CICS Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for CICS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CICS over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Scotland 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Rank 114 104 101
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -3
Contract jobs citing CICS 4 6 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.164% 0.226% 0.362%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.924% 1.489% 2.174%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 7
Average daily rate - £329 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -15.70%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category		 433 403 460
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 17.75% 15.15% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 163 209
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £234 £200 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £430 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 17
Average hourly rate £15.77 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.92% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
CICS
UK

CICS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland CICS Daily Rate Trend

CICS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland CICS Hourly Rate Trend

CICS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Edinburgh +5 4 - -
CICS
UK

CICS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 (71.43%) Mainframe
2 4 (57.14%) zOS
3 2 (28.57%) RACF
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) DB2
3 2 (28.57%) COBOL
3 2 (28.57%) IBM
3 2 (28.57%) VSAM
4 1 (14.29%) Document Management
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Management
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 1 (14.29%) Citrix
4 1 (14.29%) MetaFrame
4 1 (14.29%) CA
4 1 (14.29%) Lotus
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) .NET
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) MS Office
4 1 (14.29%) Windows
4 1 (14.29%) AIX

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 (14.29%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) DB2
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Programmer
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Mainframe
2 2 (28.57%) VSAM
3 1 (14.29%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) zOS
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) AIX
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Document Management
2 1 (14.29%) Requirements Management
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Modelling
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) UML
2 1 (14.29%) SOA
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) COBOL
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) JCL
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) RACF
2 1 (14.29%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) CA
2 1 (14.29%) Lotus
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Remedy
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