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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 466 530
Rank change year-on-year -26 +64 +177
Contract jobs citing Control-M 30 46 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.63% 1.04% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 25 42
10th Percentile £358 £360 £379
25th Percentile £414 £400 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £490 £513
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -4.39% -10.87%
75th Percentile £608 £550 £647
90th Percentile £673 £625 £699
UK median daily rate £520 £488 £513
% change year-on-year +6.67% -4.88% -10.48%

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 4,736 4,406 5,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.28% 14.16% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,141 2,870 4,227
10th Percentile £303 £315 £313
25th Percentile £410 £420 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £669
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 50 157
10th Percentile £18.65 £19.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.80 £25.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £36.83 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -24.83% +96.00%
75th Percentile £65.25 £61.88 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £75.25 £78.30
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.08 £49.87
% change year-on-year -14.49% -29.65% +99.46%

Control-M
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Control-M relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Control-M job vacancy trend 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 2 November 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 2 November 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
London -8 15 £600 +21.21%
North of England -21 15 £435 - 2
Yorkshire -18 13 £469 -
North West - 2 £359 -
Control-M
UK

Control-M
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (20.00%) MQSeries
2 4 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (3.33%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Nutanix
2 3 (10.00%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) GCP
2 3 (10.00%) GitHub
3 2 (6.67%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Functions
3 2 (6.67%) dbt
3 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (6.67%) IaaS
3 2 (6.67%) PaaS
3 2 (6.67%) SaaS
3 2 (6.67%) Serverless
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.00%) BigQuery
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (6.67%) Bigtable
4 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.33%) Data Mart
5 1 (3.33%) DB2
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (56.67%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) Git
3 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (3.33%) Ant
4 1 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.33%) Jaeger
4 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.33%) JUnit
4 1 (3.33%) Maven
4 1 (3.33%) Mockito
4 1 (3.33%) Postman
4 1 (3.33%) REST Assured
4 1 (3.33%) SoapUI
4 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.33%) Subversion
4 1 (3.33%) Xcode
4 1 (3.33%) XCTest
General
1 16 (53.33%) Finance
2 11 (36.67%) Banking
3 10 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (20.00%) Private Banking
5 4 (13.33%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.67%) General Ledger
6 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Python Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Analyst
3 6 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
4 5 (16.67%) AS400 Developer
5 4 (13.33%) ETL Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) GCP Architect
6 2 (6.67%) GCP Data Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Head of Technology
6 2 (6.67%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) COBOL Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Lead
7 1 (3.33%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Murex Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) XML
2 11 (36.67%) FastAPI
2 11 (36.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (13.33%) JSON
3 4 (13.33%) RESTful
4 3 (10.00%) Kafka
5 2 (6.67%) .NET
5 2 (6.67%) Middleware
5 2 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (6.67%) PySpark
5 2 (6.67%) pytest
5 2 (6.67%) XML Messaging
6 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.33%) Bootstrap
6 1 (3.33%) Hibernate
6 1 (3.33%) J2EE
6 1 (3.33%) Material-UI
6 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.33%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (3.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) AS400
2 3 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (6.67%) iSeries
3 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.33%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Linux
1 4 (13.33%) Unix
2 2 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 15 (50.00%) Agile
3 12 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 11 (36.67%) Observability
4 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (30.00%) API Development
5 9 (30.00%) ETL
6 7 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (20.00%) Change Control
7 6 (20.00%) Data Engineering
7 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (16.67%) Integration Testing
8 5 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
8 5 (16.67%) Wealth Management
9 4 (13.33%) Capacity Management
9 4 (13.33%) Data Acquisition
9 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
9 4 (13.33%) Data Extraction
9 4 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
9 4 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (63.33%) Python
2 18 (60.00%) SQL
3 10 (33.33%) Java
4 6 (20.00%) RPG
5 4 (13.33%) Shell Script
5 4 (13.33%) T-SQL
5 4 (13.33%) VBA
6 2 (6.67%) ANSI SQL
6 2 (6.67%) Bash
6 2 (6.67%) Groovy
6 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.67%) Scala
7 1 (3.33%) COBOL
7 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.33%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.33%) Degree
1 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) QA
2 4 (13.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.67%) GAAP
4 1 (3.33%) Basel II
4 1 (3.33%) Basel III
System Software
1 15 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (43.33%) Kubernetes
2 12 (40.00%) Grafana
3 11 (36.67%) IBM Guardium
3 11 (36.67%) Nessus
3 11 (36.67%) Prometheus
4 4 (13.33%) vCenter Server
5 2 (6.67%) Terraform
6 1 (3.33%) Istio
6 1 (3.33%) Kiali
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Tenable
2 8 (26.67%) IBM
3 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.67%) Oracle
4 4 (13.33%) EMC
4 4 (13.33%) VMware
5 2 (6.67%) Informatica
5 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.67%) Splunk
6 1 (3.33%) AppDynamics
6 1 (3.33%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (3.33%) Calypso
6 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.33%) Murex
6 1 (3.33%) xMatters