JCL Contracts in Northern Ireland

Job Control Language (JCL)
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for JCL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JCL over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JCL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.68% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK median daily rate £431 £500 £469
% change year-on-year -13.75% +6.67% +29.31%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

JCL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 35 59 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 23.65% 29.35% 36.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 37 40
10th Percentile £318 - £346
25th Percentile £375 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -7.22% +12.53%
75th Percentile £500 £535 £500
90th Percentile £553 £620 £551
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £19.02 - -
25th Percentile £23.37 £13.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £13.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +131.48% -28.95% -
75th Percentile £31.88 £13.75 £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £61.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% +22.35% +14.94%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing JCL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for JCL in Northern Ireland

JCL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JCL in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for JCL in Northern Ireland

JCL
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
County Antrim - 1 £500 -
JCL
UK

JCL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (100.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) IDMS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Test Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM