JCL Contracts in the UK excluding London

Job Control Language (JCL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 435 497
Rank change year-on-year +104 +62 -89
Contract jobs citing JCL 65 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.051% 0.049%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.36% 0.18% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 10 5
10th Percentile £400 £398 £331
25th Percentile £415 £416 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £488 £405
Median % change year-on-year -11.79% +20.37% -2.41%
75th Percentile £500 £542 £500
90th Percentile £588 £554 £515
UK median daily rate £430 £500 £456
% change year-on-year -14.00% +9.59% +9.94%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,787 6,816 8,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.37% 29.05% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,225 4,837 6,106
10th Percentile £316 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £644
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 340 327
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.92 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +24.30% +19.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.00 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JCL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JCL in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JCL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JCL in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JCL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JCL in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JCL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JCL in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +82 56 £430 -9.47%
Yorkshire +73 56 £430 -9.47%
Scotland +41 7 £500 -2.44%
South East +26 2 £375 -36.17%
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (33.85%) SAS
2 2 (3.08%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.08%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.85%) DWDM
2 1 (1.54%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) DB2
2 1 (1.54%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 15 (23.08%) Jenkins
General
1 43 (66.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.08%) Finance
3 1 (1.54%) Banking
3 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (32.31%) Programmer
2 20 (30.77%) Systems Programmer
2 20 (30.77%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 16 (24.62%) Storage Manager
4 9 (13.85%) z/OS Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Hardware Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Administrator
8 2 (3.08%) COBOL Developer
8 2 (3.08%) Consultant
8 2 (3.08%) Developer
9 1 (1.54%) Analyst
9 1 (1.54%) Business Analyst
9 1 (1.54%) Hardware Specialist
9 1 (1.54%) IBM Storage Engineer
9 1 (1.54%) IBM Storage Specialist
9 1 (1.54%) Storage Engineer
9 1 (1.54%) Storage Specialist
9 1 (1.54%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (64.62%) ISPF
2 15 (23.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (69.23%) Mainframe
2 14 (21.54%) Data Centre
3 13 (20.00%) LPAR
4 7 (10.77%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.54%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 61 (93.85%) zOS
2 18 (27.69%) Linux
3 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (47.69%) Risk Management
2 21 (32.31%) Performance Monitoring
3 19 (29.23%) Storage Management
4 18 (27.69%) Agile
5 17 (26.15%) Problem Management
6 14 (21.54%) Project Management
7 13 (20.00%) Cost Management
7 13 (20.00%) Software Testing
7 13 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (6.15%) Workflow
9 2 (3.08%) Capacity Management
9 2 (3.08%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (3.08%) Problem-Solving
10 1 (1.54%) Data Protection
10 1 (1.54%) Order Management
10 1 (1.54%) Product Vision
10 1 (1.54%) Requirements Gathering
10 1 (1.54%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 51 (78.46%) REXX
2 18 (27.69%) Assembly Language
3 15 (23.08%) Python
4 10 (15.38%) CLIST
5 3 (4.62%) COBOL
6 1 (1.54%) Natural
6 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 60 (92.31%) Time Sharing Option
2 18 (27.69%) NFS
3 17 (26.15%) ACF2
3 17 (26.15%) RACF
4 13 (20.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 13 (20.00%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 20 (30.77%) OMEGAMON
2 18 (27.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 15 (23.08%) Ansible
4 1 (1.54%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 62 (95.38%) IBM
2 44 (67.69%) Broadcom
3 21 (32.31%) CA
4 19 (29.23%) Splunk
5 18 (27.69%) Brocade
5 18 (27.69%) Dell
6 6 (9.23%) BMC