JCL Contracts in Sheffield

Job Control Language (JCL)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 23 49
Rank change year-on-year -18 +26 +6
Contract jobs citing JCL 8 38 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.25% 9.67% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.93% 24.84% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 23 2
10th Percentile £410 £402 -
25th Percentile £425 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -9.47% +19.50%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £488
90th Percentile £490 £588 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £430 £475
% change year-on-year +22.09% -9.47% +19.50%

All Programming Languages
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 135 153 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 37.92% 38.93% 28.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 97 81
10th Percentile £350 £400 £388
25th Percentile £397 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -19.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £700
90th Percentile £650 £623 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £511 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +7.63% -20.83% +20.00%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for JCL in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for JCL in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (37.50%) CICS
1 3 (37.50%) CMS
2 2 (25.00%) SAS
3 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) VisionPLUS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Billing
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Programmer
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Programmer
2 2 (25.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) CMS Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (37.50%) VSAM
3 2 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (12.50%) LPAR
4 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Batch Scheduling
4 1 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Hardware Maintenance
4 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Project Governance
4 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) REXX
2 3 (37.50%) CLIST
2 3 (37.50%) COBOL
3 2 (25.00%) Assembly Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (12.50%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (12.50%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) IBM