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 3 months leading up to 29 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.

3 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 363 386
Rank change year-on-year -54 +23 +46
Contract jobs citing BMC 53 18 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.50% 0.24% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 8 15
10th Percentile £298 £459 £208
25th Percentile £353 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £593 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% +18.60% -
75th Percentile £678 £651 £591
90th Percentile £735 £700 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £586 £525
% change year-on-year -18.94% +11.62% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £11.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £11.80

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 10,632 7,422 8,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.34% 47.42% 43.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,625 4,467 5,344
10th Percentile £313 £275 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £605 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.66% -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 380 458
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £22.73 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.58% -18.82% -41.05%
75th Percentile £60.75 £51.41 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.03 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £26.03
% change year-on-year +72.23% -27.51% -38.75%

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 3 months to 29 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 14 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 3 months to 29 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -54 50 £488 -17.79% 13
UK excluding London -54 44 £475 -18.94% 15
South West - 19 £371 - 2
Work from Home -20 12 £475 -2.56% 5
South East -59 8 £550 +6.18% 3
North of England -50 7 £425 -32.00% 2
East of England - 7 £724 - 8
London -41 6 £488 -13.33%
North West -24 4 £513 -26.79%
Midlands - 4 £475 -
West Midlands - 3 £475 -
Yorkshire -28 2 £318 -33.16% 1
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
North East - 1 - - 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 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.30%) SAS
2 1 (1.15%) CICS
2 1 (1.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (42.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (3.45%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.49%) Power Platform
2 6 (6.90%) Azure
3 3 (3.45%) Entra ID
3 3 (3.45%) SaaS
4 2 (2.30%) AWS
4 2 (2.30%) PaaS
5 1 (1.15%) GCP
5 1 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.15%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 19 (21.84%) SNMP
2 2 (2.30%) DHCP
2 2 (2.30%) DNS
2 2 (2.30%) Network Security
3 1 (1.15%) Firewall
3 1 (1.15%) SAN
3 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.15%) VLAN
3 1 (1.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.09%) SQL Server
2 10 (11.49%) Power BI
3 3 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.15%) DB2
5 1 (1.15%) DTS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.34%) Finance
4 6 (6.90%) Banking
5 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.60%) Retail
6 4 (4.60%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.15%) Advertising
7 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.15%) French Language
7 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (29.89%) Consultant
2 15 (17.24%) Architect
2 15 (17.24%) Management Consultant
3 13 (14.94%) Senior
4 7 (8.05%) ITSM Architect
5 6 (6.90%) Senior Architect
5 6 (6.90%) Technical Consultant
6 4 (4.60%) Analyst
6 4 (4.60%) Change Manager
6 4 (4.60%) Service Management Architect
7 3 (3.45%) Change and Release Manager
7 3 (3.45%) DBA
7 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (3.45%) ITSM Consultant
7 3 (3.45%) Lead
7 3 (3.45%) Release Manager
7 3 (3.45%) SQL DBA
8 2 (2.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.30%) Programmer
8 2 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (36.78%) REST
2 3 (3.45%) Middleware
2 3 (3.45%) Web Services
3 2 (2.30%) ISPF
3 2 (2.30%) SOAP
4 1 (1.15%) .NET
4 1 (1.15%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.54%) CMDB
2 11 (12.64%) Clustering
3 10 (11.49%) PKI
4 9 (10.34%) Mainframe
5 8 (9.20%) Onboarding
6 5 (5.75%) Replication
7 4 (4.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (3.45%) Data Centre
9 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
9 2 (2.30%) Taxonomies
10 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (1.15%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 36 (41.38%) Windows
2 20 (22.99%) Linux
3 18 (20.69%) AIX
4 13 (14.94%) Windows Server
5 7 (8.05%) zOS
6 1 (1.15%) MVS
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.15%) Unix
6 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (54.02%) ITSM
2 34 (39.08%) ITIL
3 23 (26.44%) Service Management
4 19 (21.84%) Agile
5 14 (16.09%) Dashboard Development
5 14 (16.09%) Migration
6 11 (12.64%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (12.64%) Service Delivery
7 10 (11.49%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (11.49%) eTOM
8 7 (8.05%) Mentoring
8 7 (8.05%) Problem Management
8 7 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (6.90%) Data Visualisation
9 6 (6.90%) Knowledge Transfer
9 6 (6.90%) Project Delivery
9 6 (6.90%) Project Governance
9 6 (6.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (40.23%) PowerShell
2 29 (33.33%) SQL
3 21 (24.14%) Python
4 17 (19.54%) Search Processing Language
5 10 (11.49%) JavaScript
6 8 (9.20%) REXX
7 5 (5.75%) JCL
8 4 (4.60%) C#
9 3 (3.45%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.30%) CLIST
11 1 (1.15%) Assembly Language
11 1 (1.15%) Bash
11 1 (1.15%) Go
11 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (48.28%) Security Cleared
2 22 (25.29%) SC Cleared
3 18 (20.69%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.60%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.45%) Degree
6 1 (1.15%) ACCA
6 1 (1.15%) CIMA
6 1 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.15%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.45%) SLA
3 2 (2.30%) GDPR
3 2 (2.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.15%) NIST
4 1 (1.15%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (18.39%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.75%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (2.30%) RACF
4 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.15%) NFS
4 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (21.84%) Nagios
1 19 (21.84%) ZABBIX
2 18 (20.69%) Netcool
3 17 (19.54%) Tivoli
4 15 (17.24%) OpenView
4 15 (17.24%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 5 (5.75%) Control-M
6 2 (2.30%) SCCM
7 1 (1.15%) Ansible
7 1 (1.15%) MAINVIEW
7 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 37 (42.53%) Remedy
2 31 (35.63%) ServiceNow
3 23 (26.44%) Splunk
4 21 (24.14%) IBM
4 21 (24.14%) SolarWinds
5 15 (17.24%) HP
6 7 (8.05%) Broadcom
6 7 (8.05%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.30%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.30%) VMware
8 1 (1.15%) Adobe
8 1 (1.15%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.15%) Informatica
8 1 (1.15%) Oracle
8 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.15%) Samsung
8 1 (1.15%) Sybase
8 1 (1.15%) Trend Micro
8 1 (1.15%) Workday
8 1 (1.15%) Zerto