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 21 November 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
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 496 531
Rank change year-on-year -27 +35 +143
Contract jobs citing BMC 56 68 87
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.33% 0.42% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 44 54
10th Percentile £259 £390 £400
25th Percentile £419 £459 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +6.48%
75th Percentile £608 £538 £675
90th Percentile £685 £588 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £363 £525 £615
% change year-on-year -30.95% -14.63% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -81.13% - -
75th Percentile £56.94 - -
90th Percentile £79.77 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 - -

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 17,053 16,375 21,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.54% 44.88% 45.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,738 9,632 13,459
10th Percentile £287 £300 £260
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.45%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £718 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 887 522 674
10th Percentile £15.33 £15.51 £14.59
25th Percentile £18.25 £19.09 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.18% -32.58% +72.61%
75th Percentile £42.63 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.98 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £27.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% -38.20% +97.78%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for BMC in the UK

BMC
Top 13 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 21 November 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 -21 45 £539 +2.62% 43
London -3 30 £592 +11.60% 29
Work from Home -1 22 £513 -2.38% 20
UK excluding London -45 22 £363 -30.95% 21
South East +4 6 £325 -38.10% 6
North of England -47 5 £400 -15.79% 5
Scotland -2 4 £625 +19.05%
South West -3 4 £553 -15.00% 2
West Midlands -21 4 £325 -27.78% 2
Midlands -29 4 £325 -27.78% 3
Wales +4 3 £265 -49.52% 4
North West -19 3 £352 -26.00% 3
Yorkshire -40 2 £400 -23.81%

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 14 (25.00%) Confluence
2 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.79%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 30 (53.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.07%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (3.57%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.79%) AWS
4 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (23.21%) SSL
2 3 (5.36%) Network Security
3 2 (3.57%) 2G
3 2 (3.57%) 4G
3 2 (3.57%) 5G
3 2 (3.57%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.79%) Broadband
4 1 (1.79%) DHCP
4 1 (1.79%) DNS
4 1 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) DB2
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (32.14%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Toad
General
1 11 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Finance
6 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Law
6 1 (1.79%) Legal
6 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Police
6 1 (1.79%) Publishing
6 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) Senior
2 12 (21.43%) Architect
3 10 (17.86%) ServiceNow Architect
4 8 (14.29%) Senior Architect
5 6 (10.71%) Consultant
6 3 (5.36%) Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Exchange Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Programmer
6 3 (5.36%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.36%) Senior Exchange Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Support Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Systems Programmer
6 3 (5.36%) z/OS Systems Programmer
7 2 (3.57%) Exchange Migration Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
7 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) PMO Project Manager
7 2 (3.57%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.00%) REST
2 13 (23.21%) AngularJS
2 13 (23.21%) Apache Camel
2 13 (23.21%) HTML
2 13 (23.21%) HTML5
2 13 (23.21%) JDBC
2 13 (23.21%) jQuery
2 13 (23.21%) JSON
2 13 (23.21%) LDAP
2 13 (23.21%) ODBC
2 13 (23.21%) RabbitMQ
2 13 (23.21%) SAML
2 13 (23.21%) SOAP
2 13 (23.21%) Web Services
3 3 (5.36%) Middleware
4 1 (1.79%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 6 (10.71%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.36%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.36%) Clustering
4 3 (5.36%) CMDB
5 2 (3.57%) IoT
5 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.57%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.79%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) Windows
2 5 (8.93%) Android
3 4 (7.14%) Linux
3 4 (7.14%) Windows 10
3 4 (7.14%) zOS
4 3 (5.36%) Unix
5 1 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (39.29%) ITSM
2 15 (26.79%) Agile
2 15 (26.79%) DevOps
3 14 (25.00%) ITIL
4 13 (23.21%) Integration Patterns
4 13 (23.21%) Microservices
4 13 (23.21%) Migration
4 13 (23.21%) Scrum
5 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (19.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (10.71%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (10.71%) Service Delivery
9 5 (8.93%) Customer Experience
10 4 (7.14%) Change Management
10 4 (7.14%) Incident Management
10 4 (7.14%) Problem Management
10 4 (7.14%) Release Management
10 4 (7.14%) Service Management
11 3 (5.36%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.21%) JavaScript
2 6 (10.71%) JCL
3 5 (8.93%) REXX
4 3 (5.36%) Korn
4 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.36%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.57%) CLIST
5 2 (3.57%) Python
5 2 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (32.14%) SC Cleared
1 18 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.71%) Degree
3 3 (5.36%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.57%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.79%) APMP
5 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) SLA
2 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.57%) PMO
3 1 (1.79%) COBIT
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 3 (5.36%) RACF
3 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.79%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 13 (23.21%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (12.50%) SCCM
3 6 (10.71%) SCOM
4 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (7.14%) Ansible
5 4 (7.14%) Control-M
6 3 (5.36%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (3.57%) SCOrch
8 1 (1.79%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 30 (53.57%) Remedy
2 26 (46.43%) ServiceNow
3 13 (23.21%) HP
3 13 (23.21%) Ivanti
4 11 (19.64%) Microsoft
5 6 (10.71%) Broadcom
6 5 (8.93%) IBM
7 4 (7.14%) Apple
7 4 (7.14%) Splunk
8 3 (5.36%) MuleSoft
8 3 (5.36%) Oracle
8 3 (5.36%) Trend Micro
9 2 (3.57%) Micro Focus
10 1 (1.79%) BT
10 1 (1.79%) Citrix
10 1 (1.79%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (1.79%) NetScout
10 1 (1.79%) Toshiba
10 1 (1.79%) Xerox