Glasgow CICS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS) skills within the Glasgow 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 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Location Birmingham Brentford Brentwood Buckinghamshire Cheshire Chester 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 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	66
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	3	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	3.093 %	2.030 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£225	-
Average daily rate	£263	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
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	£39.33	£39.42
% change on same period last year	-0.21 %
Application Platforms Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	97	197
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.138 %	0.199 %
Daily rates quoted	25	51
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£298
Average daily rate	£343	£322
% change on same period last year	+6.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£339
% change on same period last year	+3.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.40	£14.61
Average hourly rate	£24.70	£15.91
% change on same period last year	+55.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£17.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.54	£24.08
% change on same period last year	+1.92 %
CICS Scotland

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.

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Demand Trend

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

CICS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CICS across the Glasgow region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 5 (62.50 %) COBOL 2 3 (37.50 %) XML 2 3 (37.50 %) UNIX 2 3 (37.50 %) MVS 2 3 (37.50 %) JCL 2 3 (37.50 %) Mainframe 2 3 (37.50 %) WebSphere 2 3 (37.50 %) WebSphere Message Broker 3 2 (25.00 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 2 (25.00 %) Finance 3 2 (25.00 %) WPS 4 1 (12.50 %) Systems Analysis 4 1 (12.50 %) IBM 4 1 (12.50 %) DataStage 4 1 (12.50 %) Easytrieve

4 1 (12.50 %) Requirements Analysis 4 1 (12.50 %) IBM Mainframe 4 1 (12.50 %) Time Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 3 (37.50 %) XML 1 3 (37.50 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) WebSphere Message Broker 2 2 (25.00 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 2 (25.00 %) WPS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) DataStage 1 1 (12.50 %) Easytrieve	General 1 2 (25.00 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 7 (87.50 %) Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) COBOL Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Analyst Programmer 3 1 (12.50 %) Programmer 3 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (37.50 %) Mainframe 2 1 (12.50 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) UNIX 1 3 (37.50 %) MVS	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) Systems Analysis 1 1 (12.50 %) Requirements Analysis 1 1 (12.50 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 5 (62.50 %) COBOL 2 3 (37.50 %) JCL	Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) IBM