JCL Contracts in Central London

Job Control Language (JCL)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring JCL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JCL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 - 171
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs citing JCL 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.20% - 0.026%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.52% - 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +125.81%
75th Percentile £389 - £750
90th Percentile £393 - -
London median daily rate £400 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -20.00% -2.44% +1.49%

All Programming Languages
Central London

JCL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 773 833 1,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.71% 34.06% 42.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 608 1,091
10th Percentile £409 £412 £420
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £620
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -8.87% +3.33%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
London median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for JCL in Central London

JCL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JCL in Central London.

Daily rate trend for JCL in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JCL in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for JCL in Central London

JCL
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 3 £350 - 1
JCL
London

JCL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (75.00%) CICS
2 1 (25.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Mockito
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
1 1 (25.00%) Xcode
1 1 (25.00%) XCTest
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Programmer
1 3 (75.00%) Systems Programmer
1 3 (75.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) COBOL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) ISPF
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) JPA
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Material-UI
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) zOS
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) REXX
2 1 (25.00%) Assembly Language
2 1 (25.00%) CLIST
2 1 (25.00%) COBOL
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk