JCL Contracts in Scotland

Job Control Language (JCL)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 160 167
Rank change year-on-year +39 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing JCL 7 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.32% 0.25% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.07% 0.72% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile £440 £388 £326
25th Percentile - £419 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £335
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +53.10% -
75th Percentile - £542 £339
90th Percentile - £547 £339
UK median daily rate £430 £500 £456
% change year-on-year -14.00% +9.59% +9.94%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 654 976 963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 29.89% 34.75% 27.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 710 660
10th Percentile £363 £407 £363
25th Percentile £415 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% +4.11% +11.76%
75th Percentile £576 £562 £550
90th Percentile £650 £673 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.43 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £51.25 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +25.60% +8.05%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.75 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.28 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.20% +20.55% +14.94%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for JCL in Scotland

JCL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for JCL in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for JCL in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Edinburgh +41 7 £500 -2.44%
JCL
UK

JCL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (28.57%) SAS
2 1 (14.29%) CICS
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) z/OS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 6 (85.71%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Workflow
2 2 (28.57%) Capacity Management
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) REXX
2 2 (28.57%) Assembly Language
3 1 (14.29%) COBOL
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (28.57%) ACF2
2 2 (28.57%) RACF
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) BMC
1 6 (85.71%) Broadcom
1 6 (85.71%) IBM