BMC Contracts

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 2 July 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
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 539 581
Rank change year-on-year +55 +42 +154
Contract jobs citing BMC 46 48 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.31% 0.26% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 33 61
10th Percentile £302 £400 £300
25th Percentile £394 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £575 £594
90th Percentile £658 £593 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% +11.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - £11.80 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -84.77% +269.05%
75th Percentile - - £83.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £11.80 £77.50
% change year-on-year - -84.77% +330.56%

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 14,728 18,586 24,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.48% 42.82% 43.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,008 11,542 16,145
10th Percentile £280 £270 £270
25th Percentile £400 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 705 1,165 648
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.84 £18.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% -39.55% +81.82%
75th Percentile £53.50 £59.95 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.56 £29.30
% change year-on-year +0.31% -23.00% +49.00%

BMC
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BMC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BMC in the UK

BMC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BMC.

Daily rate trend for BMC in the UK

BMC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BMC over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BMC in the UK

BMC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BMC.

Hourly rate trend for BMC in the UK

BMC
Top 13 Contract 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 2 July 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 +67 40 £556 +13.08% 123
UK excluding London +45 33 £450 -10.00% 77
Work from Home +41 16 £450 -10.00% 28
South East +64 15 £400 +1.27% 14
London +37 9 £608 +21.60% 43
North of England +16 8 £550 +37.50% 20
North West +14 5 £700 +75.00% 11
West Midlands +10 5 £525 +16.67% 9
Midlands +4 5 £525 +16.67% 14
Yorkshire - 3 £375 - 7
Scotland -4 2 £625 +25.00% 3
Wales - 2 £283 - 4
Channel Islands - 1 £425 -

BMC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (13.04%) Confluence
2 4 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 25 (54.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.17%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.87%) Azure
2 4 (8.70%) AWS
2 4 (8.70%) GCP
3 2 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (4.35%) GitHub
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.35%) Nutanix
3 2 (4.35%) OneDrive
3 2 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) BGP
1 4 (8.70%) DNS
1 4 (8.70%) EIGRP
1 4 (8.70%) IPv4
1 4 (8.70%) MPLS
1 4 (8.70%) OSPF
1 4 (8.70%) SD-WAN
1 4 (8.70%) SSL
1 4 (8.70%) WAN
2 3 (6.52%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.35%) DHCP
3 2 (4.35%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.17%) BIG-IP
4 1 (2.17%) Broadband
4 1 (2.17%) Firewall
4 1 (2.17%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (2.17%) VPN
4 1 (2.17%) VXLAN
4 1 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) DB2
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (19.57%) JIRA
2 3 (6.52%) Subversion
3 2 (4.35%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.17%) GitLab
4 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.17%) Toad
General
1 12 (26.09%) Telecoms
2 10 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (10.87%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.52%) Legal
7 2 (4.35%) Banking
7 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Finance
7 2 (4.35%) Law
8 1 (2.17%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Analyst
2 7 (15.22%) Architect
3 5 (10.87%) IT Manager
3 5 (10.87%) Service Manager
4 4 (8.70%) Administrator
4 4 (8.70%) IP Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) IT Services Manager
4 4 (8.70%) ServiceNow Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Data Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Incident Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Transmission Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Incident Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (4.35%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Technical Support Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) LDAP
1 6 (13.04%) REST
2 4 (8.70%) AngularJS
2 4 (8.70%) Apache Camel
2 4 (8.70%) HTML
2 4 (8.70%) HTML5
2 4 (8.70%) JDBC
2 4 (8.70%) jQuery
2 4 (8.70%) JSON
2 4 (8.70%) ODBC
2 4 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (8.70%) SAML
2 4 (8.70%) SOAP
2 4 (8.70%) Web Services
3 1 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) CMDB
2 2 (4.35%) Clustering
2 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.17%) PKI
3 1 (2.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Linux
1 7 (15.22%) Unix
2 6 (13.04%) Windows
3 2 (4.35%) Solaris
4 1 (2.17%) Android
4 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (47.83%) ITIL
2 19 (41.30%) ITSM
3 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (26.09%) Service Management
4 9 (19.57%) Configuration Management
4 9 (19.57%) DevOps
5 8 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
5 8 (17.39%) Service Delivery
6 7 (15.22%) Agile
6 7 (15.22%) Change Management
6 7 (15.22%) Incident Management
7 5 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (10.87%) Microservices
7 5 (10.87%) Operations Management
7 5 (10.87%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (10.87%) Task Automation
8 4 (8.70%) Network Planning
8 4 (8.70%) Problem Management
8 4 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (8.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.87%) Python
1 5 (10.87%) Shell Script
2 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
2 4 (8.70%) Perl
3 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.35%) Bash
4 2 (4.35%) JCL
4 2 (4.35%) Korn
5 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) SC Cleared
1 14 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) CCNP
2 4 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (6.52%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.17%) CISSP
4 1 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) GIAC
4 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) COBIT
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.35%) NFS
2 2 (4.35%) Veritas File System
2 2 (4.35%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.17%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) BMC PATROL
1 5 (10.87%) Control-M
2 4 (8.70%) Ansible
2 4 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.35%) Grafana
3 2 (4.35%) Netcool
3 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.35%) QRadar
3 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (4.35%) Terraform
3 2 (4.35%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (54.35%) Remedy
2 14 (30.43%) ServiceNow
3 5 (10.87%) BT
3 5 (10.87%) Oracle
4 4 (8.70%) Cisco
4 4 (8.70%) HP
4 4 (8.70%) Huawei
4 4 (8.70%) Ivanti
4 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.52%) CyberArk
5 3 (6.52%) IBM
5 3 (6.52%) Qualys
5 3 (6.52%) Splunk
6 2 (4.35%) NetScout
6 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.35%) SaltStack
6 2 (4.35%) VMware
7 1 (2.17%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.17%) Xerox