EMC
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of EMC products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited EMC over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 445 569 664
Rank change year-on-year +124 +95 -175
Contract jobs citing EMC 156 147 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 0.85% 0.58% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 74 106
10th Percentile £350 £239 £213
25th Percentile £389 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £458 £485
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% -5.47% +4.86%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £573
90th Percentile £608 £626 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £494 £450
% change year-on-year +8.76% +9.72% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 19 21
10th Percentile £43.75 £20.22 £21.50
25th Percentile £53.40 £20.74 -
Median hourly rate £57.35 £23.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +144.04% -1.71% -45.35%
75th Percentile £61.30 £53.87 -
90th Percentile £68.75 £60.43 £47.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.35 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +48.96% -18.95% +11.76%

All Vendors
UK

EMC is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,383 25,346 35,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.59% 42.91% 39.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,390 16,954 23,530
10th Percentile £263 £272 £290
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £647 £635
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,115 695 889
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £11.89
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.79 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.15 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.88% +97.67% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.45 £61.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for EMC in the UK

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Top 15 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 5 May 2024. 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 +165 147 £450 - 215
UK excluding London +94 113 £537 +8.76% 189
South East +80 65 £571 +26.89% 59
London +106 42 £350 -20.00% 29
Work from Home +106 34 £425 -19.05% 68
North of England +44 20 £430 -4.44% 24
Yorkshire +35 19 £430 -14.00% 5
Midlands +24 11 £575 +9.52% 46
East Midlands +17 10 £575 +9.52% 19
South West +17 7 £613 +36.11% 27
Scotland +17 5 £693 +32.00% 6
East of England +14 2 - - 35
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North West +24 1 - - 19
Wales - 1 £475 - 3

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 21 (13.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.13%) Confluence
3 4 (2.56%) SAS
4 3 (1.92%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (1.92%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (1.92%) IIS
4 3 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.28%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (1.28%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (1.28%) Exchange Server 5.5
5 2 (1.28%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.64%) Apache
6 1 (0.64%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.64%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 35 (22.44%) Azure
2 16 (10.26%) AWS
3 14 (8.97%) OCI
4 11 (7.05%) Nutanix
4 11 (7.05%) Rubrik
5 9 (5.77%) GCP
6 8 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (5.13%) IaaS
6 8 (5.13%) PaaS
6 8 (5.13%) SaaS
7 7 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.56%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.92%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.28%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.28%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.64%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.64%) Cohesity
11 1 (0.64%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 62 (39.74%) SAN
2 39 (25.00%) Firewall
3 33 (21.15%) Ethernet
4 28 (17.95%) DNS
5 24 (15.38%) DHCP
6 17 (10.90%) NAS
7 15 (9.62%) Fibre Channel
8 8 (5.13%) Kerberos
8 8 (5.13%) TCP/IP
8 8 (5.13%) VLAN
9 4 (2.56%) iSCSI
9 4 (2.56%) LAN
9 4 (2.56%) Skype
10 3 (1.92%) Wireless
11 2 (1.28%) DKIM
11 2 (1.28%) Extranet
11 2 (1.28%) Internet
11 2 (1.28%) VPN
11 2 (1.28%) WAN
11 2 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.49%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.56%) DB2
3 2 (1.28%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (5.13%) Git
1 8 (5.13%) Jenkins
1 8 (5.13%) JIRA
1 8 (5.13%) TeamCity
2 3 (1.92%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.64%) GitLab
General
1 41 (26.28%) Electronics
1 41 (26.28%) Finance
2 32 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 21 (13.46%) Banking
4 9 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.49%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.92%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.28%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.28%) Legal
8 2 (1.28%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.64%) Local Government
9 1 (0.64%) Military
9 1 (0.64%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (24.36%) Storage Engineer
2 33 (21.15%) Designer
2 33 (21.15%) Digital Designer
2 33 (21.15%) FPGA Designer
2 33 (21.15%) VHDL Designer
3 20 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (9.62%) Consultant
5 13 (8.33%) Support Engineer
6 11 (7.05%) EMC Consultant
7 10 (6.41%) Data Consultant
8 9 (5.77%) Backup Engineer
9 6 (3.85%) Administrator
9 6 (3.85%) Hardware Engineer
9 6 (3.85%) Storage and Backup Engineer
9 6 (3.85%) Storage Consultant
10 5 (3.21%) Senior
11 4 (2.56%) Architect
11 4 (2.56%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.56%) Python Engineer
11 4 (2.56%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.13%) LDAP
2 6 (3.85%) Flash
3 5 (3.21%) REST
4 4 (2.56%) POSIX
5 2 (1.28%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 35 (22.44%) FPGA
2 33 (21.15%) CPLD
2 33 (21.15%) VHDL
3 19 (12.18%) Data Centre
4 13 (8.33%) Replication
4 13 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
5 11 (7.05%) Clustering
6 7 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.85%) HP Storage
7 6 (3.85%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.56%) Client/Server
8 4 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (2.56%) NVMe
9 3 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.92%) EMC VNX
9 3 (1.92%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.28%) Blackberry
10 2 (1.28%) Fat Client
10 2 (1.28%) PKI
10 2 (1.28%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 68 (43.59%) Windows
2 48 (30.77%) Linux
3 35 (22.44%) Windows Server
4 30 (19.23%) Windows Server 2012
4 30 (19.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 22 (14.10%) Solaris
6 15 (9.62%) Windows 10
6 15 (9.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (9.62%) Windows XP
7 12 (7.69%) AIX
7 12 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (6.41%) Unix
9 8 (5.13%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (2.56%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (1.92%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (26.92%) Disaster Recovery
2 39 (25.00%) Schematic Capture
3 38 (24.36%) ITIL
4 32 (20.51%) Performance Tuning
5 28 (17.95%) Storage Management
6 26 (16.67%) DevOps
7 23 (14.74%) Continuous Integration
8 19 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (12.18%) Project Management
9 18 (11.54%) Performance Analysis
9 18 (11.54%) Server Management
10 16 (10.26%) Business Continuity
10 16 (10.26%) Converged Infrastructure
10 16 (10.26%) High Availability
10 16 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (10.26%) Performance Monitoring
10 16 (10.26%) Validation
11 15 (9.62%) CI/CD
11 15 (9.62%) Continuous Delivery
11 15 (9.62%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 37 (23.72%) PowerShell
2 17 (10.90%) Bash
3 16 (10.26%) Python
3 16 (10.26%) SQL
4 11 (7.05%) Perl
5 4 (2.56%) Java
6 2 (1.28%) AWK
6 2 (1.28%) Bourne shell
6 2 (1.28%) Korn
6 2 (1.28%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 57 (36.54%) Degree
2 48 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 39 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 22 (14.10%) DV Cleared
5 14 (8.97%) CCNA
5 14 (8.97%) CCNP
5 14 (8.97%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.92%) HND
7 2 (1.28%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.28%) CITP
7 2 (1.28%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.28%) RHCE
7 2 (1.28%) RHCSA
7 2 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.64%) EMC Certification
8 1 (0.64%) HNC
8 1 (0.64%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.77%) GDPR
2 8 (5.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (2.56%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (28.21%) Active Directory
2 38 (24.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (11.54%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (10.90%) Hyper-V
5 14 (8.97%) Docker
6 4 (2.56%) GPFS
6 4 (2.56%) NFS
7 3 (1.92%) Firmware
7 3 (1.92%) SRDF
7 3 (1.92%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.28%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.28%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.64%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.64%) vCloud
9 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.64%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (21.79%) SCCM
2 33 (21.15%) EMC NetWorker
3 27 (17.31%) NetBackup
4 19 (12.18%) SCOM
5 17 (10.90%) WSUS
6 16 (10.26%) Ansible
6 16 (10.26%) vCenter Server
7 12 (7.69%) Kubernetes
8 9 (5.77%) Terraform
8 9 (5.77%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 8 (5.13%) Netcool
9 8 (5.13%) Tivoli
10 6 (3.85%) HP Data Protector
11 5 (3.21%) Avamar
11 5 (3.21%) VxRail
12 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (2.56%) Veritas Storage Foundation
13 3 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.92%) EMC TimeFinder
13 3 (1.92%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 56 (35.90%) Cisco
2 47 (30.13%) VMware
3 45 (28.85%) Dell
4 43 (27.56%) HP
5 34 (21.79%) Oracle
6 31 (19.87%) Microsoft
7 22 (14.10%) Symantec
8 19 (12.18%) Brocade
9 16 (10.26%) Citrix
9 16 (10.26%) Juniper
10 15 (9.62%) Avaya
10 15 (9.62%) Palo Alto
10 15 (9.62%) Veeam
11 14 (8.97%) 3PAR
11 14 (8.97%) Extreme Networks
12 13 (8.33%) CheckPoint
12 13 (8.33%) IBM
12 13 (8.33%) Isilon
13 10 (6.41%) ServiceNow
14 9 (5.77%) Veritas