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 10 August 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
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 497 518
Rank change year-on-year -56 +21 +42
Contract jobs citing BMC 113 55 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.51% 0.35% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 31 31
10th Percentile £305 £263 £400
25th Percentile £382 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £553 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +10.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £594 £608 £588
90th Percentile £731 £648 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.78% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £18.87 £11.80
Median % change year-on-year - +59.92% -84.77%
75th Percentile - - £55.90
90th Percentile - - £82.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £18.87 £11.80
% change year-on-year - +59.92% -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 22,146 15,674 16,938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.52% 47.28% 43.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,674 9,588 10,606
10th Percentile £313 £280 £287
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £606 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.28% -4.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,158 798 841
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.50 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -30.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £48.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.36 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £21.39 £28.00
% change year-on-year +49.60% -23.61% -18.84%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -51 107 £500 -9.91% 35
UK excluding London -51 77 £476 +5.78% 12
South East -53 30 £600 +33.33% 4
London -76 28 £500 -14.89% 24
South West -22 22 £426 -23.21% 1
Work from Home -42 20 £475 +5.56% 11
East of England - 10 £724 - 4
North of England -63 8 £425 -10.53% 3
Midlands -45 6 £475 -9.52% 1
West Midlands -48 5 £475 -9.52% 1
North West -45 4 £513 -18.00% 2
Yorkshire -41 3 £318 -15.33% 1
Wales -16 2 £320 +13.27%
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
North East - 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 (6.19%) Confluence
2 2 (1.77%) SAS
3 1 (0.88%) CICS
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 60 (53.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (7.08%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.70%) Power Platform
2 14 (12.39%) Azure
3 8 (7.08%) AWS
4 7 (6.19%) SaaS
5 5 (4.42%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.42%) iPaaS
6 2 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.77%) GCP
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.88%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 19 (16.81%) SNMP
2 2 (1.77%) DHCP
2 2 (1.77%) DNS
3 1 (0.88%) Firewall
3 1 (0.88%) SAN
3 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.88%) VLAN
3 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.12%) SQL Server
2 20 (17.70%) Power BI
3 12 (10.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 12 (10.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 12 (10.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.88%) Db2
5 1 (0.88%) DTS
Development Applications
1 12 (10.62%) JIRA
2 1 (0.88%) Git
2 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (20.35%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.62%) Telecoms
3 7 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.19%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.42%) Finance
5 3 (2.65%) Banking
6 2 (1.77%) Retail
7 1 (0.88%) Advertising
7 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (24.78%) Consultant
2 24 (21.24%) Architect
3 19 (16.81%) Senior
4 18 (15.93%) ITSM Architect
5 15 (13.27%) Management Consultant
6 13 (11.50%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (10.62%) ITSM Consultant
8 11 (9.73%) Lead
9 10 (8.85%) DBA
9 10 (8.85%) SQL DBA
10 6 (5.31%) Senior Architect
11 4 (3.54%) Active Directory Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) Administrator
11 4 (3.54%) Developer
11 4 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) Release Manager
11 4 (3.54%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) SQL Server DBA
12 3 (2.65%) Designer
12 3 (2.65%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (38.05%) REST
2 8 (7.08%) SOAP
3 3 (2.65%) Web Services
4 2 (1.77%) ISPF
5 1 (0.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.01%) CMDB
2 22 (19.47%) Clustering
3 12 (10.62%) PKI
4 11 (9.73%) Data Centre
5 7 (6.19%) Replication
6 5 (4.42%) Mainframe
6 5 (4.42%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.88%) SCADA
9 1 (0.88%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 48 (42.48%) Windows
2 23 (20.35%) Linux
3 18 (15.93%) AIX
4 16 (14.16%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.54%) zOS
6 3 (2.65%) Unix
6 3 (2.65%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.88%) MVS
8 1 (0.88%) VMS
8 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (64.60%) ITSM
2 43 (38.05%) Service Management
3 42 (37.17%) ITIL
4 27 (23.89%) Migration
5 20 (17.70%) Agile
6 17 (15.04%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (14.16%) Dashboard Development
8 15 (13.27%) Data Modelling
8 15 (13.27%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (10.62%) eTOM
9 12 (10.62%) Service Delivery
10 11 (9.73%) Incident Management
10 11 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (9.73%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (7.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (7.96%) Data Visualisation
11 9 (7.96%) Kalman Filter
11 9 (7.96%) Runbook
11 9 (7.96%) Visualisation
12 8 (7.08%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 53 (46.90%) PowerShell
2 38 (33.63%) SQL
3 30 (26.55%) Python
4 17 (15.04%) Search Processing Language
5 12 (10.62%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.31%) Bash
7 4 (3.54%) REXX
8 3 (2.65%) C#
8 3 (2.65%) JCL
8 3 (2.65%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.65%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.77%) Korn
10 1 (0.88%) Go
Qualifications
1 62 (54.87%) Security Cleared
2 37 (32.74%) SC Cleared
3 20 (17.70%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.54%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (2.65%) Degree
6 1 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.88%) ACCA
6 1 (0.88%) CASP
6 1 (0.88%) CIMA
6 1 (0.88%) CISA
6 1 (0.88%) CISM
6 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.88%) CRISC
6 1 (0.88%) GCIA
6 1 (0.88%) GIAC
6 1 (0.88%) GPEN
6 1 (0.88%) GREM
6 1 (0.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (0.88%) OSCP
6 1 (0.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) QA
2 5 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.88%) NIST
3 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (21.24%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.77%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.88%) NFS
4 1 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (16.81%) Nagios
1 19 (16.81%) ZABBIX
2 18 (15.93%) Netcool
3 17 (15.04%) Tivoli
4 15 (13.27%) OpenView
4 15 (13.27%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 9 (7.96%) Microsoft Clustering
6 7 (6.19%) SCOM
7 4 (3.54%) Control-M
8 1 (0.88%) Ansible
8 1 (0.88%) MAINVIEW
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.88%) SCCM
8 1 (0.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 60 (53.10%) Remedy
2 30 (26.55%) ServiceNow
3 23 (20.35%) Splunk
4 20 (17.70%) SolarWinds
5 18 (15.93%) IBM
6 15 (13.27%) HP
7 12 (10.62%) Microsoft
8 11 (9.73%) VMware
9 6 (5.31%) Commvault
10 3 (2.65%) Broadcom
11 2 (1.77%) Micro Focus
12 1 (0.88%) Adobe
12 1 (0.88%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.88%) Oracle
12 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.88%) Samsung
12 1 (0.88%) Sybase
12 1 (0.88%) Tanium
12 1 (0.88%) Workday