JCL Contract Job Trends in Wales

Job Control Language (JCL)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring JCL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JCL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.21% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.97% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £258 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 - -
75th Percentile £273 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £450 £459 £430
% change year-on-year -1.96% +6.74% -1.77%

All Programming Languages
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 103 112 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 21.64% 26.48% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 77 87
10th Percentile £308 £169 £198
25th Percentile £409 £263 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +14.71% -15.00%
75th Percentile £571 £550 £538
90th Percentile £641 £575 £628
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 7
10th Percentile £27.14 £15.69 £23.72
25th Percentile £30.00 £20.12 £36.43
Median hourly rate £30.50 £21.12 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.43% -59.78% +176.97%
75th Percentile £59.38 £24.13 £55.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £26.38 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JCL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

JCL job vacancy trend in Wales

JCL
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing JCL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing JCL

JCL
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing JCL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing JCL

JCL
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the Wales region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
South Wales - 1 £265 -
JCL
UK

JCL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Scheduling
1 1 (100.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) Micro Focus
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle