JCL Contracts in the North of England

Job Control Language (JCL)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring JCL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JCL over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 198 246
Rank change year-on-year +46 +48 -55
Contract jobs citing JCL 33 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.68% 0.074% 0.070%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.65% 0.26% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 4 2
10th Percentile £403 £419 £392
25th Percentile £415 £447 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £398
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +19.50% +17.78%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £401
90th Percentile - - £404
England median daily rate £460 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -3.16% +5.56% +41.18%

All Programming Languages
North of England

JCL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,244 1,529 2,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.68% 28.10% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 1,113 1,688
10th Percentile £319 £351 £325
25th Percentile £403 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £625 £699 £663
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 25 49
10th Percentile £37.55 £28.26 £14.25
25th Percentile £42.41 £37.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £47.75 £47.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% +11.76% +63.46%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.90 £65.90 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing JCL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for JCL in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JCL in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for JCL in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JCL in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JCL in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JCL in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for JCL in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Yorkshire +44 33 £470 -1.05%
JCL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 15 (45.45%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) GitHub
2 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Adabas
1 1 (3.03%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Banking
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Programmer
2 15 (45.45%) Systems Programmer
2 15 (45.45%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 7 (21.21%) Storage Manager
4 3 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) z/OS Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Hardware Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Adabas Natural Developer
6 1 (3.03%) COBOL Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) Developer
6 1 (3.03%) IBM Storage Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) IBM Storage Specialist
6 1 (3.03%) Storage Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (69.70%) ISPF
2 7 (21.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (72.73%) Mainframe
2 7 (21.21%) Data Centre
3 6 (18.18%) LPAR
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 32 (96.97%) zOS
2 8 (24.24%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) Risk Management
2 15 (45.45%) Performance Monitoring
3 9 (27.27%) Storage Management
4 8 (24.24%) Agile
4 8 (24.24%) Problem Management
5 4 (12.12%) Project Management
6 3 (9.09%) Cost Management
6 3 (9.09%) Software Testing
6 3 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (6.06%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (3.03%) Data Protection
8 1 (3.03%) Order Management
8 1 (3.03%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 27 (81.82%) REXX
2 12 (36.36%) Assembly Language
3 7 (21.21%) Python
4 6 (18.18%) CLIST
5 1 (3.03%) COBOL
5 1 (3.03%) Natural
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 31 (93.94%) Time Sharing Option
2 11 (33.33%) ACF2
2 11 (33.33%) RACF
3 8 (24.24%) NFS
4 6 (18.18%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 6 (18.18%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 14 (42.42%) OMEGAMON
2 8 (24.24%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 7 (21.21%) Ansible
4 1 (3.03%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 33 (100.00%) IBM
2 22 (66.67%) Broadcom
3 13 (39.39%) Splunk
4 11 (33.33%) CA
5 8 (24.24%) Brocade
5 8 (24.24%) Dell