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 25 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
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 498 445
Rank change year-on-year -104 -53 +17
Contract jobs citing EMC 87 69 118
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.21% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 0.38% 0.44% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 35 62
10th Percentile £143 £325 -
25th Percentile £350 £403 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% +4.71% +2.03%
75th Percentile £589 £537 £600
90th Percentile £638 £630 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £496 £531
% change year-on-year -29.44% -6.64% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 20 25
10th Percentile £52.35 £42.68 £34.78
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% +11.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £81.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £74.75 - -
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 22,864 15,696 17,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.67% 47.57% 44.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,944 9,651 10,126
10th Percentile £310 £275 £287
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £615 £613 £625
90th Percentile £703 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,300 810 649
10th Percentile £13.98 £14.75 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.79 £15.63
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -22.62% -25.97%
75th Percentile £59.19 £42.50 £64.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.54 £21.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +19.91% -29.00% -29.41%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -106 77 £525 +3.45% 286
UK excluding London -80 69 £350 -29.44% 252
East of England -14 24 £350 +713.95% 42
South East -65 19 £575 +11.38% 74
London -100 16 £625 +25.00% 45
Work from Home -56 11 £550 +57.14% 98
Scotland -21 9 £208 -49.70% 23
Yorkshire -42 8 £499 - 7
North of England -66 8 £499 -9.36% 34
South West -33 6 - - 46
West Midlands -38 3 £625 +25.00% 18
Midlands -44 3 £625 +25.00% 29

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 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Windchill
2 4 (4.60%) OrCAD
3 2 (2.30%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.15%) PTC Creo
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.49%) Azure
2 6 (6.90%) OpenShift
3 5 (5.75%) AWS
4 4 (4.60%) GitHub
5 3 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.30%) Azure Storage
6 2 (2.30%) Datadog
6 2 (2.30%) GCP
6 2 (2.30%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.15%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.79%) SAN
2 8 (9.20%) Ethernet
3 7 (8.05%) Firewall
4 6 (6.90%) NAS
5 5 (5.75%) WAN
6 4 (4.60%) LAN
7 3 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (3.45%) Network Security
8 2 (2.30%) DHCP
8 2 (2.30%) DNS
8 2 (2.30%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (2.30%) IP Telephony
8 2 (2.30%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.30%) MIMO
8 2 (2.30%) MPLS
8 2 (2.30%) SDH
8 2 (2.30%) VSAN
8 2 (2.30%) X.21
9 1 (1.15%) TETRA
9 1 (1.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.15%) Git
4 1 (1.15%) GitLab
4 1 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.15%) Subversion
General
1 27 (31.03%) Aerospace
2 23 (26.44%) Social Skills
3 15 (17.24%) Manufacturing
4 14 (16.09%) Electronics
5 8 (9.20%) Finance
6 6 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.90%) Telecoms
7 5 (5.75%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.75%) Retail
8 4 (4.60%) Military
9 3 (3.45%) Aviation
9 3 (3.45%) Avionics
9 3 (3.45%) Law
9 3 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.30%) Banking
11 1 (1.15%) Automotive
11 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.15%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 26 (29.89%) EMC Engineer
2 16 (18.39%) Systems Engineer
3 12 (13.79%) Storage Engineer
4 10 (11.49%) Test Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) Architect
6 8 (9.20%) EMC Test Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) Lead
7 6 (6.90%) Electrical Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Design Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Senior
8 5 (5.75%) Storage Architect
9 4 (4.60%) Designer
9 4 (4.60%) Hardware Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Product Delivery Manager
10 3 (3.45%) Product Manager
10 3 (3.45%) VMware Engineer
11 2 (2.30%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) Terraform
2 3 (3.45%) REST
3 2 (2.30%) Middleware
4 1 (1.15%) Java RMI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.39%) Enterprise Storage
2 10 (11.49%) Replication
3 8 (9.20%) Data Centre
3 8 (9.20%) EMC VMAX
4 7 (8.05%) Driving Licence
4 7 (8.05%) EMC VNX
4 7 (8.05%) FPGA
5 5 (5.75%) Analogue Electronics
5 5 (5.75%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (4.60%) PCIe
7 3 (3.45%) Celerra
7 3 (3.45%) EMC Centera
7 3 (3.45%) IBM XIV
7 3 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.45%) Symmetrix
7 3 (3.45%) Symmetrix DMX
8 2 (2.30%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.30%) PKI
8 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.15%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 22 (25.29%) Windows
2 13 (14.94%) Linux
3 7 (8.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (6.90%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.60%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (3.45%) VMS
7 2 (2.30%) AIX
7 2 (2.30%) CentOS
7 2 (2.30%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.15%) Solaris
8 1 (1.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (1.15%) Unix
8 1 (1.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (14.94%) Validation
3 12 (13.79%) Migration
4 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (10.34%) Roadmaps
5 8 (9.20%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (9.20%) Storage Management
6 7 (8.05%) Change Management
6 7 (8.05%) CI/CD
6 7 (8.05%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (8.05%) Schematic Capture
7 6 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (6.90%) Containerisation
7 6 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (6.90%) DevOps
7 6 (6.90%) Inventory Management
7 6 (6.90%) Observability
7 6 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (6.90%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.49%) Python
2 7 (8.05%) PowerShell
3 5 (5.75%) Bash
4 3 (3.45%) Java
5 2 (2.30%) C
5 2 (2.30%) SQL
6 1 (1.15%) JCL
6 1 (1.15%) Perl
6 1 (1.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (39.08%) Security Cleared
2 23 (26.44%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.09%) Degree
4 5 (5.75%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.60%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.60%) HNC
5 4 (4.60%) HND
6 3 (3.45%) NCDA
6 3 (3.45%) NCIE
6 3 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.30%) CCNA
7 2 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.15%) CCNP
8 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.15%) MCSE
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) Def Stans
2 3 (3.45%) DO-254
2 3 (3.45%) IEC 61508
3 2 (2.30%) DO-160
3 2 (2.30%) SLA
4 1 (1.15%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 17 (19.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (13.79%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (10.34%) Firmware
4 8 (9.20%) vSphere
5 6 (6.90%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 5 (5.75%) NFS
6 5 (5.75%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (4.60%) Active Directory
7 4 (4.60%) SRDF
8 3 (3.45%) Docker
8 3 (3.45%) Hyper-V
9 2 (2.30%) GPFS
10 1 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (1.15%) Samba
10 1 (1.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.20%) Ansible
3 7 (8.05%) EMC VPLEX
3 7 (8.05%) vCenter Server
4 5 (5.75%) EMC NetWorker
5 4 (4.60%) NetBackup
5 4 (4.60%) SnapMirror
6 3 (3.45%) Argo
6 3 (3.45%) Avamar
6 3 (3.45%) Functional Safety
6 3 (3.45%) MOM
6 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.45%) SnapVault
7 2 (2.30%) Grafana
7 2 (2.30%) PowerCLI
7 2 (2.30%) Puppet
8 1 (1.15%) Check_MK
8 1 (1.15%) Nagios
8 1 (1.15%) OpenNMS
8 1 (1.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (26.44%) Cisco
1 23 (26.44%) NetApp
2 19 (21.84%) VMware
3 14 (16.09%) Dell
4 13 (14.94%) IBM
5 12 (13.79%) Brocade
6 9 (10.34%) Veeam
7 7 (8.05%) 3PAR
7 7 (8.05%) Microsoft
8 6 (6.90%) Isilon
9 5 (5.75%) Hitachi
9 5 (5.75%) Red Hat
10 4 (4.60%) Altera
10 4 (4.60%) Intel
10 4 (4.60%) Pure Storage
10 4 (4.60%) Xilinx
11 3 (3.45%) BT
11 3 (3.45%) HP
11 3 (3.45%) Openreach
11 3 (3.45%) SolarWinds