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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 489 462
Rank change year-on-year -78 -27 +99
Contract jobs citing Control-M 63 17 51
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.062% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.26% 0.45% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 12 32
10th Percentile £362 - £360
25th Percentile £406 £510 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £620 £481
Median % change year-on-year -22.02% +28.83% -19.79%
75th Percentile £566 £682 £555
90th Percentile £598 £712 £621
UK median daily rate £484 £555 £475
% change year-on-year -12.88% +16.84% -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 5,011 3,790 3,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.98% 13.85% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,365 2,513 2,744
10th Percentile £308 £282 £300
25th Percentile £418 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £603 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £711
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £518
% change year-on-year +3.50% -3.47% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 60 59
10th Percentile £21.33 £18.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £46.00 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.00 £44.48 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.65% +18.60% -24.43%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.80 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.25 £80.30 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +111.60% -20.00% -28.57%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -41 39 £520 - 9
Yorkshire -26 22 £413 -41.74% 1
North of England -44 22 £413 -41.74% 2
Midlands - 2 £488 -
North East - 1 £537 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
West Midlands - 1 £475 -
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 9 (14.29%) Confluence
2 8 (12.70%) SAS
3 6 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (6.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (6.35%) SharePoint
5 3 (4.76%) Apache Spark
6 2 (3.17%) Apache
7 1 (1.59%) CICS
7 1 (1.59%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Front Arena
1 2 (3.17%) Global One
Cloud Services
1 23 (36.51%) OpenShift
2 12 (19.05%) GitHub
3 7 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 6 (9.52%) AWS
4 6 (9.52%) Azure
4 6 (9.52%) dbt
5 4 (6.35%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Databricks
6 2 (3.17%) GCP
6 2 (3.17%) Serverless
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.59%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.59%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.59%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (12.70%) Oracle Database
2 8 (12.70%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (11.11%) Power BI
4 6 (9.52%) Star Schema
4 6 (9.52%) Tableau
5 5 (7.94%) MongoDB
5 5 (7.94%) PowerCenter
6 3 (4.76%) Db2
7 2 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.17%) Big Data
7 2 (3.17%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (3.17%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.17%) DataStage
7 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.17%) Metadata
7 2 (3.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.59%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 18 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 16 (25.40%) JIRA
3 12 (19.05%) Gradle
4 4 (6.35%) eggPlant
4 4 (6.35%) Git
4 4 (6.35%) JMeter
4 4 (6.35%) LoadRunner
4 4 (6.35%) Postman
4 4 (6.35%) SoapUI
4 4 (6.35%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 25 (39.68%) Analytical Skills
1 25 (39.68%) Finance
2 17 (26.98%) Banking
3 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
4 7 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (6.35%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.35%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.76%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.17%) Aviation
7 2 (3.17%) Back Office
7 2 (3.17%) Front Office
8 1 (1.59%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 28 (44.44%) Developer
2 11 (17.46%) Lead
2 11 (17.46%) Software Developer
3 10 (15.87%) Data Engineer
4 9 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 7 (11.11%) Python Developer
5 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 7 (11.11%) Senior
5 7 (11.11%) Splunk Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Informatica Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Java Software Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Oracle Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Consultant
8 3 (4.76%) Mid-Level Java Developer
9 2 (3.17%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (38.10%) Kafka
2 16 (25.40%) Hibernate
2 16 (25.40%) React
2 16 (25.40%) Redux
2 16 (25.40%) Spring Boot
3 11 (17.46%) Spring
3 11 (17.46%) Terraform
4 9 (14.29%) REST
5 7 (11.11%) FastAPI
5 7 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (9.52%) Middleware
7 5 (7.94%) .NET
8 4 (6.35%) SOAP
8 4 (6.35%) Web Services
8 4 (6.35%) XML
9 3 (4.76%) HTML
9 3 (4.76%) XBRL
10 2 (3.17%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (3.17%) FIXML
10 2 (3.17%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.05%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (7.94%) Mainframe
3 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.17%) Derivative
4 2 (3.17%) Eurex
4 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Swaptions
5 1 (1.59%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.59%) Fedwire
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.59%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.59%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.63%) Linux
1 13 (20.63%) Unix
2 4 (6.35%) zOS
3 2 (3.17%) Windows
3 2 (3.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.59%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (47.62%) Agile
2 22 (34.92%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (31.75%) CI/CD
4 18 (28.57%) Observability
5 14 (22.22%) ETL
6 12 (19.05%) DevOps
7 11 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (17.46%) Mentoring
7 11 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (15.87%) Data Modelling
8 10 (15.87%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (15.87%) Test Automation
9 9 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (12.70%) Analytics
10 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (12.70%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (11.11%) API Development
11 7 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (11.11%) Dimensional Modelling
11 7 (11.11%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 40 (63.49%) SQL
2 25 (39.68%) Python
3 23 (36.51%) PL/SQL
4 21 (33.33%) Java
5 7 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 7 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.76%) JCL
7 3 (4.76%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.17%) COBOL
8 2 (3.17%) Perl
8 2 (3.17%) REXX
8 2 (3.17%) Scala
9 1 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.59%) Go
9 1 (1.59%) Korn
9 1 (1.59%) SAS Macro
9 1 (1.59%) VBA
9 1 (1.59%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 28 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 26 (41.27%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.11%) Degree
4 3 (4.76%) ISEB
4 3 (4.76%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.59%) GRC
2 1 (1.59%) IFRS
2 1 (1.59%) IFRS 9
2 1 (1.59%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.59%) SEPA
2 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (15.87%) Docker
2 3 (4.76%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (1.59%) RACF
Systems Management
1 8 (12.70%) Grafana
1 8 (12.70%) Kubernetes
1 8 (12.70%) Prometheus
2 7 (11.11%) IBM Guardium
2 7 (11.11%) Nessus
3 4 (6.35%) HP Fortify
4 3 (4.76%) Ansible
5 2 (3.17%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (3.17%) Puppet
6 1 (1.59%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 26 (41.27%) Oracle
2 10 (15.87%) Informatica
2 10 (15.87%) Splunk
3 7 (11.11%) Tenable
3 7 (11.11%) xMatters
4 5 (7.94%) BMC
4 5 (7.94%) IBM
5 4 (6.35%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.35%) Murex
5 4 (6.35%) SAP
6 3 (4.76%) Databricks
6 3 (4.76%) Teradata
7 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.17%) Talend
8 1 (1.59%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.59%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.59%) Broadcom
8 1 (1.59%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.59%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace