JCL Contracts in Scotland

Job Control Language (JCL)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 114 121 156
Rank change year-on-year +7 +35 +19
Contract jobs citing JCL 5 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.31% 0.32% 0.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.77% 1.04% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile - £440 £388
25th Percentile £506 - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% +55.30%
75th Percentile £519 - £542
90th Percentile - - £547
UK median daily rate £405 £431 £500
% change year-on-year -6.09% -13.75% +9.59%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 647 673 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.09% 30.32% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 442 730
10th Percentile £313 £369 £406
25th Percentile £408 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £485 £493
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -1.67% +3.84%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £557
90th Percentile £575 £655 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 14
10th Percentile - £29.60 £48.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £41.31 £52.50
Median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
Median % change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £67.27
90th Percentile £63.00 £62.50 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

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

JCL
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

JCL
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 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
Edinburgh +4 5 £513 +2.50%
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 3 (60.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) SNA
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 10g
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Mainframe Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Network Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (20.00%) z/OS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) zOS
2 1 (20.00%) Solaris
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Network Management
2 3 (60.00%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Tivoli NetView
2 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (20.00%) Commvault
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle