JCL Contracts in the City of London

Job Control Language (JCL)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 - 173
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing JCL 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% - 0.027%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.42% - 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +125.81%
75th Percentile £381 - £750
90th Percentile £385 - -
Central London median daily rate £363 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +125.81%

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 712 747 1,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.55% 34.23% 43.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 532 1,023
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £464 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £695 £688 £738
90th Percentile £794 £799 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £563 £623
% change year-on-year +2.22% -9.64% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% -4.96%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for JCL in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JCL in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for JCL in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JCL in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for JCL in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (100.00%) CICS
2 1 (33.33%) SAS
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Programmer
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Programmer
1 3 (100.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) REXX
2 1 (33.33%) Assembly Language
2 1 (33.33%) CLIST
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM