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 13 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
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 501 542
Rank change year-on-year -60 +41 +27
Contract jobs citing BMC 98 49 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Vendors category 0.45% 0.32% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 25 33
10th Percentile £304 £303 £400
25th Percentile £359 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -3.15%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £550
90th Percentile £734 £657 £593
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £11.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £11.80
% 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 21,707 15,531 18,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.20% 47.52% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,493 9,513 11,510
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 741 1,118
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £34.61 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.62% +0.60% -38.27%
75th Percentile £63.94 £53.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.63 £24.31
% change year-on-year +43.61% -6.91% -21.58%

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 13 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 13 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 -65 90 £476 -18.77% 23
UK excluding London -55 71 £475 +5.56% 15
South East -60 28 £550 +37.50% 6
Work from Home -52 22 £475 +5.56% 6
South West - 19 £371 -
London -63 16 £488 -19.82% 10
North of England -74 10 £469 -14.77% 1
East of England - 8 £724 - 5
Midlands -47 7 £475 -9.52% 3
North West -51 6 £513 -26.79%
West Midlands -64 6 £475 -9.52% 1
Yorkshire -52 3 £318 -15.33% 1
Wales -14 2 £320 +13.27% 1
North East - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 2

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 (2.04%) SAS
2 1 (1.02%) CICS
2 1 (1.02%) Confluence
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 47 (47.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (6.12%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.27%) Azure
2 12 (12.24%) Power Platform
3 9 (9.18%) AWS
4 5 (5.10%) SaaS
5 3 (3.06%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.04%) GCP
6 2 (2.04%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 19 (19.39%) SNMP
2 2 (2.04%) DHCP
2 2 (2.04%) DNS
2 2 (2.04%) Network Security
3 1 (1.02%) Firewall
3 1 (1.02%) SAN
3 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.02%) VLAN
3 1 (1.02%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.31%) SQL Server
2 12 (12.24%) Power BI
3 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.02%) Db2
5 1 (1.02%) DTS
Development Applications
1 4 (4.08%) JIRA
2 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.27%) Telecoms
3 9 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.10%) Finance
5 4 (4.08%) Banking
5 4 (4.08%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.08%) Retail
6 1 (1.02%) Advertising
6 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.02%) French Language
6 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (24.49%) Consultant
2 20 (20.41%) Architect
3 15 (15.31%) Management Consultant
3 15 (15.31%) Senior
4 13 (13.27%) Lead
5 12 (12.24%) ITSM Architect
6 7 (7.14%) ITSM Consultant
6 7 (7.14%) Senior Architect
6 7 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.10%) Developer
8 3 (3.06%) Change and Release Manager
8 3 (3.06%) Change Manager
8 3 (3.06%) DBA
8 3 (3.06%) Lead Developer
8 3 (3.06%) Product Manager
8 3 (3.06%) Release Manager
8 3 (3.06%) SQL DBA
9 2 (2.04%) Active Directory Engineer
9 2 (2.04%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
9 2 (2.04%) Service Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (40.82%) REST
2 6 (6.12%) SOAP
3 2 (2.04%) ISPF
4 1 (1.02%) .NET
4 1 (1.02%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (26.53%) CMDB
2 11 (11.22%) Clustering
2 11 (11.22%) PKI
3 7 (7.14%) Mainframe
4 6 (6.12%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.10%) Replication
6 4 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.02%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 38 (38.78%) Windows
2 22 (22.45%) Linux
3 18 (18.37%) AIX
4 14 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 6 (6.12%) zOS
6 2 (2.04%) Unix
7 1 (1.02%) MVS
7 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.02%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (60.20%) ITSM
2 37 (37.76%) ITIL
3 32 (32.65%) Service Management
4 20 (20.41%) Agile
5 16 (16.33%) Dashboard Development
6 15 (15.31%) Migration
7 13 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (13.27%) Service Delivery
8 12 (12.24%) Data Modelling
9 11 (11.22%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (11.22%) eTOM
9 11 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (9.18%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (9.18%) Workflow
11 8 (8.16%) Data Governance
12 7 (7.14%) Data Visualisation
12 7 (7.14%) Mentoring
12 7 (7.14%) Problem Management
12 7 (7.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 40 (40.82%) PowerShell
2 29 (29.59%) SQL
3 27 (27.55%) Python
4 17 (17.35%) Search Processing Language
5 11 (11.22%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.12%) REXX
7 5 (5.10%) JCL
8 4 (4.08%) C#
9 3 (3.06%) Bash
9 3 (3.06%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.06%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.02%) Assembly Language
10 1 (1.02%) CLIST
10 1 (1.02%) Go
10 1 (1.02%) Korn
Qualifications
1 48 (48.98%) Security Cleared
2 25 (25.51%) SC Cleared
3 19 (19.39%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.08%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.06%) Degree
6 1 (1.02%) ACCA
6 1 (1.02%) CEH
6 1 (1.02%) CIMA
6 1 (1.02%) CISA
6 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.02%) CISM
6 1 (1.02%) CISSP
6 1 (1.02%) CRISC
6 1 (1.02%) GCFA
6 1 (1.02%) GCIA
6 1 (1.02%) GCIH
6 1 (1.02%) GIAC
6 1 (1.02%) GPEN
6 1 (1.02%) MBA
6 1 (1.02%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.04%) SLA
3 1 (1.02%) GDPR
3 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.02%) NIST
3 1 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (15.31%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.08%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (1.02%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.02%) NFS
3 1 (1.02%) RACF
3 1 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (19.39%) Nagios
1 19 (19.39%) ZABBIX
2 18 (18.37%) Netcool
3 17 (17.35%) Tivoli
4 15 (15.31%) OpenView
4 15 (15.31%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 4 (4.08%) Control-M
6 1 (1.02%) Ansible
6 1 (1.02%) MAINVIEW
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.02%) SCCM
6 1 (1.02%) SCOM
6 1 (1.02%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 47 (47.96%) Remedy
2 31 (31.63%) ServiceNow
3 23 (23.47%) Splunk
4 20 (20.41%) IBM
4 20 (20.41%) SolarWinds
5 15 (15.31%) HP
6 7 (7.14%) Microsoft
7 5 (5.10%) Broadcom
8 2 (2.04%) Micro Focus
8 2 (2.04%) VMware
9 1 (1.02%) Adobe
9 1 (1.02%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.02%) Oracle
9 1 (1.02%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.02%) Samsung
9 1 (1.02%) Sybase
9 1 (1.02%) Tanium
9 1 (1.02%) Workday