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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 554 619
Rank change year-on-year +92 +65 +95
Contract jobs citing BMC 57 46 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.41% 0.25% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 31 67
10th Percentile £390 £400 £200
25th Percentile £475 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £568 £581 £625
90th Percentile £644 £613 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £588
% change year-on-year +5.00% -14.89% +30.56%
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% +176.79%
75th Percentile - - £83.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £11.80 £77.50
% change year-on-year - -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 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

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 30 April 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 15 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 30 April 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 +82 50 £525 +7.69% 25
UK excluding London +64 41 £525 +5.00% 18
Work from Home +67 33 £525 - 10
South East +56 17 £450 +13.92% 4
North of England +37 12 £525 +23.53% 8
London +36 10 £575 +9.52% 7
North West +16 8 £525 +23.53% 7
Midlands +25 6 £525 +16.67% 3
West Midlands +17 6 £525 +16.67% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £525 -
South West +39 2 £588 +4.44%
Scotland +1 1 £525 +5.00%
Channel Islands - 1 £425 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £525 -
Wales - 1 £525 -

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 4 (7.02%) Confluence
2 3 (5.26%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 24 (42.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.75%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.53%) AWS
1 6 (10.53%) Azure
2 4 (7.02%) GCP
3 3 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (5.26%) GitHub
3 3 (5.26%) Nutanix
3 3 (5.26%) SaaS
4 1 (1.75%) IaaS
4 1 (1.75%) PaaS
4 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.75%) Rubrik
4 1 (1.75%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.75%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) BGP
1 4 (7.02%) EIGRP
1 4 (7.02%) IPv4
1 4 (7.02%) MPLS
1 4 (7.02%) OSPF
1 4 (7.02%) SD-WAN
1 4 (7.02%) WAN
2 3 (5.26%) DNS
2 3 (5.26%) Kerberos
3 2 (3.51%) BIG-IP
3 2 (3.51%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (3.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (3.51%) Firewall
3 2 (3.51%) NGFW
3 2 (3.51%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.51%) VXLAN
3 2 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (3.51%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.75%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (1.75%) Power BI
2 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.75%) Sybase ASE
2 1 (1.75%) Yellowfin
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) JIRA
2 4 (7.02%) Subversion
3 3 (5.26%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.75%) GitLab
4 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.75%) Serena SBM
4 1 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (17.54%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.79%) Telecoms
4 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (5.26%) Banking
6 3 (5.26%) Finance
6 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Legal
8 1 (1.75%) Back Office
8 1 (1.75%) Games
8 1 (1.75%) Law
8 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (29.82%) Consultant
2 13 (22.81%) Mainframe Consultant
2 13 (22.81%) Storage Consultant
3 7 (12.28%) Analyst
4 4 (7.02%) IP Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) IT Manager
4 4 (7.02%) Service Manager
5 3 (5.26%) Administrator
5 3 (5.26%) Architect
5 3 (5.26%) Data Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) Incident Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) IT Services Manager
5 3 (5.26%) Network Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Transmission Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Developer
6 2 (3.51%) ITSM Consultant
6 2 (3.51%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (3.51%) Network Operations Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) REST
2 3 (5.26%) LDAP
3 1 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.81%) Mainframe
2 11 (19.30%) CMDB
3 3 (5.26%) Clustering
4 2 (3.51%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.51%) PKI
4 2 (3.51%) Replication
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.77%) Linux
1 5 (8.77%) Unix
1 5 (8.77%) Windows
2 3 (5.26%) Solaris
3 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.86%) ITIL
2 21 (36.84%) ITSM
3 17 (29.82%) Migration
4 16 (28.07%) Service Management
5 14 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (22.81%) Data Migration
7 12 (21.05%) Configuration Management
8 10 (17.54%) Service Delivery
9 8 (14.04%) Change Management
9 8 (14.04%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (10.53%) Incident Management
11 5 (8.77%) Operations Management
11 5 (8.77%) Task Automation
12 4 (7.02%) Agile
12 4 (7.02%) Customer Experience
12 4 (7.02%) DevOps
12 4 (7.02%) Disaster Recovery
12 4 (7.02%) Network Planning
12 4 (7.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.79%) Python
2 6 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.77%) Perl
4 3 (5.26%) Bash
4 3 (5.26%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.51%) SQL
6 1 (1.75%) C#
6 1 (1.75%) Java
6 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.75%) Ruby
6 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 12 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.53%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (7.02%) CCNP
3 4 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.51%) Degree
5 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.75%) CISSP
5 1 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.75%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) GIAC
5 1 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) COBIT
2 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
2 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (7.02%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.51%) NFS
3 2 (3.51%) Veritas File System
3 2 (3.51%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) Control-M
2 5 (8.77%) Ansible
2 5 (8.77%) Tivoli
3 4 (7.02%) BMC PATROL
4 3 (5.26%) QRadar
4 3 (5.26%) Terraform
5 2 (3.51%) Grafana
5 2 (3.51%) Netcool
5 2 (3.51%) OMEGAMON
5 2 (3.51%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (3.51%) SCCM
5 2 (3.51%) WSUS
6 1 (1.75%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.75%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 24 (42.11%) Remedy
2 11 (19.30%) ServiceNow
3 5 (8.77%) IBM
4 4 (7.02%) BT
4 4 (7.02%) Cisco
4 4 (7.02%) Huawei
4 4 (7.02%) Oracle
4 4 (7.02%) Splunk
5 3 (5.26%) CyberArk
5 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.26%) Qualys
5 3 (5.26%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.26%) VMware
6 2 (3.51%) Arista
6 2 (3.51%) Aruba
6 2 (3.51%) Broadcom
6 2 (3.51%) F5
6 2 (3.51%) NetScout
6 2 (3.51%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.51%) SaltStack