JCL Job Trends in Shropshire

Job Control Language (JCL)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring JCL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing JCL 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Shropshire 0.26% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.78% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median annual salary - - £47,500

All Programming Languages
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 36 32 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Shropshire 9.25% 32.00% 23.79%
Number of salaries quoted 30 25 46
10th Percentile £40,250 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £37,022
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,000 £72,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

JCL
Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 11 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Telford - 1 - -
JCL
West Midlands

JCL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode