JCL Contracts in the UK excluding London

Job Control Language (JCL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 419 489
Rank change year-on-year +64 +70 -59
Contract jobs citing JCL 46 11 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.048% 0.049%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.91% 0.17% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 10 5
10th Percentile £400 £391 £331
25th Percentile £415 £463 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £390
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +25.00% +15.56%
75th Percentile £547 £542 £405
90th Percentile £588 £554 £462
UK median daily rate £460 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% +38.46%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,046 6,305 8,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.66% 27.78% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,329 4,405 6,152
10th Percentile £320 £338 £340
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £578 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 323 327
10th Percentile £37.55 £27.68 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £31.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +24.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.90 £78.00 £67.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

JCL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JCL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JCL in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JCL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JCL in the UK excluding London

JCL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JCL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JCL in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JCL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JCL in the UK excluding London

JCL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
North of England +46 33 £470 -1.05%
Yorkshire +44 33 £470 -1.05%
Scotland +52 7 £500 -5.88%
Midlands +20 4 £488 +50.00% 4
East Midlands +10 4 £488 +50.00% 4
South East +16 2 £375 -36.17%
JCL
UK

JCL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 19 (41.30%) SAS
2 2 (4.35%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.22%) GitHub
2 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) DWDM
2 1 (2.17%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) DB2
2 1 (2.17%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.35%) ChangeMan
General
1 24 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.52%) Finance
3 2 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (34.78%) Programmer
2 15 (32.61%) Systems Programmer
2 15 (32.61%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 7 (15.22%) Storage Manager
3 7 (15.22%) z/OS Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Systems Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Administrator
6 2 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) COBOL Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Hardware Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Adabas Natural Developer
7 1 (2.17%) Analyst
7 1 (2.17%) Business Analyst
7 1 (2.17%) Consultant
7 1 (2.17%) IBM Storage Specialist
7 1 (2.17%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Storage Specialist
7 1 (2.17%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (71.74%) ISPF
2 7 (15.22%) YAML
3 2 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (78.26%) Mainframe
2 7 (15.22%) Data Centre
2 7 (15.22%) IBM Mainframe
3 6 (13.04%) LPAR
4 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.17%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 42 (91.30%) zOS
2 8 (17.39%) Linux
3 2 (4.35%) Windows
3 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (41.30%) Risk Management
2 15 (32.61%) Performance Monitoring
3 12 (26.09%) Agile
4 9 (19.57%) Storage Management
5 8 (17.39%) Problem Management
6 4 (8.70%) ITIL
6 4 (8.70%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (8.70%) Project Management
6 4 (8.70%) Workflow
7 3 (6.52%) Cost Management
7 3 (6.52%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (6.52%) Software Testing
7 3 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (4.35%) Capacity Management
8 2 (4.35%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (2.17%) Order Management
9 1 (2.17%) Product Vision
9 1 (2.17%) Requirements Gathering
9 1 (2.17%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 35 (76.09%) REXX
2 14 (30.43%) Assembly Language
3 7 (15.22%) Python
4 6 (13.04%) CLIST
5 3 (6.52%) COBOL
6 1 (2.17%) Natural
6 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 37 (80.43%) Time Sharing Option
2 13 (28.26%) ACF2
2 13 (28.26%) RACF
3 10 (21.74%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 8 (17.39%) NFS
5 6 (13.04%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 14 (30.43%) OMEGAMON
2 8 (17.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 7 (15.22%) Ansible
4 4 (8.70%) Control-M
5 1 (2.17%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 39 (84.78%) IBM
2 28 (60.87%) Broadcom
3 17 (36.96%) Splunk
4 15 (32.61%) CA
5 8 (17.39%) BMC
5 8 (17.39%) Brocade
5 8 (17.39%) Dell
6 4 (8.70%) ServiceNow
7 3 (6.52%) CyberArk