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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 467 516
Rank change year-on-year +80 +49 +371
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing JCL 14 3 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.015% 0.052%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.27% 0.037% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 12
10th Percentile £82,125 £71,000 -
25th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £88,750 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile - £79,000 -
England median annual salary £87,500 £68,099 £65,000
% change year-on-year +28.49% +4.77% -7.80%

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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,189 8,121 11,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.38% 40.17% 46.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,371 5,716 9,896
10th Percentile £48,750 £49,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £136,250 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.46% -6.15% +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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing JCL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing JCL

JCL
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the London region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London - 1 £75,000 -
JCL
England

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 (14.29%) CICS
2 1 (7.14%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) GitHub
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) DB2
2 1 (7.14%) Adabas
2 1 (7.14%) IMS/DB
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 8 (57.14%) Financial Institution
3 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Storage Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) IBM Storage Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Mainframe Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Mainframe Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) Mainframe Developer
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps Developer
5 1 (7.14%) IBM Mainframe Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) YAML
2 1 (7.14%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 7 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 6 (42.86%) Mainframe
4 3 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
6 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (7.14%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) zOS
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) MVS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Storage Management
2 7 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) Refactoring
6 2 (14.29%) Re-Platforming
7 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
7 1 (7.14%) Code Quality
7 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (7.14%) Data Mapping
7 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
7 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
7 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
7 1 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) REXX
2 8 (57.14%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) COBOL
4 2 (14.29%) PL/1
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Assembly Language
5 1 (7.14%) Natural
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (14.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (7.14%) ACF2
3 1 (7.14%) RACF
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) IBM
2 8 (57.14%) Broadcom
2 8 (57.14%) Dell
3 2 (14.29%) Syncsort
4 1 (7.14%) Cincom
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft