JCL Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Job Control Language (JCL)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring JCL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JCL 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.63% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £262 - -
25th Percentile £268 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £283 - -
75th Percentile £293 - -
90th Percentile £297 - -
Wales median daily rate £283 - -

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 80 91 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 25.32% 24.46% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 51 75
10th Percentile £256 £168 £207
25th Percentile £363 £255 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% -22.73%
75th Percentile £503 £550 £551
90th Percentile £653 £575 £675
Wales median daily rate £455 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -9.00% +17.65% -22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 6
10th Percentile £24.27 £15.69 £23.63
25th Percentile £26.42 £20.12 £31.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.24 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +48.26% -60.90% +173.02%
75th Percentile £31.88 £22.82 £55.25
90th Percentile £33.00 £26.38 -
Wales median hourly rate £30.25 £20.24 £51.75
% change year-on-year +49.49% -60.90% +173.02%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JCL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

JCL job vacancy trend in South Wales

JCL
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing JCL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing JCL

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Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing JCL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing JCL

JCL
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
Cardiff - 2 £283 - 1
JCL
Wales

JCL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operator
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Scheduling
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Break/Fix
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Korn
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) BMC
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) BT
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Focus
2 1 (50.00%) Xerox