EMC Contracts

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 14 May 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 432 542
Rank change year-on-year -31 +110 +101
Contract jobs citing EMC 55 153 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.36% 0.26%
As % of the Vendors category 0.40% 0.84% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 79 78
10th Percentile £319 £333 £251
25th Percentile £402 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% +2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £531 £594 £569
90th Percentile £596 £608 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £537 £463
% change year-on-year -25.14% +16.11% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 47 18
10th Percentile £38.13 £43.75 £20.22
25th Percentile £43.20 £53.40 £20.48
Median hourly rate £52.50 £57.35 £22.59
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +153.93% -5.54%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £46.81
90th Percentile £54.50 £68.75 £61.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £57.35 £38.50
% change year-on-year -8.46% +48.96% -16.76%

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 13,821 18,135 24,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.60% 42.42% 42.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,616 11,242 16,673
10th Percentile £281 £263 £270
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £618 £630 £644
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 1,107 685
10th Percentile £14.59 £12.08 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.48 £18.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £22.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -48.24% +97.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £21.46 £37.50
% change year-on-year +7.18% -42.77% +97.37%

EMC
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing EMC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for EMC in the UK

EMC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing EMC.

Daily rate trend for EMC in the UK

EMC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EMC over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EMC in the UK

EMC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing EMC.

Hourly rate trend for EMC in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing EMC over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for EMC in the UK

EMC
Top 13 Contract 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 14 May 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 -30 51 £495 +8.88% 324
London +40 27 £500 +42.86% 30
UK excluding London -35 27 £402 -25.14% 325
North of England +11 11 £428 -0.58% 53
North West +19 7 £525 - 26
East of England +31 6 £43 - 73
Work from Home +13 6 £350 -17.65% 67
South East -11 5 £402 -29.60% 85
Yorkshire -3 4 £390 -9.30% 20
Scotland +4 2 £436 -37.05% 17
Northern Ireland -9 2 £350 - 5
Midlands +3 1 £275 -52.17% 57
West Midlands - 1 £275 - 33

EMC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (10.91%) Confluence
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.82%) Apache
3 1 (1.82%) IIS
3 1 (1.82%) JBoss
3 1 (1.82%) nginx
3 1 (1.82%) SAS
3 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.00%) Azure
2 7 (12.73%) AWS
3 6 (10.91%) Nutanix
4 5 (9.09%) Azure Stack
4 5 (9.09%) GitHub
4 5 (9.09%) IaaS
4 5 (9.09%) PaaS
5 4 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.45%) GCP
6 3 (5.45%) SaaS
7 2 (3.64%) Rubrik
7 2 (3.64%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (41.82%) SAN
2 9 (16.36%) NAS
3 6 (10.91%) DNS
3 6 (10.91%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.45%) Firewall
4 3 (5.45%) VoIP
4 3 (5.45%) VPN
4 3 (5.45%) VSAN
5 2 (3.64%) DHCP
5 2 (3.64%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (3.64%) Kerberos
5 2 (3.64%) MPLS
5 2 (3.64%) SpaceWire
5 2 (3.64%) VLAN
6 1 (1.82%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.82%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.82%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.82%) Network Security
6 1 (1.82%) OSPF
6 1 (1.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.64%) DB2
2 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.64%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.64%) Sybase ASE
3 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.82%) MySQL
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Git
2 6 (10.91%) JIRA
2 6 (10.91%) TeamCity
3 5 (9.09%) Subversion
4 3 (5.45%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.64%) Selenium
5 2 (3.64%) TestNG
6 1 (1.82%) Serena SBM
General
1 14 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.18%) Finance
3 7 (12.73%) Electronics
4 5 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Legal
6 3 (5.45%) Banking
6 3 (5.45%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.82%) Aviation
7 1 (1.82%) Avionics
7 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Law
7 1 (1.82%) Marketing
7 1 (1.82%) Military
7 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (16.36%) Storage Engineer
2 8 (14.55%) Architect
3 6 (10.91%) Administrator
4 5 (9.09%) Electronics Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Hardware Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Consultant
5 4 (7.27%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Electronics Test Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Hardware Test Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (7.27%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Test Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Backup Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) EMC Storage Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Senior
6 3 (5.45%) Storage and Backup Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) REST
2 2 (3.64%) LDAP
2 2 (3.64%) pytest
2 2 (3.64%) RESTful
3 1 (1.82%) Flash
3 1 (1.82%) Middleware
3 1 (1.82%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) EMC VMAX
2 8 (14.55%) Clustering
2 8 (14.55%) Enterprise Storage
3 7 (12.73%) Replication
4 3 (5.45%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.45%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.45%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.82%) EMC VNX
6 1 (1.82%) IBM XIV
6 1 (1.82%) NVMe
6 1 (1.82%) PKI
6 1 (1.82%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 23 (41.82%) Linux
2 19 (34.55%) Windows
3 11 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (16.36%) Unix
5 6 (10.91%) Solaris
6 3 (5.45%) Windows 10
6 3 (5.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.82%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.82%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.73%) Storage Management
2 13 (23.64%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (20.00%) High Availability
5 10 (18.18%) Problem Management
6 8 (14.55%) CI/CD
6 8 (14.55%) DevOps
6 8 (14.55%) Migration
7 7 (12.73%) Change Management
7 7 (12.73%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (10.91%) Validation
9 5 (9.09%) API Integration
9 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (9.09%) Observability
10 4 (7.27%) Data Protection
10 4 (7.27%) Kernel Tuning
10 4 (7.27%) Risk Management
10 4 (7.27%) Security Auditing
10 4 (7.27%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (34.55%) Python
2 10 (18.18%) Bash
3 8 (14.55%) SQL
4 7 (12.73%) Perl
5 6 (10.91%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.45%) Java
7 2 (3.64%) C
7 2 (3.64%) C#
7 2 (3.64%) Tcl
7 2 (3.64%) VBA
8 1 (1.82%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.82%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.82%) Ruby
8 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (7.27%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) EMC Certification
5 1 (1.82%) CCNP
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.82%) HP ASE
5 1 (1.82%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) GDPR
2 6 (10.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.82%) DO-254
4 1 (1.82%) NIST
4 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 14 (25.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (12.73%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (10.91%) Active Directory
4 4 (7.27%) Firmware
4 4 (7.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (5.45%) Docker
6 2 (3.64%) GPFS
6 2 (3.64%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.64%) NFS
6 2 (3.64%) vSphere
7 1 (1.82%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.82%) SRDF
7 1 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (23.64%) Ansible
2 11 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (10.91%) Tivoli
3 6 (10.91%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 6 (10.91%) VxRail
4 5 (9.09%) Puppet
4 5 (9.09%) QRadar
4 5 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (7.27%) HP Data Protector
5 4 (7.27%) Kubernetes
5 4 (7.27%) NetBackup
5 4 (7.27%) Terraform
6 3 (5.45%) vRealize
7 2 (3.64%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.64%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.64%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 1 (1.82%) Data Guard
8 1 (1.82%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 28 (50.91%) VMware
2 21 (38.18%) Cisco
3 17 (30.91%) Red Hat
4 13 (23.64%) Brocade
4 13 (23.64%) HP
5 12 (21.82%) Oracle
5 12 (21.82%) ServiceNow
5 12 (21.82%) Splunk
6 10 (18.18%) IBM
6 10 (18.18%) NetApp
6 10 (18.18%) Veritas
7 9 (16.36%) Dell
8 7 (12.73%) Microsoft
9 6 (10.91%) CyberArk
9 6 (10.91%) Qualys
10 5 (9.09%) AppDynamics
11 4 (7.27%) Pure Storage
11 4 (7.27%) SaltStack
11 4 (7.27%) Sybase
12 3 (5.45%) Isilon