JCL Contract Job Trends in the Home Counties

Job Control Language (JCL)
South East > Home Counties

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Home Counties requiring JCL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JCL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Home Counties 7.14% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - - £398

All Programming Languages
Home Counties

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 the Home Counties.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 14.29% 14.29% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -56.82%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -2.38%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

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

JCL job vacancy trend in the Home Counties

JCL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Home Counties 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM