CICS Contracts in London

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 488 581
Rank change year-on-year +103 +93 -123
Contract jobs citing CICS 8 17 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.045% 0.064% 0.067%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.40% 0.59% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 5
10th Percentile £363 - £302
25th Percentile £458 £463 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £505
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +18.81% +26.25%
75th Percentile £488 £675 £588
90th Percentile £597 - £714
England median daily rate £374 £600 £488
% change year-on-year -37.67% +23.08% +2.63%

All Application Platform Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,990 2,875 4,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.17% 10.75% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,475 2,055 3,487
10th Percentile £263 £313 £350
25th Percentile £400 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £670
90th Percentile £813 £800 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 31 51
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £21.25 £25.75
Median hourly rate £28.75 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -6.67% +41.51%
75th Percentile £34.75 £69.13 £66.75
90th Percentile £59.38 £83.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £25.50 £33.75 £20.89
% change year-on-year -24.44% +61.56% +4.94%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for CICS in London

CICS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for CICS in London

CICS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CICS in London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CICS in London

CICS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for CICS in London

CICS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Central London +41 1 - -
CICS
England

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) DB2
2 2 (25.00%) OLTP
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Mainframe Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Backend Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Backend Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Mainframe Developer
4 2 (25.00%) z/OS Developer
4 2 (25.00%) z/OS Specialist
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
5 1 (12.50%) CICS Specialist
5 1 (12.50%) DB2 Developer
5 1 (12.50%) DB2 Specialist
5 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) ISPF
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Data Security
2 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) API Development
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) COBOL
2 2 (25.00%) REXX
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) ACF2
1 1 (12.50%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) CA Endevor
2 1 (12.50%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) IBM