JCL Contracts in the UK excluding London

Job Control Language (JCL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 371 432
Rank change year-on-year +49 +61 +63
Contract jobs citing JCL 31 30 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.14% 0.039%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.80% 0.60% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 9
10th Percentile £301 £396 £383
25th Percentile £340 £414 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £489 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% +2.89% +19.50%
75th Percentile £487 £527 £538
90th Percentile £519 £588 £545
UK median daily rate £395 £472 £500
% change year-on-year -16.31% -5.60% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,889 5,026 6,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.64% 23.66% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,578 3,290 4,394
10th Percentile £313 £320 £338
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £584 £594
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 458 326
10th Percentile £27.66 £35.89 £26.93
25th Percentile £43.00 £52.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £60.75 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £68.38 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.11 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.94 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.10% - +20.19%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JCL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JCL in the UK excluding London

JCL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JCL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JCL in the UK excluding London

JCL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JCL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JCL in the UK excluding London

JCL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JCL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JCL in the UK excluding London

JCL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
North of England +27 24 £401 -19.80% 7
Yorkshire +3 12 £506 +1.25% 4
North West - 12 £368 - 3
Scotland +1 4 £513 +2.50% 3
Midlands +11 3 £340 -30.26% 4
East Midlands +5 3 £340 -30.26% 3
Wales - 2 £283 - 3
JCL
UK

JCL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (54.84%) CICS
2 5 (16.13%) Confluence
3 3 (9.68%) CMS
3 3 (9.68%) SAS
3 3 (9.68%) WebSphere
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (9.68%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) AWS
2 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) SNA
1 5 (16.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.23%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (32.26%) DB2
2 4 (12.90%) Easytrieve
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle Database
4 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
1 6 (19.35%) JIRA
2 5 (16.13%) Selenium
3 3 (9.68%) Cucumber
3 3 (9.68%) Eclipse
3 3 (9.68%) Git
3 3 (9.68%) IntelliJ
3 3 (9.68%) Maven
4 2 (6.45%) REST Assured
4 2 (6.45%) SOAtest
General
1 12 (38.71%) Banking
2 7 (22.58%) Finance
3 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.68%) Legal
5 3 (9.68%) Retail Banking
6 2 (6.45%) General Ledger
7 1 (3.23%) Billing
7 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (16.13%) Developer
1 5 (16.13%) Tester
2 3 (9.68%) Automation Tester
2 3 (9.68%) Programmer
2 3 (9.68%) Systems Programmer
2 3 (9.68%) z/OS Specialist
2 3 (9.68%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 2 (6.45%) Architect
3 2 (6.45%) Designer
3 2 (6.45%) Mainframe Designer
3 2 (6.45%) Mainframe Developer
3 2 (6.45%) Mainframe Specialist
3 2 (6.45%) Mainframe Tester
3 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Test Architect
3 2 (6.45%) z/OS Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Analyst
4 1 (3.23%) Consultant
4 1 (3.23%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) ISPF
2 5 (16.13%) Web Services
3 2 (6.45%) J2EE
3 2 (6.45%) JSON
3 2 (6.45%) REST
3 2 (6.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (93.55%) Mainframe
2 15 (48.39%) VSAM
3 4 (12.90%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.45%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (3.23%) LPAR
5 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.23%) Replication
5 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (54.84%) zOS
2 7 (22.58%) Unix
3 2 (6.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) DevOps
2 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (25.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (25.81%) SDLC
4 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
5 6 (19.35%) Agile
5 6 (19.35%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (19.35%) ITIL
5 6 (19.35%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (19.35%) Test Strategy
6 5 (16.13%) Batch Processing
6 5 (16.13%) Incident Management
6 5 (16.13%) Scenario Testing
7 4 (12.90%) Change Management
7 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.90%) Code Quality
7 4 (12.90%) Migration
7 4 (12.90%) Network Management
7 4 (12.90%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) COBOL
2 14 (45.16%) REXX
3 6 (19.35%) CLIST
3 6 (19.35%) Java
4 3 (9.68%) Assembly Language
4 3 (9.68%) SQL
5 2 (6.45%) Korn
5 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Time Sharing Option
2 5 (16.13%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (6.45%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (3.23%) Microcode
4 1 (3.23%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Tivoli NetView
2 4 (12.90%) OMEGAMON
3 3 (9.68%) CA Endevor
3 3 (9.68%) Control-M
4 1 (3.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) IBM
2 6 (19.35%) Oracle
3 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.45%) Ab Initio
4 2 (6.45%) BMC
4 2 (6.45%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.45%) Informatica
4 2 (6.45%) Parasoft
5 1 (3.23%) BT
5 1 (3.23%) Dell
5 1 (3.23%) Micro Focus
5 1 (3.23%) Xerox