Control-M Contract Job Trends in England

BMC Control-M
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Control-M skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 476 563
Rank change year-on-year -14 +87 +143
Contract jobs citing Control-M 29 50 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.15% 0.095%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.66% 1.11% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 33
10th Percentile £358 £360 £383
25th Percentile £413 £381 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -18.75% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £688
90th Percentile £675 £628 £731
UK median daily rate £520 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +9.47% -20.83% +9.09%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Control-M falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,375 4,512 6,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.73% 13.69% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,900 3,076 4,476
10th Percentile £300 £310 £325
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £688 £713 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 53 160
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.10 £18.48
25th Percentile £21.37 £24.18 £26.69
Median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £49.87
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -19.78% +108.55%
75th Percentile £63.49 £62.50 £75.13
90th Percentile £76.48 £74.00 £78.79
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.62% -30.00% +130.03%

Control-M
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Control-M as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Control-M in England

Control-M
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Control-M.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Control-M

Control-M
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Control-M in England over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Control-M in England

Control-M
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Control-M.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Control-M

Control-M
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Control-M within the England region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
North of England -12 16 £452 +16.65% 9
Yorkshire -3 14 £530 - 3
London -18 13 £520 +9.47% 3
North West -7 2 £359 -7.35%
Control-M
UK

Control-M
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (13.79%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (13.79%) MQSeries
2 2 (6.90%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (3.45%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) GCP
1 5 (17.24%) GitHub
2 4 (13.79%) Nutanix
3 3 (10.34%) Azure
4 2 (6.90%) AWS
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Functions
4 2 (6.90%) dbt
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.90%) IaaS
4 2 (6.90%) PaaS
4 2 (6.90%) SaaS
4 2 (6.90%) Serverless
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
3 5 (17.24%) BigQuery
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (6.90%) Bigtable
4 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.90%) Hazelcast
4 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.45%) Data Mart
5 1 (3.45%) DB2
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (48.28%) JIRA
2 3 (10.34%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) Jaeger
2 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.90%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (3.45%) Ant
4 1 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.45%) JUnit
4 1 (3.45%) Maven
4 1 (3.45%) Mockito
4 1 (3.45%) Postman
4 1 (3.45%) REST Assured
4 1 (3.45%) SoapUI
4 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.45%) Subversion
4 1 (3.45%) Xcode
4 1 (3.45%) XCTest
General
1 14 (48.28%) Finance
2 9 (31.03%) Banking
3 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Private Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.90%) General Ledger
5 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (55.17%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Python Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Analyst Developer
3 4 (13.79%) ETL Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Architect
4 3 (10.34%) AS400 Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) GCP Architect
5 2 (6.90%) GCP Data Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Head of Technology
5 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Lead
6 1 (3.45%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) XML
2 9 (31.03%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (27.59%) FastAPI
4 5 (17.24%) Kafka
5 4 (13.79%) JSON
5 4 (13.79%) RESTful
6 2 (6.90%) .NET
6 2 (6.90%) gRPC
6 2 (6.90%) Middleware
6 2 (6.90%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (6.90%) PySpark
6 2 (6.90%) pytest
6 2 (6.90%) XML Messaging
7 1 (3.45%) CSS
7 1 (3.45%) Hibernate
7 1 (3.45%) HTML
7 1 (3.45%) J2EE
7 1 (3.45%) SOAP
7 1 (3.45%) Spring
7 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) AS400
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (6.90%) iSeries
3 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.45%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.45%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.45%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
1 6 (20.69%) Unix
2 2 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
2 12 (41.38%) Agile
3 11 (37.93%) Containerisation
4 10 (34.48%) Observability
5 9 (31.03%) ETL
6 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (20.69%) API Development
7 6 (20.69%) Data Engineering
8 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (13.79%) Capacity Management
9 4 (13.79%) Change Control
9 4 (13.79%) Data Acquisition
9 4 (13.79%) Data Analysis
9 4 (13.79%) Data Extraction
9 4 (13.79%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (13.79%) DevOps
9 4 (13.79%) Microservices
9 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (13.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) SQL
2 16 (55.17%) Python
3 10 (34.48%) Java
4 4 (13.79%) Bash
4 4 (13.79%) Groovy
4 4 (13.79%) RPG
4 4 (13.79%) Shell Script
4 4 (13.79%) T-SQL
4 4 (13.79%) VBA
5 2 (6.90%) ANSI SQL
5 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
5 2 (6.90%) Scala
6 1 (3.45%) COBOL
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
1 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) QA
3 2 (6.90%) GAAP
4 1 (3.45%) Basel II
4 1 (3.45%) Basel III
System Software
1 14 (48.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (41.38%) Kubernetes
2 11 (37.93%) Grafana
3 8 (27.59%) IBM Guardium
3 8 (27.59%) Nessus
3 8 (27.59%) Prometheus
4 4 (13.79%) vCenter Server
5 3 (10.34%) Istio
5 3 (10.34%) Kiali
6 2 (6.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Tenable
2 6 (20.69%) IBM
2 6 (20.69%) Splunk
3 5 (17.24%) AppDynamics
3 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.24%) Oracle
4 4 (13.79%) EMC
4 4 (13.79%) VMware
5 3 (10.34%) xMatters
6 2 (6.90%) Informatica
6 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.45%) BMC
7 1 (3.45%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (3.45%) Calypso
7 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.45%) Murex