JCL Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Job Control Language (JCL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 310 446
Rank change year-on-year +24 +136 +143
Contract jobs citing JCL 16 42 24
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.27% 0.093%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.43% 0.82% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 35 15
10th Percentile £361 - £348
25th Percentile £374 £430 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £459 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% -8.20% +8.11%
75th Percentile £519 £500 £648
90th Percentile £562 £588 £658
UK median daily rate £405 £431 £500
% change year-on-year -6.09% -13.75% +9.59%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

JCL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,701 5,147 9,658
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.47% 37.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,630 3,710 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £423 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £639 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 146 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.75 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% -6.75% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.88 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

JCL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing JCL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JCL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

JCL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing JCL.

JCL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

JCL
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing JCL over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

JCL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JCL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (25.00%) CICS
2 2 (12.50%) Confluence
3 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) SNA
1 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) DB2
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (6.25%) Adabas
3 1 (6.25%) Easytrieve
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) Mockito
3 1 (6.25%) Postman
3 1 (6.25%) REST Assured
3 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
3 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.25%) Subversion
3 1 (6.25%) Xcode
3 1 (6.25%) XCTest
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Electronics
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) COBOL Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Mainframe Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Mainframe Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Programmer
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Programmer
3 2 (12.50%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 1 (6.25%) Adabas Natural Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DBA
4 1 (6.25%) IBM Mainframe Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Designer
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Software Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Web Services
2 2 (12.50%) EntireX
2 2 (12.50%) ISPF
2 2 (12.50%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) YAML
3 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.25%) Bootstrap
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) CSS3
3 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) HTML5
3 1 (6.25%) J2EE
3 1 (6.25%) JPA
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) SOAP
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) Spring MVC
3 1 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (81.25%) Mainframe
2 4 (25.00%) VSAM
3 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.25%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) zOS
2 4 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Unix
4 1 (6.25%) MVS
4 1 (6.25%) Solaris
4 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Business Continuity
3 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) Change Management
4 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 2 (12.50%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Network Management
4 2 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (12.50%) Problem Management
4 2 (12.50%) Project Management
4 2 (12.50%) SDLC
4 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Storage Management
4 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) REXX
2 6 (37.50%) COBOL
3 5 (31.25%) Assembly Language
4 3 (18.75%) Natural
5 2 (12.50%) C
5 2 (12.50%) Java
5 2 (12.50%) Python
5 2 (12.50%) SQL
6 1 (6.25%) CLIST
6 1 (6.25%) Groovy
6 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (12.50%) ACF2
2 2 (12.50%) NFS
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.25%) Docker
3 1 (6.25%) Microcode
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (6.25%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Tivoli NetView
1 2 (12.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (6.25%) Data Guard
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) IBM
2 3 (18.75%) Dynatrace
3 2 (12.50%) Broadcom
3 2 (12.50%) Brocade
3 2 (12.50%) Dell
3 2 (12.50%) Fujitsu
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) Software AG
4 1 (6.25%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (6.25%) Commvault
4 1 (6.25%) SAP
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) webMethods