JCL Contracts in Yorkshire

Job Control Language (JCL)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 81 49 125
Rank change year-on-year -32 +76 +16
Contract jobs citing JCL 8 55 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.79% 3.26% 0.087%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.49% 12.39% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 34 2
10th Percentile £430 £403 -
25th Percentile £475 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.55% -9.47% +17.28%
75th Percentile £579 £484 £488
90th Percentile £592 £588 -
England median daily rate £404 £430 £475
% change year-on-year -6.16% -9.47% +2.70%

All Programming Languages
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 321 444 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 31.63% 26.32% 26.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 319 423
10th Percentile £350 £300 £395
25th Percentile £405 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 11
10th Percentile £31.62 £27.80 £42.67
25th Percentile £44.87 £40.35 £47.40
Median hourly rate £91.05 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.68% - +126.98%
75th Percentile £101.14 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year - +1.07% +23.68%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for JCL in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for JCL in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JCL in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JCL in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for JCL in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 Yorkshire -33 7 £550 +27.91% 2
West Yorkshire +13 1 £513 -
JCL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (37.50%) SAS
2 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DWDM
1 1 (12.50%) SNA
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) DB2
1 1 (12.50%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Programmer
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Programmer
1 3 (37.50%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 2 (25.00%) z/OS Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) LPAR
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) zOS
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) REXX
2 4 (50.00%) CLIST
3 2 (25.00%) Assembly Language
4 1 (12.50%) COBOL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (12.50%) ACF2
2 1 (12.50%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (12.50%) Microcode
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Control-M
2 1 (12.50%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft