PL/1 Contracts in England

PL/1
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring PL/1 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PL/1 over the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 532 -
Rank change year-on-year +21 - -
Contract jobs citing PL/1 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.015% 0.003% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.044% 0.009% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £456 - -
25th Percentile £466 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £551 - -
UK median daily rate £513 £538 -
% change year-on-year -4.65% - -

All Programming Languages
England

PL/1 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 9,039 10,858 15,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.97% 31.28% 33.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,232 7,823 11,330
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -0.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £651 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 392 400
10th Percentile £29.07 £33.16 £29.71
25th Percentile £38.38 £52.50 £48.53
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £83.58 £77.50 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £56.38 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.27% +4.00% +15.74%

PL/1
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing PL/1 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PL/1 in England

PL/1
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PL/1 in England.

Daily rate trend for PL/1 in England

PL/1
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PL/1 in England.

Hourly rate trend for PL/1 in England

PL/1
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 PL/1 within the England region over the 6 months to 25 July 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
London - 2 £506 - 3
North West - 2 £551 - 4
North of England - 2 £551 - 4
PL/1
UK

PL/1
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 1 (25.00%) CICS
1 1 (25.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) DB2
2 2 (50.00%) IMS/DB
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity and Performance Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) CICS Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) CICS Systems Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Performance Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) MVS
1 2 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Mapping
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Sharing
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Assembly Language
1 2 (50.00%) JCL
1 2 (50.00%) REXX
2 1 (25.00%) COBOL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (25.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) CA Endevor
2 1 (25.00%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) Syncsort