JCL Job Trends in Belfast

Job Control Language (JCL)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring JCL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing JCL 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 0.38% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.17% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
County Antrim median annual salary - - -

All Programming Languages
Belfast

JCL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 24 144 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 9.13% 37.02% 51.75%
Number of salaries quoted 13 73 121
10th Percentile £43,100 £38,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +35.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £78,790 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £99,000 £77,500
County Antrim median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +35.00% -4.76%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JCL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

JCL job vacancy trend in Belfast

JCL
Salary Trend in Belfast

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing JCL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing JCL

JCL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast 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%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Product Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Human-Centred Design
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Telematics
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager