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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 486 474
Rank change year-on-year -90 -12 +60
Contract jobs citing Control-M 68 33 50
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.34% 0.83% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 23 27
10th Percentile £364 £358 £360
25th Percentile £406 £415 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +6.67% -15.22%
75th Percentile £575 £661 £550
90th Percentile £636 £675 £630
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £481
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.05% -16.30%

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 5,084 3,962 3,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.93% 14.14% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,380 2,604 2,615
10th Percentile £313 £279 £300
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £600 £628
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £518
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.52% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 75 53
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.54 £20.17
25th Percentile £34.61 £19.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £65.69 £34.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.21% -10.53% -29.30%
75th Percentile £74.00 £63.58 £64.50
90th Percentile £89.39 £73.40 £74.89
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £23.79 £37.50
% change year-on-year +166.86% -36.57% -32.68%

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 October 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 October 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 40 £545 -2.68% 17
Yorkshire -31 23 £413 -30.08% 4
North of England -70 23 £413 -12.05% 7
Midlands - 3 £488 -
West Midlands - 2 £475 -
North East - 1 £537 - 2
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 15 (22.06%) Confluence
2 7 (10.29%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (8.82%) SAS
4 4 (5.88%) CICS
4 4 (5.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (5.88%) SharePoint
5 3 (4.41%) Apache Spark
6 2 (2.94%) Apache
7 1 (1.47%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (33.82%) OpenShift
2 13 (19.12%) GitHub
3 9 (13.24%) Azure
4 7 (10.29%) AWS
4 7 (10.29%) dbt
5 6 (8.82%) Power Platform
6 5 (7.35%) GCP
6 5 (7.35%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Databricks
7 2 (2.94%) Collibra
7 2 (2.94%) Serverless
7 2 (2.94%) Smartsheet
8 1 (1.47%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.47%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) Internet
1 1 (1.47%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.59%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (13.24%) Oracle Database
3 8 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (10.29%) Db2
5 6 (8.82%) Power BI
5 6 (8.82%) PowerCenter
5 6 (8.82%) Star Schema
6 5 (7.35%) MongoDB
7 4 (5.88%) Tableau
8 3 (4.41%) BigQuery
8 3 (4.41%) Data Mart
8 3 (4.41%) Metadata
8 3 (4.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.94%) DataStage
9 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.47%) Big Data
10 1 (1.47%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (1.47%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 17 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 17 (25.00%) JIRA
2 12 (17.65%) Gradle
3 5 (7.35%) eggPlant
3 5 (7.35%) JMeter
3 5 (7.35%) LoadRunner
3 5 (7.35%) Postman
3 5 (7.35%) SoapUI
4 4 (5.88%) Git
4 4 (5.88%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.41%) GitLab
6 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (38.24%) Finance
2 25 (36.76%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
4 16 (23.53%) Banking
5 7 (10.29%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.88%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.94%) Aviation
8 1 (1.47%) Advertising
8 1 (1.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (39.71%) Developer
2 13 (19.12%) Lead
3 11 (16.18%) Data Engineer
3 11 (16.18%) Software Developer
4 9 (13.24%) Java Developer
5 8 (11.76%) Senior
6 7 (10.29%) Python Developer
6 7 (10.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 7 (10.29%) Splunk Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Informatica Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Java Software Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Software Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Consultant
10 3 (4.41%) Implementation Manager
10 3 (4.41%) Migration Manager
10 3 (4.41%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (38.24%) Kafka
2 16 (23.53%) Hibernate
2 16 (23.53%) React
2 16 (23.53%) Redux
2 16 (23.53%) Spring Boot
3 11 (16.18%) Spring
3 11 (16.18%) Terraform
4 10 (14.71%) REST
5 8 (11.76%) FastAPI
6 7 (10.29%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (7.35%) Middleware
7 5 (7.35%) SOAP
8 4 (5.88%) .NET
8 4 (5.88%) Web Services
8 4 (5.88%) XML
9 3 (4.41%) ADO
9 3 (4.41%) HTML
9 3 (4.41%) XBRL
10 2 (2.94%) ISPF
10 2 (2.94%) Murex Flex
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (13.24%) Mainframe
3 6 (8.82%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.35%) Market Risk
5 4 (5.88%) Credit Risk
6 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.47%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.47%) AS400
8 1 (1.47%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.47%) Derivative
8 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.47%) Fedwire
8 1 (1.47%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.47%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.53%) Unix
2 15 (22.06%) Linux
3 7 (10.29%) zOS
4 5 (7.35%) Windows
5 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.47%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.12%) Agile
2 22 (32.35%) CI/CD
3 20 (29.41%) Observability
3 20 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (22.06%) Migration
5 14 (20.59%) ETL
5 14 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (19.12%) DevOps
7 11 (16.18%) Data Modelling
7 11 (16.18%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (16.18%) Mentoring
7 11 (16.18%) Technical Leadership
7 11 (16.18%) Test Automation
8 10 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (13.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (13.24%) ITSM
9 9 (13.24%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (13.24%) SDLC
10 8 (11.76%) API Development
10 8 (11.76%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 40 (58.82%) SQL
2 26 (38.24%) Python
3 22 (32.35%) Java
3 22 (32.35%) PL/SQL
4 8 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 7 (10.29%) PowerShell
6 6 (8.82%) JCL
7 5 (7.35%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.41%) Bash
8 3 (4.41%) VB.NET
9 2 (2.94%) COBOL
9 2 (2.94%) REXX
9 2 (2.94%) Scala
10 1 (1.47%) C
10 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.47%) Go
10 1 (1.47%) Korn
10 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.47%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 28 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 26 (38.24%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.76%) Degree
4 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.41%) ISEB
4 3 (4.41%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.47%) GRC
2 1 (1.47%) IFRS
2 1 (1.47%) IFRS 9
2 1 (1.47%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.47%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) SEPA
2 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (14.71%) Docker
2 3 (4.41%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (1.47%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (13.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.76%) Grafana
2 8 (11.76%) Prometheus
3 7 (10.29%) IBM Guardium
3 7 (10.29%) Nessus
4 4 (5.88%) Ansible
4 4 (5.88%) HP Fortify
5 2 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (39.71%) Oracle
2 11 (16.18%) Informatica
3 10 (14.71%) Splunk
4 7 (10.29%) IBM
4 7 (10.29%) ServiceNow
4 7 (10.29%) Tenable
4 7 (10.29%) xMatters
5 6 (8.82%) BMC
5 6 (8.82%) Microsoft
6 4 (5.88%) Murex
6 4 (5.88%) SAP
7 3 (4.41%) Databricks
7 3 (4.41%) Talend
7 3 (4.41%) Teradata
8 1 (1.47%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.47%) Broadcom
8 1 (1.47%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.47%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.47%) Foundry
8 1 (1.47%) OpenAI