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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 475 617
Rank change year-on-year +36 +142 +129
Contract jobs citing JCL 39 68 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.18% 0.045%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.47% 0.60% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 46 13
10th Percentile £330 £375 £405
25th Percentile £356 £408 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.51% -9.47% +5.56%
75th Percentile £465 £495 £538
90th Percentile £556 £588 £650
UK median daily rate £402 £430 £513
% change year-on-year -6.51% -16.10% +13.89%

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 8,279 11,241 16,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.96% 30.23% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,728 8,077 11,879
10th Percentile £358 £350 £381
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £540 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -4.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £693
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 475 398
10th Percentile £28.27 £35.52 £29.13
25th Percentile £36.13 £49.25 £50.11
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.80 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -9.20% - +20.77%

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

JCL
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 9 June 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 9 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
North of England -16 21 £402 -6.51% 3
London +61 13 £400 -11.11% 11
Yorkshire -26 11 £513 +19.19% 2
North West - 10 £390 - 1
Midlands +10 3 £340 -30.26% 2
East Midlands +8 3 £340 -30.26% 1
JCL
UK

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 20 (51.28%) CICS
2 7 (17.95%) SAS
3 4 (10.26%) CMS
4 3 (7.69%) WebSphere
5 2 (5.13%) Confluence
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) AWS
2 2 (5.13%) Azure
3 1 (2.56%) GCP
3 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) DWDM
1 1 (2.56%) SNA
1 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.90%) DB2
2 4 (10.26%) Easytrieve
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle Database
4 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.13%) Hadoop
4 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.82%) Selenium
3 4 (10.26%) Git
3 4 (10.26%) JIRA
3 4 (10.26%) Maven
4 3 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 3 (7.69%) Eclipse
4 3 (7.69%) IntelliJ
4 3 (7.69%) REST Assured
5 2 (5.13%) SOAtest
6 1 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.56%) JUnit
6 1 (2.56%) Mockito
6 1 (2.56%) Postman
6 1 (2.56%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.56%) Subversion
6 1 (2.56%) Xcode
6 1 (2.56%) XCTest
General
1 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 14 (35.90%) Banking
3 8 (20.51%) Finance
4 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Legal
4 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.69%) Retail Banking
5 2 (5.13%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.56%) Billing
6 1 (2.56%) Electronics
6 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.56%) Marketing
6 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Developer
1 10 (25.64%) Programmer
1 10 (25.64%) Systems Programmer
1 10 (25.64%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 5 (12.82%) Mainframe Developer
2 5 (12.82%) Tester
3 3 (7.69%) Architect
3 3 (7.69%) Automation Tester
3 3 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (5.13%) Assembler Developer
4 2 (5.13%) COBOL Developer
4 2 (5.13%) Consultant
4 2 (5.13%) Designer
4 2 (5.13%) Mainframe Architect
4 2 (5.13%) Mainframe Assembler Developer
4 2 (5.13%) Mainframe Designer
4 2 (5.13%) Mainframe Tester
4 2 (5.13%) Test Architect
4 2 (5.13%) z/OS Specialist
5 1 (2.56%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (38.46%) ISPF
2 6 (15.38%) Web Services
3 3 (7.69%) J2EE
3 3 (7.69%) REST
4 2 (5.13%) EntireX
4 2 (5.13%) JSON
4 2 (5.13%) XML
5 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.56%) Bootstrap
5 1 (2.56%) CSS3
5 1 (2.56%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.56%) HTML
5 1 (2.56%) JPA
5 1 (2.56%) Kafka
5 1 (2.56%) Material-UI
5 1 (2.56%) Spring
5 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.56%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Spring MVC
5 1 (2.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 39 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 16 (41.03%) VSAM
3 4 (10.26%) IBM Mainframe
4 3 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.13%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.56%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.56%) LPAR
6 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 22 (56.41%) zOS
2 5 (12.82%) Unix
3 3 (7.69%) Linux
4 1 (2.56%) MVS
4 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (25.64%) Risk Management
3 8 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (20.51%) DevOps
3 8 (20.51%) SDLC
3 8 (20.51%) Test Automation
4 7 (17.95%) Migration
4 7 (17.95%) Performance Monitoring
5 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (15.38%) Test Strategy
6 5 (12.82%) Agile
6 5 (12.82%) Code Quality
6 5 (12.82%) Scenario Testing
7 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
7 4 (10.26%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (10.26%) Software Testing
8 3 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (7.69%) Service Delivery
8 3 (7.69%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 21 (53.85%) REXX
2 20 (51.28%) COBOL
3 14 (35.90%) Assembly Language
4 9 (23.08%) CLIST
5 7 (17.95%) Java
6 5 (12.82%) SQL
7 2 (5.13%) C
7 2 (5.13%) HLASM
7 2 (5.13%) Natural
8 1 (2.56%) Groovy
8 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (35.90%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (5.13%) ACF2
2 2 (5.13%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (2.56%) Docker
3 1 (2.56%) Microcode
3 1 (2.56%) RACF
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (2.56%) Ansible
2 1 (2.56%) CA Endevor
2 1 (2.56%) Control-M
2 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 21 (53.85%) IBM
2 5 (12.82%) Oracle
3 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.13%) Ab Initio
4 2 (5.13%) Fujitsu
4 2 (5.13%) Informatica
4 2 (5.13%) Parasoft
4 2 (5.13%) Software AG
5 1 (2.56%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.56%) SAP
5 1 (2.56%) Splunk
5 1 (2.56%) Syncsort
5 1 (2.56%) webMethods