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 31 October 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
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 503 532
Rank change year-on-year -15 +29 +155
Contract jobs citing BMC 48 52 95
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Vendors category 0.29% 0.32% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 28 57
10th Percentile £261 £380 £375
25th Percentile £475 £444 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £498 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -9.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £621 £541 £675
90th Percentile £688 £606 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £610
% change year-on-year - -22.13% +19.02%
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 16,348 16,448 21,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.66% 44.89% 45.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,178 9,680 13,738
10th Percentile £281 £291 £262
25th Percentile £405 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 836 530 678
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.89 £16.85 £19.15
Median hourly rate £25.11 £32.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.74% -25.71% +75.00%
75th Percentile £40.06 £63.75 £63.64
90th Percentile £69.65 £71.25 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £29.77 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.04% -28.27% +93.02%

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 31 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BMC over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for BMC in the UK

BMC
Top 13 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 31 October 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 -16 39 £566 +13.20% 21
London +23 24 £608 +15.26% 5
UK excluding London -28 20 £475 - 20
Work from Home +11 14 £566 +25.78% 10
South East +3 5 £400 -23.81% 3
North of England -32 5 £400 +5.26% 4
South West +5 4 £553 -26.33% 6
Scotland +1 4 £625 -
North West -14 3 £352 -17.78% 3
West Midlands -20 2 - - 5
Midlands -24 2 - - 5
Yorkshire -27 2 £400 +77.78% 1
Wales - 2 £283 - 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 14 (29.17%) Confluence
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 29 (60.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.67%) Azure
1 8 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (4.17%) AWS
2 2 (4.17%) OneDrive
3 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (2.08%) GCP
3 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (27.08%) SSL
2 3 (6.25%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (4.17%) 2G
3 2 (4.17%) 4G
3 2 (4.17%) 5G
4 1 (2.08%) Broadband
4 1 (2.08%) DHCP
4 1 (2.08%) DNS
4 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.08%) DB2
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (35.42%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) Toad
General
1 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
2 5 (10.42%) Telecoms
3 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Finance
5 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Law
5 1 (2.08%) Legal
5 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Police
5 1 (2.08%) Publishing
5 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) Architect
2 12 (25.00%) Senior
3 10 (20.83%) ServiceNow Architect
4 8 (16.67%) Senior Architect
5 6 (12.50%) Consultant
6 3 (6.25%) Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Support Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Exchange Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) PMO Consultant
7 2 (4.17%) PMO Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Project Consultant
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Exchange Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Service Management Consultant
7 2 (4.17%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.08%) AngularJS
1 13 (27.08%) Apache Camel
1 13 (27.08%) HTML
1 13 (27.08%) HTML5
1 13 (27.08%) JDBC
1 13 (27.08%) jQuery
1 13 (27.08%) JSON
1 13 (27.08%) LDAP
1 13 (27.08%) ODBC
1 13 (27.08%) RabbitMQ
1 13 (27.08%) REST
1 13 (27.08%) SAML
1 13 (27.08%) SOAP
1 13 (27.08%) Web Services
2 3 (6.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.25%) CMDB
3 2 (4.17%) Clustering
3 2 (4.17%) IoT
3 2 (4.17%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.17%) NB-IoT
3 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Windows
2 5 (10.42%) Android
3 4 (8.33%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.25%) Linux
5 2 (4.17%) Unix
5 2 (4.17%) zOS
6 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (45.83%) ITSM
2 15 (31.25%) Agile
2 15 (31.25%) DevOps
3 13 (27.08%) Integration Patterns
3 13 (27.08%) ITIL
3 13 (27.08%) Microservices
3 13 (27.08%) Scrum
4 11 (22.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (14.58%) Migration
7 6 (12.50%) Service Management
8 5 (10.42%) Customer Experience
8 5 (10.42%) Incident Management
8 5 (10.42%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (10.42%) Service Delivery
9 3 (6.25%) Analytics
9 3 (6.25%) Performance Monitoring
9 3 (6.25%) Release Management
9 3 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.08%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.25%) JCL
3 2 (4.17%) Korn
3 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.17%) Python
3 2 (4.17%) Shell Script
3 2 (4.17%) SQL
4 1 (2.08%) CLIST
4 1 (2.08%) REXX
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 15 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.42%) Degree
3 2 (4.17%) DBS Check
3 2 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.08%) APMP
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.17%) PMO
1 2 (4.17%) SLA
2 1 (2.08%) COBIT
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 2 (4.17%) RACF
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.08%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 13 (27.08%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (14.58%) SCCM
3 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (10.42%) SCOM
4 4 (8.33%) Ansible
5 3 (6.25%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (4.17%) Control-M
6 2 (4.17%) SCOrch
7 1 (2.08%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 29 (60.42%) Remedy
2 25 (52.08%) ServiceNow
3 13 (27.08%) HP
3 13 (27.08%) Ivanti
4 11 (22.92%) Microsoft
5 4 (8.33%) Apple
6 3 (6.25%) IBM
6 3 (6.25%) MuleSoft
7 2 (4.17%) Broadcom
7 2 (4.17%) Oracle
7 2 (4.17%) Splunk
7 2 (4.17%) Trend Micro
8 1 (2.08%) BT
8 1 (2.08%) Citrix
8 1 (2.08%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (2.08%) Micro Focus
8 1 (2.08%) NetScout
8 1 (2.08%) Qualys
8 1 (2.08%) Toshiba
8 1 (2.08%) Xerox