DCL Contracts

DIGITAL Command Language (DCL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DCL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DCL over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 - 837
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DCL 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% - 0.001%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.031% - 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £381 - -
25th Percentile £389 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

DCL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,939 19,124 31,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.05% 34.12% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,176 13,793 23,095
10th Percentile £350 £388 £388
25th Percentile £425 £461 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £660
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 433 488
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.60 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.95 £71.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%

DCL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DCL in the UK

DCL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DCL.

Daily rate trend for DCL in the UK

DCL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DCL.

Hourly rate trend for DCL in the UK

DCL
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DCL within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home - 3 £425 -
London - 2 £413 -
England - 2 £413 -

DCL
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) COBOL Consultant
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) OpenVMS Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) OpenVMS Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior COBOL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior SQL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) OpenVMS
1 4 (100.00%) VMS
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) COBOL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle