Control-M Contract Job Trends

BMC Control-M
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Control-M skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 514 497
Rank change year-on-year -78 -17 +91
Contract jobs citing Control-M 74 38 52
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.23% 0.81% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 23 30
10th Percentile £362 £352 £360
25th Percentile £406 £386 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £481
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.05% -16.30%
75th Percentile £575 £605 £550
90th Percentile £650 £673 £626
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £425 £488
% change year-on-year -2.94% -12.82% +21.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £20.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £20.50 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,993 4,693 4,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.02% 14.22% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,960 3,037 3,020
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £685 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £493
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.54% -3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 95 59
10th Percentile £18.25 £14.05 £19.88
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.48 £25.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +153.92% -33.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £73.81 £62.75 £63.50
90th Percentile £87.67 £67.15 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £21.39 £37.08
% change year-on-year +195.16% -42.32% -22.93%

Control-M
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Control-M relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Control-M job vacancy trend in the UK

Control-M
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Control-M.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Control-M

Control-M
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Control-M over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Control-M in the UK

Control-M
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Control-M.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Control-M

Control-M
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England -86 68 £500 -3.85% 27
London -58 40 £545 -2.68% 17
UK excluding London -99 27 £413 -2.94% 13
Yorkshire -26 23 £413 -12.05% 4
North of England -64 23 £413 -5.17% 7
Work from Home -64 14 £540 +27.06% 16
Midlands - 3 £488 -
West Midlands - 2 £475 -
Wales -19 1 £265 -6.19%
North East - 1 £537 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £500 -

Control-M
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 16 (21.62%) Confluence
2 8 (10.81%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (9.46%) SAS
4 5 (6.76%) CICS
5 4 (5.41%) Apache Spark
5 4 (5.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (5.41%) SharePoint
6 2 (2.70%) Apache
6 2 (2.70%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.08%) OpenShift
2 14 (18.92%) GitHub
3 10 (13.51%) Azure
4 8 (10.81%) AWS
4 8 (10.81%) dbt
5 7 (9.46%) Power Platform
6 6 (8.11%) GCP
7 5 (6.76%) Snowflake
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.05%) Collibra
8 3 (4.05%) Serverless
8 3 (4.05%) Smartsheet
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (2.70%) AWS KMS
9 2 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.70%) Azure Databricks
9 2 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) Internet
1 1 (1.35%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.62%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (13.51%) Db2
2 10 (13.51%) Oracle Database
3 9 (12.16%) PowerCenter
4 8 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (9.46%) Power BI
5 7 (9.46%) Star Schema
6 5 (6.76%) MongoDB
7 4 (5.41%) BigQuery
7 4 (5.41%) Tableau
8 3 (4.05%) Data Mart
8 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (4.05%) Metadata
8 3 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.70%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (2.70%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.70%) Data Vault
9 2 (2.70%) DataStage
9 2 (2.70%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 18 (24.32%) JIRA
2 17 (22.97%) Jenkins
3 12 (16.22%) Gradle
4 5 (6.76%) eggPlant
4 5 (6.76%) JMeter
4 5 (6.76%) LoadRunner
4 5 (6.76%) Postman
4 5 (6.76%) SoapUI
5 4 (5.41%) Git
5 4 (5.41%) GitLab
5 4 (5.41%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (36.49%) Finance
2 25 (33.78%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
4 17 (22.97%) Banking
5 7 (9.46%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.76%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (5.41%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.70%) Aviation
9 1 (1.35%) Advertising
9 1 (1.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (36.49%) Developer
2 14 (18.92%) Lead
3 13 (17.57%) Data Engineer
4 11 (14.86%) Software Developer
5 9 (12.16%) Java Developer
5 9 (12.16%) Senior
6 8 (10.81%) Informatica Engineer
7 7 (9.46%) Python Developer
7 7 (9.46%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 7 (9.46%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (9.46%) Splunk Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Implementation Manager
9 4 (5.41%) Java Software Developer
9 4 (5.41%) Migration Manager
9 4 (5.41%) Oracle Developer
9 4 (5.41%) Software Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 3 (4.05%) Murex Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (36.49%) Kafka
2 16 (21.62%) Hibernate
2 16 (21.62%) React
2 16 (21.62%) Redux
2 16 (21.62%) Spring Boot
3 12 (16.22%) Terraform
4 11 (14.86%) Spring
5 10 (13.51%) REST
6 8 (10.81%) FastAPI
7 7 (9.46%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (6.76%) .NET
8 5 (6.76%) Middleware
8 5 (6.76%) SOAP
8 5 (6.76%) Web Services
8 5 (6.76%) XML
9 3 (4.05%) ADO
9 3 (4.05%) HTML
9 3 (4.05%) XBRL
10 2 (2.70%) ISPF
10 2 (2.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.22%) Mainframe
1 12 (16.22%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.76%) Market Risk
4 4 (5.41%) Credit Risk
5 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.70%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.70%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.70%) VSAM
7 1 (1.35%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.35%) Derivative
7 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.35%) Fedwire
7 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 18 (24.32%) Unix
2 17 (22.97%) Linux
3 9 (12.16%) zOS
4 7 (9.46%) Windows
5 2 (2.70%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.35%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (40.54%) Agile
2 23 (31.08%) CI/CD
3 21 (28.38%) Observability
4 20 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (24.32%) Migration
6 16 (21.62%) ETL
6 16 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (17.57%) Data Modelling
7 13 (17.57%) DevOps
7 13 (17.57%) Test Automation
8 12 (16.22%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (14.86%) Mentoring
9 11 (14.86%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (14.86%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (13.51%) ITSM
11 9 (12.16%) Batch Processing
11 9 (12.16%) Runbook
11 9 (12.16%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 44 (59.46%) SQL
2 27 (36.49%) Python
3 24 (32.43%) PL/SQL
4 22 (29.73%) Java
5 10 (13.51%) Shell Script
6 9 (12.16%) JCL
7 7 (9.46%) PowerShell
8 5 (6.76%) JavaScript
9 4 (5.41%) COBOL
9 4 (5.41%) VB.NET
10 3 (4.05%) Bash
10 3 (4.05%) REXX
11 2 (2.70%) Korn
11 2 (2.70%) Scala
12 1 (1.35%) C
12 1 (1.35%) C#
12 1 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.35%) Go
12 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.35%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 29 (39.19%) Security Cleared
2 27 (36.49%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.81%) Degree
4 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.05%) ISEB
4 3 (4.05%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.51%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.70%) QA
3 1 (1.35%) GRC
3 1 (1.35%) IFRS
3 1 (1.35%) IFRS 9
3 1 (1.35%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.35%) SEPA
3 1 (1.35%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (13.51%) Docker
2 3 (4.05%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (1.35%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (12.16%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.81%) Grafana
2 8 (10.81%) Prometheus
3 7 (9.46%) IBM Guardium
3 7 (9.46%) Nessus
4 4 (5.41%) Ansible
4 4 (5.41%) HP Fortify
5 2 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (40.54%) Oracle
2 14 (18.92%) Informatica
3 10 (13.51%) Splunk
4 8 (10.81%) IBM
4 8 (10.81%) ServiceNow
5 7 (9.46%) BMC
5 7 (9.46%) Tenable
5 7 (9.46%) xMatters
6 6 (8.11%) Microsoft
7 4 (5.41%) Databricks
7 4 (5.41%) Murex
7 4 (5.41%) SAP
8 3 (4.05%) Talend
8 3 (4.05%) Teradata
9 1 (1.35%) Ab Initio
9 1 (1.35%) Broadcom
9 1 (1.35%) Cloudera
9 1 (1.35%) Foundry
9 1 (1.35%) Google
9 1 (1.35%) Micro Focus