3 (3.70%) Java
5 2 (2.47%) SQL
6 1 (1.23%) C
6 1 (1.23%) JCL
6 1 (1.23%) Perl
6 1 (1.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 32 (39.51%) Security Cleared
2 21 (25.93%) SC Cleared
3 14 (17.28%) Degree
4 5 (6.17%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.94%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.94%) HNC
5 4 (4.94%) HND
6 3 (3.70%) NCDA
6 3 (3.70%) NCIE
6 3 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.47%) CCNA
7 2 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.23%) CCNP
8 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.23%) MCSE
8 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) Def Stans
2 3 (3.70%) DO-254
2 3 (3.70%) IEC 61508
3 2 (2.47%) DO-160
3 2 (2.47%) SLA
4 1 (1.23%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 14 (17.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (13.58%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (8.64%) vSphere
4 6 (7.41%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 6 (7.41%) Firmware
5 5 (6.17%) NFS
5 5 (6.17%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (4.94%) Active Directory
6 4 (4.94%) SRDF
7 3 (3.70%) Docker
8 2 (2.47%) GPFS
8 2 (2.47%) Hyper-V
9 1 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (1.23%) Samba
9 1 (1.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.88%) Ansible
3 7 (8.64%) EMC VPLEX
3 7 (8.64%) vCenter Server
4 5 (6.17%) EMC NetWorker
5 4 (4.94%) SnapMirror
6 3 (3.70%) Argo
6 3 (3.70%) Avamar
6 3 (3.70%) Functional Safety
6 3 (3.70%) MOM
6 3 (3.70%) NetBackup
6 3 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.70%) SnapVault
7 2 (2.47%) Grafana
7 2 (2.47%) PowerCLI
7 2 (2.47%) Puppet
8 1 (1.23%) Check_MK
8 1 (1.23%) Nagios
8 1 (1.23%) OpenNMS
8 1 (1.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (25.93%) Cisco
2 20 (24.69%) NetApp
3 16 (19.75%) VMware
4 11 (13.58%) Brocade
5 10 (12.35%) Dell
5 10 (12.35%) IBM
6 8 (9.88%) Veeam
7 7 (8.64%) 3PAR
8 6 (7.41%) Microsoft
9 5 (6.17%) Isilon
10 4 (4.94%) Pure Storage
10 4 (4.94%) Red Hat
11 3 (3.70%) Altera
11 3 (3.70%) BT
11 3 (3.70%) Hitachi
11 3 (3.70%) Intel
11 3 (3.70%) Openreach
11 3 (3.70%) ServiceNow
11 3 (3.70%) SolarWinds
11 3 (3.70%) Xilinx