The first table below looks at the demand for JCL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JCL over the 3 months to 22 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 Edinburgh 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Job Control Language (JCL)
Rank 49 56 69
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +13
Contract jobs citing JCL 6 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.726% 0.181% 0.155%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.597% 0.995% 0.727%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £338 £341 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.09% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £345 £265
% change year-on-year
+5.07% +30.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £18.00
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
231 201 275
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 27.97% 18.21% 21.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 81 107
Average daily rate £325 £320 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £233 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 2
Average hourly rate £12.71 £27.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.78% +30.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
JCL
Scotland

JCL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh JCL Hourly Rate Trend

JCL
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 5 (71.43%) zOS
2 4 (57.14%) IBM
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Mainframe
2 4 (57.14%) REXX
3 3 (42.86%) EMC
4 2 (28.57%) ISPF
5 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
5 1 (14.29%) CA Endevor
5 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 1 (14.29%) DataPower
5 1 (14.29%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) Banking
5 1 (14.29%) VSAM
5 1 (14.29%) CICS
5 1 (14.29%) CA
5 1 (14.29%) RACF
5 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (14.29%) SSL

JCL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 (28.57%) ISPF
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) CICS
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Operations Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Storage Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) DataPower
2 1 (14.29%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) REXX
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) IBM
2 3 (42.86%) EMC
3 1 (14.29%) CA