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 16 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 738 730 998
Rank change year-on-year -8 +268 +87
Permanent jobs citing JCL 27 11 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.019% 0.010%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.14% 0.048% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 7
10th Percentile £74,000 - £54,300
25th Percentile £76,727 £46,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £71,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.07% +18.33% +18.81%
75th Percentile £93,778 £78,484 £83,278
90th Percentile £94,717 £91,934 £84,056
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,253 £71,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.07% +18.33% +18.81%

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 19,723 22,801 48,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.29% 38.70% 45.48%
Number of salaries quoted 11,351 17,698 32,346
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,500 £82,548 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

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 16 January 2025.

Salary histogram for JCL in the UK

JCL
Top 10 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 16 January 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
UK excluding London -18 25 £85,253 +20.07% 1
England -20 19 £80,126 +12.85% 1
North of England -14 16 £89,945 +26.68% 1
North West -23 12 - -
Work from Home +40 11 £85,253 +20.07% 6
Scotland - 8 £85,253 -
Yorkshire +28 4 £89,945 +7.62% 1
London +13 1 £75,000 -
Midlands -25 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -

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 16 (59.26%) CICS
2 2 (7.41%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) GCP
3 5 (18.52%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) DB2
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.70%) DataStage
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Scylla
2 1 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 6 (22.22%) IBM UrbanCode
3 4 (14.81%) Rational Functional Tester
3 4 (14.81%) Selenium
4 3 (11.11%) Git
5 2 (7.41%) Postman
5 2 (7.41%) SoapUI
5 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (48.15%) Banking
2 12 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (37.04%) Finance
4 8 (29.63%) Billing
5 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Developer
1 9 (33.33%) Mainframe Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Mainframe Tester
3 4 (14.81%) Tester
4 3 (11.11%) Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Mainframe Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Assembler Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) IBM Assembler Developer
6 1 (3.70%) IBM Mainframe Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Mainframe Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Mainframe Assembler Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) CSS
1 5 (18.52%) HTML
2 3 (11.11%) ISPF
3 2 (7.41%) JSON
3 2 (7.41%) SOAP
3 2 (7.41%) Web Services
3 2 (7.41%) XML
4 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 26 (96.30%) Mainframe
2 5 (18.52%) Public Cloud
3 4 (14.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (14.81%) VSAM
4 2 (7.41%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
1 5 (18.52%) Unix
1 5 (18.52%) zOS
2 1 (3.70%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Integration Testing
1 12 (44.44%) System Integration Testing
2 9 (33.33%) Migration
3 8 (29.63%) Batch Processing
3 8 (29.63%) Software Engineering
3 8 (29.63%) Unit Testing
4 7 (25.93%) DevOps
4 7 (25.93%) IT Strategy
5 6 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 5 (18.52%) Agile
6 5 (18.52%) Cash Management
6 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
6 5 (18.52%) End-to-End Testing
6 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (18.52%) SDLC
6 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
7 4 (14.81%) Functional Testing
7 4 (14.81%) Regression Testing
7 4 (14.81%) Test Planning
7 4 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) COBOL
2 10 (37.04%) Assembly Language
3 7 (25.93%) Python
4 6 (22.22%) Java
4 6 (22.22%) SQL
5 5 (18.52%) Bash
5 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
5 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
5 5 (18.52%) Shell Script
6 4 (14.81%) REXX
7 1 (3.70%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
1 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) ISO 8583
2 3 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) RACF
2 1 (3.70%) ACF2
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) CA Endevor
2 4 (14.81%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (11.11%) Ansible
3 3 (11.11%) zSecure
4 2 (7.41%) MAINVIEW
5 1 (3.70%) CA Service Virtualization
5 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.70%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) IBM
2 4 (14.81%) HP
3 2 (7.41%) BMC
4 1 (3.70%) Broadcom
4 1 (3.70%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) Hitachi
4 1 (3.70%) Splunk
4 1 (3.70%) Teradata