JCL Contracts with Work from Home Options

Job Control Language (JCL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for JCL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JCL over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 450 578
Rank change year-on-year +144 +128 -119
Contract jobs citing JCL 43 24 45
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.093% 0.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.84% 0.25% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 15 15
10th Percentile £423 £348 £300
25th Percentile £430 £400 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% +8.11% +32.14%
75th Percentile £500 £648 £545
90th Percentile £588 £658 £569
UK median daily rate £430 £500 £456
% change year-on-year -14.00% +9.59% +21.67%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

JCL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,137 9,615 16,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.54% 37.37% 38.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,710 7,028 12,575
10th Percentile £350 £390 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.97%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 212 194
10th Percentile £27.25 £35.00 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £49.63
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +25.94% +10.28%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £87.25 £76.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +0.83% +20.00% +13.64%

JCL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing JCL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JCL trend for jobs with a WFH option

JCL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing JCL over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

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 12 (27.91%) SAS
2 2 (4.65%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.91%) GitHub
2 2 (4.65%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) DB2
2 2 (4.65%) IDMS
2 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.33%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 12 (27.91%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (60.47%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Programmer
1 11 (25.58%) Systems Programmer
1 11 (25.58%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 9 (20.93%) Storage Manager
3 8 (18.60%) z/OS Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) IBM Storage Specialist
4 4 (9.30%) Storage Specialist
4 4 (9.30%) z/OS Specialist
5 3 (6.98%) Hardware Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Mainframe Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Test Architect
7 1 (2.33%) Adabas Natural Developer
7 1 (2.33%) COBOL Developer
7 1 (2.33%) Hardware Specialist
7 1 (2.33%) Lead Architect
7 1 (2.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (60.47%) ISPF
2 12 (27.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (65.12%) Mainframe
2 12 (27.91%) Data Centre
3 7 (16.28%) LPAR
4 5 (11.63%) IBM Mainframe
5 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.65%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 40 (93.02%) zOS
2 14 (32.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (44.19%) Risk Management
2 14 (32.56%) Agile
2 14 (32.56%) Problem Management
2 14 (32.56%) Storage Management
3 12 (27.91%) Performance Monitoring
4 10 (23.26%) Project Management
5 6 (13.95%) Cost Management
5 6 (13.95%) Software Testing
5 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (11.63%) Workflow
7 2 (4.65%) Batch Processing
7 2 (4.65%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (4.65%) Migration
7 2 (4.65%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (4.65%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (4.65%) System Testing
7 2 (4.65%) Test Automation
8 1 (2.33%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (83.72%) REXX
2 14 (32.56%) Assembly Language
3 12 (27.91%) Python
4 10 (23.26%) CLIST
5 3 (6.98%) COBOL
6 1 (2.33%) Natural
Qualifications
1 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 40 (93.02%) Time Sharing Option
2 14 (32.56%) NFS
3 9 (20.93%) ACF2
3 9 (20.93%) RACF
4 7 (16.28%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 7 (16.28%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 13 (30.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 12 (27.91%) Ansible
2 12 (27.91%) OMEGAMON
3 1 (2.33%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 43 (100.00%) IBM
2 28 (65.12%) Broadcom
3 19 (44.19%) CA
4 14 (32.56%) Brocade
4 14 (32.56%) Dell
5 9 (20.93%) Splunk
6 5 (11.63%) BMC
7 2 (4.65%) Microsoft