Merseyside JCL Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Job Control Language (JCL) skills within the Merseyside 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Job Control Language (JCL)
Location Barnsley Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell 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 Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London 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 Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	72	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	7	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.205 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	6	0
Average minimum salary	£25,833	-
Average salary	£26,167	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£26,500	-
UK excluding London average salary	£36,558	£36,339
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Programming Languages Merseyside
Matching permanent IT job ads	581	521
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.313 %	0.217 %
Salaries quoted	491	443
Average minimum salary	£28,397	£28,415
Average salary	£30,636	£30,867
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Average maximum salary	£32,875	£33,319
UK excluding London average salary	£35,268	£35,641
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
JCL North West

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing JCL across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 21 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
Liverpool	-	4	£26,667	-

JCL North West

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 3 (42.86 %) PrintSoft PReS 1 3 (42.86 %) Auditing 1 3 (42.86 %) IBM 1 3 (42.86 %) HP 1 3 (42.86 %) ARCserve 2 1 (14.29 %) Finance 2 1 (14.29 %) Mainframe 2 1 (14.29 %) CICS 2 1 (14.29 %) COBOL 2 1 (14.29 %) DB2 2 1 (14.29 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (14.29 %) ISPF 2 1 (14.29 %) VSAM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 1 (14.29 %) ISPF	Application Platforms 1 1 (14.29 %) CICS
Applications 1 3 (42.86 %) PrintSoft PReS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (14.29 %) DB2
General 1 3 (42.86 %) Auditing 2 1 (14.29 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 6 (85.71 %) Team Leader 2 2 (28.57 %) Operations Manager 3 1 (14.29 %) Computer Operator
Miscellaneous 1 1 (14.29 %) Mainframe 1 1 (14.29 %) VSAM	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages 1 1 (14.29 %) COBOL	Systems Management 1 3 (42.86 %) ARCserve
Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) IBM 1 3 (42.86 %) HP