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 30 January 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
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 459 548
Rank change year-on-year -71 +89 +93
Contract jobs citing BMC 65 61 57
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.37% 0.42% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 38 42
10th Percentile £325 £371 £413
25th Percentile £424 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £585
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -10.26% +6.36%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £675
90th Percentile £688 £656 £815
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £525 £620
% change year-on-year -33.33% -15.32% +5.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £25.48 - -
25th Percentile £35.40 - -
Median hourly rate £54.44 - -
75th Percentile £75.97 - -
90th Percentile £87.39 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 17,656 14,524 19,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.67% 46.18% 43.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,356 8,591 12,291
10th Percentile £300 £284 £251
25th Percentile £410 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.33%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 837 426 884
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.75 £30.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% -8.26% +5.22%
75th Percentile £51.25 £61.31 £59.95
90th Percentile £73.00 £80.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -14.16% -16.67% +20.00%

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 30 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BMC over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for BMC in the UK

BMC
Top 14 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 30 January 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 -64 57 £493 -6.19% 22
Work from Home -7 30 £493 -6.19% 11
London -14 29 £493 -10.45% 8
UK excluding London -67 29 £350 -33.33% 18
South East -21 14 £325 -38.10% 10
North of England -63 8 £525 +10.53% 3
North West -22 6 £575 +21.05% 3
West Midlands -36 6 £325 -27.78%
Midlands -50 6 £325 -27.78%
Scotland +6 2 - - 1
East of England -18 2 - -
South West -24 2 £475 -26.92% 3
Yorkshire -55 2 £488 -7.14%
Wales -1 1 £265 -49.52% 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 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.62%) Confluence
3 2 (3.08%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (30.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (4.62%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.23%) Azure
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (6.15%) SaaS
3 2 (3.08%) Apigee
3 2 (3.08%) AWS
3 2 (3.08%) Boomi
3 2 (3.08%) PaaS
4 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.54%) GCP
4 1 (1.54%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.69%) Network Security
2 2 (3.08%) 2G
2 2 (3.08%) 4G
2 2 (3.08%) 5G
2 2 (3.08%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) DataStage
2 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) JIRA
General
1 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.23%) Retail
4 5 (7.69%) Finance
5 3 (4.62%) Banking
5 3 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (16.92%) Consultant
2 7 (10.77%) Architect
3 6 (9.23%) Technical Consultant
4 5 (7.69%) Analyst
4 5 (7.69%) Programmer
4 5 (7.69%) Senior
4 5 (7.69%) Service Management Architect
4 5 (7.69%) Systems Programmer
4 5 (7.69%) z/OS Systems Programmer
5 4 (6.15%) Exchange Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Senior Exchange Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Developer
6 3 (4.62%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (4.62%) Exchange Migration Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
6 3 (4.62%) Migration Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.08%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) Middleware
2 3 (4.62%) REST
3 2 (3.08%) ISPF
3 2 (3.08%) SOAP
3 2 (3.08%) Web Services
4 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.08%) Mainframe
2 10 (15.38%) CMDB
3 7 (10.77%) Data Centre
4 6 (9.23%) Onboarding
5 5 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (6.15%) Clustering
7 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
7 2 (3.08%) IoT
7 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.08%) NB-IoT
7 2 (3.08%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.54%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.31%) zOS
2 4 (6.15%) Windows
3 2 (3.08%) Android
3 2 (3.08%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.54%) Linux
4 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.92%) Migration
2 21 (32.31%) ITSM
3 18 (27.69%) ITIL
4 13 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (13.85%) Service Management
7 7 (10.77%) Agile
7 7 (10.77%) Problem Management
8 6 (9.23%) Project Governance
8 6 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (9.23%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (7.69%) Change Management
9 5 (7.69%) Regulatory Compliance
9 5 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (7.69%) Service Delivery
9 5 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (6.15%) ETL
10 4 (6.15%) Performance Monitoring
10 4 (6.15%) Workflow
11 3 (4.62%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.00%) REXX
2 8 (12.31%) JCL
3 5 (7.69%) SQL
4 4 (6.15%) CLIST
4 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.62%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.08%) Java
6 2 (3.08%) Python
7 1 (1.54%) Assembly Language
7 1 (1.54%) Korn
7 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (9.23%) Degree
1 6 (9.23%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.08%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.15%) SLA
3 3 (4.62%) GDPR
3 3 (4.62%) PMO
4 2 (3.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.54%) COBIT
5 1 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (12.31%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 5 (7.69%) RACF
3 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (13.85%) SCCM
2 8 (12.31%) SCOM
3 7 (10.77%) Control-M
4 5 (7.69%) Ansible
5 2 (3.08%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.08%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 20 (30.77%) Remedy
2 15 (23.08%) ServiceNow
3 14 (21.54%) Broadcom
4 7 (10.77%) IBM
5 6 (9.23%) Microsoft
5 6 (9.23%) Splunk
6 4 (6.15%) Trend Micro
7 3 (4.62%) MuleSoft
7 3 (4.62%) Oracle
8 2 (3.08%) Apple
8 2 (3.08%) Dell
8 2 (3.08%) Dynatrace
8 2 (3.08%) SolarWinds
8 2 (3.08%) Talend
9 1 (1.54%) Informatica
9 1 (1.54%) Micro Focus
9 1 (1.54%) VMware
9 1 (1.54%) Zerto