The first table below looks at the demand for JCL skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited JCL over the 3 months to 24 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Job Control Language (JCL)
Rank 571 632 631
Rank change year-on-year
+61 -1
Permanent jobs citing JCL 13 4 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.030% 0.007% 0.033%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.055% 0.014% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 10
Average salary £70,000 £52,500 £71,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -26.31%
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £51,000 £34,500
% change year-on-year
-22.54% +47.82%
All Programming Languages
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
23444 29032 31633
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 53.61% 54.13% 54.54%
Number of salaries quoted 20129 25775 27093
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £33,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
JCL
England

JCL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London JCL Salary Trend

JCL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 20 (90.91%) Mainframe
2 16 (72.73%) Finance
3 13 (59.09%) Banking
3 13 (59.09%) COBOL
3 13 (59.09%) DB2
4 12 (54.55%) Oracle
5 11 (50.00%) Configuration Management
5 11 (50.00%) Investment Banking
6 9 (40.91%) Degree
6 9 (40.91%) Unit Testing
6 9 (40.91%) Risk Management
6 9 (40.91%) Perforce
6 9 (40.91%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (40.91%) MVS
6 9 (40.91%) SQL Server
6 9 (40.91%) MS Office
6 9 (40.91%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 9 (40.91%) MS Excel
7 7 (31.82%) IBM
8 5 (22.73%) UNIX
8 5 (22.73%) REXX
8 5 (22.73%) Assembly Language
8 5 (22.73%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (18.18%) IBM Mainframe
9 4 (18.18%) HP
9 4 (18.18%) CICS
9 4 (18.18%) zOS
9 4 (18.18%) Web Services
10 3 (13.64%) XML
10 3 (13.64%) XSLT

JCL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 4 (18.18%) Web Services
2 3 (13.64%) XML
2 3 (13.64%) XSLT
2 3 (13.64%) XML Schema
2 3 (13.64%) ISPF
3 2 (9.091%) .NET
4 1 (4.545%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 4 (18.18%) CICS
2 3 (13.64%) MQSeries
3 2 (9.091%) StreamWeaver
3 2 (9.091%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (40.91%) MS Office
1 9 (40.91%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) FTP
2 2 (9.091%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (59.09%) DB2
2 9 (40.91%) SQL Server
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (13.64%) BODI
4 2 (9.091%) Base SAS
4 2 (9.091%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 16 (72.73%) Finance
2 13 (59.09%) Banking
3 11 (50.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (9.091%) Manufacturing
4 2 (9.091%) Advertising
5 1 (4.545%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (13.64%) Architect
1 3 (13.64%) Mainframe Architect
2 2 (9.091%) Capacity Manager
2 2 (9.091%) Developer
2 2 (9.091%) Chief Technology Officer
2 2 (9.091%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (4.545%) Services Delivery Manager
3 1 (4.545%) Service Manager
3 1 (4.545%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (4.545%) Programmer
3 1 (4.545%) Systems Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (90.91%) Mainframe
2 4 (18.18%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (9.091%) Statistics
3 2 (9.091%) Hedge funds
3 2 (9.091%) Client/Server
3 2 (9.091%) e-Health
4 1 (4.545%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) MVS
2 5 (22.73%) UNIX
3 4 (18.18%) zOS
4 2 (9.091%) VME
4 2 (9.091%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 9 (40.91%) Unit Testing
2 9 (40.91%) Risk Management
2 9 (40.91%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (22.73%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (13.64%) ITIL
4 3 (13.64%) B2B
4 3 (13.64%) UML
4 3 (13.64%) OOA/OOD
4 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
4 3 (13.64%) SOA
4 3 (13.64%) ETL
4 3 (13.64%) Load Balancing
5 2 (9.091%) Project Planning
5 2 (9.091%) Statistical Analysis
5 2 (9.091%) Logistics
5 2 (9.091%) ITIL V3
5 2 (9.091%) Capacity Management
5 2 (9.091%) Asset Management
6 1 (4.545%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) COBOL
2 5 (22.73%) REXX
2 5 (22.73%) Assembly Language
3 2 (9.091%) SAS Macro
3 2 (9.091%) C
4 1 (4.545%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Degree
2 1 (4.545%) PMP
2 1 (4.545%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 2 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) CA Endevor
2 2 (9.091%) OMEGAMON
2 2 (9.091%) SCCM
2 2 (9.091%) SCOM
2 2 (9.091%) HP SIM
2 2 (9.091%) Unicenter
2 2 (9.091%) Tivoli
2 2 (9.091%) BMC PATROL
2 2 (9.091%) OpenView
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Oracle
2 9 (40.91%) Perforce
3 7 (31.82%) IBM
4 4 (18.18%) HP
5 3 (13.64%) Business Objects
5 3 (13.64%) Cognos
5 3 (13.64%) Informatica
6 2 (9.091%) ICL
6 2 (9.091%) BMC
6 2 (9.091%) VMware
6 2 (9.091%) SAP