Hybrid/Remote Job Entry Subsystem Contract Job Trends

Job Entry Subsystem (JES2, JES3)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Job Entry Subsystem skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 327 -
Rank change year-on-year +26 - -
Contract jobs citing Job Entry Subsystem 3 8 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.031% 0.063% -
As % of the System Software category 0.27% 0.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £469 -
Median % change year-on-year +49.33% - -
UK median daily rate £700 £469 -
% change year-on-year +49.33% - -

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,096 1,312 2,472
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.19% 10.32% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 720 925 1,703
10th Percentile £313 £293 £288
25th Percentile £410 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £582 £610 £638
90th Percentile £640 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 102
10th Percentile £29.50 £40.40 £19.25
25th Percentile £33.00 £51.25 £39.60
Median hourly rate £54.00 £80.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +26.98% +26.00%
75th Percentile £67.00 £85.78 £71.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £92.00 £78.63
UK median hourly rate £33.39 £24.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +36.27% -51.00% +127.27%

Job Entry Subsystem
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Job Entry Subsystem trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Job Entry Subsystem
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Job Entry Subsystem.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Job Entry Subsystem

Job Entry Subsystem
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 3 (100.00%) CICS
2 2 (66.67%) SAS
3 1 (33.33%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GCC
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe Programmer
1 3 (100.00%) Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) ISPF
2 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (66.67%) Replication
3 1 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) zOS
2 2 (66.67%) OS/2
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Change Data Capture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Sharing
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Assembly Language
1 2 (66.67%) CLIST
1 2 (66.67%) COBOL
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JCL
1 2 (66.67%) PL/1
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) REXX
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) RACF
1 3 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) OMEGAMON
1 2 (66.67%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM