Canary Wharf CICS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS) skills within the Canary Wharf region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited CICS over the 3 months to 8 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Location Birmingham Brentford Brentwood Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Ipswich Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Portsmouth Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	55
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.852 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£412	£349
% change on same period last year	+18.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.63	£39.42
% change on same period last year	-4.54 %
Application Platforms Canary Wharf
Matching contract IT job ads	42	54
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.055 %
Daily rates quoted	19	16
Average minimum daily rate	£408	£423
Average daily rate	£427	£431
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£446	£440
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£338
% change on same period last year	+3.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£16.00
Average hourly rate	-	£17.25
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.59	£24.11
% change on same period last year	+1.99 %
CICS London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

CICS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CICS across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.