JCL Contracts in Lancashire

Job Control Language (JCL)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JCL 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.03% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 - -
75th Percentile £551 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £368 - £400

All Programming Languages
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 19 35 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 9.74% 15.09% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 17
10th Percentile £428 - £348
25th Percentile £466 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £608 £544 £560
90th Percentile £615 £650 £615
North West median daily rate £438 £475 £520
% change year-on-year -7.89% -8.65% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 15
10th Percentile - £37.55 £37.77
25th Percentile - £37.63 £41.98
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - - +77.62%
75th Percentile - £48.00 £51.62
90th Percentile - £51.70 £57.06
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +27.27% +19.10% +22.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings citing JCL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for JCL in Lancashire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JCL in Lancashire.

Daily rate trend for JCL in Lancashire

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Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Blackpool - 1 - - 1
Lytham St Annes - 1 £551 - 2
JCL
North West

JCL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) IMS/DB
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PL/1
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Syncsort