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CICS Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for CICS skills in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 England 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 505 465 513
Rank change year-on-year
-40 +48
Contract jobs citing CICS 27 80 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.062% 0.151% 0.117%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.352% 0.916% 0.719%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 35 32
Average daily rate £375 £320 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.18% +2.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £263 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £489 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £308 £311
% change year-on-year
+21.95% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
Average hourly rate - £31.50 £47.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -32.97%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.97%
All Application Platforms
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category		 7673 8733 9319
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 17.73% 16.49% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4397 5056 5138
Average daily rate £363 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 423 529
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £37.50 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
CICS
UK

CICS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England CICS Daily Rate Trend

CICS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CICS across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England CICS Daily Rate Histogram

CICS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England CICS Hourly Rate Trend

CICS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Find
Job
Vacancies
London +11 6 £400 -5.88% 2
South East +1 6 £369 +15.23% 1
South West - - - -
East Midlands - - - -
Midlands - - - -
North West - - - -
CICS
UK

CICS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 36 (75.00%) Mainframe
2 29 (60.42%) COBOL
3 28 (58.33%) DB2
4 21 (43.75%) zOS
5 17 (35.42%) IBM
6 16 (33.33%) Finance
7 15 (31.25%) JCL
8 13 (27.08%) Banking
9 12 (25.00%) SQL
10 11 (22.92%) CA
10 11 (22.92%) ChangeMan
10 11 (22.92%) VSAM
10 11 (22.92%) WebSphere
11 9 (18.75%) Control-M
12 8 (16.67%) RACF
12 8 (16.67%) Release Management
12 8 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
13 7 (14.58%) Problem Management
13 7 (14.58%) SLA
13 7 (14.58%) Oracle
14 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
14 6 (12.50%) Windows
14 6 (12.50%) TCP/IP
14 6 (12.50%) Middleware
14 6 (12.50%) Retail
15 5 (10.42%) Online Banking
15 5 (10.42%) Migration
15 5 (10.42%) VMware
15 5 (10.42%) Firewall
15 5 (10.42%) Micro Focus

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 11 (22.92%) WebSphere
2 6 (12.50%) Middleware
3 4 (8.333%) Web Services
4 3 (6.250%) ISPF
4 3 (6.250%) SOAP
5 2 (4.167%) HTML
5 2 (4.167%) XML
6 1 (2.083%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (2.083%) J2EE
6 1 (2.083%) REST
Application Platforms
1 4 (8.333%) WebLogic
2 3 (6.250%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (4.167%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 2 (4.167%) SAS
3 2 (4.167%) MQSeries
4 1 (2.083%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 1 (2.083%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.083%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 5 (10.42%) Firewall
2 5 (10.42%) Internet
2 5 (10.42%) SAN
3 4 (8.333%) SNA
4 2 (4.167%) FTP
5 1 (2.083%) Wireless
5 1 (2.083%) CTI
5 1 (2.083%) VoIP
5 1 (2.083%) HTTP
5 1 (2.083%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (58.33%) DB2
2 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 5 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.083%) Informix
4 1 (2.083%) TOAD
4 1 (2.083%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.083%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 11 (22.92%) ChangeMan
2 1 (2.083%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.083%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (33.33%) Finance
2 13 (27.08%) Banking
3 6 (12.50%) Retail
4 3 (6.250%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.083%) Billing
5 1 (2.083%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.083%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (22.92%) Analyst
2 10 (20.83%) Programmer
3 6 (12.50%) Analyst Programmer
4 5 (10.42%) Systems Programmer
5 4 (8.333%) Designer
5 4 (8.333%) Technical Support
6 3 (6.250%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.250%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (6.250%) Developer
7 2 (4.167%) CICS Programmer
7 2 (4.167%) CICS Systems Programmer
7 2 (4.167%) Technical Design Leader
7 2 (4.167%) Architect
7 2 (4.167%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.167%) Mainframe Developer
7 2 (4.167%) COBOL Programmer
8 1 (2.083%) Security Analyst
8 1 (2.083%) Senior Programmer
8 1 (2.083%) Senior Systems Programmer
8 1 (2.083%) COBOL Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 36 (75.00%) Mainframe
2 11 (22.92%) VSAM
3 8 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
4 5 (10.42%) Online Banking
5 4 (8.333%) Mobile Banking
5 4 (8.333%) PKI
6 2 (4.167%) Replication
7 1 (2.083%) Derivative
7 1 (2.083%) IVR
7 1 (2.083%) Tandem
7 1 (2.083%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.083%) Visualisation
7 1 (2.083%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 21 (43.75%) zOS
2 6 (12.50%) Windows
3 5 (10.42%) MVS
3 5 (10.42%) AIX
4 4 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (4.167%) UNIX
6 1 (2.083%) Linux
6 1 (2.083%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.083%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (16.67%) Release Management
2 7 (14.58%) Problem Management
3 5 (10.42%) Migration
3 5 (10.42%) ETL
3 5 (10.42%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (6.250%) Configuration Management
4 3 (6.250%) ITIL
4 3 (6.250%) ETRM
5 2 (4.167%) Stress Testing
5 2 (4.167%) Data Modelling
5 2 (4.167%) UML
5 2 (4.167%) Project Management
5 2 (4.167%) Validation
5 2 (4.167%) PDM
6 1 (2.083%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (2.083%) Data Management
6 1 (2.083%) Document Management
6 1 (2.083%) Requirements Management
6 1 (2.083%) Requirements Analysis
6 1 (2.083%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (60.42%) COBOL
2 15 (31.25%) JCL
3 12 (25.00%) SQL
4 5 (10.42%) ALGOL
5 2 (4.167%) REXX
6 1 (2.083%) Assembly Language
6 1 (2.083%) PL/1
6 1 (2.083%) C
6 1 (2.083%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (2.083%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (16.67%) RACF
2 4 (8.333%) Hyper-V
2 4 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.333%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.333%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (2.083%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Control-M
2 4 (8.333%) Tivoli
3 2 (4.167%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (2.083%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.083%) CA Endevor
4 1 (2.083%) Foglight
Vendors
1 17 (35.42%) IBM
2 11 (22.92%) CA
3 7 (14.58%) Oracle
4 5 (10.42%) VMware
4 5 (10.42%) Micro Focus
4 5 (10.42%) Cisco
4 5 (10.42%) HP
4 5 (10.42%) Citrix
4 5 (10.42%) CheckPoint
4 5 (10.42%) Unisys
5 4 (8.333%) Brocade
6 1 (2.083%) Teradata
6 1 (2.083%) EMC
6 1 (2.083%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.083%) Nokia
6 1 (2.083%) Remedy
6 1 (2.083%) Sybase
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