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 12 January 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
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 464 541
Rank change year-on-year -49 +77 +111
Contract jobs citing BMC 61 60 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.36% 0.42% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 37 41
10th Percentile £321 £380 £413
25th Percentile £475 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £595
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -11.76% +8.18%
75th Percentile £557 £538 £688
90th Percentile £688 £658 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £525 £620
% change year-on-year -11.90% -15.32% +4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £100.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -81.13% - -
75th Percentile £56.94 - -
90th Percentile £79.77 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 - -

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 16,759 14,424 19,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.24% 45.77% 44.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,764 8,535 12,034
10th Percentile £300 £285 £253
25th Percentile £411 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.88% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 793 422 684
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.96 £19.60 £17.75
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.13 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% -38.06% +60.71%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.00 £63.29
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.75 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £24.83 £44.50
% change year-on-year -13.41% -44.20% +80.27%

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 12 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BMC over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for BMC in the UK

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 6 months to 12 January 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 -57 55 £495 -5.71% 23
London +1 31 £495 -10.00% 4
UK excluding London -52 26 £463 -11.90% 21
Work from Home -19 23 £493 -6.19% 18
South East -12 12 £325 -38.53% 8
North of England -52 5 £488 +2.63% 6
South West -20 4 £553 -15.00% 2
West Midlands -33 4 £325 -27.78% 3
Midlands -43 4 £325 -27.78% 3
North West -34 3 £352 -26.00% 5
Scotland +5 2 - - 1
East of England -19 2 - - 1
Yorkshire -39 2 £488 -7.14%
Wales 0 1 £265 -49.52% 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 7 (11.48%) Confluence
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.28%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (37.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.28%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.11%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (9.84%) Azure
3 2 (3.28%) Apigee
3 2 (3.28%) Boomi
4 1 (1.64%) AWS
4 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.64%) GCP
4 1 (1.64%) Rubrik
4 1 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) SSL
2 3 (4.92%) Network Security
3 2 (3.28%) 2G
3 2 (3.28%) 4G
3 2 (3.28%) 5G
3 2 (3.28%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.28%) DataStage
2 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) JIRA
General
1 11 (18.03%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.28%) Banking
4 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.28%) Finance
4 2 (3.28%) Retail
4 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (19.67%) Consultant
2 8 (13.11%) Senior
3 6 (9.84%) Technical Consultant
4 5 (8.20%) Developer
5 4 (6.56%) Exchange Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Programmer
5 4 (6.56%) Senior Exchange Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Systems Programmer
5 4 (6.56%) z/OS Systems Programmer
6 3 (4.92%) Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Architect
6 3 (4.92%) Exchange Migration Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
6 3 (4.92%) Migration Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.92%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.92%) ServiceNow Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Management Consultant
7 2 (3.28%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) REST
1 6 (9.84%) Web Services
2 5 (8.20%) SOAP
3 4 (6.56%) AngularJS
3 4 (6.56%) Apache Camel
3 4 (6.56%) HTML
3 4 (6.56%) HTML5
3 4 (6.56%) JDBC
3 4 (6.56%) jQuery
3 4 (6.56%) JSON
3 4 (6.56%) LDAP
3 4 (6.56%) Middleware
3 4 (6.56%) ODBC
3 4 (6.56%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (6.56%) SAML
4 2 (3.28%) ISPF
5 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.31%) Mainframe
2 6 (9.84%) CMDB
3 5 (8.20%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.56%) Clustering
5 3 (4.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.28%) IoT
6 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.28%) NB-IoT
7 1 (1.64%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.84%) Windows
1 6 (9.84%) zOS
2 4 (6.56%) Android
2 4 (6.56%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.64%) Linux
4 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.70%) Migration
2 21 (34.43%) ITSM
3 16 (26.23%) ITIL
4 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (16.39%) Agile
5 10 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (11.48%) DevOps
7 6 (9.84%) Project Governance
7 6 (9.84%) Service Delivery
7 6 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (8.20%) Change Management
8 5 (8.20%) Customer Experience
8 5 (8.20%) Scrum
8 5 (8.20%) Service Management
8 5 (8.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (6.56%) Integration Patterns
9 4 (6.56%) Microservices
9 4 (6.56%) Regulatory Compliance
9 4 (6.56%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (6.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.03%) REXX
2 6 (9.84%) JCL
3 5 (8.20%) SQL
4 4 (6.56%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.92%) CLIST
5 3 (4.92%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.28%) Java
6 2 (3.28%) Python
7 1 (1.64%) Korn
7 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.84%) Degree
4 3 (4.92%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (3.28%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.64%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) SLA
2 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.92%) PMO
3 2 (3.28%) GDPR
4 1 (1.64%) COBIT
4 1 (1.64%) NIST
4 1 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (9.84%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 4 (6.56%) RACF
3 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (13.11%) SCOM
2 7 (11.48%) Control-M
2 7 (11.48%) SCCM
3 5 (8.20%) Ansible
4 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (6.56%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.28%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (3.28%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 23 (37.70%) Remedy
2 17 (27.87%) ServiceNow
3 12 (19.67%) Broadcom
4 11 (18.03%) Microsoft
5 6 (9.84%) Splunk
6 5 (8.20%) IBM
7 4 (6.56%) Apple
7 4 (6.56%) HP
7 4 (6.56%) Ivanti
7 4 (6.56%) Trend Micro
8 3 (4.92%) MuleSoft
8 3 (4.92%) Oracle
9 2 (3.28%) Dell
9 2 (3.28%) Talend
10 1 (1.64%) Informatica
10 1 (1.64%) Micro Focus
10 1 (1.64%) VMware
10 1 (1.64%) Zerto