JCL Contracts in the Midlands

Job Control Language (JCL)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 135 154
Rank change year-on-year +12 +19 +54
Contract jobs citing JCL 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.14% 0.13% 0.031%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.51% 0.59% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - £429 -
25th Percentile - £455 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £488 £325
Median % change year-on-year -30.26% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £345 £506 £338
90th Percentile £348 - -
England median daily rate £401 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -15.58% - +5.56%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 591 682 842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 26.94% 22.81% 25.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 474 612
10th Percentile £269 £260 £310
25th Percentile £363 £350 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -5.26% +2.15%
75th Percentile £515 £550 £575
90th Percentile £613 £635 £699
England median daily rate £523 £538 £560
% change year-on-year -2.88% -3.93% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 16
10th Percentile £18.55 £22.50 £23.61
25th Percentile £28.18 £30.37 £26.02
Median hourly rate £33.91 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.35% +10.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £58.75
90th Percentile - £72.50 £83.75
England median hourly rate £56.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -9.20% - +19.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for JCL in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for JCL in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for JCL in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 June 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
East Midlands +9 3 £340 -30.26% 11
JCL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 3 (100.00%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (100.00%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) COBOL
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft