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 8 June 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
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 476 438
Rank change year-on-year -97 -38 +95
Contract jobs citing EMC 65 46 154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.16% 0.35%
As % of the Vendors category 0.32% 0.33% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 26 84
10th Percentile £311 £325 £350
25th Percentile £350 £395 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -2.17% +1.72%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £588
90th Percentile £658 £556 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £402 £519
% change year-on-year +18.16% -22.54% +12.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 46
10th Percentile £42.50 £38.13 £41.56
25th Percentile £50.63 £43.20 £53.40
Median hourly rate £72.50 £52.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% -8.46% +144.04%
75th Percentile £78.75 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile - £54.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.75 £52.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +36.67% -8.46% +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 20,133 13,938 18,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.68% 47.62% 42.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,678 8,588 11,451
10th Percentile £313 £280 £267
25th Percentile £413 £404 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% -2.77% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.40% -3.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,029 618 1,134
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.69 £17.37 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% +13.93% -45.38%
75th Percentile £59.75 £55.19 £58.24
90th Percentile £78.51 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.15 £22.94 £21.75
% change year-on-year +31.44% +5.46% -45.01%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 8 June 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 52 £519 +15.33% 51
UK excluding London -87 39 £475 +18.16% 47
East of England -15 15 £350 +713.95% 8
London -69 15 £580 +16.00% 10
North of England -71 14 £519 +28.15% 2
Yorkshire -52 8 £499 +27.82% 1
North West -40 6 £550 +2.33% 1
Work from Home -53 6 £519 +48.29% 16
Scotland -6 3 £305 -26.06% 4
Midlands -51 3 £625 +127.27% 7
West Midlands -56 3 £625 +127.27% 4
South West - 3 - - 6
South East -68 1 £400 -0.50% 20

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 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.31%) OpenShift
2 6 (9.23%) Azure
3 4 (6.15%) GitHub
3 4 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (4.62%) AWS
4 3 (4.62%) Rubrik
5 2 (3.08%) Azure Storage
5 2 (3.08%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 25 (38.46%) SAN
2 14 (21.54%) NAS
3 11 (16.92%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (9.23%) iSCSI
4 6 (9.23%) VSAN
5 5 (7.69%) Firewall
6 4 (6.15%) FCoE
7 3 (4.62%) LAN
7 3 (4.62%) WAN
8 2 (3.08%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (3.08%) Ethernet
8 2 (3.08%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (1.54%) IP Telephony
9 1 (1.54%) MIMO
9 1 (1.54%) MPLS
9 1 (1.54%) SDH
9 1 (1.54%) SpaceWire
9 1 (1.54%) VoIP
9 1 (1.54%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.54%) MySQL
3 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.85%) Electronics
3 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.69%) Finance
5 4 (6.15%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.62%) Retail
7 2 (3.08%) Banking
7 2 (3.08%) Law
8 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.54%) Avionics
8 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.54%) Military
8 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Storage Engineer
2 8 (12.31%) Test Engineer
3 7 (10.77%) Architect
3 7 (10.77%) Systems Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) EMC Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) EMC Test Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) SAN Engineer
4 6 (9.23%) Senior
5 4 (6.15%) Core Network Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Designer
5 4 (6.15%) Network Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.15%) Storage Architect
6 3 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Electrical Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Electronics Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Storage Specialist
6 3 (4.62%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) Flash
1 2 (3.08%) Middleware
1 2 (3.08%) REST
2 1 (1.54%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.54%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.15%) Enterprise Storage
2 15 (23.08%) Replication
3 13 (20.00%) EMC VMAX
4 11 (16.92%) Data Centre
5 6 (9.23%) EMC VNX
6 4 (6.15%) Driving Licence
7 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
7 3 (4.62%) EPoS
8 2 (3.08%) Celerra
8 2 (3.08%) CMDB
8 2 (3.08%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (3.08%) EMC Centera
8 2 (3.08%) IBM XIV
8 2 (3.08%) Symmetrix
8 2 (3.08%) Symmetrix DMX
9 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.54%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.92%) Windows
2 7 (10.77%) Linux
3 4 (6.15%) Data ONTAP
4 3 (4.62%) VMS
5 1 (1.54%) AIX
5 1 (1.54%) Unix
5 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (27.69%) Migration
2 14 (21.54%) Validation
3 12 (18.46%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (16.92%) High Availability
5 8 (12.31%) Capacity Planning
5 8 (12.31%) ITSM
5 8 (12.31%) Storage Management
6 7 (10.77%) Change Management
6 7 (10.77%) Cloud Security
6 7 (10.77%) Data Migration
6 7 (10.77%) DevOps
6 7 (10.77%) ITIL
6 7 (10.77%) Kalman Filter
6 7 (10.77%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (9.23%) Runbook
7 6 (9.23%) Systems Engineering
8 5 (7.69%) CI/CD
8 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.00%) Python
2 5 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.62%) Bash
4 1 (1.54%) C
4 1 (1.54%) Java
4 1 (1.54%) SQL
4 1 (1.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.38%) Degree
3 6 (9.23%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (7.69%) CCNP
5 4 (6.15%) DV Cleared
5 4 (6.15%) HP ASE
6 3 (4.62%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.62%) NCDA
6 3 (4.62%) NCIE
6 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (3.08%) CCNA
7 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.54%) MCSE
8 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.54%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) GRC
1 1 (1.54%) MIL-STD-1553
1 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (13.85%) Firmware
1 9 (13.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (12.31%) SRDF
3 5 (7.69%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 5 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (6.15%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (6.15%) vSphere
5 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
5 3 (4.62%) NFS
6 2 (3.08%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (3.08%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.54%) Docker
7 1 (1.54%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) Ansible
1 7 (10.77%) EMC NetWorker
1 7 (10.77%) Kubernetes
1 7 (10.77%) NetBackup
2 6 (9.23%) EMC VPLEX
3 5 (7.69%) Avamar
4 4 (6.15%) EMC TimeFinder
4 4 (6.15%) SnapMirror
4 4 (6.15%) Terraform
5 3 (4.62%) Grafana
5 3 (4.62%) SnapVault
5 3 (4.62%) vCenter Server
6 2 (3.08%) Argo
6 2 (3.08%) PowerCLI
6 2 (3.08%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.54%) Kibana
7 1 (1.54%) logstash
Vendors
1 32 (49.23%) Cisco
2 20 (30.77%) NetApp
3 16 (24.62%) Brocade
4 15 (23.08%) Dell
5 11 (16.92%) Pure Storage
5 11 (16.92%) VMware
6 7 (10.77%) 3PAR
6 7 (10.77%) IBM
6 7 (10.77%) Veeam
7 5 (7.69%) Isilon
7 5 (7.69%) Red Hat
7 5 (7.69%) Veritas
8 3 (4.62%) Commvault
8 3 (4.62%) Hitachi
8 3 (4.62%) HP
8 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow
9 2 (3.08%) BT
9 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
9 2 (3.08%) Oracle
9 2 (3.08%) SolarWinds