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 7 October 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
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 508 511
Rank change year-on-year -46 +3 +26
Contract jobs citing BMC 116 44 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.51% 0.28% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 25 24
10th Percentile £375 £260 £315
25th Percentile £460 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £555 £491
Median % change year-on-year -7.21% +12.98% -10.60%
75th Percentile £675 £608 £588
90th Percentile £735 £644 £607
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £481
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -19.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £20.62
25th Percentile - - £33.85
Median hourly rate - £18.87 £55.90
Median % change year-on-year - -66.24% -
75th Percentile - £56.94 £77.95
90th Percentile - £79.77 £91.18
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 22,820 15,743 16,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.56% 47.68% 44.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,785 9,682 9,864
10th Percentile £310 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £620 £613 £625
90th Percentile £710 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,386 808 607
10th Percentile £13.91 £14.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.79 £16.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £25.11 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% -22.74% -23.98%
75th Percentile £57.50 £40.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £21.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +12.68% -29.00% -28.83%

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 7 October 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 14 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 7 October 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 -39 112 £518 -7.09% 65
UK excluding London -54 71 £525 - 36
London -64 38 £515 -12.34% 28
South East -38 29 £483 +20.63% 3
Work from Home -55 25 £514 -7.18% 12
South West -28 16 £650 +17.17% 5
North of England -65 10 £375 -28.57% 18
East of England - 10 £724 - 3
Yorkshire -31 6 £248 -37.96%
Midlands - 6 £475 - 4
West Midlands - 5 £475 - 3
North West -39 4 £513 -10.87% 9
Wales -12 1 £265 -6.19% 2
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 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 10 (8.62%) Confluence
2 2 (1.72%) SAS
3 1 (0.86%) CICS
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.86%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 62 (53.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (9.48%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 18 (15.52%) Power Platform
2 16 (13.79%) Azure
3 10 (8.62%) SaaS
4 9 (7.76%) AWS
5 8 (6.90%) iPaaS
6 5 (4.31%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.59%) GCP
8 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.86%) Miro
8 1 (0.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.17%) SNMP
2 2 (1.72%) DHCP
2 2 (1.72%) DNS
3 1 (0.86%) Firewall
3 1 (0.86%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.86%) SAN
3 1 (0.86%) SSH
3 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.86%) VLAN
3 1 (0.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.38%) SQL Server
2 18 (15.52%) Power BI
3 13 (11.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (10.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 12 (10.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.72%) Db2
5 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.86%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.86%) PowerCenter
6 1 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (12.93%) JIRA
2 2 (1.72%) Git
2 2 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket
General
1 32 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (10.34%) Telecoms
3 8 (6.90%) Finance
3 8 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.59%) Banking
4 3 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.72%) Retail
6 1 (0.86%) Advertising
6 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (23.28%) Architect
2 22 (18.97%) Consultant
3 18 (15.52%) Solutions Architect
4 17 (14.66%) ITSM Architect
5 16 (13.79%) ITSM Consultant
6 14 (12.07%) Senior
7 11 (9.48%) Lead
8 10 (8.62%) DBA
8 10 (8.62%) SQL DBA
9 5 (4.31%) Administrator
9 5 (4.31%) Developer
9 5 (4.31%) Management Consultant
9 5 (4.31%) Remedy Consultant
10 4 (3.45%) Active Directory Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Analyst
10 4 (3.45%) Change Manager
10 4 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Release Manager
10 4 (3.45%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (25.86%) REST
2 11 (9.48%) SOAP
3 2 (1.72%) ISPF
3 2 (1.72%) Web Services
4 1 (0.86%) DCOM
4 1 (0.86%) Kafka
4 1 (0.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 33 (28.45%) CMDB
2 19 (16.38%) Clustering
3 14 (12.07%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.03%) PKI
5 6 (5.17%) Mainframe
5 6 (5.17%) Replication
6 5 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.31%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.72%) NHS
8 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.86%) AS400
8 1 (0.86%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.86%) Derivative
8 1 (0.86%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.86%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.86%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.86%) SCADA
8 1 (0.86%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 35 (30.17%) Windows
2 16 (13.79%) Linux
3 11 (9.48%) Windows Server
4 8 (6.90%) Unix
5 5 (4.31%) AIX
6 4 (3.45%) zOS
7 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.86%) MVS
8 1 (0.86%) VMS
8 1 (0.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (70.69%) ITSM
2 49 (42.24%) Service Management
3 48 (41.38%) ITIL
4 33 (28.45%) Migration
5 20 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (15.52%) Data Modelling
7 17 (14.66%) Agile
8 16 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (12.93%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (12.07%) Incident Management
11 13 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (11.21%) Kalman Filter
12 12 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (10.34%) Service Delivery
13 11 (9.48%) Workflow
14 10 (8.62%) Runbook
15 9 (7.76%) Change Management
15 9 (7.76%) DevOps
15 9 (7.76%) High Availability
15 9 (7.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (34.48%) PowerShell
2 28 (24.14%) SQL
3 23 (19.83%) Python
4 10 (8.62%) Bash
5 7 (6.03%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.17%) Search Processing Language
7 5 (4.31%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.45%) REXX
9 3 (2.59%) JCL
9 3 (2.59%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.72%) Korn
11 1 (0.86%) Go
11 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (47.41%) Security Cleared
2 30 (25.86%) SC Cleared
3 18 (15.52%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.45%) Degree
4 4 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.86%) CASP
6 1 (0.86%) CISA
6 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.86%) CRISC
6 1 (0.86%) GPEN
6 1 (0.86%) GREM
6 1 (0.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (0.86%) OSCP
6 1 (0.86%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.86%) PMP
6 1 (0.86%) SANS
6 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.76%) QA
2 7 (6.03%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.72%) SLA
4 1 (0.86%) GRC
4 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.86%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (16.38%) Active Directory
2 14 (12.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.72%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.86%) NFS
4 1 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (8.62%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (6.90%) SCOM
3 7 (6.03%) Control-M
4 6 (5.17%) Nagios
4 6 (5.17%) ZABBIX
5 5 (4.31%) Netcool
5 5 (4.31%) Tivoli
6 3 (2.59%) BMC PATROL
6 3 (2.59%) BMC Performance Manager
6 3 (2.59%) OpenView
6 3 (2.59%) Perfmon
6 3 (2.59%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 2 (1.72%) Ansible
8 1 (0.86%) MAINVIEW
8 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.86%) SCCM
8 1 (0.86%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.86%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.86%) WMI
Vendors
1 62 (53.45%) Remedy
2 30 (25.86%) ServiceNow
3 15 (12.93%) VMware
4 14 (12.07%) Microsoft
5 13 (11.21%) Splunk
6 8 (6.90%) SolarWinds
7 6 (5.17%) Commvault
7 6 (5.17%) IBM
8 5 (4.31%) Oracle
9 3 (2.59%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.59%) Broadcom
9 3 (2.59%) HP
10 2 (1.72%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.72%) Micro Focus
10 2 (1.72%) Snow
10 2 (1.72%) Tanium
11 1 (0.86%) Informatica
11 1 (0.86%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.86%) Riverbed
11 1 (0.86%) Tripwire