JCL Contracts in the Thames Valley

Job Control Language (JCL)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for JCL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JCL over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 143 159
Rank change year-on-year +8 +16 -
Contract jobs citing JCL 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.075% 0.035% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.38% 0.14% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 £581 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £588 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.17% - -
75th Percentile £388 £594 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £375 £588 -
% change year-on-year -36.17% - -

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

JCL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 531 700 796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.84% 24.20% 22.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 523 583
10th Percentile £352 £328 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £608 £606 £580
90th Percentile £668 £680 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 5
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.64 £31.30
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £56.88 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -13.17% +69.03%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.40
90th Percentile £68.75 £79.41 £81.66
South East median hourly rate £60.14 £55.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year +9.35% +26.68% +2.15%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing JCL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for JCL in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JCL in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for JCL in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JCL in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for JCL in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Buckinghamshire - 2 £375 -
JCL
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL