Job Entry Subsystem Contracts

Job Entry Subsystem (JES2, JES3)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Job Entry Subsystem skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Job Entry Subsystem over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 - 853
Rank change year-on-year - - -186
Contract jobs citing Job Entry Subsystem 13 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% - 0.002%
As % of the System Software category 0.28% - 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile - - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +81.25%
75th Percentile - - £738
90th Percentile £588 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 - -

All System Software Skills
UK

Job Entry Subsystem is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,701 8,086 12,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.77% 13.33% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,214 5,794 8,756
10th Percentile £195 £205 £200
25th Percentile £325 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £488 £440
% change year-on-year -5.64% +10.80% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 301 340
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.00% +150.00% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £71.07 £75.00 £58.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £38.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -45.45% +120.00% -0.99%

Job Entry Subsystem
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Job Entry Subsystem as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Job Entry Subsystem in the UK

Job Entry Subsystem
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Job Entry Subsystem.

Daily rate trend for Job Entry Subsystem in the UK

Job Entry Subsystem
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Job Entry Subsystem.

Hourly rate trend for Job Entry Subsystem in the UK

Job Entry Subsystem
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Job Entry Subsystem within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Yorkshire - 13 £430 -
England - 13 £430 -
UK excluding London - 13 £430 -
North of England - 13 £430 -
Work from Home - 7 £430 -

Job Entry Subsystem
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) DWDM
General
1 11 (84.62%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Hardware Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Systems Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) z/OS Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Hardware Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) LPAR
1 13 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) JCL
2 9 (69.23%) CLIST
2 9 (69.23%) REXX
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) Microcode
1 13 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) IBM