The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of BMC products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BMC over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within BMC Software, Inc.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
BMC
Rank 46 53 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing BMC 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.667% 0.161% -
As % of the Vendors category 1.351% 0.334% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £200 £140 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
+13.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £175.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.25 £20.00 £23.38
% change year-on-year
-33.75% -14.43%
All Vendors
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
222 299 228
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 49.33% 48.07% 46.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 136 111
Average daily rate £325 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £190 £184
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 23
Average hourly rate £18.46 £14.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.15% -1.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.26 £10.15 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £78.40 £32.70 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
BMC
West Midlands

BMC
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing BMC across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Birmingham BMC Jobs Demand Trend

BMC
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BMC across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham BMC Daily Rate Trend

BMC
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing BMC across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham BMC Hourly Rate Trend

BMC
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing BMC also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited BMC.

1 4 (80.00%) Remedy
1 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (80.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (60.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Lotus Notes
2 3 (60.00%) Lotus
3 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
3 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Remote Control
3 1 (20.00%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
3 1 (20.00%) HPUX
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceCenter
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared

BMC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing BMC also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited BMC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Remedy ITSM
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
1 1 (20.00%) HPUX
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Remote Control
1 1 (20.00%) BMC PATROL
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Remedy
2 3 (60.00%) Lotus