 The JobScheduler has been developed by the SOS GmbH with code contributed by Joacim Zschimmer.Development of the JobScheduler as an independent product was begun in 2005 and it was released under the open source GPL 2 license in the same year.64-bit versions of the JobScheduler were released in 2013  and the Universal Agent in September 2015

The SOS GmbH and the JobScheduler were recognized in 2012 with selection by the Gartner IT research and advisory company for their Magic Quadrant report on the worldwide workload automation market.