Job Entry Subsystem Contracts

Job Entry Subsystem (JES2, JES3)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Job Entry Subsystem skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Job Entry Subsystem over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 - 854
Rank change year-on-year - - -139
Contract jobs citing Job Entry Subsystem 19 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% - 0.002%
As % of the System Software category 0.40% - 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 1
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £422 - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +62.92%
75th Percentile £506 - £738
90th Percentile £549 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 - -

All System Software Skills
UK

Job Entry Subsystem is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,728 7,253 11,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.91% 13.05% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,276 5,110 8,298
10th Percentile £205 £200 £200
25th Percentile £356 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.47%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £450
% change year-on-year -0.68% +6.28% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 249 285
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.21 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £24.18 £54.83 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.90% +174.15% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £79.20 £75.55 £60.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £48.40 £17.64
% change year-on-year -43.18% +174.38% -3.04%

Job Entry Subsystem
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Job Entry Subsystem in the UK

Job Entry Subsystem
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Job Entry Subsystem.

Daily rate trend for Job Entry Subsystem in the UK

Job Entry Subsystem
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Job Entry Subsystem.

Hourly rate trend for Job Entry Subsystem in the UK

Job Entry Subsystem
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Job Entry Subsystem within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England - 19 £430 - 7
UK excluding London - 16 £430 - 4
North of England - 12 £430 -
Work from Home - 12 £440 - 4
Yorkshire - 12 £430 -
East Midlands - 4 £488 - 4
Midlands - 4 £488 - 4
London - 3 £450 - 1

Job Entry Subsystem
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 9 (47.37%) DWDM
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) ChangeMan
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Hardware Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) z/OS Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Hardware Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (100.00%) ISPF
2 3 (15.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 12 (63.16%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) zOS
2 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Risk Management
2 7 (36.84%) ITIL
3 6 (31.58%) Agile
3 6 (31.58%) Knowledge Transfer
3 6 (31.58%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) Batch Processing
4 2 (10.53%) Resource Management
4 2 (10.53%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) JCL
2 12 (63.16%) REXX
3 9 (47.37%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) Microcode
1 12 (63.16%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Control-M
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) IBM
2 7 (36.84%) CA
2 7 (36.84%) ServiceNow
3 6 (31.58%) CyberArk
3 6 (31.58%) Splunk
4 3 (15.79%) BMC
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft