The first table below looks at the demand for CICS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire 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 Lancashire 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 - - 30
Contract jobs citing CICS 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire - - 0.418%
As % of the Application Platforms category - - 2.128%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £308 £311
% change year-on-year
+21.95% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.97%
All Application Platforms
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
32 56 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 14.48% 13.27% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 27
Average daily rate £300 £318 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.51% -9.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £155 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £488 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 8
Average hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +30.43%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.75 £20.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £78.94 £30.00 £52.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
CICS
North West

CICS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire CICS Daily Rate Trend

CICS
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) TOAD
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) HP Quality Center

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Performance Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Performance Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
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