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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 457 527
Rank change year-on-year -69 +70 +132
Contract jobs citing Control-M 38 27 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.10% 0.082%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.73% 0.70% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 26
10th Percentile £323 £467 £375
25th Percentile £360 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +11.11% -5.71%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £538
90th Percentile £635 £634 £675
UK median daily rate £455 £550 £495
% change year-on-year -17.27% +11.11% -8.33%

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 5,184 3,857 4,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.55% 14.77% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,594 2,504 3,463
10th Percentile £313 £313 £252
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.95%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £739 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 47 156
10th Percentile £17.82 £14.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £20.49 £20.00
Median hourly rate £47.75 £26.50 £44.97
Median % change year-on-year +80.19% -41.07% -3.93%
75th Percentile £62.80 £61.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.38 £75.66 £77.02
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £25.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +96.08% -44.78% +11.18%

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 February 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 February 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
North of England -42 18 £425 -20.93% 5
Yorkshire -36 16 £435 -19.07% 4
London -36 15 £600 - 1
Midlands -57 3 £350 -36.36% 2
West Midlands - 3 £350 - 2
East of England - 2 - -
North West - 2 £359 -
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 (15.79%) MQSeries
2 3 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (7.89%) SAS
2 3 (7.89%) WebSphere
3 2 (5.26%) Confluence
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 3 (7.89%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.89%) AWS
1 3 (7.89%) IaaS
1 3 (7.89%) OCI
1 3 (7.89%) PaaS
1 3 (7.89%) SaaS
2 2 (5.26%) Apigee
2 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (5.26%) Azure
2 2 (5.26%) Boomi
2 2 (5.26%) GitHub
2 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
2 2 (5.26%) Serverless
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (2.63%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (44.74%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.26%) DataStage
4 2 (5.26%) Power BI
5 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 23 (60.53%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
1 16 (42.11%) Finance
2 12 (31.58%) Banking
3 6 (15.79%) Private Banking
4 4 (10.53%) Financial Institution
5 3 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Social Skills
6 2 (5.26%) General Ledger
6 2 (5.26%) Japanese Language
7 1 (2.63%) French Language
7 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Legal
7 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (55.26%) Developer
2 13 (34.21%) Python Developer
3 8 (21.05%) Analyst
4 6 (15.79%) Analyst Developer
5 5 (13.16%) AS400 Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Lead
7 2 (5.26%) Integration Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Automation Developer
8 1 (2.63%) AWS Data Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Banking Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL Developer
8 1 (2.63%) Risk Business Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Senior
8 1 (2.63%) Senior Integration Developer
8 1 (2.63%) SQL Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) SQL Support Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Subject Matter Expert
8 1 (2.63%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (44.74%) FastAPI
1 17 (44.74%) OpenTelemetry
2 10 (26.32%) XML
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (7.89%) XML Messaging
4 2 (5.26%) ISPF
4 2 (5.26%) Middleware
4 2 (5.26%) PySpark
4 2 (5.26%) pytest
4 2 (5.26%) REST
5 1 (2.63%) .NET
5 1 (2.63%) EDI
5 1 (2.63%) SOAP
5 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) AS400
2 4 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.26%) iSeries
3 2 (5.26%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.63%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.63%) Derivative
4 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Windows
2 4 (10.53%) Linux
3 3 (7.89%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.26%) zOS
5 1 (2.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (60.53%) Agile
2 19 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 17 (44.74%) Observability
3 17 (44.74%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (42.11%) Containerisation
5 15 (39.47%) API Development
6 7 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (15.79%) Change Control
8 5 (13.16%) ETL
8 5 (13.16%) Integration Testing
8 5 (13.16%) Portfolio Management
8 5 (13.16%) Wealth Management
9 4 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (10.53%) Data Protection
9 4 (10.53%) Secrets Management
9 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (10.53%) Translating Business Requirements
10 3 (7.89%) Attestation
10 3 (7.89%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 21 (55.26%) Python
2 17 (44.74%) SQL
3 8 (21.05%) Java
4 6 (15.79%) RPG
5 5 (13.16%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.26%) JCL
6 2 (5.26%) REXX
7 1 (2.63%) Bash
7 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.26%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.26%) PMP
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) Basel III
2 2 (5.26%) GAAP
2 2 (5.26%) IFRS
2 2 (5.26%) IFRS 17
2 2 (5.26%) IFRS 9
2 2 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (47.37%) Docker
2 2 (5.26%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 18 (47.37%) Grafana
2 17 (44.74%) IBM Guardium
2 17 (44.74%) Nessus
2 17 (44.74%) Prometheus
3 16 (42.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.26%) Terraform
5 1 (2.63%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) Tenable
2 8 (21.05%) IBM
2 8 (21.05%) Oracle
3 6 (15.79%) BMC
4 5 (13.16%) Informatica
5 4 (10.53%) Splunk
6 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
6 3 (7.89%) SAP
6 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow
6 3 (7.89%) Workday
7 2 (5.26%) Broadcom
7 2 (5.26%) Dell
7 2 (5.26%) Talend
8 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
8 1 (2.63%) Murex