Job Entry Subsystem Contract Job Trends

Job Entry Subsystem (JES2, JES3)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Job Entry Subsystem skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 556 547 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Job Entry Subsystem 6 10 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.026% -
As % of the System Software category 0.15% 0.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £469 -
Median % change year-on-year +49.33% - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £488 -

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,895 4,405 6,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.84% 11.43% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,454 2,955 4,412
10th Percentile £215 £213 £200
25th Percentile £375 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £625
90th Percentile £670 £688 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 111 272
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £17.57 £19.22
Median hourly rate £33.39 £24.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.27% -51.00% +127.27%
75th Percentile £78.75 £61.19 £66.00
90th Percentile £90.45 £75.00 £77.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.50 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +130.91% -31.25% +100.00%

Job Entry Subsystem
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Job Entry Subsystem as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Job Entry Subsystem in the UK

Job Entry Subsystem
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Job Entry Subsystem
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Job Entry Subsystem
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Work from Home +26 3 £700 +49.33% 3
England +8 3 - - 2
UK excluding London +2 2 - -
North of England - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
London +12 1 - - 2

Job Entry Subsystem
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (66.67%) CICS
2 3 (50.00%) SAS
3 1 (16.67%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GCC
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Programmer
2 3 (50.00%) Mainframe Programmer
3 2 (33.33%) Systems Programmer
3 2 (33.33%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
4 1 (16.67%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) ISPF
2 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (33.33%) Replication
4 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (16.67%) LPAR
4 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) zOS
2 2 (33.33%) OS/2
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) High Availability
2 4 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (50.00%) ITIL
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Change Data Capture
4 2 (33.33%) Data Sharing
4 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Batch Processing
5 1 (16.67%) Change Control
5 1 (16.67%) Compliance Audit
5 1 (16.67%) Hardware Maintenance
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (16.67%) Presales
5 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
5 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) JCL
2 4 (66.67%) REXX
3 3 (50.00%) Assembly Language
3 3 (50.00%) CLIST
3 3 (50.00%) COBOL
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) PL/1
4 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (33.33%) Python
5 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 4 (66.67%) RACF
3 1 (16.67%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) OMEGAMON
1 2 (33.33%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Syncsort