JCL Contracts in Wales

Job Control Language (JCL)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JCL 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.66% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £262 - -
25th Percentile £268 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £283 - -
75th Percentile £293 - -
90th Percentile £297 - -
UK median daily rate £395 £472 £500
% change year-on-year -16.31% -5.60% +11.11%

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 74 105 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 24.58% 24.94% 20.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 74 82
10th Percentile £256 £364 £313
25th Percentile £313 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £489 £494
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -1.01% -10.23%
75th Percentile £488 £548 £613
90th Percentile £588 £571 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 4
10th Percentile £24.88 £15.69 £17.58
25th Percentile £27.69 £20.12 £18.49
Median hourly rate £37.13 £20.24 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.47% -3.62% +5.45%
75th Percentile £45.00 £20.47 £24.31
90th Percentile - £29.75 £25.33
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.62%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing JCL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for JCL in Wales

JCL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JCL in Wales.

Daily rate trend for JCL in Wales

JCL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JCL in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for JCL in Wales

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 24 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
South Wales - 2 £283 - 3
JCL
UK

JCL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operator
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Scheduling
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Break/Fix
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Korn
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) BMC
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) BT
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Focus
2 1 (50.00%) Xerox