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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 466 505
Rank change year-on-year -95 +39 +100
Contract jobs citing Control-M 47 26 40
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.098% 0.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.79% 0.63% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 19 29
10th Percentile £325 £507 £375
25th Percentile £375 £585 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +36.84% -19.15%
75th Percentile £500 £711 £571
90th Percentile £600 £738 £628
UK median daily rate £450 £650 £475
% change year-on-year -30.77% +36.84% -19.15%

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 5,927 4,144 4,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.44% 15.63% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,076 2,753 3,387
10th Percentile £320 £305 £300
25th Percentile £416 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £510 £518
% change year-on-year +0.98% -1.54% -5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 46 95
10th Percentile £20.09 £20.13 £16.47
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.45 £21.29
Median hourly rate £62.25 £48.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.35% +53.97% -42.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £49.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.35 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +84.17% -7.69% -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 5 July 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 5 July 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
Yorkshire -41 23 £413 -30.08%
North of England -60 23 £413 -30.08% 2
London -74 18 £493 -25.10% 6
Midlands - 6 £403 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £350 -
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 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 5 (10.64%) SAS
2 2 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Front Arena
1 2 (4.26%) Global One
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.53%) OpenShift
2 4 (8.51%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.26%) AWS
3 2 (4.26%) dbt
3 2 (4.26%) GitHub
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.13%) Azure
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.13%) GCP
4 1 (2.13%) Serverless
4 1 (2.13%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.17%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (23.40%) MongoDB
3 5 (10.64%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (8.51%) Power BI
5 2 (4.26%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (4.26%) Star Schema
5 2 (4.26%) Tableau
6 1 (2.13%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.13%) Base SAS
6 1 (2.13%) Big Data
6 1 (2.13%) Data Mart
6 1 (2.13%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.13%) DataStage
6 1 (2.13%) Db2
6 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.13%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 1 (2.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (44.68%) JIRA
2 12 (25.53%) Jenkins
3 6 (12.77%) Gradle
4 2 (4.26%) Git
General
1 24 (51.06%) Analytical Skills
1 24 (51.06%) Finance
2 13 (27.66%) Banking
3 5 (10.64%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Financial Institution
4 4 (8.51%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Back Office
6 2 (4.26%) Front Office
7 1 (2.13%) Advertising
7 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (68.09%) Developer
2 18 (38.30%) Python Developer
3 6 (12.77%) Java Developer
4 5 (10.64%) Software Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 4 (8.51%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) Applications Support
6 3 (6.38%) Consultant
6 3 (6.38%) DevOps Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Lead
6 3 (6.38%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Applications Support Consultant
7 2 (4.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Credit Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Credit Risk Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (38.30%) FastAPI
1 18 (38.30%) OpenTelemetry
2 10 (21.28%) Hibernate
2 10 (21.28%) Kafka
2 10 (21.28%) React
2 10 (21.28%) Redux
2 10 (21.28%) Spring Boot
3 5 (10.64%) Spring
4 4 (8.51%) REST
5 2 (4.26%) .NET
5 2 (4.26%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (4.26%) FIXML
5 2 (4.26%) ISPF
5 2 (4.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (8.51%) Mainframe
3 3 (6.38%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.26%) Credit Risk
4 2 (4.26%) Derivative
4 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.26%) Eurex
4 2 (4.26%) Swaptions
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Linux
1 3 (6.38%) Windows
1 3 (6.38%) zOS
2 2 (4.26%) Unix
2 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.13%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (61.70%) Agile
2 27 (57.45%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (48.94%) CI/CD
4 20 (42.55%) Observability
5 18 (38.30%) API Development
6 17 (36.17%) Containerisation
7 8 (17.02%) DevOps
8 5 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (10.64%) ETL
8 5 (10.64%) Risk Management
9 4 (8.51%) Analytics
9 4 (8.51%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (8.51%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (8.51%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 4 (8.51%) Test Automation
9 4 (8.51%) User Acceptance Testing
10 3 (6.38%) Data Protection
10 3 (6.38%) Data Transformation
10 3 (6.38%) SDLC
10 3 (6.38%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 27 (57.45%) Python
2 21 (44.68%) SQL
3 13 (27.66%) PL/SQL
4 10 (21.28%) Java
5 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.26%) JCL
6 2 (4.26%) Perl
6 2 (4.26%) REXX
6 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.26%) VBA
7 1 (2.13%) Bash
7 1 (2.13%) COBOL
7 1 (2.13%) Go
7 1 (2.13%) Korn
7 1 (2.13%) SAS Macro
7 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) Degree
4 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (36.17%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 19 (40.43%) Grafana
2 18 (38.30%) IBM Guardium
2 18 (38.30%) Nessus
2 18 (38.30%) Prometheus
3 17 (36.17%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.38%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (4.26%) Ansible
5 2 (4.26%) Terraform
6 1 (2.13%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 18 (38.30%) Tenable
2 10 (21.28%) Oracle
3 6 (12.77%) Splunk
4 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
4 5 (10.64%) Murex
5 3 (6.38%) BMC
6 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.26%) xMatters
7 1 (2.13%) Ab Initio
7 1 (2.13%) Broadcom
7 1 (2.13%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.13%) HP
7 1 (2.13%) IBM
7 1 (2.13%) Informatica