Home Counties CICS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS) skills within the Home Counties 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Location Basildon Berkshire Blackburn Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Lancashire London Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Reading Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Swindon UK Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	27
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 %	7.692 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£220
Average daily rate	-	£220
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£220
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£364
% change on same period last year	+3.43 %
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	£36.67
% change on same period last year	+7.27 %
Application Platforms Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	10	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.013 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£423
Average daily rate	£400	£432
% change on same period last year	-7.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£440
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£15.75
Average hourly rate	-	£17.25
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£18.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.10	£24.95
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
CICS South East

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 Home Counties 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 Home Counties region.