Job Entry Subsystem Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Job Entry Subsystem (JES2, JES3)
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 131 -
Rank change year-on-year -31 - -
Contract jobs citing Job Entry Subsystem 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.033% 0.15% -
As % of the System Software category 0.21% 1.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £429 -
25th Percentile £488 £455 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% - -
75th Percentile £505 £506 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £511 £469 -
% change year-on-year +8.96% - -

All System Software Skills
Midlands

Job Entry Subsystem falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 474 311 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.73% 11.62% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 208 287
10th Percentile £200 £174 £163
25th Percentile £325 £312 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +15.15% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £530
90th Percentile £654 £667 £675
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 18
10th Percentile £22.55 £19.15 £15.35
25th Percentile - £20.63 £17.56
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.20 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.93% +30.81% +19.35%
75th Percentile £26.00 £29.53 £23.17
90th Percentile £45.35 £32.06 £28.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -40.00% +14.05% +80.78%

Job Entry Subsystem
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Job Entry Subsystem relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job Entry Subsystem job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Job Entry Subsystem
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Job Entry Subsystem.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Job Entry Subsystem

Job Entry Subsystem
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 Job Entry Subsystem within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 November 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 -16 1 £497 +1.85%
Job Entry Subsystem
England

Job Entry Subsystem
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk