JCL Contracts in Manchester

Job Control Language (JCL)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - 117
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JCL 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.22% - 0.053%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.66% - 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £326 - -
25th Percentile £335 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £349 - £400
75th Percentile £364 - -
90th Percentile £372 - -
North West median daily rate £402 - £400

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 303 450 570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 32.72% 29.66% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 355 442
10th Percentile £375 £343 £339
25th Percentile £400 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £600
90th Percentile £622 £620 £675
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 5
10th Percentile £68.38 - £39.10
25th Percentile £69.69 £52.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.25 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% +55.56% +192.87%
75th Percentile £84.69 £81.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.13 £82.90 £59.10
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for JCL in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for JCL in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for JCL in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) CICS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (50.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
1 1 (50.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft