Job Control Language (JCL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for JCL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited JCL over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 861 943 1205
Rank change year-on-year +82 +262 -305
Permanent jobs citing JCL 24 43 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.041% 0.011%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.072% 0.095% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 6 19 11
10th Percentile - £59,444 £50,000
25th Percentile £68,000 £61,180 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £74,000 £72,607 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,000 £77,715 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,000 £69,447 £67,000
% change year-on-year +2.24% +3.65% -

All Programming Languages
UK

JCL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,221 45,157 83,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.78% 43.42% 53.83%
Number of salaries quoted 25,021 28,803 44,133
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -2.73% +2.33% +7.50%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JCL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JCL in the UK

JCL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JCL.

Salary trend for JCL in the UK

JCL
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -1 21 £71,000 +2.24% 2
England +86 12 £71,000 +9.23% 6
Scotland -43 12 £71,991 - 1
North of England +31 9 £71,000 +2.24% 1
Work from Home +76 7 £71,000 +2.24% 1
Yorkshire - 6 - -
London +118 3 £75,000 +15.38% 3
North West +1 3 £71,000 +2.24% 1

JCL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (58.33%) CICS
2 3 (12.50%) SAS
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) GCP
2 1 (4.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (62.50%) DB2
2 3 (12.50%) Easytrieve
3 1 (4.17%) Big Data
3 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) ChangeMan
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (50.00%) Finance
2 11 (45.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (45.83%) Law
2 11 (45.83%) Marketing
3 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Mainframe Software Engineer
1 12 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) DB2 DBA
2 3 (12.50%) DBA
2 3 (12.50%) Programmer
2 3 (12.50%) Systems Programmer
2 3 (12.50%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 1 (4.17%) Analyst
3 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
3 1 (4.17%) IBM Storage Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) IBM Storage Specialist
3 1 (4.17%) Mainframe Analyst
3 1 (4.17%) Mainframe Support
3 1 (4.17%) Remote Support Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Storage Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Storage Specialist
3 1 (4.17%) Support Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) ISPF
2 3 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) RESTful
3 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (75.00%) Mainframe
2 14 (58.33%) VSAM
3 11 (45.83%) Reference Data
4 3 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (4.17%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) zOS
2 4 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Agile
2 12 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 11 (45.83%) Artificial Intelligence
3 11 (45.83%) CI/CD
3 11 (45.83%) Decision-Making
3 11 (45.83%) Machine Learning
3 11 (45.83%) Operational Stability
3 11 (45.83%) SDLC
4 7 (29.17%) Performance Monitoring
5 5 (20.83%) Risk Management
6 4 (16.67%) Project Management
7 3 (12.50%) Business Strategy
7 3 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (12.50%) Change Management
7 3 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (12.50%) Problem Management
7 3 (12.50%) Storage Management
7 3 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (8.33%) Cost Management
8 2 (8.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) COBOL
2 11 (45.83%) Java
3 9 (37.50%) REXX
4 3 (12.50%) Assembly Language
4 3 (12.50%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) CLIST
5 1 (4.17%) Python
5 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 22 (91.67%) Time Sharing Option
2 6 (25.00%) RACF
3 3 (12.50%) ACF2
3 3 (12.50%) NFS
4 1 (4.17%) Docker
4 1 (4.17%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (4.17%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (12.50%) MAINVIEW
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) CA Endevor
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) IBM
2 11 (45.83%) Oracle
3 7 (29.17%) Broadcom
4 4 (16.67%) CA
4 4 (16.67%) Splunk
5 3 (12.50%) BMC
5 3 (12.50%) Brocade
5 3 (12.50%) Dell
6 1 (4.17%) Google