Job Entry Subsystem Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Job Entry Subsystem (JES2, JES3)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Job Entry Subsystem skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Job Entry Subsystem 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.033% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £493 - £430

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 432 193 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.39% 14.34% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 140 127
10th Percentile £263 £167 £178
25th Percentile £398 £307 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% +22.19% -13.98%
75th Percentile £550 £658 £569
90th Percentile £638 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile - £15.22 £14.41
25th Percentile £42.50 £15.95 £15.21
Median hourly rate £63.14 £18.13 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +248.23% +1.85% -16.73%
75th Percentile £67.84 £29.85 £20.90
90th Percentile £73.64 £37.86 £22.61
England median hourly rate £51.00 £28.41 £21.00
% change year-on-year +79.51% +35.29% -47.50%

Job Entry Subsystem
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job Entry Subsystem job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Job Entry Subsystem
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Job Entry Subsystem
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ISPF
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk