JCL Contracts in the East Midlands

Job Control Language (JCL)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 66 80
Rank change year-on-year +9 +14 +16
Contract jobs citing JCL 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.46% 0.47% 0.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.63% 1.80% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - £429 -
25th Percentile - £455 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £488 £325
Median % change year-on-year -30.26% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £345 £506 £338
90th Percentile £348 - -
England median daily rate £402 £430 £475
% change year-on-year -6.51% -9.47% +5.56%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 184 222 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.40% 26.21% 30.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 154 257
10th Percentile £269 £279 £306
25th Percentile £348 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £445
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -4.49% +1.71%
75th Percentile £475 £542 £538
90th Percentile £534 £600 £670
England median daily rate £523 £540 £563
% change year-on-year -3.15% -4.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 8
10th Percentile £18.26 £14.15 £21.91
25th Percentile £18.35 £21.92 £26.48
Median hourly rate £19.00 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -50.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £21.25 £28.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £22.30 £40.33 £59.50
England median hourly rate £60.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -2.80% - +19.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing JCL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for JCL in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JCL in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for JCL in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JCL in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for JCL in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Northamptonshire - 3 £340 - 2
JCL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 3 (100.00%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (100.00%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) COBOL
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft