JCL Contracts in Cheshire

Job Control Language (JCL)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JCL 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.34% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £380 - -
25th Percentile £402 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 - -
75th Percentile £437 - -
90th Percentile £447 - -
North West median daily rate £402 - £400

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 133 129 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 29.62% 25.60% 35.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 103 146
10th Percentile £323 £311 £315
25th Percentile £358 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% -2.20% +23.15%
75th Percentile £500 £582 £575
90th Percentile £600 £610 £638
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile - - £25.93
25th Percentile - £41.25 £31.21
Median hourly rate £86.00 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.35% +6.25% +63.27%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile - - £60.60
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for JCL in Cheshire

JCL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for JCL in Cheshire

JCL
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the Cheshire 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
Knutsford - 6 £404 - 1
JCL
North West

JCL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 6 (100.00%) CICS
2 3 (50.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) DB2
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Easytrieve
2 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) SOAtest
General
1 5 (83.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) General Ledger
2 2 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Designer
1 2 (33.33%) Mainframe Designer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) J2EE
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 6 (100.00%) VSAM
2 2 (33.33%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (33.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) API Integration
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Batch Processing
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) User Stories
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) COBOL
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Ab Initio
1 2 (33.33%) Informatica
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) Parasoft