South East JCL Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Job Control Language (JCL) skills within the South East 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Job Control Language (JCL)
Location Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London 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 Tadworth Tyne and Wear UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	446	447
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching permanent IT job ads	26	63
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	0.169 %	0.305 %
Salaries quoted	20	56
Average minimum salary	£37,143	£36,670
Average salary	£40,762	£39,103
% change on same period last year	+4.24 %
Average maximum salary	£44,381	£41,536
UK excluding London average salary	£35,928	£36,263
% change on same period last year	-0.92 %
Programming Languages South East
Matching permanent IT job ads	15419	20656
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	8.532 %	8.663 %
Salaries quoted	13191	17614
Average minimum salary	£34,405	£35,101
Average salary	£37,912	£38,223
% change on same period last year	-0.81 %
Average maximum salary	£41,419	£41,346
UK excluding London average salary	£35,272	£35,655
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
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JCL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing JCL across the South East 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 South East region.

JCL
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing JCL across the South East region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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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 South East region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Berkshire	+32	14	£39,417	-3.99 %
Buckinghamshire	+19	5	£47,750	+66.08 %
Hampshire	+6	5	£38,400	+2.64 %
Surrey	+37	2	-	-

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JCL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the South East 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 37 (84.09 %) DB2 2 34 (77.27 %) COBOL 2 34 (77.27 %) Mainframe 3 30 (68.18 %) CICS 4 22 (50.00 %) IBM 5 16 (36.36 %) Finance 6 14 (31.82 %) IBM Mainframe 7 13 (29.55 %) SQL 8 11 (25.00 %) Java 9 9 (20.45 %) UML 9 9 (20.45 %) Project Management 9 9 (20.45 %) VSAM 9 9 (20.45 %) Systems Analysis 10 8 (18.18 %) Data Management 11 7 (15.91 %) Data Modelling

11 7 (15.91 %) Banking 12 6 (13.64 %) Insurance 12 6 (13.64 %) System Testing 12 6 (13.64 %) MS Excel 12 6 (13.64 %) OO 13 5 (11.36 %) Service Management 13 5 (11.36 %) RDBMS 13 5 (11.36 %) Easytrieve 13 5 (11.36 %) MS Project 13 5 (11.36 %) J2EE 13 5 (11.36 %) MVS 14 4 (9.091 %) REXX 14 4 (9.091 %) zOS 14 4 (9.091 %) RAD 14 4 (9.091 %) SSADM

JCL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the South East 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 5 (11.36 %) J2EE 2 3 (6.818 %) XML 2 3 (6.818 %) XSLT 2 3 (6.818 %) Spring 2 3 (6.818 %) ISPF 2 3 (6.818 %) WebSphere 2 3 (6.818 %) .NET 3 1 (2.273 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 30 (68.18 %) CICS 2 3 (6.818 %) SAS
Applications 1 6 (13.64 %) MS Excel 2 5 (11.36 %) MS Project 3 3 (6.818 %) MS Visio 4 1 (2.273 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (2.273 %) VisionPLUS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 37 (84.09 %) DB2 2 5 (11.36 %) RDBMS 2 5 (11.36 %) Easytrieve 3 3 (6.818 %) Adabas 4 2 (4.545 %) IDMS 5 1 (2.273 %) SQL Server	General 1 16 (36.36 %) Finance 2 7 (15.91 %) Banking 3 6 (13.64 %) Insurance 4 3 (6.818 %) Health 5 2 (4.545 %) Pensions 6 1 (2.273 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 15 (34.09 %) Analyst 2 8 (18.18 %) Developer 3 7 (15.91 %) Systems Analyst 3 7 (15.91 %) Programmer 4 6 (13.64 %) Analyst Programmer 5 3 (6.818 %) Storage Analyst 5 3 (6.818 %) Senior Analyst 5 3 (6.818 %) Senior Developer 6 2 (4.545 %) Architect 6 2 (4.545 %) Technical Architect 6 2 (4.545 %) Consultant 6 2 (4.545 %) Systems Designer 6 2 (4.545 %) Support Analyst 6 2 (4.545 %) Mainframe Consultant 6 2 (4.545 %) Project Leader 6 2 (4.545 %) Technical Specialist 6 2 (4.545 %) Senior Systems Analyst 6 2 (4.545 %) Technical Project Leader 6 2 (4.545 %) Mainframe Developer 7 1 (2.273 %) Technical Lead	Miscellaneous 1 34 (77.27 %) Mainframe 2 14 (31.82 %) IBM Mainframe 3 9 (20.45 %) VSAM 4 2 (4.545 %) Management Information System 5 1 (2.273 %) PMI 5 1 (2.273 %) Data Conversion
Operating Systems 1 5 (11.36 %) MVS 2 4 (9.091 %) zOS 3 2 (4.545 %) Windows 4 1 (2.273 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (20.45 %) UML 1 9 (20.45 %) Project Management 1 9 (20.45 %) Systems Analysis 2 8 (18.18 %) Data Management 3 7 (15.91 %) Data Modelling 4 6 (13.64 %) OO 4 6 (13.64 %) System Testing 5 5 (11.36 %) Service Management 6 4 (9.091 %) Change Management 6 4 (9.091 %) Configuration Management 6 4 (9.091 %) RAD 6 4 (9.091 %) SSADM 6 4 (9.091 %) RUP 6 4 (9.091 %) Data Protection 7 3 (6.818 %) Test Management 7 3 (6.818 %) PRINCE2 7 3 (6.818 %) ITSM 7 3 (6.818 %) Migration 8 2 (4.545 %) GAP Analysis 8 2 (4.545 %) PRINCE
Programming Languages 1 34 (77.27 %) COBOL 2 13 (29.55 %) SQL 3 11 (25.00 %) Java 4 4 (9.091 %) REXX	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.545 %) QA
Systems Management 1 4 (9.091 %) AllFusion Endevor	Vendors 1 22 (50.00 %) IBM 2 4 (9.091 %) Popkin 3 3 (6.818 %) Oracle 3 3 (6.818 %) Microsoft 3 3 (6.818 %) CA 4 1 (2.273 %) Ab Initio 4 1 (2.273 %) Compuware