The first table below looks at the demand for JCL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Job Control Language (JCL)
Rank 109 118 112
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -6
Permanent jobs citing JCL 11 6 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.615% 0.311% 0.241%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.073% 0.479% 0.392%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 3
Average salary £39,500 £52,000 £46,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-24.03% +13.04%
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £52,000 £35,750
% change year-on-year
-24.03% +45.45%
All Programming Languages
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1025 1252 1021
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 57.29% 64.97% 61.62%
Number of salaries quoted 843 1119 900
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
JCL
North West

JCL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire JCL Jobs Demand Trend

JCL
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing JCL across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire JCL Salary Trend

JCL
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester - 9 £39,500 -
Knutsford +2 1 £32,000 -38.46%
JCL
North West

JCL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited JCL.

1 11 (100.00%) Finance
2 9 (81.82%) Financial Institution
2 9 (81.82%) Risk Management
3 8 (72.73%) Mainframe
3 8 (72.73%) DB2
4 6 (54.55%) UNIX
4 6 (54.55%) ISPF
4 6 (54.55%) Retail Banking
4 6 (54.55%) Private Banking
4 6 (54.55%) Online Banking
4 6 (54.55%) Investment Banking
4 6 (54.55%) Banking
4 6 (54.55%) Retail
4 6 (54.55%) Asset Management
4 6 (54.55%) Wealth Management
4 6 (54.55%) Investment Management
5 5 (45.45%) CICS
6 4 (36.36%) zOS
6 4 (36.36%) MVS
6 4 (36.36%) Tivoli
6 4 (36.36%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 4 (36.36%) ITIL
6 4 (36.36%) IBM
6 4 (36.36%) COBOL
6 4 (36.36%) IBM Mainframe
6 4 (36.36%) OMEGAMON
7 3 (27.27%) CA Endevor
7 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
7 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (27.27%) LPAR

JCL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited JCL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (54.55%) ISPF
Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) CICS
2 3 (27.27%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Office
1 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
1 3 (27.27%) MS Visio
2 2 (18.18%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) HTTP
1 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) DB2
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (27.27%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) ChangeMan
General
1 11 (100.00%) Finance
2 9 (81.82%) Financial Institution
3 6 (54.55%) Banking
3 6 (54.55%) Retail
3 6 (54.55%) Investment Banking
3 6 (54.55%) Retail Banking
3 6 (54.55%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Management Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Incident Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Mainframe Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Applications Support
3 1 (9.091%) Mainframe Operator
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Mainframe
2 6 (54.55%) Online Banking
3 4 (36.36%) IBM Mainframe
4 3 (27.27%) LPAR
5 1 (9.091%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) UNIX
2 4 (36.36%) zOS
2 4 (36.36%) MVS
3 3 (27.27%) Windows
3 3 (27.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Risk Management
2 6 (54.55%) Asset Management
2 6 (54.55%) Wealth Management
2 6 (54.55%) Investment Management
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
4 3 (27.27%) ETL
4 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
5 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
6 1 (9.091%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) COBOL
2 3 (27.27%) Perl
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.091%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Tivoli
1 4 (36.36%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (27.27%) CA Endevor
3 1 (9.091%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) IBM
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Ab Initio
2 3 (27.27%) Teradata
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Siebel
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