PL/1
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring PL/1 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PL/1 over the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 720 822 838
Rank change year-on-year +102 +16 +424
Permanent jobs citing PL/1 4 23 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.026% 0.011%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.024% 0.085% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.73%
75th Percentile - - £82,548
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 - £65,385
% change year-on-year - - +44.64%

All Programming Languages
UK

PL/1 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 16,526 27,073 32,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.25% 30.28% 40.19%
Number of salaries quoted 10,487 19,259 24,074
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +1.85%

PL/1
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PL/1 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PL/1 in the UK

PL/1
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PL/1.

Salary trend for PL/1 in the UK

PL/1
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PL/1 within the UK over the 6 months to 30 July 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
England +64 4 £35,000 - 13
Work from Home - 3 £35,000 - 8
UK excluding London +110 2 £35,000 - 10
London +70 2 - - 3
South West +78 1 £35,000 - 5
South East +34 1 - - 1

PL/1
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 1 (25.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (25.00%) Adabas
2 1 (25.00%) IMS/DB
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Agriculture
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst Programmer
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Business Development Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Business Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Development Manager
1 1 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Programmer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Software Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) MVS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Business Development
1 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (25.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (25.00%) High Availability
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JCL
2 1 (25.00%) COBOL
2 1 (25.00%) Natural
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) ACF2
1 1 (25.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (25.00%) RACF
1 1 (25.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Cincom
2 1 (25.00%) Syncsort