The first table below looks at the demand for CICS skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CICS over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Rank 209 204 239
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +35
Contract jobs citing CICS 1 8 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.015% 0.103% 0.120%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.089% 0.655% 0.885%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 5
Average daily rate - £423 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.05%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £308 £311
% change year-on-year
+21.95% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £62.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.97%
All Application Platforms
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1119 1222 1356
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 16.50% 15.79% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 833 941
Average daily rate £400 £400 £417
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 35 73
Average hourly rate £25.25 £21.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.23% +5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £13.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £52.50 £42.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
CICS
London

CICS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CICS across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

City of London CICS Jobs Demand Trend

CICS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CICS across the City of London region.

City of London CICS Daily Rate Trend

CICS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CICS across the City of London region.

City of London CICS Hourly Rate Trend

CICS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing CICS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CICS.

1 4 (80.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (60.00%) DB2
2 3 (60.00%) COBOL
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) UML
3 2 (40.00%) ETRM
4 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (20.00%) MQSeries
4 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) IBM
4 1 (20.00%) CA
4 1 (20.00%) zOS
4 1 (20.00%) RACF
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Document Management
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Management
4 1 (20.00%) Online Banking
4 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (20.00%) CA Endevor
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Android
4 1 (20.00%) PDM
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing CICS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited CICS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) MQSeries
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (20.00%) zOS
1 1 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) UML
2 2 (40.00%) ETRM
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Document Management
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) PDM
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) COBOL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) CA
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