JCL Contracts in England

Job Control Language (JCL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 479 625
Rank change year-on-year +30 +146 +117
Contract jobs citing JCL 31 64 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.17% 0.046%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.38% 0.59% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 38 14
10th Percentile £325 £397 £316
25th Percentile £374 £415 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.16% -9.47% +2.70%
75th Percentile £465 £497 £528
90th Percentile £575 £588 £643
UK median daily rate £405 £431 £500
% change year-on-year -6.09% -13.75% +9.59%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,215 10,919 17,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.75% 29.34% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,685 7,932 13,006
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 439 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year - +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for JCL in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for JCL in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JCL in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JCL in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for JCL in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
North of England -11 16 £404 -6.16% 3
London +43 12 £400 -20.00% 8
Yorkshire -32 8 £531 +23.55% 3
North West - 8 £402 -
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JCL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (41.94%) CICS
2 7 (22.58%) SAS
3 3 (9.68%) WebSphere
4 2 (6.45%) Confluence
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.23%) AWS
1 1 (3.23%) Azure
1 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) DWDM
1 1 (3.23%) SNA
1 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (32.26%) DB2
2 3 (9.68%) Easytrieve
3 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
1 4 (12.90%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) Selenium
2 2 (6.45%) SOAtest
3 1 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) JUnit
3 1 (3.23%) Maven
3 1 (3.23%) Mockito
3 1 (3.23%) Postman
3 1 (3.23%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.23%) SoapUI
3 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.23%) Subversion
3 1 (3.23%) Xcode
3 1 (3.23%) XCTest
General
1 14 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 11 (35.48%) Banking
3 6 (19.35%) Finance
4 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.45%) General Ledger
5 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.45%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Electronics
6 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.23%) Marketing
6 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Programmer
1 10 (32.26%) Systems Programmer
1 10 (32.26%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 6 (19.35%) Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Mainframe Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Assembler Developer
4 2 (6.45%) COBOL Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Consultant
4 2 (6.45%) Designer
4 2 (6.45%) Mainframe Assembler Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Mainframe Designer
4 2 (6.45%) Senior
4 2 (6.45%) Test Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Tester
4 2 (6.45%) z/OS Specialist
5 1 (3.23%) Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (48.39%) ISPF
2 6 (19.35%) Web Services
3 3 (9.68%) J2EE
3 3 (9.68%) REST
4 2 (6.45%) EntireX
4 2 (6.45%) JSON
4 2 (6.45%) XML
5 1 (3.23%) Bootstrap
5 1 (3.23%) CSS
5 1 (3.23%) CSS3
5 1 (3.23%) Hibernate
5 1 (3.23%) HTML
5 1 (3.23%) HTML5
5 1 (3.23%) JPA
5 1 (3.23%) SOAP
5 1 (3.23%) Spring
5 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.23%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Spring MVC
5 1 (3.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 9 (29.03%) VSAM
3 4 (12.90%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.45%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.23%) LPAR
5 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 21 (67.74%) zOS
2 5 (16.13%) Unix
3 3 (9.68%) Linux
4 1 (3.23%) MVS
4 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (22.58%) Performance Monitoring
2 7 (22.58%) Risk Management
3 6 (19.35%) Migration
4 5 (16.13%) Agile
4 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
5 4 (12.90%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (12.90%) SDLC
6 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
6 3 (9.68%) Project Delivery
6 3 (9.68%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (9.68%) Service Delivery
6 3 (9.68%) Test Strategy
7 2 (6.45%) Code Quality
7 2 (6.45%) ETL
7 2 (6.45%) Impact Analysis
7 2 (6.45%) Performance Management
7 2 (6.45%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (6.45%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) REXX
2 14 (45.16%) Assembly Language
3 12 (38.71%) COBOL
4 9 (29.03%) CLIST
5 4 (12.90%) Java
6 2 (6.45%) C
6 2 (6.45%) HLASM
6 2 (6.45%) Natural
6 2 (6.45%) SQL
7 1 (3.23%) Groovy
7 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (45.16%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (6.45%) ACF2
2 2 (6.45%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (3.23%) Docker
3 1 (3.23%) Microcode
3 1 (3.23%) RACF
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) CA Endevor
2 1 (3.23%) Control-M
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 21 (67.74%) IBM
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Ab Initio
3 2 (6.45%) Fujitsu
3 2 (6.45%) Informatica
3 2 (6.45%) Parasoft
3 2 (6.45%) Software AG
4 1 (3.23%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.23%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) Splunk
4 1 (3.23%) Syncsort
4 1 (3.23%) webMethods