JCL Jobs in London

Job Control Language (JCL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring JCL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JCL over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 497 599
Rank change year-on-year +106 +102 -
Permanent jobs citing JCL 5 4 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.039% 0.017% 0.040%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.096% 0.042% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 13
10th Percentile - £71,000 -
25th Percentile - £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -
75th Percentile - £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile - £79,000 -
England median annual salary £72,500 £71,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% +9.23% -2.99%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,233 9,628 15,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.95% 40.07% 48.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,554 7,577 11,995
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £130,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for JCL in London

JCL
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JCL in London.

Salary trend for JCL in London

JCL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (40.00%) CICS
2 1 (20.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) DB2
2 1 (20.00%) Adabas
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Mainframe Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Mainframe Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (20.00%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) zOS
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Refactoring
3 2 (40.00%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) COBOL
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Assembly Language
3 1 (20.00%) Natural
3 1 (20.00%) PL/1
3 1 (20.00%) REXX
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (20.00%) ACF2
2 1 (20.00%) RACF
2 1 (20.00%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Cincom
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Syncsort