JCL Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Job Control Language (JCL)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring JCL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing JCL 8 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.19% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.26% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £51,000 - -
25th Percentile £59,625 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £74,000 £70,000 -
% change year-on-year +5.71% - -

All Programming Languages
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 637 351 633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 15.25% 23.37% 27.76%
Number of salaries quoted 453 281 447
10th Percentile £39,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -6.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,751 £83,485
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% +9.09% -

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JCL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

JCL job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

JCL
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing JCL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing JCL

JCL
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing JCL in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Salary histogram for JCL in West Yorkshire

JCL
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Bradford - 7 £74,000 - 1
Pontefract - 1 £48,500 - 2
JCL
Yorkshire

JCL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Adabas
1 1 (12.50%) Db2
General
1 7 (87.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Analyst
1 7 (87.50%) Automation Analyst
2 4 (50.00%) Mainframe Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Batch Processing
1 7 (87.50%) Batch Scheduling
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) SDLC
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) CLIST
1 7 (87.50%) REXX
2 1 (12.50%) COBOL
2 1 (12.50%) Natural
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) IBM