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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 469 510
Rank change year-on-year -40 +41 +165
Contract jobs citing Control-M 32 29 35
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.11% 0.097%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.64% 0.74% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 29
10th Percentile £358 - £375
25th Percentile £413 £360 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +10.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £600 £559 £675
90th Percentile £650 £621 £690
UK median daily rate £493 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.19% +5.00% -13.04%

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 4,965 3,942 4,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.74% 14.44% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,427 2,559 3,499
10th Percentile £313 £313 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% -1.85% -8.09%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 51 148
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.30 £21.02 £21.00
Median hourly rate £53.25 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +100.94% -42.62% +24.07%
75th Percentile £65.56 £61.25 £65.31
90th Percentile £79.90 £77.50 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £24.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +111.35% -46.21% +31.94%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 -17 16 £520 +21.64% 5
North of England -36 14 £435 - 3
Yorkshire -41 12 £450 -
North West - 2 £359 -
East of England - 2 - -
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 (18.75%) MQSeries
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (9.38%) WebSphere
3 2 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (6.25%) Confluence
3 2 (6.25%) SAS
4 1 (3.13%) CICS
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.38%) IaaS
1 3 (9.38%) OCI
1 3 (9.38%) PaaS
1 3 (9.38%) SaaS
2 2 (6.25%) Apigee
2 2 (6.25%) AWS
2 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (6.25%) Azure
2 2 (6.25%) Boomi
2 2 (6.25%) GitHub
2 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (6.25%) Nutanix
2 2 (6.25%) Serverless
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (6.25%) DataStage
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
4 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.13%) DB2
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.13%) Power BI
5 1 (3.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (56.25%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.13%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.13%) JUnit
3 1 (3.13%) Maven
3 1 (3.13%) Mockito
3 1 (3.13%) Postman
3 1 (3.13%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.13%) SoapUI
3 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.13%) Subversion
3 1 (3.13%) Xcode
3 1 (3.13%) XCTest
General
1 15 (46.88%) Finance
2 11 (34.38%) Banking
3 10 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (18.75%) Private Banking
5 4 (12.50%) Financial Institution
5 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (6.25%) General Ledger
7 2 (6.25%) Japanese Language
8 1 (3.13%) French Language
8 1 (3.13%) Legal
8 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (56.25%) Developer
2 7 (21.88%) Python Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Analyst
3 6 (18.75%) Analyst Developer
4 5 (15.63%) AS400 Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Lead
6 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) ETL Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Integration Developer
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) COBOL Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Mainframe Developer
7 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 1 (3.13%) RPG Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Integration Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Subject Matter Expert
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (37.50%) XML
2 11 (34.38%) FastAPI
2 11 (34.38%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (9.38%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (9.38%) REST
3 3 (9.38%) XML Messaging
4 2 (6.25%) ISPF
4 2 (6.25%) JSON
4 2 (6.25%) Middleware
4 2 (6.25%) PySpark
4 2 (6.25%) pytest
4 2 (6.25%) RESTful
4 2 (6.25%) SOAP
5 1 (3.13%) Bootstrap
5 1 (3.13%) CSS3
5 1 (3.13%) HTML5
5 1 (3.13%) Material-UI
5 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.13%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) AS400
2 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (9.38%) Mainframe
3 2 (6.25%) iSeries
4 1 (3.13%) Derivative
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
1 4 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.25%) zOS
4 1 (3.13%) Unix
4 1 (3.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) Agile
2 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
3 12 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (34.38%) Containerisation
4 11 (34.38%) Observability
5 9 (28.13%) API Development
6 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (18.75%) Change Control
7 6 (18.75%) ETL
8 5 (15.63%) Integration Testing
8 5 (15.63%) Portfolio Management
8 5 (15.63%) Wealth Management
9 4 (12.50%) Data Engineering
9 4 (12.50%) SDLC
9 4 (12.50%) Secrets Management
9 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
10 3 (9.38%) Attestation
10 3 (9.38%) Data Pipeline
10 3 (9.38%) Digital Transformation Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) SQL
2 15 (46.88%) Python
3 9 (28.13%) Java
4 6 (18.75%) RPG
5 4 (12.50%) PL/SQL
6 3 (9.38%) JCL
7 2 (6.25%) REXX
7 2 (6.25%) T-SQL
7 2 (6.25%) VBA
8 1 (3.13%) Bash
8 1 (3.13%) COBOL
8 1 (3.13%) Groovy
8 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (9.38%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.25%) PMI Certification
3 2 (6.25%) PMP
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Basel III
2 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) GAAP
2 2 (6.25%) IFRS
2 2 (6.25%) IFRS 17
2 2 (6.25%) IFRS 9
2 2 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (43.75%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 11 (34.38%) Grafana
2 11 (34.38%) IBM Guardium
2 11 (34.38%) Nessus
2 11 (34.38%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Tenable
2 9 (28.13%) Oracle
3 8 (25.00%) IBM
4 6 (18.75%) BMC
5 4 (12.50%) Informatica
6 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
6 3 (9.38%) SAP
6 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
6 3 (9.38%) Splunk
6 3 (9.38%) Workday
7 2 (6.25%) Broadcom
7 2 (6.25%) Dell
7 2 (6.25%) EMC
7 2 (6.25%) Talend
7 2 (6.25%) VMware
8 1 (3.13%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace