BMC Contract Job Trends in the South West

BMC
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 14 October 2025, 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
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 130 139
Rank change year-on-year +15 +9 +18
Contract jobs citing BMC 4 7 13
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.20% 0.28% 0.41%
As % of the Vendors category 0.46% 0.62% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 12
10th Percentile £488 - £573
25th Percentile £508 £725 £597
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £750 £620
Median % change year-on-year -26.33% +20.97% +19.52%
75th Percentile £560 £775 £678
90th Percentile £562 - £699
England median daily rate £555 £495 £568
% change year-on-year +12.12% -12.78% +10.73%

All Vendors
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 867 1,125 1,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 43.59% 44.80% 39.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 642 849
10th Percentile £220 £225 £275
25th Percentile £358 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £614 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 93 113
10th Percentile £14.98 £26.81 £19.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £58.00 £46.92
Median hourly rate £22.57 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.76% +27.27% -0.81%
75th Percentile £38.94 - £65.98
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.11 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.26% -21.35% +82.68%

BMC
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

BMC job vacancy trend in the South West

BMC
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing BMC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing BMC

BMC
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing BMC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing BMC

BMC
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BMC within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 October 2025. 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
Bristol - 2 £475 - 12
Wiltshire +5 1 £553 -26.33%
Somerset - 1 £557 - 1
BMC
England

BMC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) 2G
1 2 (50.00%) 4G
1 2 (50.00%) 5G
1 2 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Designer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Management Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Network Design Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Service Management Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Camel
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) JDBC
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
1 1 (25.00%) ODBC
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) IoT
1 2 (50.00%) NB-IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Co-Creation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Service Design
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Remedy
2 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Ivanti
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft