JCL Contracts in London

Job Control Language (JCL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 385 484
Rank change year-on-year +43 +99 +95
Contract jobs citing JCL 12 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.096% 0.022% 0.048%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.24% 0.062% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 6
10th Percentile £325 - £463
25th Percentile £353 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -2.44% +1.49%
75th Percentile £465 - £632
90th Percentile £548 - £707
England median daily rate £404 £430 £475
% change year-on-year -6.16% -9.47% +2.70%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,954 6,422 11,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.46% 35.99% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,477 4,902 8,207
10th Percentile £380 £380 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £711 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 56 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.55
25th Percentile £35.00 £35.19 £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.44% -12.61% +15.00%
75th Percentile £61.13 £61.94 £75.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.94 £83.45
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year - +1.07% +23.68%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for JCL in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for JCL in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JCL in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JCL in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JCL in London.

Hourly rate trend for JCL in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Central London - 4 £363 - 1
JCL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (33.33%) CICS
1 4 (33.33%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) DB2
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) JUnit
1 1 (8.33%) Maven
1 1 (8.33%) Mockito
1 1 (8.33%) Postman
1 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
1 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
1 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
1 1 (8.33%) Subversion
1 1 (8.33%) Xcode
1 1 (8.33%) XCTest
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Programmer
1 6 (50.00%) Systems Programmer
1 6 (50.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) COBOL Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Mainframe Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Assembler Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Mainframe Assembler Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) ISPF
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) Bootstrap
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) CSS3
2 1 (8.33%) EntireX
2 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) HTML5
2 1 (8.33%) J2EE
2 1 (8.33%) JPA
2 1 (8.33%) Material-UI
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Spring MVC
2 1 (8.33%) Swagger
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (8.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) zOS
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) MVS
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (8.33%) Agile
2 1 (8.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (8.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (8.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (8.33%) Migration
2 1 (8.33%) Multithreading
2 1 (8.33%) MVC
2 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (8.33%) Security Management
2 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (8.33%) TDD
2 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Assembly Language
1 8 (66.67%) REXX
2 4 (33.33%) CLIST
3 3 (25.00%) COBOL
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) C
5 1 (8.33%) Groovy
5 1 (8.33%) HLASM
5 1 (8.33%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.33%) Natural
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (8.33%) ACF2
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (8.33%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (8.33%) Fujitsu
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Software AG
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) Syncsort