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 1 May 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
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 467 537
Rank change year-on-year -75 +70 +88
Contract jobs citing BMC 88 57 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.19% 0.10%
As % of the Vendors category 0.44% 0.41% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 34 31
10th Percentile £306 £390 £400
25th Percentile £359 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £545 £568 £581
90th Percentile £688 £644 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £11.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £11.80
% change year-on-year - - -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 19,812 13,893 18,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.93% 47.48% 42.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,650 8,712 11,457
10th Percentile £313 £289 £263
25th Percentile £413 £408 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.04% -1.87%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £627
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 990 562 1,086
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.86 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.11 £14.43
Median hourly rate £31.09 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.53% +17.56% -49.44%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £21.50
% change year-on-year +13.73% +12.47% -46.25%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -70 79 £484 -7.86% 19
UK excluding London -80 57 £450 -14.29% 18
Work from Home -31 35 £493 -6.19% 10
London -42 21 £493 -14.35% 3
South East -53 20 £550 +22.22% 5
South West -15 17 £426 -27.49% 5
North of England -66 12 £481 -8.33% 6
North West -41 8 £513 -2.38% 2
Midlands -74 8 £413 -21.43%
West Midlands -61 7 £350 -33.33%
Yorkshire -53 3 £438 -16.67% 4
Wales -7 2 £320 -39.05% 2
East of England - 2 - - 2
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 4 (4.55%) SAS
2 3 (3.41%) Confluence
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.14%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 22 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (3.41%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.95%) Power Platform
2 3 (3.41%) Azure
2 3 (3.41%) SaaS
3 2 (2.27%) Apigee
3 2 (2.27%) AWS
3 2 (2.27%) Boomi
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.27%) PaaS
4 1 (1.14%) GCP
4 1 (1.14%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 19 (21.59%) SNMP
2 5 (5.68%) Network Security
3 1 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.95%) Power BI
3 3 (3.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (3.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.27%) DataStage
4 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.14%) DB2
5 1 (1.14%) DTS
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.23%) Finance
4 6 (6.82%) Banking
5 5 (5.68%) Retail
6 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.14%) Advertising
7 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.14%) French Language
7 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (27.27%) Consultant
2 15 (17.05%) Architect
2 15 (17.05%) Management Consultant
3 10 (11.36%) Senior
4 7 (7.95%) ITSM Architect
5 6 (6.82%) Senior Architect
5 6 (6.82%) Technical Consultant
6 4 (4.55%) Analyst
6 4 (4.55%) Service Management Architect
7 3 (3.41%) DBA
7 3 (3.41%) Developer
7 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (3.41%) Lead
7 3 (3.41%) Programmer
7 3 (3.41%) SQL DBA
7 3 (3.41%) Systems Programmer
7 3 (3.41%) z/OS Systems Programmer
8 2 (2.27%) Business Analyst
8 2 (2.27%) Problem Analyst
8 2 (2.27%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (35.23%) REST
2 4 (4.55%) ISPF
3 3 (3.41%) Middleware
3 3 (3.41%) Web Services
4 2 (2.27%) SOAP
5 1 (1.14%) .NET
5 1 (1.14%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.45%) Mainframe
2 10 (11.36%) CMDB
3 9 (10.23%) Clustering
4 7 (7.95%) Onboarding
4 7 (7.95%) PKI
5 6 (6.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (5.68%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.41%) Replication
8 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.27%) Taxonomies
9 1 (1.14%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.14%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 34 (38.64%) Windows
2 20 (22.73%) Linux
3 18 (20.45%) AIX
4 12 (13.64%) Windows Server
5 10 (11.36%) zOS
6 2 (2.27%) Unix
7 1 (1.14%) MVS
7 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (36.36%) ITSM
2 27 (30.68%) ITIL
3 21 (23.86%) Migration
4 19 (21.59%) Service Management
5 16 (18.18%) Agile
6 14 (15.91%) Dashboard Development
7 11 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (10.23%) Problem Management
8 9 (10.23%) Service Delivery
9 8 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (9.09%) Project Delivery
10 7 (7.95%) eTOM
10 7 (7.95%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (6.82%) Change Management
11 6 (6.82%) Project Governance
11 6 (6.82%) Technical Leadership
12 5 (5.68%) Observability
12 5 (5.68%) Performance Tuning
12 5 (5.68%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 28 (31.82%) SQL
3 20 (22.73%) Python
4 17 (19.32%) Search Processing Language
5 16 (18.18%) REXX
6 9 (10.23%) JCL
7 7 (7.95%) JavaScript
8 4 (4.55%) C#
9 3 (3.41%) CLIST
9 3 (3.41%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.41%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.27%) Java
10 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.14%) Assembly Language
11 1 (1.14%) Go
11 1 (1.14%) Korn
Qualifications
1 33 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 14 (15.91%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.68%) Degree
5 2 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.14%) ACCA
6 1 (1.14%) CIMA
6 1 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.14%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.41%) SLA
3 2 (2.27%) GDPR
3 2 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
4 1 (1.14%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (11.36%) Active Directory
2 8 (9.09%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 3 (3.41%) RACF
4 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (21.59%) Nagios
1 19 (21.59%) ZABBIX
2 18 (20.45%) Netcool
3 17 (19.32%) Tivoli
4 15 (17.05%) OpenView
4 15 (17.05%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 10 (11.36%) Control-M
6 3 (3.41%) SCCM
6 3 (3.41%) SCOM
7 2 (2.27%) Ansible
8 1 (1.14%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 26 (29.55%) Splunk
2 23 (26.14%) IBM
3 22 (25.00%) Remedy
4 21 (23.86%) SolarWinds
5 20 (22.73%) ServiceNow
6 15 (17.05%) Broadcom
6 15 (17.05%) HP
7 5 (5.68%) Microsoft
8 3 (3.41%) Oracle
9 2 (2.27%) Dell
9 2 (2.27%) Dynatrace
9 2 (2.27%) Talend
9 2 (2.27%) Trend Micro
9 2 (2.27%) VMware
10 1 (1.14%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.14%) Informatica
10 1 (1.14%) Micro Focus
10 1 (1.14%) Sybase
10 1 (1.14%) Workday
10 1 (1.14%) Zerto