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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 458 561
Rank change year-on-year -85 +103 +70
Contract jobs citing BMC 69 60 41
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.20% 0.092%
As % of the Vendors category 0.37% 0.43% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 40 29
10th Percentile £315 £380 £395
25th Percentile £391 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% - -10.64%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £600
90th Percentile £688 £605 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -33.33% +2.44% -13.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 18,681 13,883 19,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.03% 46.96% 43.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,975 8,628 12,043
10th Percentile £306 £285 £256
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% -2.83%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.56% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 936 450 1,032
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.02 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +17.65% -29.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £53.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.93 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.68 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.53% +19.57% -29.23%

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 March 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 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 10 March 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 -78 62 £493 -6.19% 12
UK excluding London -91 34 £350 -33.33% 14
Work from Home -28 29 £493 -6.19% 7
London -24 27 £493 -10.45% 1
South East -36 17 £350 -22.22% 2
North of England -66 7 £525 +10.53% 2
South West -22 6 £313 -46.72% 4
West Midlands -60 6 £325 -38.10%
Midlands -66 6 £325 -38.10%
North West -39 4 £575 +21.05%
Yorkshire -56 3 £488 -7.14% 1
Wales -1 2 £320 -39.05% 1
East of England -31 2 - - 3

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 3 (4.35%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.90%) SAS
Business Applications
1 19 (27.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (4.35%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.80%) Azure
1 4 (5.80%) SaaS
2 3 (4.35%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.90%) Apigee
3 2 (2.90%) AWS
3 2 (2.90%) Boomi
3 2 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.90%) PaaS
4 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.45%) GCP
4 1 (1.45%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) Network Security
2 4 (5.80%) SNMP
3 2 (2.90%) 2G
3 2 (2.90%) 4G
3 2 (2.90%) 5G
3 2 (2.90%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.80%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.35%) Power BI
3 2 (2.90%) DataStage
4 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (5.80%) JIRA
General
1 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (14.49%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.25%) Finance
2 5 (7.25%) Retail
3 3 (4.35%) Banking
3 3 (4.35%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.45%) French Language
5 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (15.94%) Architect
1 11 (15.94%) Consultant
2 6 (8.70%) Senior
2 6 (8.70%) Technical Consultant
3 5 (7.25%) Programmer
3 5 (7.25%) Service Management Architect
3 5 (7.25%) Systems Programmer
3 5 (7.25%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 4 (5.80%) Analyst
4 4 (5.80%) ITSM Architect
5 3 (4.35%) Developer
5 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
5 3 (4.35%) Management Consultant
5 3 (4.35%) Senior Architect
6 2 (2.90%) Exchange Engineer
6 2 (2.90%) Incident Analyst
6 2 (2.90%) Mainframe Programmer
6 2 (2.90%) Problem Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.49%) REST
2 6 (8.70%) Middleware
3 3 (4.35%) Web Services
4 2 (2.90%) ISPF
4 2 (2.90%) SOAP
5 1 (1.45%) .NET
5 1 (1.45%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.74%) Mainframe
2 11 (15.94%) CMDB
3 6 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (7.25%) Data Centre
4 5 (7.25%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.35%) Clustering
5 3 (4.35%) PKI
6 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.90%) IoT
6 2 (2.90%) NB-IoT
6 2 (2.90%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.45%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.49%) Windows
2 8 (11.59%) zOS
3 5 (7.25%) Linux
3 5 (7.25%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.80%) AIX
5 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.13%) ITSM
2 26 (37.68%) ITIL
3 21 (30.43%) Migration
4 12 (17.39%) Service Management
5 11 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (14.49%) Agile
7 9 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (11.59%) Problem Management
8 8 (11.59%) Service Delivery
9 7 (10.14%) Change Management
10 6 (8.70%) Project Governance
10 6 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (7.25%) Regulatory Compliance
11 5 (7.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 5 (7.25%) Workflow
12 4 (5.80%) ETL
12 4 (5.80%) Performance Monitoring
12 4 (5.80%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.84%) REXX
1 13 (18.84%) SQL
2 10 (14.49%) PowerShell
3 8 (11.59%) JCL
4 6 (8.70%) Python
5 4 (5.80%) CLIST
5 4 (5.80%) Search Processing Language
6 3 (4.35%) C#
6 3 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.35%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.90%) Java
8 1 (1.45%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.45%) Korn
8 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (18.84%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.25%) Degree
4 4 (5.80%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.35%) GDPR
2 3 (4.35%) SLA
3 2 (2.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.45%) COBIT
4 1 (1.45%) NIST
4 1 (1.45%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (11.59%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 6 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.25%) RACF
4 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (10.14%) Control-M
1 7 (10.14%) SCCM
2 6 (8.70%) SCOM
3 5 (7.25%) Ansible
4 4 (5.80%) Nagios
4 4 (5.80%) Netcool
4 4 (5.80%) OpenView
4 4 (5.80%) Tivoli
4 4 (5.80%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 4 (5.80%) ZABBIX
5 2 (2.90%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (2.90%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 19 (27.54%) Remedy
2 16 (23.19%) ServiceNow
3 14 (20.29%) Broadcom
4 11 (15.94%) IBM
5 8 (11.59%) Splunk
6 6 (8.70%) SolarWinds
7 4 (5.80%) HP
8 3 (4.35%) MuleSoft
8 3 (4.35%) Oracle
9 2 (2.90%) Dell
9 2 (2.90%) Dynatrace
9 2 (2.90%) Microsoft
9 2 (2.90%) Talend
9 2 (2.90%) Trend Micro
9 2 (2.90%) VMware
10 1 (1.45%) Informatica
10 1 (1.45%) Micro Focus
10 1 (1.45%) Zerto