BMC Contracts

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 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within BMC Software, Inc.

BMC UK
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	486	439	436
Rank change year-on-year	-47	-3
Contract jobs citing BMC	121	217	211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.26%	0.41%	0.38%
As % of the Vendors category	0.59%	0.91%	0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted	65	115	101
Median daily rate	£400	£424	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-5.60%	-0.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£70	£249	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£550	£520
UK excluding London median daily rate	£413	£351	£400
% change year-on-year	+17.52%	-12.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	4	2
Median hourly rate	£17.00	£34.94	£12.75
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-51.34%	+174.07%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.00	£34.94	£12.75
% change year-on-year	-51.34%	+174.07%

BMC is in the vendor products and services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all vendor product and service related skills in contract job vacancies.

Contract Vendor Product & Service Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for skills associated with vendor products and/or services	20598	23854	24877
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	43.81%	44.94%	44.48%
Number of daily rates quoted	12496	14691	14551
Median daily rate	£425	£400	£388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.25%	+3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£250	£225
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£588	£572	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£363
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted	715	814	1114
Median hourly rate	£18.70	£20.00	£18.88
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-6.50%	+5.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.25	£11.50	£11.17
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£42.50	£42.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£20.50	£18.07
% change year-on-year	-14.63%	+13.44%

BMC
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing BMC as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Vendors category.

BMC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing BMC.

Contractor daily rate trend for BMC in the UK

BMC
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing BMC over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for BMC in the UK

BMC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing BMC.

Contractor hourly rate trend for BMC in the UK

BMC
Top 30 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 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-52	112	£405	+1.25%	16
London	-28	44	£400	-17.94%	6
South East	+27	32	£450	+25.00%	5
Hampshire	+19	19	£405	+15.54%
South West	+17	16	£238	+75.92%	1
Basingstoke	+3	16	£360	+24.13%
West Midlands	+1	10	£510	+33.63%
Uxbridge	-	10	£70	-	1
Shropshire	+3	8	£510	+31.48%
Telford	+2	7	£510	+31.48%
Cornwall	-	7	£183	-
Wiltshire	+9	5	-	-	1
Buckinghamshire	-14	5	-	-	2
Surrey	-	5	£450	-
Yorkshire	+22	4	£450	+4.77%	1
West Yorkshire	+13	4	£450	+4.77%	1
Wales	-5	4	£350	-41.66%
Milton Keynes	-13	4	-	-	2
Plymouth	-	4	£250	-
Chippenham	-	4	-	-
Devon	-	4	£250	-
Leeds	+22	3	-	-	1
Berkshire	+2	3	£460	+24.32%	3
Northern Ireland	-39	3	£390	-
County Antrim	-41	3	£390	-
Belfast	-41	3	£390	-
Stockley Park	-	3	£70	-
Camberley	-	3	£450	-
Newcastle upon Tyne	+37	2	£310	+10.71%
Tyne and Wear	+34	2	£310	+10.71%

BMC
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing BMC also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for BMC.

1	118 (51.75%)	Remedy
1	118 (51.75%)	Remedy ITSM
2	106 (46.49%)	ITIL
3	62 (27.19%)	Windows
4	56 (24.56%)	ITSM
5	51 (22.37%)	Security Cleared
6	47 (20.61%)	Microsoft
7	45 (19.74%)	Service Management
8	43 (18.86%)	CMDB
9	41 (17.98%)	ITIL V3
10	39 (17.11%)	Linux
11	36 (15.79%)	Agile Software Development
12	32 (14.04%)	Project Management
13	31 (13.60%)	Finance
14	30 (13.16%)	Java

15	29 (12.72%)	SC Cleared
16	27 (11.84%)	BladeLogic
16	27 (11.84%)	Unix
17	26 (11.40%)	Microsoft Office
17	26 (11.40%)	HP
18	25 (10.96%)	SQL
19	23 (10.09%)	Oracle
19	23 (10.09%)	Active Directory
19	23 (10.09%)	Cisco
19	23 (10.09%)	Migration
19	23 (10.09%)	Analytical Skills
20	22 (9.65%)	Microsoft Excel
21	21 (9.21%)	ITIL Certification
21	21 (9.21%)	Firewall
21	21 (9.21%)	Apple

BMC
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	9 (3.95%)	SharePoint
2	7 (3.07%)	MS Exchange
3	6 (2.63%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
3	6 (2.63%)	Exchange Server 2010
4	4 (1.75%)	WebLogic
5	3 (1.32%)	CMS
5	3 (1.32%)	IIS
5	3 (1.32%)	Tomcat
6	2 (0.88%)	Confluence
6	2 (0.88%)	JBoss
7	1 (0.44%)	Apache
7	1 (0.44%)	CICS
7	1 (0.44%)	Exchange Server 2007
7	1 (0.44%)	iPlanet
7	1 (0.44%)	MQSeries
7	1 (0.44%)	NetWeaver
7	1 (0.44%)	Oracle Coherence
7	1 (0.44%)	Oracle SOA Suite
7	1 (0.44%)	WebLogic Portal
7	1 (0.44%)	WebSphere

Applications
1	26 (11.40%)	Microsoft Office
2	22 (9.65%)	Microsoft Excel
3	11 (4.82%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	9 (3.95%)	MS Visio
5	3 (1.32%)	InfoPath
6	2 (0.88%)	Photoshop

Business Applications
1	118 (51.75%)	Remedy ITSM
2	8 (3.51%)	Remedy AR System
3	3 (1.32%)	Oracle Receivables
4	2 (0.88%)	Teamcenter
5	1 (0.44%)	assyst
5	1 (0.44%)	Oracle EBS
5	1 (0.44%)	Oracle EBS R12
5	1 (0.44%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5	1 (0.44%)	Payment Gateway
5	1 (0.44%)	SAP Forecasting and Replenishment

Cloud Services
1	6 (2.63%)	Amazon AWS
2	2 (0.88%)	GitHub
2	2 (0.88%)	IBM Cloud
2	2 (0.88%)	Microsoft Azure
2	2 (0.88%)	OpenShift
2	2 (0.88%)	Oracle CX
2	2 (0.88%)	Oracle Service Cloud
3	1 (0.44%)	Amazon CloudWatch
3	1 (0.44%)	Amazon S3
3	1 (0.44%)	CloudSense
3	1 (0.44%)	IaaS
3	1 (0.44%)	Office 365
3	1 (0.44%)	PaaS

Communications & Networking
1	21 (9.21%)	Firewall
2	11 (4.82%)	WLAN
3	10 (4.39%)	DNS
4	9 (3.95%)	SAN
4	9 (3.95%)	VoIP
5	8 (3.51%)	BGP
5	8 (3.51%)	Cisco ASA
5	8 (3.51%)	DMVPN
5	8 (3.51%)	F5 BIG-IP GTM
5	8 (3.51%)	F5 BIG-IP LTM
5	8 (3.51%)	NAS
5	8 (3.51%)	WAN
6	7 (3.07%)	Cisco IOS
6	7 (3.07%)	EIGRP
6	7 (3.07%)	IOS XR
7	6 (2.63%)	TCP/IP
8	5 (2.19%)	LDAP
9	4 (1.75%)	DHCP
9	4 (1.75%)	MPLS
9	4 (1.75%)	Network Security

Database & Business Intelligence
1	14 (6.14%)	SQL Server
2	9 (3.95%)	DB2
3	6 (2.63%)	BusinessObjects
4	5 (2.19%)	Oracle Database
5	3 (1.32%)	MS Access
5	3 (1.32%)	Oracle ODI
5	3 (1.32%)	PowerCenter
6	2 (0.88%)	SQL Server 2008
6	2 (0.88%)	SQL Server 2012
6	2 (0.88%)	SQL Server 2014
6	2 (0.88%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
7	1 (0.44%)	Apache Cassandra
7	1 (0.44%)	Business Intelligence Development Studio
7	1 (0.44%)	Oracle Reports
7	1 (0.44%)	RDBMS
7	1 (0.44%)	Relational Database
7	1 (0.44%)	SAP BW
7	1 (0.44%)	SQL Server 2005
7	1 (0.44%)	SQL Server 2016
7	1 (0.44%)	SQL Server Integration Services

Development Applications
1	13 (5.70%)	Jenkins
2	12 (5.26%)	JIRA
3	10 (4.39%)	Git (software)
4	7 (3.07%)	Bitbucket
4	7 (3.07%)	Maven
5	6 (2.63%)	Atlassian Bamboo
5	6 (2.63%)	ClearCase
6	4 (1.75%)	Subversion
7	3 (1.32%)	JMeter
7	3 (1.32%)	MSI
8	2 (0.88%)	Cucumber
8	2 (0.88%)	Gatling
8	2 (0.88%)	Gradle
8	2 (0.88%)	IntelliJ
8	2 (0.88%)	LoadRunner
8	2 (0.88%)	Team Foundation Server
9	1 (0.44%)	NuGet
9	1 (0.44%)	Sonatype Nexus
9	1 (0.44%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9	1 (0.44%)	TestRail

General
1	31 (13.60%)	Finance
2	15 (6.58%)	Telecoms
3	14 (6.14%)	Banking
4	12 (5.26%)	Retail
5	4 (1.75%)	Investment Banking
6	3 (1.32%)	Law
7	2 (0.88%)	Automotive
8	1 (0.44%)	Billing
8	1 (0.44%)	Electronics
8	1 (0.44%)	Pharmaceutical

Job Titles
1	43 (18.86%)	Analyst
2	33 (14.47%)	Consultant
3	19 (8.33%)	Architect
4	13 (5.70%)	Desktop Support
5	12 (5.26%)	Administrator
5	12 (5.26%)	Developer
5	12 (5.26%)	Service Architect
6	10 (4.39%)	Service Desk Engineer
7	9 (3.95%)	Project Manager
7	9 (3.95%)	Support Analyst
8	8 (3.51%)	Senior Analyst
8	8 (3.51%)	Technical Manager
9	7 (3.07%)	Cisco Engineer
9	7 (3.07%)	Cisco Network Engineer
9	7 (3.07%)	Desktop Analyst
9	7 (3.07%)	Desktop Support Analyst
9	7 (3.07%)	Service Analyst
10	6 (2.63%)	Business Consultant
10	6 (2.63%)	Desktop Engineer
10	6 (2.63%)	Management Consultant

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	18 (7.89%)	Web Services
2	9 (3.95%)	.NET
2	9 (3.95%)	CSS
2	9 (3.95%)	HTML
3	6 (2.63%)	XML
4	4 (1.75%)	Middleware
4	4 (1.75%)	Twitter Bootstrap
5	3 (1.32%)	.NET Framework
5	3 (1.32%)	Flash
5	3 (1.32%)	ISPF
5	3 (1.32%)	JSP
6	2 (0.88%)	AngularJS
6	2 (0.88%)	Hibernate
6	2 (0.88%)	HTML5
6	2 (0.88%)	JMS
6	2 (0.88%)	jQuery
6	2 (0.88%)	JSON
6	2 (0.88%)	LESS
6	2 (0.88%)	ODBC
6	2 (0.88%)	Spring

Miscellaneous
1	43 (18.86%)	CMDB
2	23 (10.09%)	Analytical Skills
3	19 (8.33%)	Data Centre
4	16 (7.02%)	User Experience
5	15 (6.58%)	Management Information System
6	9 (3.95%)	Computer Science
7	7 (3.07%)	Clustering
7	7 (3.07%)	DataPower
8	6 (2.63%)	Blackberry
9	5 (2.19%)	PMI
10	4 (1.75%)	CESG
10	4 (1.75%)	Fat Client
10	4 (1.75%)	Greenfield Project
10	4 (1.75%)	Smartphone
10	4 (1.75%)	Thin Client
11	3 (1.32%)	BYOD
11	3 (1.32%)	EMC VNX
11	3 (1.32%)	HTC Vive
11	3 (1.32%)	Linux Command Line
11	3 (1.32%)	Virtual Team

Operating Systems
1	62 (27.19%)	Windows
2	39 (17.11%)	Linux
3	27 (11.84%)	Unix
4	21 (9.21%)	Windows Server 2008
5	18 (7.89%)	Windows Server 2012
6	15 (6.58%)	Windows Server
7	13 (5.70%)	AIX
7	13 (5.70%)	Windows 7
8	11 (4.82%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9	9 (3.95%)	Solaris
10	8 (3.51%)	Apple iOS
10	8 (3.51%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11	7 (3.07%)	Windows Server 2003
12	4 (1.75%)	Android
13	3 (1.32%)	Windows 10
13	3 (1.32%)	Windows 8
13	3 (1.32%)	Windows Vista
13	3 (1.32%)	Windows XP
14	2 (0.88%)	MVS
14	2 (0.88%)	zOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	106 (46.49%)	ITIL
2	56 (24.56%)	ITSM
3	45 (19.74%)	Service Management
4	41 (17.98%)	ITIL V3
5	36 (15.79%)	Agile Software Development
6	32 (14.04%)	Project Management
7	23 (10.09%)	Migration
8	21 (9.21%)	Incident Management
9	20 (8.77%)	Service Delivery
10	19 (8.33%)	PRINCE2
10	19 (8.33%)	Supplier Management
11	18 (7.89%)	Performance Management
11	18 (7.89%)	Root Cause Analysis
12	17 (7.46%)	Continuous Improvement
12	17 (7.46%)	Knowledge Management
13	15 (6.58%)	Customer Requirements
13	15 (6.58%)	Release Management
13	15 (6.58%)	User Acceptance Testing
14	13 (5.70%)	Presales
14	13 (5.70%)	SDLC

Programming Languages
1	30 (13.16%)	Java
2	25 (10.96%)	SQL
3	14 (6.14%)	Perl
4	13 (5.70%)	JavaScript
5	12 (5.26%)	VBScript
6	10 (4.39%)	Python
7	9 (3.95%)	PowerShell
7	9 (3.95%)	Shell Script
8	6 (2.63%)	JCL
9	4 (1.75%)	Bash Shell
10	3 (1.32%)	Korn
10	3 (1.32%)	PHP
11	2 (0.88%)	REXX
11	2 (0.88%)	VB
11	2 (0.88%)	VB.NET
12	1 (0.44%)	C
12	1 (0.44%)	C#
12	1 (0.44%)	PL/SQL
12	1 (0.44%)	Ruby
12	1 (0.44%)	Tcl

Qualifications
1	51 (22.37%)	Security Cleared
2	29 (12.72%)	SC Cleared
3	21 (9.21%)	ITIL Certification
4	17 (7.46%)	BPSS Clearance
5	14 (6.14%)	Degree
6	10 (4.39%)	MCP
6	10 (4.39%)	Microsoft Certification
7	9 (3.95%)	Cisco Certification
7	9 (3.95%)	ISEB
8	8 (3.51%)	CCNP
9	6 (2.63%)	ISTQB
9	6 (2.63%)	MCDST
10	5 (2.19%)	DV Cleared
10	5 (2.19%)	PMI Certification
11	4 (1.75%)	CISSP
12	2 (0.88%)	Computer Science Degree
13	1 (0.44%)	CCDP
13	1 (0.44%)	CCNA
13	1 (0.44%)	EMCIE
13	1 (0.44%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	20 (8.77%)	SLA
2	14 (6.14%)	ISO/IEC 20000
3	8 (3.51%)	QA
4	7 (3.07%)	ISO/IEC 19770
5	3 (1.32%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	1 (0.44%)	Data Quality
6	1 (0.44%)	GAMP
6	1 (0.44%)	ISO 9001
6	1 (0.44%)	ISO/IEC 27001
6	1 (0.44%)	JSP 440

System Software
1	23 (10.09%)	Active Directory
2	13 (5.70%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	7 (3.07%)	vSphere
4	6 (2.63%)	XenApp
5	4 (1.75%)	Microsoft App-V
6	3 (1.32%)	Docker
6	3 (1.32%)	Virtual Desktop
7	2 (0.88%)	Time Sharing Option
7	2 (0.88%)	VMware ESXi
8	1 (0.44%)	Firmware
8	1 (0.44%)	iptables
8	1 (0.44%)	NFS
8	1 (0.44%)	Oracle RAC
8	1 (0.44%)	PowerHA
8	1 (0.44%)	Virtual Servers
8	1 (0.44%)	VMware Server
8	1 (0.44%)	VMware Workstation

Systems Management
1	27 (11.84%)	BladeLogic
2	15 (6.58%)	SCCM
3	14 (6.14%)	Netcool
4	13 (5.70%)	Puppet
5	11 (4.82%)	BMC PATROL
6	10 (4.39%)	Ansible
6	10 (4.39%)	ServiceCenter
6	10 (4.39%)	Tivoli
7	8 (3.51%)	ZABBIX
8	7 (3.07%)	Cisco CUCM
8	7 (3.07%)	Control-M
8	7 (3.07%)	FortiGate
8	7 (3.07%)	HP UCMDB
8	7 (3.07%)	OPNET
9	6 (2.63%)	SCOM
9	6 (2.63%)	Terraform
9	6 (2.63%)	vRealize
10	5 (2.19%)	HP Quality Center
11	4 (1.75%)	Nagios
11	4 (1.75%)	vCenter Server

Vendors
1	118 (51.75%)	Remedy
2	47 (20.61%)	Microsoft
3	26 (11.40%)	HP
4	23 (10.09%)	Cisco
4	23 (10.09%)	Oracle
5	21 (9.21%)	Apple
6	20 (8.77%)	CA
7	19 (8.33%)	ServiceNow
7	19 (8.33%)	VMware
8	14 (6.14%)	IBM
9	13 (5.70%)	F5
9	13 (5.70%)	Splunk
10	12 (5.26%)	AppDynamics
11	11 (4.82%)	Red Hat
12	10 (4.39%)	Fortinet
12	10 (4.39%)	Motorola
12	10 (4.39%)	Peregrine
13	9 (3.95%)	EMC
13	9 (3.95%)	SAP
13	9 (3.95%)	Tripwire