BMC
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of BMC products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BMC over the 6 months to 27 April 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 BMC Software, Inc.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 552 625 706
Rank change year-on-year +73 +81 -126
Contract jobs citing BMC 46 94 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.25% 0.37% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 67 85
10th Percentile £400 £200 £302
25th Percentile £425 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +13.16%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £573
90th Percentile £613 £700 £617
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £588 £450
% change year-on-year -14.89% +30.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £71.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £11.80 £77.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -84.77% +176.79% +180.00%
75th Percentile - £83.75 £35.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £11.80 £77.50 -
% change year-on-year -84.77% - -

All Vendors
UK

BMC 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 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

BMC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BMC in the UK

BMC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BMC in the UK

BMC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BMC over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BMC in the UK

BMC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for BMC in the UK

BMC
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BMC within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +75 31 £488 -16.84% 18
UK excluding London +40 31 £500 -14.89% 11
Work from Home +128 16 £525 +5.00% 17
London +90 9 £525 +5.00% 7
Scotland - 9 £500 -
South West +27 8 £563 -12.62% 2
West Midlands +31 5 £450 -12.62% 2
Midlands +10 5 £450 -23.63% 2
South East +20 4 £395 -8.41% 1
North of England +22 3 £425 +44.07% 4
North West +14 3 £425 +112.50% 3
East of England +9 2 - - 1

BMC
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 2 (4.35%) Confluence
1 2 (4.35%) SAS
2 1 (2.17%) CMS
2 1 (2.17%) JBoss
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (2.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (45.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (4.35%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.52%) AWS
1 3 (6.52%) Azure
2 2 (4.35%) SaaS
3 1 (2.17%) Azure API Management
3 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) Firewall
1 2 (4.35%) InfiniBand
2 1 (2.17%) DNS
2 1 (2.17%) HTTP
2 1 (2.17%) SNMP
2 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.35%) Pentaho
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (2.17%) PowerCenter
3 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) JIRA
3 3 (6.52%) GitLab
3 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.91%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (19.57%) Telecoms
4 6 (13.04%) Finance
5 3 (6.52%) Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.35%) Aerospace
6 2 (4.35%) Back Office
6 2 (4.35%) Electronics
6 2 (4.35%) Law
6 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.35%) Marketing
7 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (17.39%) Consultant
2 6 (13.04%) Analyst
3 5 (10.87%) z/OS Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) ITSM Specialist
4 4 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Service Management Specialist
5 3 (6.52%) IT Manager
5 3 (6.52%) IT Services Manager
5 3 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Service Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Service Manager
5 3 (6.52%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Configuration Management Specialist
6 2 (4.35%) Configuration Specialist
6 2 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) IT Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) IT Support
6 2 (4.35%) Linux Support Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) ISPF
2 6 (13.04%) SOAP
3 5 (10.87%) Middleware
3 5 (10.87%) REST
3 5 (10.87%) XML
4 4 (8.70%) YAML
5 3 (6.52%) JSON
5 3 (6.52%) Node.js
5 3 (6.52%) RESTful
6 1 (2.17%) Ajax
6 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.17%) CSS
6 1 (2.17%) HTML
6 1 (2.17%) IBM Integration Bus
6 1 (2.17%) Regular Expression
6 1 (2.17%) Web Services
6 1 (2.17%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) CMDB
2 7 (15.22%) IBM Mainframe
2 7 (15.22%) Mainframe
3 5 (10.87%) Data Centre
3 5 (10.87%) SCADA
4 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.52%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Unix
2 7 (15.22%) zOS
3 6 (13.04%) Windows
4 4 (8.70%) Linux
5 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
6 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (52.17%) ITIL
2 17 (36.96%) Service Management
3 16 (34.78%) ITSM
4 10 (21.74%) Agile
4 10 (21.74%) Configuration Management
5 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (17.39%) Release Management
6 8 (17.39%) Service Delivery
6 8 (17.39%) Workflow
7 7 (15.22%) Enterprise Architecture
7 7 (15.22%) Waterfall
8 6 (13.04%) Project Delivery
9 5 (10.87%) Analytical Thinking
9 5 (10.87%) Asset Management
9 5 (10.87%) Computer Science
9 5 (10.87%) Customer Service
9 5 (10.87%) Data Centre Operations
9 5 (10.87%) Decision-Making
9 5 (10.87%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.22%) JCL
1 7 (15.22%) Python
1 7 (15.22%) REXX
2 5 (10.87%) SQL
3 3 (6.52%) Go
3 3 (6.52%) Ruby
4 2 (4.35%) Assembly Language
4 2 (4.35%) MATLAB
4 2 (4.35%) Perl
4 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.17%) Bicep
5 1 (2.17%) Groovy
5 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 10 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.39%) Degree
4 3 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.17%) CCNA
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.17%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) SLA
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (15.22%) Time Sharing Option
2 5 (10.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.52%) vCloud
3 3 (6.52%) VMware NSX
3 3 (6.52%) vSphere
4 2 (4.35%) ACF2
4 2 (4.35%) Firmware
4 2 (4.35%) RACF
5 1 (2.17%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Ansible
1 5 (10.87%) Progress Chef
1 5 (10.87%) Puppet
1 5 (10.87%) Terraform
2 4 (8.70%) Dell DRAC
3 3 (6.52%) Autotask
4 2 (4.35%) Control-M
4 2 (4.35%) Grafana
4 2 (4.35%) SCCM
5 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.17%) SCOM
5 1 (2.17%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 21 (45.65%) Remedy
2 8 (17.39%) IBM
2 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 7 (15.22%) Broadcom
4 5 (10.87%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.52%) Arista
5 3 (6.52%) TOWER Software
5 3 (6.52%) VMware
6 2 (4.35%) Dell
6 2 (4.35%) Isilon
6 2 (4.35%) Oracle
6 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.35%) SaltStack
6 2 (4.35%) SAP
6 2 (4.35%) Splunk
6 2 (4.35%) UiPath
7 1 (2.17%) Databricks
7 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.17%) NVIDIA
7 1 (2.17%) Riverbed