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 November 2025, 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 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 452 451
Rank change year-on-year -67 -1 +189
Contract jobs citing EMC 71 103 184
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.28% 0.40%
As % of the Vendors category 0.42% 0.63% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 58 104
10th Percentile £325 £306 £309
25th Percentile £403 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £473
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +1.06% -0.53%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £638
90th Percentile £650 £608 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £531 £459
% change year-on-year -6.64% +15.74% -3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 12
10th Percentile - £40.27 £22.08
25th Percentile £73.75 £54.63 £32.88
Median hourly rate £77.50 £67.50 £51.96
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% +29.91% +107.84%
75th Percentile £81.25 £75.00 £68.63
90th Percentile - £75.10 £77.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.50 £74.25 £60.57
% change year-on-year +4.38% +22.60% +14.30%

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 16,949 16,285 21,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.47% 44.93% 45.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,664 9,571 13,497
10th Percentile £288 £300 £259
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.45%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 879 512 677
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.62 £15.03
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.21 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.75% -32.12% +73.08%
75th Percentile £42.50 £62.51 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.18% -38.20% +100.00%

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 19 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -59 62 £514 +11.08% 81
UK excluding London -30 43 £496 -6.64% 66
London -31 23 £520 +48.57% 22
Yorkshire -30 15 £333 -38.14%
North of England -31 15 £333 -38.14% 4
South East +9 14 £508 +1.50% 34
Work from Home -26 8 £400 -31.39% 31
Northern Ireland - 5 £350 - 3
Midlands -31 4 £500 - 15
West Midlands - 4 £500 - 12
South West -4 2 £600 - 5
East of England -20 2 £53 +32.50% 10
Scotland -3 1 £413 -12.47%

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 (2.82%) CICS
1 2 (2.82%) Documentum
1 2 (2.82%) Tomcat
1 2 (2.82%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 10 (14.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (4.23%) PTC Creo
3 1 (1.41%) Siemens NX
3 1 (1.41%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.86%) AWS
2 6 (8.45%) Azure
2 6 (8.45%) GCP
3 5 (7.04%) Nutanix
4 4 (5.63%) Azure Storage
5 2 (2.82%) GitHub
5 2 (2.82%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.41%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 18 (25.35%) SAN
2 7 (9.86%) NAS
3 2 (2.82%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (2.82%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (2.82%) Firewall
3 2 (2.82%) iSCSI
3 2 (2.82%) LAN
3 2 (2.82%) VSAN
3 2 (2.82%) WAN
4 1 (1.41%) BGP
4 1 (1.41%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.41%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.41%) FCoE
4 1 (1.41%) Multicast
4 1 (1.41%) OSPF
4 1 (1.41%) SNMP
4 1 (1.41%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (1.41%) VLAN
4 1 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.41%) MySQL
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.82%) JIRA
2 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.90%) Manufacturing
3 8 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.45%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (8.45%) Finance
5 2 (2.82%) Banking
5 2 (2.82%) Electronics
6 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.41%) International Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Law
6 1 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (23.94%) Consultant
2 11 (15.49%) EMC Consultant
2 11 (15.49%) Storage Engineer
3 8 (11.27%) Design Engineer
4 7 (9.86%) RF Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Principal Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) RF Design Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Analyst
6 5 (7.04%) Data Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Developer
6 5 (7.04%) ETL Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Senior
7 4 (5.63%) Storage Analyst
8 3 (4.23%) Backup Consultant
8 3 (4.23%) Data Storage Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Storage and Backup Consultant
8 3 (4.23%) Storage Consultant
8 3 (4.23%) Technology Consultant
9 2 (2.82%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) JSON
1 5 (7.04%) RESTful
1 5 (7.04%) XML
2 2 (2.82%) LDAP
2 2 (2.82%) Middleware
2 2 (2.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Enterprise Storage
2 7 (9.86%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.45%) Replication
4 4 (5.63%) EMC VNX
5 3 (4.23%) EMC VMAX
5 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.82%) Clustering
6 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.82%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) FPGA
7 1 (1.41%) HP Storage
7 1 (1.41%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.41%) IoT
7 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.90%) Linux
2 9 (12.68%) Windows
3 6 (8.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (5.63%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.23%) Solaris
6 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (2.82%) zOS
7 1 (1.41%) AIX
7 1 (1.41%) CentOS
7 1 (1.41%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.41%) MVS
7 1 (1.41%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (15.49%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (15.49%) Technical Leadership
2 11 (15.49%) Validation
3 10 (14.08%) Systems Engineering
4 8 (11.27%) Change Management
5 7 (9.86%) Capacity Management
5 7 (9.86%) Capacity Planning
5 7 (9.86%) Data Management
5 7 (9.86%) Mentoring
5 7 (9.86%) PDM
5 7 (9.86%) Schematic Capture
6 6 (8.45%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (8.45%) Line Management
6 6 (8.45%) Logistics
6 6 (8.45%) Performance Monitoring
6 6 (8.45%) Problem Management
7 5 (7.04%) Data Protection
7 5 (7.04%) ETL
7 5 (7.04%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.27%) Python
2 6 (8.45%) SQL
3 5 (7.04%) T-SQL
3 5 (7.04%) VBA
4 3 (4.23%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.82%) Java
6 1 (1.41%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (28.17%) Security Cleared
2 18 (25.35%) SC Cleared
3 14 (19.72%) Degree
4 5 (7.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.63%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.63%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.23%) EMC Certification
6 3 (4.23%) HNC
6 3 (4.23%) HND
7 1 (1.41%) CCNP
7 1 (1.41%) CCSA
7 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.41%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) GDPR
2 4 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.63%) Def Stans
2 4 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.23%) IEC 61508
3 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 1 (1.41%) DO-160
4 1 (1.41%) GxP
4 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (14.08%) Firmware
2 5 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.23%) vSphere
4 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.82%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.82%) KVM
4 2 (2.82%) NFS
5 1 (1.41%) SRDF
5 1 (1.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.41%) VMware Server
5 1 (1.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (14.08%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (8.45%) EMC VPLEX
3 5 (7.04%) vCenter Server
4 4 (5.63%) Control-M
5 3 (4.23%) Ansible
5 3 (4.23%) Functional Safety
5 3 (4.23%) VxRail
6 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.82%) NetBackup
6 2 (2.82%) SCOM
6 2 (2.82%) Terraform
6 2 (2.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (1.41%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (25.35%) VMware
2 16 (22.54%) Cisco
3 12 (16.90%) Dell
4 11 (15.49%) Isilon
5 10 (14.08%) NetApp
6 9 (12.68%) Brocade
7 8 (11.27%) Pure Storage
8 7 (9.86%) Microsoft
8 7 (9.86%) Red Hat
9 4 (5.63%) Oracle
10 3 (4.23%) Commvault
10 3 (4.23%) F5
10 3 (4.23%) IBM
10 3 (4.23%) PTC
11 2 (2.82%) McAfee
11 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
11 2 (2.82%) Sophos
11 2 (2.82%) Veritas
12 1 (1.41%) Hitachi
12 1 (1.41%) Siemens