JCL Contracts in South Yorkshire

Job Control Language (JCL)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 16 54
Rank change year-on-year -28 +38 +6
Contract jobs citing JCL 10 55 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.46% 11.60% 0.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.58% 31.43% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 35 2
10th Percentile £430 £403 -
25th Percentile £475 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -9.47% +19.50%
75th Percentile £579 £488 £488
90th Percentile £592 £588 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £430 £475
% change year-on-year +19.19% -9.47% +19.50%

All Programming Languages
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 152 175 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 37.35% 36.92% 25.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 112 89
10th Percentile £354 £400 £354
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.63% -20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £700
90th Percentile £650 £622 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +10.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for JCL in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for JCL in South Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JCL in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JCL in South Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Sheffield -22 8 £450 +4.65% 4
Barnsley -1 1 £565 +36.14%
JCL
Yorkshire

JCL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (30.00%) CICS
1 3 (30.00%) CMS
1 3 (30.00%) SAS
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) VisionPLUS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Easytrieve
2 1 (10.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Billing
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Programmer
1 3 (30.00%) Systems Programmer
1 3 (30.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 2 (20.00%) z/OS Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) CMS Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Mainframe Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (30.00%) VSAM
3 2 (20.00%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (10.00%) LPAR
4 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) Hardware Maintenance
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (10.00%) Project Governance
4 1 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Workflow
4 1 (10.00%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) REXX
2 4 (40.00%) CLIST
2 4 (40.00%) COBOL
3 2 (20.00%) Assembly Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (10.00%) ACF2
2 1 (10.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (10.00%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft