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 September 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
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 520 512
Rank change year-on-year -39 -8 +33
Contract jobs citing BMC 121 45 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.53% 0.29% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 25 27
10th Percentile £311 £260 £258
25th Percentile £420 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £557 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.99% +11.40% -7.41%
75th Percentile £594 £608 £588
90th Percentile £735 £644 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -1.46% +2.75% -15.97%
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% -
75th Percentile - - £55.90
90th Percentile - - £82.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £18.87 £11.80
% change year-on-year - +59.92% -

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 22,669 15,501 17,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.71% 47.46% 44.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,851 9,502 10,192
10th Percentile £310 £275 £286
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,287 795 671
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.62 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.13 £25.15 £30.41
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -17.30% -30.63%
75th Percentile £60.78 £43.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.75 £21.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +22.62% -30.00% -29.12%

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 September 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 21 September 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 -37 117 £513 -9.45% 70
UK excluding London -48 78 £506 -1.46% 24
London -69 36 £515 -12.34% 42
South East -38 31 £525 +6.49% 3
Work from Home -51 24 £506 -9.11% 77
South West -22 19 £575 +3.65% 5
North of England -62 12 £375 -21.05% 9
East of England - 10 £724 - 3
Yorkshire -36 6 £248 -33.82% 2
Midlands - 6 £475 - 3
North West -48 5 £513 -10.87% 6
West Midlands - 5 £475 - 1
Wales -13 1 £265 -6.19%
North East - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 2

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 10 (8.26%) Confluence
2 2 (1.65%) SAS
3 1 (0.83%) CICS
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 65 (53.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (9.09%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 20 (16.53%) Power Platform
2 15 (12.40%) Azure
3 10 (8.26%) SaaS
4 9 (7.44%) AWS
5 8 (6.61%) iPaaS
6 5 (4.13%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.65%) GCP
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.83%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.09%) SNMP
2 2 (1.65%) DHCP
2 2 (1.65%) DNS
3 1 (0.83%) Firewall
3 1 (0.83%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.83%) SAN
3 1 (0.83%) SSH
3 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) VLAN
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 20 (16.53%) Power BI
3 13 (10.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 13 (10.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (10.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.83%) Db2
5 1 (0.83%) DTS
Development Applications
1 15 (12.40%) JIRA
2 2 (1.65%) Git
2 2 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
General
1 30 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (9.92%) Telecoms
3 9 (7.44%) Finance
4 8 (6.61%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.13%) Banking
6 3 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.65%) Retail
8 1 (0.83%) Advertising
8 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (23.97%) Architect
2 27 (22.31%) Consultant
3 19 (15.70%) ITSM Architect
4 18 (14.88%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (13.22%) ITSM Consultant
5 16 (13.22%) Senior
6 11 (9.09%) DBA
6 11 (9.09%) Lead
6 11 (9.09%) SQL DBA
7 10 (8.26%) Management Consultant
8 5 (4.13%) Administrator
8 5 (4.13%) Remedy Consultant
9 4 (3.31%) Active Directory Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Analyst
9 4 (3.31%) Change Manager
9 4 (3.31%) Developer
9 4 (3.31%) Release Manager
9 4 (3.31%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) SQL Server DBA
10 3 (2.48%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (30.58%) REST
2 11 (9.09%) SOAP
3 2 (1.65%) ISPF
3 2 (1.65%) Web Services
4 1 (0.83%) DCOM
4 1 (0.83%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 33 (27.27%) CMDB
2 22 (18.18%) Clustering
3 14 (11.57%) Data Centre
4 9 (7.44%) PKI
5 7 (5.79%) Replication
6 5 (4.13%) Mainframe
6 5 (4.13%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.65%) NHS
9 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.83%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.83%) SCADA
9 1 (0.83%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 41 (33.88%) Windows
2 19 (15.70%) Linux
3 13 (10.74%) Windows Server
4 10 (8.26%) AIX
5 6 (4.96%) Unix
6 4 (3.31%) zOS
7 3 (2.48%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.83%) MVS
9 1 (0.83%) VMS
9 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (68.60%) ITSM
2 52 (42.98%) Service Management
3 49 (40.50%) ITIL
4 33 (27.27%) Migration
5 19 (15.70%) Agile
5 19 (15.70%) Data Modelling
6 17 (14.05%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (14.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (13.22%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (12.40%) Incident Management
9 13 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (10.74%) Kalman Filter
9 13 (10.74%) Service Delivery
10 12 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (8.26%) Dashboard Development
11 10 (8.26%) Runbook
11 10 (8.26%) Workflow
12 9 (7.44%) Change Management
12 9 (7.44%) Data Visualisation
12 9 (7.44%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (39.67%) PowerShell
2 33 (27.27%) SQL
3 27 (22.31%) Python
4 10 (8.26%) Bash
4 10 (8.26%) Search Processing Language
5 9 (7.44%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.31%) REXX
6 4 (3.31%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.48%) JCL
7 3 (2.48%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.65%) Korn
9 1 (0.83%) Go
Qualifications
1 60 (49.59%) Security Cleared
2 34 (28.10%) SC Cleared
3 20 (16.53%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.31%) Degree
4 4 (3.31%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.83%) CEH
6 1 (0.83%) CIMA
6 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.83%) CISSP
6 1 (0.83%) CRISC
6 1 (0.83%) GCFA
6 1 (0.83%) GCIA
6 1 (0.83%) GCIH
6 1 (0.83%) GIAC
6 1 (0.83%) GPEN
6 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.83%) OSCP
6 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.44%) QA
2 7 (5.79%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.65%) SLA
4 1 (0.83%) GRC
4 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (17.36%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.65%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.83%) NFS
4 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (9.09%) Nagios
1 11 (9.09%) ZABBIX
2 10 (8.26%) Microsoft Clustering
2 10 (8.26%) Netcool
2 10 (8.26%) Tivoli
3 8 (6.61%) OpenView
3 8 (6.61%) SCOM
3 8 (6.61%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 6 (4.96%) Control-M
5 2 (1.65%) Ansible
5 2 (1.65%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (1.65%) BMC Performance Manager
5 2 (1.65%) Perfmon
6 1 (0.83%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.83%) SCCM
6 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.83%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (0.83%) WMI
Vendors
1 65 (53.72%) Remedy
2 32 (26.45%) ServiceNow
3 17 (14.05%) Splunk
4 16 (13.22%) Microsoft
5 14 (11.57%) VMware
6 13 (10.74%) SolarWinds
7 11 (9.09%) IBM
8 8 (6.61%) HP
9 6 (4.96%) Commvault
10 3 (2.48%) Broadcom
10 3 (2.48%) Oracle
11 2 (1.65%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.65%) CyberArk
11 2 (1.65%) Micro Focus
11 2 (1.65%) Snow
11 2 (1.65%) Tanium
12 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.83%) Samsung
12 1 (0.83%) Sybase
12 1 (0.83%) Workday