Job Control Language (JCL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 812 840 1248
Rank change year-on-year +28 +408 -238
Permanent jobs citing JCL 30 47 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.058% 0.015%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.11% 0.14% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 6 23 23
10th Percentile - £61,180 £45,000
25th Percentile £59,098 £61,840 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,099 £65,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +4.77% +9.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £73,739 £77,715 £74,000
90th Percentile £76,943 £81,581 £81,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,095 £69,447 £59,526
% change year-on-year -0.51% +16.67% -

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,596 32,430 91,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 40.19% 52.34%
Number of salaries quoted 19,728 24,108 43,810
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £37,171
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,850
% change year-on-year - +2.14% +7.70%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JCL in the UK

JCL
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for JCL in the UK

JCL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JCL over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for JCL in the UK

JCL
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
UK excluding London -36 24 £69,095 -0.51% 1
Scotland -31 18 £71,991 -4.86%
England +8 11 £68,099 +4.77% 1
Work from Home +43 8 £66,199 -4.68% 1
North of England +6 5 - - 1
Yorkshire - 5 - -
London +71 4 £75,000 +15.38%
Wales - 1 £66,199 -

JCL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (36.67%) CICS
2 7 (23.33%) SAS
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (10.00%) SaaS
2 3 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (3.33%) Azure
3 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (40.00%) DB2
2 4 (13.33%) Data Mining
3 3 (10.00%) Adabas
4 1 (3.33%) Big Data
4 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 11 (36.67%) ChangeMan
General
1 14 (46.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 12 (40.00%) Finance
3 11 (36.67%) Law
3 11 (36.67%) Marketing
4 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Mainframe Software Engineer
1 12 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Analyst
3 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Programmer
4 5 (16.67%) Systems Programmer
4 5 (16.67%) z/OS Systems Programmer
5 3 (10.00%) Lead
6 1 (3.33%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) IBM Storage Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) IBM Storage Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Mainframe Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Mainframe Support
6 1 (3.33%) Remote Support Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Storage Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Storage Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) ISPF
2 1 (3.33%) Kafka
2 1 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (93.33%) Mainframe
2 11 (36.67%) Reference Data
2 11 (36.67%) VSAM
3 7 (23.33%) IBM Mainframe
4 3 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.33%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) zOS
2 3 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) Agile
2 17 (56.67%) CI/CD
2 17 (56.67%) Operational Stability
3 15 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 11 (36.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 11 (36.67%) Decision-Making
4 11 (36.67%) Machine Learning
4 11 (36.67%) SDLC
5 7 (23.33%) DevOps
6 6 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 6 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
7 5 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
8 4 (13.33%) Batch Scheduling
9 3 (10.00%) Project Management
9 3 (10.00%) Secure Coding
9 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) REXX
2 12 (40.00%) COBOL
3 11 (36.67%) Java
4 4 (13.33%) SQL
5 3 (10.00%) Ada
5 3 (10.00%) Assembly Language
5 3 (10.00%) Natural
6 2 (6.67%) Python
7 1 (3.33%) CLIST
7 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (63.33%) Time Sharing Option
2 5 (16.67%) RACF
3 3 (10.00%) ACF2
4 2 (6.67%) NFS
5 1 (3.33%) Docker
5 1 (3.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (3.33%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) CA Endevor
1 5 (16.67%) OMEGAMON
2 2 (6.67%) Ansible
2 2 (6.67%) zSecure
3 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (53.33%) IBM
2 11 (36.67%) Oracle
3 7 (23.33%) Broadcom
3 7 (23.33%) CA
4 5 (16.67%) Splunk
5 2 (6.67%) Brocade
5 2 (6.67%) Dell
6 1 (3.33%) Google