JCL Contract Job Trends in London

Job Control Language (JCL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring JCL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 372 432
Rank change year-on-year +17 +60 +139
Contract jobs citing JCL 6 16 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.045% 0.10% 0.019%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.12% 0.25% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 3
10th Percentile £335 - -
25th Percentile £349 £375 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £563 £495 £488
90th Percentile £630 £498 -
England median daily rate £402 £458 £475
% change year-on-year -12.13% -3.68% +5.44%

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 5,160 6,328 7,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.52% 39.57% 37.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,502 4,407 5,890
10th Percentile £375 £370 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% -
75th Percentile £676 £700 £713
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 45 71
10th Percentile £25.58 £27.79 £25.75
25th Percentile £33.06 £38.50 £40.33
Median hourly rate £44.20 £49.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -13.91% +1.10%
75th Percentile £63.38 £71.88 £69.38
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +4.17%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

JCL job vacancy trend in London

JCL
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JCL

JCL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JCL in London over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JCL in London

JCL
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JCL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JCL

JCL
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 14 October 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 +7 1 £350 -
JCL
England

JCL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Mockito
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
1 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
1 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
1 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
1 1 (16.67%) Xcode
1 1 (16.67%) XCTest
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Programmer
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) COBOL Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) DB2 Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) DB2 Systems Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) Bootstrap
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) CSS3
1 1 (16.67%) EntireX
1 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) HTML5
1 1 (16.67%) ISPF
1 1 (16.67%) J2EE
1 1 (16.67%) JPA
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Material-UI
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 1 (16.67%) Spring MVC
1 1 (16.67%) Swagger
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) zOS
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
2 1 (16.67%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
2 1 (16.67%) Concurrent Programming
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Data Sharing
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Runbook
2 1 (16.67%) SDLC
2 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Static Code Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) COBOL
2 1 (16.67%) Assembly Language
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) Groovy
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Natural
2 1 (16.67%) REXX
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Control-M
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) Fujitsu
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Software AG
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk