The first table below looks at the demand for JCL skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JCL over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Job Control Language (JCL)
Rank 197 212 244
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +32
Contract jobs citing JCL 4 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.064% 0.013% 0.020%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.152% 0.035% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
Average daily rate £300 £425 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.41% +29.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £369 £345 £272
% change year-on-year
+6.88% +27.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - £28.50
All Programming Languages
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2625 2821 4126
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 41.70% 36.26% 41.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2029 2110 3122
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 35
Average hourly rate £40.75 £25.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+63.00% -10.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.56 £15.00 £18.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £50.00 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
JCL
London

JCL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JCL across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

City of London JCL Jobs Demand Trend

JCL
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JCL across the City of London region.

City of London JCL Daily Rate Trend

JCL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JCL across the City of London region.

City of London JCL Hourly Rate Trend

JCL
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing JCL also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited JCL.

1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) ServiceCenter
2 3 (60.00%) MS Office
2 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (40.00%) REXX
3 2 (40.00%) ISPF
4 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) DMAIC
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (20.00%) CA
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) VBA
4 1 (20.00%) DB2
4 1 (20.00%) MS Access
4 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (20.00%) SAS
4 1 (20.00%) IBM

JCL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing JCL also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited JCL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) ISPF
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (20.00%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MS Office
1 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
1 1 (20.00%) MS Access
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) DMAIC
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) REXX
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) CA
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
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