JCL Jobs in the UK excluding London

Job Control Language (JCL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JCL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 762 698 858
Rank change year-on-year -64 +160 -148
Permanent jobs citing JCL 18 30 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.022% 0.054% 0.021%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.076% 0.14% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 14
10th Percentile - £59,444 £45,000
25th Percentile £70,097 £61,180 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £69,447 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% +16.20% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £77,715 £71,250
90th Percentile - £82,548 £73,550
UK median annual salary £71,991 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.76% +8.33% -4.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 23,571 21,319 34,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.43% 38.58% 44.87%
Number of salaries quoted 16,991 12,850 20,984
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,500 £71,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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

JCL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for JCL in the UK excluding London

JCL
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JCL within the UK excluding London 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland -61 12 £71,991 -4.86%
North of England +9 6 - -
Yorkshire - 6 - -
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 11 (61.11%) CICS
2 3 (16.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) ChangeMan
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (61.11%) Finance
1 11 (61.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 11 (61.11%) Law
1 11 (61.11%) Marketing
2 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Mainframe Software Engineer
1 12 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Programmer
2 3 (16.67%) Systems Programmer
2 3 (16.67%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 1 (5.56%) Mainframe Support
3 1 (5.56%) Remote Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Storage Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) ISPF
2 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (94.44%) Mainframe
2 11 (61.11%) Reference Data
2 11 (61.11%) VSAM
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) zOS
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Agile
2 12 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 11 (61.11%) Artificial Intelligence
3 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 11 (61.11%) Decision-Making
3 11 (61.11%) Machine Learning
3 11 (61.11%) Operational Stability
3 11 (61.11%) SDLC
4 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
5 4 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (5.56%) Cost Management
6 1 (5.56%) Kanban
6 1 (5.56%) Problem Management
6 1 (5.56%) Project Management
6 1 (5.56%) Scrum
6 1 (5.56%) Software Delivery
6 1 (5.56%) Software Testing
6 1 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (5.56%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) COBOL
2 11 (61.11%) Java
3 6 (33.33%) REXX
4 3 (16.67%) Assembly Language
5 1 (5.56%) CLIST
5 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 17 (94.44%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (16.67%) ACF2
2 3 (16.67%) RACF
3 1 (5.56%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (5.56%) Microcode
3 1 (5.56%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) CA Endevor
2 1 (5.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Oracle
2 7 (38.89%) IBM
3 5 (27.78%) Broadcom
4 4 (22.22%) Splunk
5 2 (11.11%) CA
6 1 (5.56%) Brocade
6 1 (5.56%) Dell