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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 479 490
Rank change year-on-year -76 +11 +88
Contract jobs citing Control-M 56 25 44
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.091% 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.94% 0.58% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 19 33
10th Percentile £365 £506 £363
25th Percentile £406 £510 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £488
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +33.33% -18.75%
75th Percentile £539 £711 £571
90th Percentile £580 £738 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £630 £475
% change year-on-year -20.63% +32.63% -20.83%

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 5,964 4,291 4,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.21% 15.54% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,064 2,859 3,231
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -2.88% -7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £610 £625
90th Percentile £700 £694 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £520
% change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 55 66
10th Percentile £20.09 £19.88 £20.50
25th Percentile £44.86 £26.45 £23.90
Median hourly rate £65.45 £55.00 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year +19.00% +56.77% -33.18%
75th Percentile £70.79 £66.04 £65.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.78 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £37.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +68.36% +15.38% -43.48%

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 4 August 2026.

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 4 August 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
London -48 28 £533 -18.08% 9
Yorkshire -26 25 £450 -30.66% 1
North of England -42 25 £450 -30.66% 2
Midlands - 3 £475 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £413 - 2
North East - 1 £537 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
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 7 (12.50%) Confluence
1 7 (12.50%) SAS
2 3 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Front Arena
1 2 (3.57%) Global One
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.07%) OpenShift
2 9 (16.07%) GitHub
3 5 (8.93%) dbt
4 4 (7.14%) AWS
4 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 4 (7.14%) Snowflake
5 2 (3.57%) Azure
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (19.64%) MongoDB
3 9 (16.07%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (8.93%) Star Schema
5 4 (7.14%) Power BI
6 3 (5.36%) Oracle Database
6 3 (5.36%) PowerCenter
7 2 (3.57%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (3.57%) Tableau
8 1 (1.79%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.79%) Base SAS
8 1 (1.79%) Big Data
8 1 (1.79%) Data Mart
8 1 (1.79%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.79%) DataStage
8 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.79%) Metadata
8 1 (1.79%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 1 (1.79%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 21 (37.50%) JIRA
2 18 (32.14%) Jenkins
3 12 (21.43%) Gradle
4 2 (3.57%) Git
General
1 25 (44.64%) Analytical Skills
1 25 (44.64%) Finance
2 15 (26.79%) Banking
3 11 (19.64%) Social Skills
4 7 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (7.14%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.57%) Aviation
7 2 (3.57%) Back Office
7 2 (3.57%) Front Office
8 1 (1.79%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 34 (60.71%) Developer
2 13 (23.21%) Python Developer
3 11 (19.64%) Software Developer
4 9 (16.07%) Java Developer
5 8 (14.29%) Lead
6 7 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 7 (12.50%) Splunk Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) Data Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) Senior
8 5 (8.93%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Java Software Developer
9 4 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
9 4 (7.14%) Software Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 3 (5.36%) Consultant
10 3 (5.36%) DevOps Developer
10 3 (5.36%) Informatica Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (28.57%) Hibernate
1 16 (28.57%) Kafka
1 16 (28.57%) React
1 16 (28.57%) Redux
1 16 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 13 (23.21%) FastAPI
2 13 (23.21%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (19.64%) Spring
4 9 (16.07%) REST
5 2 (3.57%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (3.57%) FIXML
5 2 (3.57%) ISPF
5 2 (3.57%) Middleware
6 1 (1.79%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (7.14%) Mainframe
3 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.57%) Derivative
4 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.57%) Eurex
4 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.57%) Swaptions
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.79%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) Unix
2 5 (8.93%) Linux
3 3 (5.36%) zOS
4 2 (3.57%) Windows
4 2 (3.57%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.79%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (60.71%) Agile
2 27 (48.21%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (39.29%) CI/CD
4 20 (35.71%) Observability
5 13 (23.21%) API Development
5 13 (23.21%) Containerisation
6 11 (19.64%) DevOps
7 9 (16.07%) ETL
8 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (12.50%) Data Modelling
9 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (12.50%) ITSM
9 7 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 7 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (10.71%) Analytics
10 6 (10.71%) Dimensional Modelling
10 6 (10.71%) Mentoring
10 6 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 30 (53.57%) SQL
2 23 (41.07%) Python
3 21 (37.50%) PL/SQL
4 16 (28.57%) Java
5 5 (8.93%) Shell Script
6 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.57%) JCL
7 2 (3.57%) Perl
7 2 (3.57%) REXX
8 1 (1.79%) COBOL
8 1 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.79%) Go
8 1 (1.79%) Korn
8 1 (1.79%) SAS Macro
8 1 (1.79%) VBA
8 1 (1.79%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 23 (41.07%) Security Cleared
2 22 (39.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) Degree
4 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (23.21%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 13 (23.21%) Grafana
1 13 (23.21%) IBM Guardium
1 13 (23.21%) Kubernetes
1 13 (23.21%) Nessus
1 13 (23.21%) Prometheus
2 8 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (3.57%) Ansible
3 2 (3.57%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (1.79%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 19 (33.93%) Oracle
2 13 (23.21%) Tenable
3 9 (16.07%) Splunk
4 7 (12.50%) xMatters
5 5 (8.93%) Informatica
6 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 4 (7.14%) Murex
7 3 (5.36%) BMC
8 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.57%) Teradata
9 1 (1.79%) Ab Initio
9 1 (1.79%) Broadcom
9 1 (1.79%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.79%) HP
9 1 (1.79%) IBM