CICS Contracts in England

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CICS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CICS over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 613 741
Rank change year-on-year +97 +128 -152
Contract jobs citing CICS 27 35 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.073% 0.069% 0.059%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.78% 0.64% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 9
10th Percentile £330 £330 £304
25th Percentile £356 £463 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.75% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £675 £563
90th Percentile £500 - £630
UK median daily rate £389 £600 £505
% change year-on-year -35.17% +18.81% -1.46%

All Application Platform Skills
England

CICS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,465 5,455 8,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.31% 10.81% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,477 3,916 6,099
10th Percentile £250 £263 £263
25th Percentile £360 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £754 £721
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.97% +8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 128 187
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.38 £13.72
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.25 £20.89
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +49.59% +4.45%
75th Percentile £45.59 £66.00 £45.86
90th Percentile £65.00 £79.19 £67.92
UK median hourly rate £27.52 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -31.21% +81.82% +0.41%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CICS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CICS in England

CICS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CICS in England.

Daily rate trend for CICS in England

CICS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CICS in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CICS in England

CICS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CICS in England.

Hourly rate trend for CICS in England

CICS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
London +101 10 £475 -20.83% 4
Midlands +35 9 £358 +8.48% 1
West Midlands - 9 £358 -
South East - 5 £358 -
North of England +16 1 £470 -
Yorkshire +10 1 £470 -
CICS
UK

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (40.74%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) AWS
2 2 (7.41%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) ATM
1 1 (3.70%) SNA
1 1 (3.70%) SSL
1 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (85.19%) DB2
2 13 (48.15%) IDMS
3 3 (11.11%) OLTP
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (40.74%) Git
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (62.96%) Developer
2 15 (55.56%) Mainframe Developer
3 11 (40.74%) IBM Mainframe Developer
4 7 (25.93%) z/OS Specialist
5 4 (14.81%) CICS Specialist
6 3 (11.11%) Backend Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Architect
7 2 (7.41%) DB2 Specialist
7 2 (7.41%) Mainframe Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Senior
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Backend Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Mainframe Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Technical Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Test Architect
7 2 (7.41%) z/OS Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Technical Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Technical Manager
8 1 (3.70%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) ISPF
2 1 (3.70%) RESTful
2 1 (3.70%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (96.30%) Mainframe
2 12 (44.44%) IBM Mainframe
3 3 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 3 (11.11%) VSAM
4 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (88.89%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Requirements Gathering
2 13 (48.15%) Agile
3 11 (40.74%) Scrum
4 10 (37.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (14.81%) Change Data Capture
6 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (14.81%) Project Delivery
6 4 (14.81%) Project Management
6 4 (14.81%) Reverse Engineering
7 3 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (11.11%) Data Security
7 3 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (7.41%) Configuration Management
8 2 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (7.41%) End-to-End Testing
8 2 (7.41%) Migration
8 2 (7.41%) Software Engineering
8 2 (7.41%) System Testing
8 2 (7.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (81.48%) COBOL
2 14 (51.85%) REXX
3 11 (40.74%) CLIST
4 10 (37.04%) SELCOPY
5 4 (14.81%) JCL
6 2 (7.41%) Assembly Language
7 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 9 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) RACF
2 4 (14.81%) ACF2
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) CA Endevor
1 4 (14.81%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 19 (70.37%) IBM
2 11 (40.74%) Syncsort
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) SunGard
4 1 (3.70%) Teradata