BladeLogic Contracts

BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring BladeLogic skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BladeLogic over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 588 658
Rank change year-on-year +57 +70 +146
Contract jobs citing BladeLogic 3 4 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.009% 0.044%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.059% 0.074% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 16
10th Percentile - - £525
25th Percentile £463 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £488 - £694
90th Percentile - - £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

BladeLogic falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,084 5,429 8,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.62% 12.74% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,356 3,840 6,141
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.51% -5.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £622 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 97 184
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.92 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.08 £25.71
Median hourly rate £37.75 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.15% -43.48% +143.95%
75th Percentile £63.66 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.34 £71.25 £84.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.00 £40.00 £46.09
% change year-on-year +42.50% -13.21% +130.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BladeLogic in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BladeLogic in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for BladeLogic in the UK

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Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BladeLogic within the UK over the 6 months to 16 July 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
England +33 3 £475 -32.14%
London +39 2 - -
South East - 1 £475 -
UK excluding London - 1 £475 -

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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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Fixed Income
1 2 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Thinking
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Electronic Trading
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Bloomberg
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 2 (66.67%) ION Trading
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Reuters
1 2 (66.67%) TIBCO
1 2 (66.67%) Tradeweb
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Mellanox
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Solarflare
2 1 (33.33%) Sun