JCL Contracts in the North West

Job Control Language (JCL)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 - 157
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JCL 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% - 0.031%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.50% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £347 - -
25th Percentile £373 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - £400
75th Percentile £416 - -
90th Percentile £447 - -
England median daily rate £404 £430 £475
% change year-on-year -6.16% -9.47% +2.70%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 533 690 929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.31% 24.85% 29.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 517 700
10th Percentile £359 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £541 £542 £594
90th Percentile £625 £613 £651
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 32 14
10th Percentile £55.75 £41.25 £20.46
25th Percentile £65.25 £44.72 £37.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%
75th Percentile £86.00 £69.53 £51.93
90th Percentile £87.10 £80.15 £62.95
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year - +1.07% +23.68%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for JCL in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for JCL in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for JCL in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Cheshire - 6 £404 -
Manchester - 2 £349 -
JCL
England

JCL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (100.00%) CICS
2 3 (37.50%) WebSphere
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) DB2
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) Easytrieve
2 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) SOAtest
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 7 (87.50%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) General Ledger
3 2 (25.00%) Retail Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Designer
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Mainframe Designer
1 2 (25.00%) Mainframe Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Test Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Web Services
2 2 (25.00%) J2EE
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 7 (87.50%) VSAM
3 2 (25.00%) Mobile Payment
4 1 (12.50%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
1 3 (37.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) SDLC
2 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) API Integration
3 2 (25.00%) API Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Batch Processing
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 2 (25.00%) User Stories
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) COBOL
2 4 (50.00%) REXX
3 3 (37.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Ab Initio
1 2 (25.00%) Informatica
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) Parasoft
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft