Job Entry Subsystem Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Job Entry Subsystem (JES2, JES3)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Job Entry Subsystem skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 338 382
Rank change year-on-year -93 +44 +78
Contract jobs citing Job Entry Subsystem 1 1 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% 0.008% 0.062%
As % of the System Software category 0.039% 0.052% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £408
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 - £430
75th Percentile £505 - -
90th Percentile - - £588
UK median daily rate £493 - £430

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Job Entry Subsystem falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,583 1,905 2,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.48% 15.13% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,806 1,290 1,699
10th Percentile £190 £190 £175
25th Percentile £346 £340 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +3.26% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £645 £661 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 68 182
10th Percentile £14.74 £15.20 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.89 £20.78 £14.74
Median hourly rate £50.00 £37.50 £26.08
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +43.82% -3.39%
75th Percentile £74.26 £66.00 £61.31
90th Percentile £85.50 £83.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +72.41% +16.00% -49.49%

Job Entry Subsystem
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Job Entry Subsystem relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job Entry Subsystem job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Job Entry Subsystem
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Job Entry Subsystem.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Job Entry Subsystem

Job Entry Subsystem
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Job Entry Subsystem.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Job Entry Subsystem

Job Entry Subsystem
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 Job Entry Subsystem within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 April 2026. 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
East Midlands - 1 £497 - 2
Midlands - 1 £497 - 2
Job Entry Subsystem
UK

Job Entry Subsystem
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk