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 22 December 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
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 479 540
Rank change year-on-year -43 +61 +119
Contract jobs citing BMC 65 60 68
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.37% 0.39% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 37 46
10th Percentile £323 £380 £388
25th Percentile £475 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -10.26% +6.36%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £675
90th Percentile £688 £613 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £610
% change year-on-year -9.52% -13.93% +10.91%
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 17,349 15,441 19,707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.20% 45.72% 45.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,036 9,192 12,506
10th Percentile £293 £285 £252
25th Percentile £408 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £722 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 858 458 655
10th Percentile £15.15 £15.58 £14.95
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.09 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.75 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% -39.52% +78.45%
75th Percentile £44.40 £62.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £77.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £25.86 £45.88
% change year-on-year -14.93% -43.63% +103.91%

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 22 December 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 22 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for BMC in the UK

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 22 December 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 -17 56 £498 -5.24% 24
London +19 36 £500 -7.41% 7
Work from Home -8 26 £493 -6.19% 12
UK excluding London -45 24 £475 -9.52% 19
South East -16 10 £325 -38.53% 14
South West -6 4 £553 -15.00% 1
West Midlands -27 4 £325 -27.78% 3
Midlands -38 4 £325 -27.78% 3
North of England -48 4 £525 +10.53%
Scotland +8 3 £625 +19.05%
North West -31 3 £352 -26.00%
East of England -19 2 - - 2
Wales 0 1 £265 -49.52%
Yorkshire -45 1 £525 -

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 12 (18.46%) Confluence
2 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.08%) SAS
4 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 30 (46.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.08%) Remedy AR System
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.85%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (10.77%) Azure
3 2 (3.08%) Apigee
3 2 (3.08%) AWS
3 2 (3.08%) Boomi
4 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.54%) GCP
4 1 (1.54%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.54%) Rubrik
4 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.85%) SSL
2 3 (4.62%) Network Security
3 2 (3.08%) 2G
3 2 (3.08%) 4G
3 2 (3.08%) 5G
3 2 (3.08%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.54%) DHCP
4 1 (1.54%) DNS
4 1 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.54%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) DataStage
2 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (24.62%) JIRA
General
1 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.08%) Banking
5 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.08%) Finance
5 2 (3.08%) Retail
5 2 (3.08%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Police
6 1 (1.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (18.46%) Senior
2 9 (13.85%) Architect
2 9 (13.85%) Consultant
3 6 (9.23%) ServiceNow Architect
4 5 (7.69%) Developer
4 5 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 4 (6.15%) Exchange Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Programmer
5 4 (6.15%) Senior Exchange Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Systems Programmer
5 4 (6.15%) z/OS Systems Programmer
6 3 (4.62%) Analyst
6 3 (4.62%) Exchange Migration Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
6 3 (4.62%) Migration Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.62%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow Developer
6 3 (4.62%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.92%) REST
1 11 (16.92%) Web Services
2 10 (15.38%) SOAP
3 9 (13.85%) AngularJS
3 9 (13.85%) Apache Camel
3 9 (13.85%) HTML
3 9 (13.85%) HTML5
3 9 (13.85%) JDBC
3 9 (13.85%) jQuery
3 9 (13.85%) JSON
3 9 (13.85%) LDAP
3 9 (13.85%) ODBC
3 9 (13.85%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (13.85%) SAML
4 4 (6.15%) Middleware
5 2 (3.08%) ISPF
6 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.00%) Mainframe
2 6 (9.23%) CMDB
3 5 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.15%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (6.15%) Clustering
4 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.08%) IoT
5 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.08%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.54%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.77%) Windows
2 6 (9.23%) zOS
3 4 (6.15%) Android
3 4 (6.15%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.54%) Linux
5 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.92%) ITSM
2 22 (33.85%) Migration
3 16 (24.62%) ITIL
4 15 (23.08%) Agile
5 13 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (18.46%) DevOps
7 11 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (15.38%) Scrum
9 9 (13.85%) Integration Patterns
9 9 (13.85%) Microservices
10 8 (12.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (10.77%) Service Delivery
12 6 (9.23%) Service Management
13 5 (7.69%) Change Management
13 5 (7.69%) Customer Experience
13 5 (7.69%) Problem Management
13 5 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
14 4 (6.15%) Incident Management
14 4 (6.15%) Regulatory Compliance
14 4 (6.15%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.92%) REXX
2 9 (13.85%) JavaScript
3 6 (9.23%) JCL
4 5 (7.69%) SQL
5 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.62%) CLIST
6 3 (4.62%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.08%) Java
7 2 (3.08%) Python
8 1 (1.54%) Korn
8 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (24.62%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.23%) Degree
4 3 (4.62%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (3.08%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.54%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.15%) SLA
2 3 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.62%) PMO
3 2 (3.08%) GDPR
4 1 (1.54%) COBIT
4 1 (1.54%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.54%) NIST
4 1 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 4 (6.15%) RACF
3 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (13.85%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (12.31%) SCCM
2 8 (12.31%) SCOM
3 6 (9.23%) Control-M
4 5 (7.69%) Ansible
5 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.62%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (3.08%) SCOrch
8 1 (1.54%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 30 (46.15%) Remedy
2 25 (38.46%) ServiceNow
3 12 (18.46%) Broadcom
4 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
5 9 (13.85%) HP
5 9 (13.85%) Ivanti
6 6 (9.23%) Splunk
7 5 (7.69%) IBM
8 4 (6.15%) Apple
8 4 (6.15%) Trend Micro
9 3 (4.62%) MuleSoft
9 3 (4.62%) Oracle
10 2 (3.08%) Dell
10 2 (3.08%) Talend
11 1 (1.54%) Citrix
11 1 (1.54%) Informatica
11 1 (1.54%) Micro Focus
11 1 (1.54%) NetScout
11 1 (1.54%) VMware
11 1 (1.54%) Zerto