JCL Contracts in England

Job Control Language (JCL)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for JCL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JCL over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 474 632 744
Rank change year-on-year +158 +112 -143
Contract jobs citing JCL 64 23 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.046% 0.056%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.59% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 14 9
10th Percentile £397 £316 £304
25th Percentile £415 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +2.70% +56.78%
75th Percentile £497 £528 £525
90th Percentile £588 £643 £680
UK median daily rate £431 £500 £456
% change year-on-year -13.75% +9.59% +21.67%

All Programming Languages
England

JCL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,824 17,812 26,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.29% 36.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,862 13,006 19,290
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 430 454
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.24 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.25%

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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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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 +84 55 £430 -9.47% 1
Yorkshire +76 55 £430 -9.47%
London +98 4 £500 -2.44% 3
South East +21 2 £375 -36.17%
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UK

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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 21 (32.81%) SAS
2 4 (6.25%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (3.13%) Azure
3 1 (1.56%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.06%) DWDM
2 1 (1.56%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) DB2
2 2 (3.13%) IDMS
2 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 43 (67.19%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.13%) Finance
2 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.56%) Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (32.81%) Programmer
2 20 (31.25%) Systems Programmer
2 20 (31.25%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 16 (25.00%) Storage Manager
4 5 (7.81%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (7.81%) z/OS Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Hardware Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) z/OS Specialist
6 3 (4.69%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Consultant
7 2 (3.13%) Hardware Specialist
7 2 (3.13%) IBM Storage Specialist
7 2 (3.13%) Mainframe Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Storage Specialist
7 2 (3.13%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Test Architect
8 1 (1.56%) Backend Developer
8 1 (1.56%) Technical Test Manager
8 1 (1.56%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (62.50%) ISPF
2 16 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (67.19%) Mainframe
2 15 (23.44%) Data Centre
3 13 (20.31%) LPAR
4 3 (4.69%) VSAM
5 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.56%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 60 (93.75%) zOS
2 19 (29.69%) Linux
3 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (51.56%) Risk Management
2 22 (34.38%) Performance Monitoring
3 21 (32.81%) Storage Management
4 19 (29.69%) Agile
4 19 (29.69%) Problem Management
5 15 (23.44%) Project Management
6 13 (20.31%) Cost Management
6 13 (20.31%) Software Testing
6 13 (20.31%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (4.69%) Requirements Gathering
8 2 (3.13%) Batch Processing
8 2 (3.13%) End-to-End Testing
8 2 (3.13%) Migration
8 2 (3.13%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (3.13%) System Testing
8 2 (3.13%) Test Automation
9 1 (1.56%) Data Protection
9 1 (1.56%) Product Vision
9 1 (1.56%) Reverse Engineering
9 1 (1.56%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 48 (75.00%) REXX
2 19 (29.69%) Assembly Language
3 16 (25.00%) Python
4 11 (17.19%) CLIST
5 4 (6.25%) COBOL
6 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 58 (90.63%) Time Sharing Option
2 19 (29.69%) NFS
3 15 (23.44%) ACF2
3 15 (23.44%) RACF
4 13 (20.31%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 13 (20.31%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 21 (32.81%) OMEGAMON
2 18 (28.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 16 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (1.56%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 62 (96.88%) IBM
2 40 (62.50%) Broadcom
3 24 (37.50%) CA
4 20 (31.25%) Dell
5 19 (29.69%) Brocade
5 19 (29.69%) Splunk
6 3 (4.69%) Microsoft