CICS Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 429 494
Rank change year-on-year +47 +65 -82
Contract jobs citing CICS 14 18 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.068% 0.077% 0.059%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.81% 0.69% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £333 - £402
25th Percentile £351 - £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £330 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.48% -30.53% -7.32%
75th Percentile £378 - £534
90th Percentile £414 - £551
UK median daily rate £370 £600 £503
% change year-on-year -38.33% +19.40% -3.13%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,733 2,600 3,817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.46% 11.08% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 1,870 2,631
10th Percentile £208 £202 £185
25th Percentile £323 £350 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £545
90th Percentile £650 £675 £632
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 98 138
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.35 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.00 £17.73 £15.01
Median hourly rate £24.43 £29.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.48% +58.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £51.91 £65.94 £36.69
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.36 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £27.52 £46.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -40.51% +105.56% +5.14%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for CICS in the UK excluding London

CICS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for CICS in the UK excluding London

CICS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CICS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CICS in the UK excluding London

CICS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for CICS in the UK excluding London

CICS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Midlands +43 9 £358 +8.48% 1
West Midlands - 9 £358 -
South East - 5 £358 -
North of England +13 1 £470 -
Yorkshire +3 1 £470 -
Scotland - 1 £400 -
CICS
UK

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (78.57%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (85.71%) DB2
2 11 (78.57%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Developer
2 11 (78.57%) IBM Mainframe Developer
2 11 (78.57%) Mainframe Developer
3 2 (14.29%) COBOL Developer
4 1 (7.14%) CICS Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) z/OS Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 13 (92.86%) Mainframe
2 11 (78.57%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Agile
1 12 (85.71%) Requirements Gathering
2 11 (78.57%) Scrum
3 10 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Data Extraction
5 1 (7.14%) ETL
5 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.14%) Product Vision
5 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Project Management
5 1 (7.14%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) COBOL
2 11 (78.57%) CLIST
2 11 (78.57%) REXX
3 10 (71.43%) SELCOPY
4 2 (14.29%) JCL
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) SC Cleared
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) ACF2
1 1 (7.14%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) IBM
1 11 (78.57%) Syncsort
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft