JCL Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Job Control Language (JCL)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring JCL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 44 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing JCL 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.17% 0.44% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.58% 1.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - - -

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 173 120 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 29.78% 26.32% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 47 102
10th Percentile £425 £320 £400
25th Percentile £463 £354 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £663 £534 £675
90th Percentile £713 £610 £712
East of England median daily rate £500 £416 £475
% change year-on-year +20.12% -12.37% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 33 90
10th Percentile £52.00 £62.50 -
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £71.25 £84.36
90th Percentile £75.00 £95.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - -0.76% +9.17%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JCL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

JCL job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

JCL
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing JCL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing JCL

JCL
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 November 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
Welwyn Garden City - 1 - -
JCL
East of England

JCL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) CLIST
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) zSecure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM