JCL Contracts in the North of England

Job Control Language (JCL)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 154 193
Rank change year-on-year +11 +39 +57
Contract jobs citing JCL 31 11 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.78% 0.27% 0.095%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.83% 1.08% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 5 5
10th Percentile £313 £389 £425
25th Percentile £340 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% - +19.50%
75th Percentile £475 £588 £488
90th Percentile £519 - £548
England median daily rate £402 £474 £475
% change year-on-year -15.10% -0.32% +5.56%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,095 1,014 1,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.65% 24.61% 26.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 788 718 999
10th Percentile £314 £349 £363
25th Percentile £380 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -4.88% +0.49%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £625
90th Percentile £600 £638 £675
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 37
10th Percentile £29.28 £37.50 £28.84
25th Percentile £36.82 £41.86 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +19.10% +32.89%
75th Percentile £87.69 £71.69 £50.25
90th Percentile £95.36 £83.00 £64.25
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for JCL in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JCL in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for JCL in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JCL in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JCL in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JCL in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for JCL in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 August 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
Yorkshire -7 16 £500 +5.26% 7
North West - 15 £380 - 1
JCL
England

JCL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 20 (64.52%) CICS
2 6 (19.35%) CMS
3 3 (9.68%) WebSphere
4 2 (6.45%) Confluence
4 2 (6.45%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (19.35%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) AWS
2 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) DWDM
1 1 (3.23%) SNA
1 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (38.71%) DB2
2 4 (12.90%) Easytrieve
3 2 (6.45%) Adabas
3 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
3 2 (6.45%) IMS/DB
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.90%) Selenium
3 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.45%) Eclipse
3 2 (6.45%) Git
3 2 (6.45%) IntelliJ
3 2 (6.45%) JIRA
3 2 (6.45%) Maven
3 2 (6.45%) REST Assured
3 2 (6.45%) SOAtest
General
1 11 (35.48%) Banking
2 8 (25.81%) Finance
3 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Legal
4 4 (12.90%) Retail Banking
5 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.45%) General Ledger
7 1 (3.23%) Billing
7 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Developer
2 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Tester
4 3 (9.68%) Mainframe Developer
4 3 (9.68%) z/OS Specialist
5 2 (6.45%) Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Automation Tester
5 2 (6.45%) COBOL Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Designer
5 2 (6.45%) Mainframe Designer
5 2 (6.45%) Mainframe Tester
5 2 (6.45%) Programmer
5 2 (6.45%) Systems Programmer
5 2 (6.45%) Test Architect
5 2 (6.45%) z/OS Systems Programmer
6 1 (3.23%) Adabas Natural Developer
6 1 (3.23%) CMS Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Mainframe Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Storage Specialist
6 1 (3.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) ISPF
2 5 (16.13%) Web Services
3 2 (6.45%) J2EE
3 2 (6.45%) JSON
3 2 (6.45%) REST
3 2 (6.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (96.77%) Mainframe
2 19 (61.29%) VSAM
3 9 (29.03%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.45%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.23%) LPAR
5 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.23%) Replication
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (45.16%) zOS
2 4 (12.90%) Unix
3 2 (6.45%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) DevOps
1 13 (41.94%) SDLC
2 10 (32.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (22.58%) Migration
3 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (19.35%) Risk Management
4 6 (19.35%) Test Automation
5 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (16.13%) Problem Management
5 5 (16.13%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (12.90%) Release Management
6 4 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (12.90%) Test Strategy
7 3 (9.68%) Agile
7 3 (9.68%) Configuration Management
7 3 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (9.68%) High Availability
7 3 (9.68%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) COBOL
2 14 (45.16%) REXX
3 8 (25.81%) CLIST
4 5 (16.13%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) Natural
5 2 (6.45%) PL/1
5 2 (6.45%) SQL
6 1 (3.23%) Assembly Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (32.26%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (6.45%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (3.23%) Microcode
3 1 (3.23%) RACF
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) CA Endevor
1 6 (19.35%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) Control-M
2 1 (3.23%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 15 (48.39%) IBM
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Ab Initio
3 2 (6.45%) Informatica
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.45%) Parasoft
3 2 (6.45%) Syncsort
4 1 (3.23%) Dell