JCL Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Job Control Language (JCL)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 73 -
Rank change year-on-year +21 - -
Permanent jobs citing JCL 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.50% 0.096% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.48% 0.36% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £53,000 - -
25th Percentile £59,375 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile £76,000 - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 - £83,577
% change year-on-year - - +40.40%

All Programming Languages
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 121 278 206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 20.13% 26.73% 30.88%
Number of salaries quoted 113 140 177
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,044
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,438 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £82,250 £70,125 £67,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for JCL in South Yorkshire

JCL
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing JCL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing JCL

JCL
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing JCL in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for JCL in South Yorkshire

JCL
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +23 2 £72,500 -
JCL
Yorkshire

JCL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) DB2 Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Programmer
1 1 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ISPF
2 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) REXX
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Broadcom
2 1 (33.33%) Dell