PL/1 Contracts

PL/1
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring PL/1 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PL/1 over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 567 -
Rank change year-on-year +20 - -
Contract jobs citing PL/1 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.008% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.056% 0.024% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £456 £408 -
25th Percentile £466 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% - -
75th Percentile £550 £619 -
90th Percentile £551 £668 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £551 £700 -
% change year-on-year -21.36% - -

All Programming Languages
UK

PL/1 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,805 12,251 17,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.81% 31.25% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,272 8,620 12,514
10th Percentile £340 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% -0.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 408 440
10th Percentile £27.98 £27.00 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.25 £45.97 £47.94
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +14.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.18 £77.50 £78.79
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.54% +4.00% +13.64%

PL/1
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PL/1 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PL/1 in the UK

PL/1
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PL/1.

Daily rate trend for PL/1 in the UK

PL/1
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PL/1.

Hourly rate trend for PL/1 in the UK

PL/1
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PL/1 within the UK over the 6 months to 4 August 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
England +15 4 £513 -26.79% 11
Work from Home - 4 £513 - 8
UK excluding London +8 2 £551 -21.36% 10
North of England - 2 £551 - 4
London - 2 £506 - 1
North West - 2 £551 - 4

PL/1
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 3 (50.00%) CICS
1 3 (50.00%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) DB2
2 2 (33.33%) IMS/DB
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GCC
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Mainframe Programmer
1 3 (50.00%) Programmer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity and Performance Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) CICS Programmer
3 1 (16.67%) CICS Systems Programmer
3 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Performance Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (33.33%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (33.33%) Replication
3 1 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) zOS
2 2 (33.33%) MVS
2 2 (33.33%) OS/2
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (50.00%) Data Sharing
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Change Data Capture
3 2 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Assembly Language
1 4 (66.67%) JCL
1 4 (66.67%) REXX
2 3 (50.00%) COBOL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) CLIST
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (50.00%) RACF
3 2 (33.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) OMEGAMON
2 2 (33.33%) CA Endevor
2 2 (33.33%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Syncsort