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 26 July 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
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 499 529
Rank change year-on-year -64 +30 +56
Contract jobs citing BMC 102 53 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.46% 0.34% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 30 31
10th Percentile £302 £296 £400
25th Percentile £363 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £554 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.04% +10.75% -1.96%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £569
90th Percentile £735 £649 £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £18.87 £11.80
Median % change year-on-year - +59.92% -84.77%
75th Percentile - - £55.90
90th Percentile - - £82.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £18.87 £11.80
% change year-on-year - +59.92% -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 21,946 15,612 17,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.35% 47.42% 43.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,634 9,558 11,043
10th Percentile £313 £280 £280
25th Percentile £413 £401 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,090 773 927
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.65 £13.25
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.08 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.11 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.60% -6.85% -35.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.00 £22.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +52.36% -10.74% -24.24%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -61 95 £482 -13.26% 21
UK excluding London -65 71 £475 +5.56% 10
South East -59 28 £650 +44.44% 4
London -67 21 £488 -17.02% 11
South West -19 19 £371 -33.21% 1
Work from Home -51 19 £475 +5.56% 4
East of England - 10 £724 - 4
North of England -78 8 £425 -22.73% 1
Midlands -48 5 £475 -9.52% 1
North West -49 4 £513 -26.79%
West Midlands -52 4 £475 -9.52% 1
Yorkshire -46 3 £318 -15.33% 1
Wales -15 2 £320 +13.27%
North East - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £500 -

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 (3.92%) Confluence
2 2 (1.96%) SAS
3 1 (0.98%) CICS
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 53 (51.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (5.88%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 16 (15.69%) Power Platform
2 14 (13.73%) Azure
3 9 (8.82%) AWS
4 5 (4.90%) Entra ID
4 5 (4.90%) SaaS
5 2 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.96%) GCP
5 2 (1.96%) iPaaS
6 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 19 (18.63%) SNMP
2 2 (1.96%) DHCP
2 2 (1.96%) DNS
3 1 (0.98%) Firewall
3 1 (0.98%) SAN
3 1 (0.98%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.98%) VLAN
3 1 (0.98%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 16 (15.69%) Power BI
3 7 (6.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 7 (6.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (6.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.98%) Db2
5 1 (0.98%) DTS
Development Applications
1 9 (8.82%) JIRA
2 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.75%) Telecoms
3 7 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.92%) Finance
4 4 (3.92%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.94%) Banking
6 2 (1.96%) Retail
7 1 (0.98%) Advertising
7 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.98%) French Language
7 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (23.53%) Consultant
2 21 (20.59%) Architect
3 19 (18.63%) Senior
4 15 (14.71%) Management Consultant
5 14 (13.73%) ITSM Architect
6 13 (12.75%) Lead
7 10 (9.80%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (7.84%) ITSM Consultant
9 7 (6.86%) Senior Architect
10 6 (5.88%) DBA
10 6 (5.88%) SQL DBA
11 4 (3.92%) Active Directory Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Developer
11 4 (3.92%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) SQL Server DBA
12 3 (2.94%) Change and Release Manager
12 3 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (2.94%) Lead Developer
12 3 (2.94%) Product Manager
12 3 (2.94%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (41.18%) REST
2 6 (5.88%) SOAP
3 2 (1.96%) ISPF
4 1 (0.98%) .NET
4 1 (0.98%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.98%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.53%) CMDB
2 17 (16.67%) Clustering
3 13 (12.75%) PKI
4 7 (6.86%) Replication
5 6 (5.88%) Mainframe
6 5 (4.90%) Data Centre
6 5 (4.90%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.98%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 44 (43.14%) Windows
2 22 (21.57%) Linux
3 18 (17.65%) AIX
4 16 (15.69%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.90%) zOS
6 2 (1.96%) Unix
7 1 (0.98%) MVS
7 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.98%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (63.73%) ITSM
2 39 (38.24%) ITIL
3 34 (33.33%) Service Management
4 22 (21.57%) Agile
5 19 (18.63%) Migration
6 16 (15.69%) Dashboard Development
7 15 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (13.73%) Service Delivery
9 13 (12.75%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (12.75%) eTOM
10 12 (11.76%) Data Modelling
11 10 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (8.82%) Data Visualisation
12 9 (8.82%) Visualisation
13 8 (7.84%) Data Governance
13 8 (7.84%) Workflow
14 7 (6.86%) Incident Management
14 7 (6.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 46 (45.10%) PowerShell
2 35 (34.31%) SQL
3 27 (26.47%) Python
4 17 (16.67%) Search Processing Language
5 13 (12.75%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.90%) REXX
7 4 (3.92%) C#
7 4 (3.92%) JCL
8 3 (2.94%) Bash
8 3 (2.94%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.94%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.98%) CLIST
9 1 (0.98%) Go
9 1 (0.98%) Korn
Qualifications
1 52 (50.98%) Security Cleared
2 27 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 21 (20.59%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.92%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.94%) Degree
6 1 (0.98%) ACCA
6 1 (0.98%) CEH
6 1 (0.98%) CIMA
6 1 (0.98%) CISA
6 1 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.98%) CISM
6 1 (0.98%) CISSP
6 1 (0.98%) CRISC
6 1 (0.98%) GCFA
6 1 (0.98%) GCIA
6 1 (0.98%) GCIH
6 1 (0.98%) GIAC
6 1 (0.98%) GPEN
6 1 (0.98%) MBA
6 1 (0.98%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.96%) QA
2 2 (1.96%) SLA
3 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.98%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (21.57%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.94%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.98%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.98%) NFS
4 1 (0.98%) RACF
4 1 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (18.63%) Nagios
1 19 (18.63%) ZABBIX
2 18 (17.65%) Netcool
3 17 (16.67%) Tivoli
4 15 (14.71%) OpenView
4 15 (14.71%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 4 (3.92%) Control-M
5 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (3.92%) SCOM
6 1 (0.98%) Ansible
6 1 (0.98%) MAINVIEW
6 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.98%) SCCM
6 1 (0.98%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 53 (51.96%) Remedy
2 32 (31.37%) ServiceNow
3 23 (22.55%) Splunk
4 20 (19.61%) SolarWinds
5 19 (18.63%) IBM
6 15 (14.71%) HP
7 10 (9.80%) Microsoft
8 6 (5.88%) VMware
9 4 (3.92%) Broadcom
10 3 (2.94%) Commvault
11 2 (1.96%) Micro Focus
12 1 (0.98%) Adobe
12 1 (0.98%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.98%) Oracle
12 1 (0.98%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.98%) Samsung
12 1 (0.98%) Sybase
12 1 (0.98%) Tanium
12 1 (0.98%) Workday