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This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of BMC products and/or services in IT contracts within the City of London region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited BMC over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkBMC
Location
3 months to
21 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank209181
Rank change on same period last yearDown-28
Matching contract IT job ads1718
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.022 %0.018 %
As % of the category below0.451 %0.532 %
Daily rates quoted108
Average minimum daily rate£328£353
Average daily rate£358£372
% change on same period last year-3.79 %
Average maximum daily rate£388£391
UK excluding London average daily rate£349£419
% change on same period last year-16.67 %
Hourly rates quoted11
Average minimum hourly rate£21.00£12.00
Average hourly rate£21.00£13.50
% change on same period last year+55.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate£21.00£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£21.08£29.82
% change on same period last year-29.31 %
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads37703382
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled4.975 %3.368 %
Daily rates quoted20141369
Average minimum daily rate£412£429
Average daily rate£445£456
% change on same period last year-2.26 %
Average maximum daily rate£479£482
UK excluding London average daily rate£358£358
% change on same period last year+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted176119
Average minimum hourly rate£22.63£21.19
Average hourly rate£24.44£22.54
% change on same period last year+8.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate£26.25£23.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.70£24.82
% change on same period last year-4.50 %
BMC LondonBMC
London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within BMC Software, Inc.

BMC
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing BMC across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

City of London BMC Demand Trend

BMC
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BMC across the City of London region.

City of London BMC Daily Rate Trend

BMC
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BMC across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

City of London BMC Daily Rate Histogram

BMC
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing BMC across the City of London region.

City of London BMC Hourly Rate Trend

BMC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

118 (50.00 %)BMC PATROL
118 (50.00 %)Remedy
118 (50.00 %)Banking
215 (41.67 %)Finance
215 (41.67 %)UNIX
314 (38.89 %)SAN
412 (33.33 %)Solaris
511 (30.56 %)EMC
69 (25.00 %)NetBackup
69 (25.00 %)ITIL
77 (19.44 %)Perl
77 (19.44 %)SQL
77 (19.44 %)DNS
77 (19.44 %)VERITAS
86 (16.67 %)Symantec
86 (16.67 %)Migration
86 (16.67 %)EMC Centera
86 (16.67 %)Service Delivery
86 (16.67 %)TestDirector
86 (16.67 %)NetApp
86 (16.67 %)MS Office
86 (16.67 %)Windows
86 (16.67 %)QA
95 (13.89 %)Red Hat Linux
95 (13.89 %)Derivative
95 (13.89 %)Linux
95 (13.89 %)Lotus Notes
95 (13.89 %)LDAP
95 (13.89 %)Red Hat
95 (13.89 %)Legato

BMC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
12 (5.556 %)Middleware
12 (5.556 %)WebSphere
21 (2.778 %)XML
21 (2.778 %).NET
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
15 (13.89 %)Lotus Notes
22 (5.556 %)WebSphere MQ
22 (5.556 %)MS Exchange
31 (2.778 %)Oracle Application Server
31 (2.778 %)WebSphere Application Server
31 (2.778 %)WebLogic
31 (2.778 %)MQSeries
31 (2.778 %)Documentum
31 (2.778 %)Oracle Collaboration Suite
31 (2.778 %)Rendezvous
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
16 (16.67 %)MS Office
23 (8.333 %)MS Excel
32 (5.556 %)MS PowerPoint
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
11 (2.778 %)Remedy ITSM
11 (2.778 %)BusinessWorks
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
114 (38.89 %)SAN
27 (19.44 %)DNS
35 (13.89 %)LDAP
43 (8.333 %)LAN
52 (5.556 %)SMTP
61 (2.778 %)HTTP
61 (2.778 %)VPN
61 (2.778 %)WAN
61 (2.778 %)OSPF
61 (2.778 %)BGP
61 (2.778 %)DECnet
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
13 (8.333 %)DB2
21 (2.778 %)BusinessObjects XI
21 (2.778 %)BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
21 (2.778 %)Crystal Reports
21 (2.778 %)SQL Server
21 (2.778 %)Ingres
21 (2.778 %)BusinessObjects
21 (2.778 %)DataStage
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
16 (16.67 %)TestDirector
21 (2.778 %)ClearCase
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
118 (50.00 %)Banking
215 (41.67 %)Finance
34 (11.11 %)Investment Banking
42 (5.556 %)Telecoms
51 (2.778 %)Retail Banking
51 (2.778 %)Financial Institution
51 (2.778 %)Health
51 (2.778 %)Retail
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
110 (27.78 %)Administrator
26 (16.67 %)Systems Administrator
26 (16.67 %)Test Specialist
35 (13.89 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
44 (11.11 %)Services Delivery Manager
44 (11.11 %)Service Manager
44 (11.11 %)UNIX Administrator
44 (11.11 %)Delivery Manager
53 (8.333 %)DB2 DBA
53 (8.333 %)Infrastructure Specialist
53 (8.333 %)Analyst
53 (8.333 %)DBA
53 (8.333 %)Computer Operator
62 (5.556 %)Customer Engineer
62 (5.556 %)Support Analyst
62 (5.556 %)Developer
62 (5.556 %)Infrastructure Manager
62 (5.556 %)Consultant
62 (5.556 %)Customer Service Engineer
71 (2.778 %)Infrastructure Designer
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
16 (16.67 %)EMC Centera
25 (13.89 %)Derivative
34 (11.11 %)Fixed Income
42 (5.556 %)Spanish Language
51 (2.778 %)Italian Language
51 (2.778 %)Client/Server
51 (2.778 %)Clustering
51 (2.778 %)Mainframe
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
115 (41.67 %)UNIX
212 (33.33 %)Solaris
36 (16.67 %)Windows
45 (13.89 %)Red Hat Linux
45 (13.89 %)Linux
45 (13.89 %)VMS
52 (5.556 %)Windows XP
61 (2.778 %)Windows 2000
61 (2.778 %)AIX
61 (2.778 %)Windows Server 2003
61 (2.778 %)OpenVMS
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
19 (25.00 %)ITIL
26 (16.67 %)Migration
26 (16.67 %)Service Delivery
35 (13.89 %)Disaster Recovery
43 (8.333 %)Service Management
51 (2.778 %)Electronic Trading
51 (2.778 %)Incident Management
51 (2.778 %)Operations Management
51 (2.778 %)Supplier Management
51 (2.778 %)ITSM
51 (2.778 %)Identity Management
51 (2.778 %)Risk Assessment
51 (2.778 %)Agile Software Development
51 (2.778 %)Data Management
51 (2.778 %)BCP
51 (2.778 %)Project Management
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
17 (19.44 %)Perl
17 (19.44 %)SQL
23 (8.333 %)REXX
32 (5.556 %)Shell Script
41 (2.778 %)Korn
41 (2.778 %)DCL
41 (2.778 %)PL/SQL
41 (2.778 %)Java
41 (2.778 %)JavaScript
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
13 (8.333 %)Degree
22 (5.556 %)Microsoft Certification
22 (5.556 %)MCSE
22 (5.556 %)MCSA
31 (2.778 %)ITIL Certification
31 (2.778 %)Cisco Certification
31 (2.778 %)CCNP
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
16 (16.67 %)QA
22 (5.556 %)SLA
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
19 (25.00 %)NetBackup
23 (8.333 %)Active Directory
31 (2.778 %)Oracle RAC
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
118 (50.00 %)BMC PATROL
25 (13.89 %)Legato
34 (11.11 %)EMC NetWorker
43 (8.333 %)OpenView
43 (8.333 %)CONTROL-M
52 (5.556 %)CiscoWorks
52 (5.556 %)OMEGAMON
61 (2.778 %)Tivoli
61 (2.778 %)MOM
61 (2.778 %)AutoSys
61 (2.778 %)Foglight
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
118 (50.00 %)Remedy
211 (30.56 %)EMC
37 (19.44 %)VERITAS
46 (16.67 %)Symantec
46 (16.67 %)NetApp
55 (13.89 %)Red Hat
55 (13.89 %)Lotus
64 (11.11 %)HP
64 (11.11 %)Cisco
64 (11.11 %)Sun
64 (11.11 %)Oracle
73 (8.333 %)IBM
82 (5.556 %)TIBCO
82 (5.556 %)Microsoft
82 (5.556 %)Sybase
91 (2.778 %)Brocade
91 (2.778 %)Business Objects
91 (2.778 %)Juniper
91 (2.778 %)CA
91 (2.778 %)Intel