The first table below looks at the demand for Control-M skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Control-M over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
BMC Control-M
Rank 474 467 488
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +21
Contract jobs citing Control-M 40 103 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.095% 0.190% 0.137%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.398% 3.088% 2.357%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 44 32
Average daily rate £435 £418 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.19% +11.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £302 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £608 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £394 £375 £309
% change year-on-year
+5.06% +21.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -50.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £36.50
All Systems Management
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
2861 3336 3225
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 6.778% 6.149% 5.822%
Number of daily rates quoted 1648 1724 1580
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 160 217
Average hourly rate £20.50 £20.00 £23.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -14.43%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.83 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Control-M
UK

Control-M
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Control-M across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

England Control-M Jobs Demand Trend

Control-M
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Control-M across the England region.

England Control-M Daily Rate Trend

Control-M
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Control-M across the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England Control-M Daily Rate Histogram

Control-M
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Control-M across the England region.

England Control-M Hourly Rate Trend

Control-M
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Control-M within the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London -22 23 £435 -3.33%
South East +8 7 £358 +11.71%
Yorkshire +4 7 £271 -39.72%
East of England +16 2 - -
East Midlands 0 1 £310 -
Control-M
UK

Control-M
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Control-M also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Control-M.

1 47 (51.65%) Finance
2 40 (43.96%) Windows
3 39 (42.86%) Banking
4 37 (40.66%) Oracle
5 36 (39.56%) SQL
6 29 (31.87%) UNIX
7 25 (27.47%) SQL Server
8 21 (23.08%) ITIL
8 21 (23.08%) Investment Banking
9 18 (19.78%) Linux
10 16 (17.58%) BMC
11 15 (16.48%) Release Management
12 14 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (14.29%) MS Excel
13 13 (14.29%) C#
13 13 (14.29%) Front Office
13 13 (14.29%) Fixed Income
14 12 (13.19%) Middleware
14 12 (13.19%) Problem Management
14 12 (13.19%) Derivative
15 11 (12.09%) Incident Management
15 11 (12.09%) Change Control
15 11 (12.09%) Cadis
15 11 (12.09%) Mainframe
15 11 (12.09%) Java
16 10 (10.99%) T-SQL
16 10 (10.99%) VBScript
16 10 (10.99%) IIS
16 10 (10.99%) Windows Server 2003
16 10 (10.99%) Windows Server 2008

Control-M
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Control-M also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Control-M. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (13.19%) Middleware
2 9 (9.890%) WebSphere
3 8 (8.791%) .NET
4 6 (6.593%) ASP.NET
5 5 (5.495%) Web Services
6 4 (4.396%) XML
6 4 (4.396%) ASP
6 4 (4.396%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.198%) WinForms
7 2 (2.198%) FpML
8 1 (1.099%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (1.099%) SAP Basis
8 1 (1.099%) POSIX
Application Platforms
1 10 (10.99%) IIS
2 6 (6.593%) CICS
3 5 (5.495%) Oracle Coherence
3 5 (5.495%) Tomcat
4 4 (4.396%) SharePoint
5 3 (3.297%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 3 (3.297%) WebSphere MQ
5 3 (3.297%) WebLogic
5 3 (3.297%) MQSeries
6 2 (2.198%) PowerExchange
7 1 (1.099%) SAP Portal
7 1 (1.099%) Rendezvous
7 1 (1.099%) Apache
Applications
1 13 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 5 (5.495%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (6.593%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.396%) Firewall
2 3 (3.297%) FTP
2 3 (3.297%) ATM
3 1 (1.099%) Internet
3 1 (1.099%) HTTP
3 1 (1.099%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (27.47%) SQL Server
2 14 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (6.593%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (4.396%) DB2
5 3 (3.297%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.297%) BusinessObjects XI
5 3 (3.297%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 3 (3.297%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (2.198%) PowerCenter
6 2 (2.198%) DTS
6 2 (2.198%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (2.198%) Oracle OWB
6 2 (2.198%) SAP BW
6 2 (2.198%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.198%) QlikView
6 2 (2.198%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (1.099%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.495%) ChangeMan
2 1 (1.099%) JIRA
2 1 (1.099%) Subversion
General
1 47 (51.65%) Finance
2 39 (42.86%) Banking
3 21 (23.08%) Investment Banking
4 13 (14.29%) Front Office
5 8 (8.791%) Back Office
6 7 (7.692%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.198%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.099%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (25.27%) Analyst
2 17 (18.68%) Support Analyst
3 16 (17.58%) Applications Support
3 16 (17.58%) Developer
4 10 (10.99%) Consultant
5 9 (9.890%) Applications Support Analyst
6 8 (8.791%) Support Engineer
6 8 (8.791%) C# Developer
7 7 (7.692%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (7.692%) .NET Developer
7 7 (7.692%) SQL Developer
7 7 (7.692%) Administrator
8 6 (6.593%) Systems Administrator
8 6 (6.593%) Production Support Analyst
9 5 (5.495%) Designer
9 5 (5.495%) Wintel Administrator
9 5 (5.495%) Applications Support Engineer
9 5 (5.495%) Data Warehouse Developer
10 4 (4.396%) Systems Developer
10 4 (4.396%) Data Warehouse Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 12 (13.19%) Derivative
3 11 (12.09%) Mainframe
4 8 (8.791%) Credit Risk
5 5 (5.495%) Hedge funds
6 3 (3.297%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.198%) VSAM
8 1 (1.099%) DataPower
8 1 (1.099%) Data Extraction
8 1 (1.099%) HACMP
8 1 (1.099%) Clustering
8 1 (1.099%) Equities
8 1 (1.099%) AS400
8 1 (1.099%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 40 (43.96%) Windows
2 29 (31.87%) UNIX
3 18 (19.78%) Linux
4 10 (10.99%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (10.99%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (7.692%) zOS
5 7 (7.692%) AIX
6 6 (6.593%) Solaris
7 5 (5.495%) MVS
8 4 (4.396%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (3.297%) OS/390
10 1 (1.099%) Nucleus RTOS
10 1 (1.099%) HPUX
10 1 (1.099%) Windows NT
10 1 (1.099%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.08%) ITIL
2 15 (16.48%) Release Management
3 12 (13.19%) Problem Management
4 11 (12.09%) Incident Management
4 11 (12.09%) Change Control
5 10 (10.99%) Network Load Balancing
5 10 (10.99%) Asset Management
6 9 (9.890%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (8.791%) Change Management
7 8 (8.791%) Fund Management
7 8 (8.791%) System Testing
7 8 (8.791%) Investment Management
8 7 (7.692%) Capacity Management
8 7 (7.692%) Risk Management
9 6 (6.593%) ETL
9 6 (6.593%) OO
9 6 (6.593%) Inmon Methodology
10 5 (5.495%) Information Security
10 5 (5.495%) Project Management
10 5 (5.495%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 36 (39.56%) SQL
2 13 (14.29%) C#
3 11 (12.09%) Java
4 10 (10.99%) T-SQL
4 10 (10.99%) VBScript
5 7 (7.692%) COBOL
6 6 (6.593%) MATLAB
7 5 (5.495%) Korn
7 5 (5.495%) Perl
8 4 (4.396%) C
8 4 (4.396%) JCL
8 4 (4.396%) Bash shell
9 3 (3.297%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.198%) VB
10 2 (2.198%) VBA
10 2 (2.198%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.099%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.099%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (1.099%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.099%) ISEB
2 1 (1.099%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.890%) SLA
2 2 (2.198%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 7 (7.692%) VMware ESX
2 1 (1.099%) RACF
2 1 (1.099%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 7 (7.692%) BladeLogic
1 7 (7.692%) WMI
2 6 (6.593%) BMC PATROL
3 5 (5.495%) NetBackup
4 2 (2.198%) Tivoli
4 2 (2.198%) CA Endevor
5 1 (1.099%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.099%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 37 (40.66%) Oracle
2 16 (17.58%) BMC
3 11 (12.09%) Cadis
4 9 (9.890%) Sybase
4 9 (9.890%) IBM
5 8 (8.791%) Microsoft
5 8 (8.791%) VMware
5 8 (8.791%) thinkFolio
6 7 (7.692%) Altiris
6 7 (7.692%) Remedy
6 7 (7.692%) Citrix
7 6 (6.593%) Informatica
8 5 (5.495%) Business Objects
8 5 (5.495%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.198%) Murex
9 2 (2.198%) HP
9 2 (2.198%) EMC
9 2 (2.198%) SAP
9 2 (2.198%) Symantec
9 2 (2.198%) 3PAR
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