JCL Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Job Control Language (JCL)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring JCL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JCL 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.65% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £280 - -
25th Percentile £302 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - -
75th Percentile £347 - -
90th Percentile £417 - -
North West median daily rate £340 - -

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 285 291 486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 26.61% 24.83% 30.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 193 394
10th Percentile £313 £350 £325
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £494
Median % change year-on-year - -8.86% -5.95%
75th Percentile £541 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £611 £675
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 10
10th Percentile £32.25 £63.75 £55.88
25th Percentile £46.41 £65.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £69.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +6.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82.50 £93.63 £76.56
90th Percentile £90.00 £100.00 £79.13
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £50.13 £46.18
% change year-on-year +48.15% +8.54% -20.31%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

JCL job vacancy trend in Manchester

JCL
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing JCL

JCL
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JCL in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JCL in Manchester

JCL
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing JCL

JCL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 6 (85.71%) CICS
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 6 (85.71%) VSAM
3 5 (71.43%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Platform Engineering
1 6 (85.71%) Problem Management
1 6 (85.71%) SDLC
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (71.43%) Release Management
3 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
3 4 (57.14%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) CLIST
1 7 (100.00%) REXX
2 2 (28.57%) COBOL
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (14.29%) ACF2
2 1 (14.29%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) CA Endevor
1 6 (85.71%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft