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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 518 541
Rank change year-on-year +5 +23 +184
Contract jobs citing BMC 46 55 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Vendors category 0.30% 0.33% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 28 59
10th Percentile £260 £265 £350
25th Percentile £466 £444 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +13.20% -7.41% +5.37%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £630
90th Percentile £655 £613 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £553 £500 £585
% change year-on-year +10.50% -14.53% +21.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Median hourly rate £18.87 £11.80 -
Median % change year-on-year +59.92% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £11.80 -
% change year-on-year +59.92% - -

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 15,556 16,900 22,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.23% 44.19% 44.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,537 10,137 14,284
10th Percentile £275 £285 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £737
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 796 677 655
10th Percentile £14.72 £14.26 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.45 £15.62 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -31.56% +83.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £64.45
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.28 £30.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -29.07% -27.71% +107.50%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 11 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 17 September 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 +31 38 £575 +15.00% 11
UK excluding London -10 22 £553 +10.50% 9
London +32 21 £588 +9.30% 3
Work from Home +2 12 £557 +14.26% 11
North of England -5 8 £525 +133.33% 4
South East +26 6 £493 -
North West - 5 £600 - 2
Scotland -9 4 £625 +25.00%
Yorkshire -8 3 £375 +66.67% 1
South West +11 2 £555 -2.46%
Wales - 2 £283 -

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 13 (28.26%) Confluence
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 31 (67.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.17%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.39%) Azure
1 8 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (6.52%) AWS
3 2 (4.35%) GCP
3 2 (4.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (28.26%) SSL
2 2 (4.35%) DHCP
2 2 (4.35%) DNS
3 1 (2.17%) Broadband
3 1 (2.17%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.17%) VPN
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 18 (39.13%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) GitLab
2 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.17%) Subversion
2 1 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.17%) Toad
General
1 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Finance
5 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Back Office
6 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Law
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Police
6 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Architect
2 12 (26.09%) Senior
3 10 (21.74%) ServiceNow Architect
4 8 (17.39%) Senior Architect
5 7 (15.22%) Consultant
6 4 (8.70%) Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) Developer
7 3 (6.52%) IT Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Service Manager
7 3 (6.52%) ServiceNow Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Support Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) PMO Project Manager
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Exchange Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Technical Support Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.26%) AngularJS
1 13 (28.26%) Apache Camel
1 13 (28.26%) HTML
1 13 (28.26%) HTML5
1 13 (28.26%) JDBC
1 13 (28.26%) jQuery
1 13 (28.26%) JSON
1 13 (28.26%) LDAP
1 13 (28.26%) ODBC
1 13 (28.26%) RabbitMQ
1 13 (28.26%) REST
1 13 (28.26%) SAML
1 13 (28.26%) SOAP
1 13 (28.26%) Web Services
2 1 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) CMDB
1 4 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.35%) Clustering
3 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.39%) Windows
2 5 (10.87%) Android
2 5 (10.87%) Windows 10
3 3 (6.52%) Linux
3 3 (6.52%) Unix
4 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (56.52%) ITSM
2 16 (34.78%) Agile
2 16 (34.78%) DevOps
3 14 (30.43%) Microservices
4 13 (28.26%) Integration Patterns
4 13 (28.26%) Scrum
5 11 (23.91%) ITIL
6 10 (21.74%) Service Management
6 10 (21.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (10.87%) Customer Experience
9 5 (10.87%) Incident Management
9 5 (10.87%) Service Delivery
10 4 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
11 3 (6.52%) Computer Science
11 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity
11 3 (6.52%) Knowledge Management
11 3 (6.52%) Observability
11 3 (6.52%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.52%) Shell Script
3 2 (4.35%) JCL
3 2 (4.35%) Korn
4 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (34.78%) SC Cleared
1 16 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.87%) Degree
3 2 (4.35%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.17%) APMP
4 1 (2.17%) CISSP
4 1 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) GIAC
4 1 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) SLA
2 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) PMO
2 2 (4.35%) QA
3 1 (2.17%) COBIT
3 1 (2.17%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.17%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 13 (28.26%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.52%) Control-M
3 3 (6.52%) SCCM
4 2 (4.35%) SCOM
5 1 (2.17%) Ansible
5 1 (2.17%) BMC PATROL
5 1 (2.17%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (67.39%) Remedy
2 25 (54.35%) ServiceNow
3 13 (28.26%) HP
3 13 (28.26%) Ivanti
3 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.70%) Apple
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle
5 3 (6.52%) Splunk
6 2 (4.35%) BT
6 2 (4.35%) Trend Micro
7 1 (2.17%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.17%) Citrix
7 1 (2.17%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.17%) IBM
7 1 (2.17%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (2.17%) Micro Focus
7 1 (2.17%) NetScout
7 1 (2.17%) Qualys
7 1 (2.17%) Toshiba
7 1 (2.17%) Xerox