BMC Contract Job Trends

BMC
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 August 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
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 493 515
Rank change year-on-year -54 +22 +45
Contract jobs citing BMC 119 57 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.53% 0.36% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 31 30
10th Percentile £300 £263 £411
25th Percentile £400 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £555 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +11.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £594 £608 £588
90th Percentile £735 £648 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +3.14% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £18.87 £11.80
Median % change year-on-year - +59.92% -84.77%
75th Percentile - - £55.90
90th Percentile - - £82.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £18.87 £11.80
% change year-on-year - +59.92% -84.77%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,423 15,637 16,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.76% 47.26% 43.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,895 9,559 10,605
10th Percentile £313 £277 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £610 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +4.41% -4.23% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,146 809 839
10th Percentile £14.58 £14.62 £13.68
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -10.18% -30.71%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £61.52
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.60 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.71 £21.39 £27.50
% change year-on-year +48.26% -22.22% -17.22%

BMC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

BMC job vacancy trend in the UK

BMC
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing BMC

BMC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BMC over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BMC in the UK

BMC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing BMC

BMC
Top 15 Contract Job 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 16 August 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
England -54 114 £500 -10.23% 31
UK excluding London -50 78 £477 +3.14% 10
London -61 33 £518 -11.91% 21
South East -54 31 £550 +22.22% 2
Work from Home -61 23 £475 -2.56% 8
South West -29 22 £426 -23.21% 2
East of England - 10 £724 - 4
North of England -77 9 £388 -26.19% 2
Midlands -42 6 £475 -20.83% 1
North West -44 5 £513 -14.58% 1
West Midlands -48 5 £475 -20.83% 1
Yorkshire -43 3 £248 -33.82% 1
Wales -15 1 £265 -6.19%
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
North East - 1 - -

BMC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (5.88%) Confluence
2 2 (1.68%) SAS
3 1 (0.84%) CICS
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 63 (52.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (7.56%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 21 (17.65%) Power Platform
2 15 (12.61%) Azure
3 9 (7.56%) AWS
4 8 (6.72%) SaaS
5 6 (5.04%) iPaaS
6 5 (4.20%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.68%) GCP
8 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.84%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.97%) SNMP
2 2 (1.68%) DHCP
2 2 (1.68%) DNS
3 1 (0.84%) Firewall
3 1 (0.84%) SAN
3 1 (0.84%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.84%) VLAN
3 1 (0.84%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.01%) SQL Server
2 21 (17.65%) Power BI
3 13 (10.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 13 (10.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (10.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.84%) Db2
5 1 (0.84%) DTS
Development Applications
1 12 (10.08%) JIRA
2 1 (0.84%) Git
2 1 (0.84%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (20.17%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.08%) Telecoms
3 8 (6.72%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.88%) Finance
5 3 (2.52%) Banking
6 2 (1.68%) Retail
7 1 (0.84%) Advertising
7 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.84%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (25.21%) Consultant
2 28 (23.53%) Architect
3 20 (16.81%) ITSM Architect
4 19 (15.97%) Senior
5 16 (13.45%) Solutions Architect
6 15 (12.61%) Management Consultant
7 14 (11.76%) ITSM Consultant
8 11 (9.24%) DBA
8 11 (9.24%) Lead
8 11 (9.24%) SQL DBA
9 6 (5.04%) Senior Architect
10 5 (4.20%) Administrator
11 4 (3.36%) Active Directory Engineer
11 4 (3.36%) Developer
11 4 (3.36%) Release Manager
11 4 (3.36%) Remedy Consultant
11 4 (3.36%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
11 4 (3.36%) SQL Server DBA
12 3 (2.52%) Change Manager
12 3 (2.52%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (37.82%) REST
2 9 (7.56%) SOAP
3 3 (2.52%) Web Services
4 2 (1.68%) ISPF
5 1 (0.84%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 30 (25.21%) CMDB
2 23 (19.33%) Clustering
3 14 (11.76%) Data Centre
4 12 (10.08%) PKI
5 7 (5.88%) Replication
6 5 (4.20%) Mainframe
6 5 (4.20%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.84%) NHS
9 1 (0.84%) SCADA
9 1 (0.84%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 48 (40.34%) Windows
2 23 (19.33%) Linux
3 18 (15.13%) AIX
4 16 (13.45%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.36%) zOS
6 3 (2.52%) Unix
6 3 (2.52%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.84%) MVS
8 1 (0.84%) VMS
8 1 (0.84%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (66.39%) ITSM
2 48 (40.34%) Service Management
3 45 (37.82%) ITIL
4 30 (25.21%) Migration
5 21 (17.65%) Agile
6 18 (15.13%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (13.45%) Dashboard Development
7 16 (13.45%) Data Modelling
7 16 (13.45%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (11.76%) Service Delivery
9 13 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (10.08%) eTOM
10 12 (10.08%) Incident Management
10 12 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (8.40%) Kalman Filter
12 9 (7.56%) Data Visualisation
12 9 (7.56%) High Availability
12 9 (7.56%) Runbook
12 9 (7.56%) Visualisation
13 8 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 55 (46.22%) PowerShell
2 39 (32.77%) SQL
3 32 (26.89%) Python
4 17 (14.29%) Search Processing Language
5 12 (10.08%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.88%) Bash
7 4 (3.36%) REXX
8 3 (2.52%) C#
8 3 (2.52%) JCL
8 3 (2.52%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.52%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.68%) Korn
10 1 (0.84%) Go
Qualifications
1 64 (53.78%) Security Cleared
2 38 (31.93%) SC Cleared
3 20 (16.81%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.36%) Degree
4 4 (3.36%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.84%) ACCA
5 1 (0.84%) CEH
5 1 (0.84%) CIMA
5 1 (0.84%) CISA
5 1 (0.84%) CISM
5 1 (0.84%) CRISC
5 1 (0.84%) GCFA
5 1 (0.84%) GCIA
5 1 (0.84%) GCIH
5 1 (0.84%) GIAC
5 1 (0.84%) GPEN
5 1 (0.84%) GREM
5 1 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.84%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.72%) QA
2 7 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.84%) NIST
3 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (20.17%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.68%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.84%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.84%) NFS
4 1 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (15.97%) Nagios
1 19 (15.97%) ZABBIX
2 18 (15.13%) Netcool
3 17 (14.29%) Tivoli
4 15 (12.61%) OpenView
4 15 (12.61%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 10 (8.40%) Microsoft Clustering
6 7 (5.88%) SCOM
7 4 (3.36%) Control-M
8 1 (0.84%) Ansible
8 1 (0.84%) MAINVIEW
8 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.84%) SCCM
8 1 (0.84%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 63 (52.94%) Remedy
2 33 (27.73%) ServiceNow
3 23 (19.33%) Splunk
4 20 (16.81%) SolarWinds
5 18 (15.13%) IBM
6 15 (12.61%) HP
6 15 (12.61%) Microsoft
7 11 (9.24%) VMware
8 6 (5.04%) Commvault
9 3 (2.52%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.68%) Micro Focus
10 2 (1.68%) Snow
11 1 (0.84%) Adobe
11 1 (0.84%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.84%) Oracle
11 1 (0.84%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.84%) Samsung
11 1 (0.84%) Sybase
11 1 (0.84%) Tanium
11 1 (0.84%) Workday