JCL Job Trends in the East Midlands

Job Control Language (JCL)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring JCL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 131 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Permanent jobs citing JCL 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.039% 0.041% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.22% 0.15% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 - -
England median annual salary £87,500 £75,000 £71,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +5.63% -8.17%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 447 646 608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.58% 26.80% 42.22%
Number of salaries quoted 365 398 507
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,390 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.22% -9.09% +2.80%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

JCL job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing JCL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing JCL

JCL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Adabas
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior COBOL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) Natural
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM