The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of BMC products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BMC over the 3 months to 17 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 Cheshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
BMC
Rank 51 64 65
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +1
Contract jobs citing BMC 10 3 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.385% 0.371% 0.804%
As % of the Vendors category 2.755% 0.648% 1.636%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 4
Average daily rate £333 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.20% -6.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
+13.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.25 £20.00 £23.38
% change year-on-year
-33.75% -14.43%
All Vendors
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
363 463 489
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 50.28% 57.30% 49.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 230 262
Average daily rate £373 £355 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.92% +1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £285 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £493 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 12
Average hourly rate £37.50 £15.75 £12.46
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+138.09% +26.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.30 £14.00 £8.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £30.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
BMC
North West

BMC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire BMC Daily Rate Trend

BMC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BMC within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester - 2 £375 -
Knutsford - 1 - -
BMC
North West

BMC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 7 (70.00%) Project Management
2 6 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 4 (40.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (40.00%) Remedy
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Oracle
3 4 (40.00%) ITIL
3 4 (40.00%) UNIX
3 4 (40.00%) Windows
4 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (30.00%) Middleware
4 3 (30.00%) Linux
4 3 (30.00%) Windows 2000
4 3 (30.00%) Information Management
4 3 (30.00%) Supplier Management
4 3 (30.00%) BladeLogic
5 2 (20.00%) Finance
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
6 1 (10.00%) Time Management
6 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (10.00%) Change Control
6 1 (10.00%) Capacity Management
6 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
6 1 (10.00%) LAN
6 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (10.00%) SAN
6 1 (10.00%) AIX

BMC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 Development
1 3 (30.00%) Middleware
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Project
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planner
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) UNIX
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Windows 2000
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (10.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Project Management
2 6 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (40.00%) ITIL
4 3 (30.00%) Information Management
4 3 (30.00%) Supplier Management
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
6 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
6 1 (10.00%) Time Management
6 1 (10.00%) Change Control
6 1 (10.00%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
1 4 (40.00%) Remedy
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft