East of England JCL Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Job Control Language (JCL) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited JCL over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Job Control Language (JCL)
Location Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Croydon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Folkestone Glasgow Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Lytham St Annes Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	242	244
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	30	47
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	0.431 %	0.661 %
Salaries quoted	26	47
Average minimum salary	£37,750	£32,915
Average salary	£39,636	£35,702
% change on same period last year	+11.01 %
Average maximum salary	£41,521	£38,489
UK excluding London average salary	£36,370	£36,339
% change on same period last year	+0.08 %
Programming Languages East of England
Matching permanent IT job ads	6959	7109
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.746 %	2.963 %
Salaries quoted	5955	6061
Average minimum salary	£33,384	£33,264
Average salary	£36,594	£36,494
% change on same period last year	+0.27 %
Average maximum salary	£39,805	£39,724
UK excluding London average salary	£35,245	£35,645
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
JCL England

JCL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing JCL across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

JCL
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing JCL across the East of England region.

JCL
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing JCL across the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

JCL
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridgeshire	-	17	£43,738	-
Hertfordshire	-6	5	£32,000	-1.41 %
Norfolk	-	4	£44,400	-
Essex	-8	3	£35,000	-11.13 %
East Anglia	-	2	£32,500	-
Suffolk	-	1	£33,600	-

JCL England

JCL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the East of England 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 41 (95.35 %) Mainframe 2 26 (60.47 %) COBOL 3 23 (53.49 %) DB2 3 23 (53.49 %) CICS 4 16 (37.21 %) VSAM 4 16 (37.21 %) Time Management 5 15 (34.88 %) Assembly Language 6 9 (20.93 %) Finance 7 8 (18.60 %) IBM 8 5 (11.63 %) IBM Mainframe 9 4 (9.302 %) Banking 9 4 (9.302 %) OS/390 9 4 (9.302 %) zOS 10 3 (6.977 %) Microsoft 10 3 (6.977 %) Windows

10 3 (6.977 %) MS Visio 10 3 (6.977 %) VisionPLUS 10 3 (6.977 %) Ab Initio 10 3 (6.977 %) Data Conversion 10 3 (6.977 %) QA 10 3 (6.977 %) Enterprise Architecture 11 2 (4.651 %) ETL 11 2 (4.651 %) Datawarehouse 11 2 (4.651 %) Business Objects 11 2 (4.651 %) Java 11 2 (4.651 %) J2EE 11 2 (4.651 %) BusinessObjects 11 2 (4.651 %) Informatica 11 2 (4.651 %) Tivoli 12 1 (2.326 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler

JCL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the East of England 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 2 (4.651 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 23 (53.49 %) CICS
Applications 1 3 (6.977 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 3 (6.977 %) VisionPLUS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 23 (53.49 %) DB2 2 2 (4.651 %) Datawarehouse 2 2 (4.651 %) ETL 2 2 (4.651 %) BusinessObjects	General 1 9 (20.93 %) Finance 2 4 (9.302 %) Banking 3 1 (2.326 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 16 (37.21 %) Implementation Engineer 2 6 (13.95 %) Programmer 3 5 (11.63 %) Mainframe Programmer 4 4 (9.302 %) Analyst 4 4 (9.302 %) Administrator 4 4 (9.302 %) CICS Programmer 5 3 (6.977 %) Developer 5 3 (6.977 %) CICS Systems Programmer 5 3 (6.977 %) Analyst Programmer 5 3 (6.977 %) Systems Programmer 6 2 (4.651 %) COBOL Developer 6 2 (4.651 %) Mainframe Analyst Programmer 6 2 (4.651 %) Systems Designer 7 1 (2.326 %) Senior Consultant 7 1 (2.326 %) Consultant 7 1 (2.326 %) Analyst Developer 7 1 (2.326 %) COBOL Analyst Programmer 7 1 (2.326 %) COBOL Programmer 7 1 (2.326 %) Mainframe Developer 7 1 (2.326 %) COBOL Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 41 (95.35 %) Mainframe 2 16 (37.21 %) VSAM 3 5 (11.63 %) IBM Mainframe 4 3 (6.977 %) Data Conversion
Operating Systems 1 4 (9.302 %) OS/390 1 4 (9.302 %) zOS 2 3 (6.977 %) Windows 3 1 (2.326 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (37.21 %) Time Management 2 3 (6.977 %) Enterprise Architecture 3 1 (2.326 %) Project Management 3 1 (2.326 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 26 (60.47 %) COBOL 2 15 (34.88 %) Assembly Language 3 2 (4.651 %) Java	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (6.977 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (2.326 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler	Systems Management 1 2 (4.651 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 8 (18.60 %) IBM 2 3 (6.977 %) Microsoft 2 3 (6.977 %) Ab Initio 3 2 (4.651 %) Business Objects 3 2 (4.651 %) Informatica