BMC Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

BMC
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring knowledge or experience of BMC products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BMC over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 53 57
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing BMC 3 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.44% 0.67% 0.20%
As % of the Vendors category 1.00% 1.19% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £484 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +100.00%
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £541 - -
North West median daily rate £513 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -2.38% +23.53% +112.50%

All Vendors
Cheshire

BMC falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 299 253 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 44.30% 56.73% 52.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 166 170
10th Percentile £330 £315 £269
25th Percentile £393 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -6.86% +13.33%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £582
90th Percentile £653 £639 £625
North West median daily rate £469 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -4.72% -1.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 15
10th Percentile £20.25 £18.10 £11.00
25th Percentile £21.56 £38.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £60.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +238.60% -5.84%
75th Percentile £34.46 £86.00 -
90th Percentile £49.92 - £23.11
North West median hourly rate £31.36 £32.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year -3.52% +102.37% -57.17%

BMC
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BMC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

BMC job vacancy trend in Cheshire

BMC
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing BMC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing BMC

BMC
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BMC within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 2026. 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
Chester - 3 £513 - 1
BMC
North West

BMC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (33.33%) DTS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DBA
1 3 (100.00%) SQL DBA
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (33.33%) Sybase DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Clustering
1 3 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Database Mirroring
1 3 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Database Security
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Remedy
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Sybase