The first table below looks at the demand for CICS skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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.

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 502 486 519
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +33
Contract jobs citing CICS 39 84 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.081% 0.145% 0.132%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.461% 0.888% 0.820%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 36 41
Average daily rate £388 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.09% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £344 £264 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £483 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £308 £311
% change year-on-year
+21.95% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
Average hourly rate - £31.50 £47.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -32.97%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.97%
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8463 9460 9995
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 17.59% 16.30% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4776 5322 5437
Average daily rate £358 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £508 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 441 559
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £37.50 £42.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%

CICS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

CICS Daily Rate Trend

CICS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CICS within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

CICS Daily Rate Histogram

CICS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CICS Hourly Rate Trend

CICS
Top 26 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -40 27 £375 +17.18% 3
Scotland -6 8 £400 +18.51%
London +11 6 £400 -5.88% 2
South East +1 6 £369 +15.23% 1
City of London -5 1 - - 1
East Midlands - - - -
Midlands - - - -
North West - - - -
Altrincham - - - -
Chester - - - -
Erskine - - - -
Folkestone - - - -
Knutsford - - - -
Manchester - - - -
Milton Keynes - - - -
Northampton - - - -
Nottingham - - - -
Buckinghamshire - - - -
Cheshire - - - -
Kent - - - - 1
Northamptonshire - - - -
Nottinghamshire - - - -
Renfrewshire - - - -
Surrey - - - -
Wiltshire - - - -
South West - - - -

CICS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 47 (74.60%) Mainframe
2 36 (57.14%) DB2
3 34 (53.97%) COBOL
4 28 (44.44%) zOS
5 22 (34.92%) IBM
6 19 (30.16%) Finance
7 18 (28.57%) JCL
8 15 (23.81%) Banking
9 14 (22.22%) VSAM
9 14 (22.22%) SQL
10 13 (20.63%) CA
10 13 (20.63%) RACF
10 13 (20.63%) WebSphere
11 12 (19.05%) ChangeMan
12 11 (17.46%) IBM Mainframe
13 9 (14.29%) Release Management
13 9 (14.29%) Control-M
13 9 (14.29%) Oracle
14 8 (12.70%) Windows
14 8 (12.70%) AIX
15 7 (11.11%) TCP/IP
15 7 (11.11%) SLA
15 7 (11.11%) Migration
15 7 (11.11%) Problem Management
16 6 (9.524%) Middleware
16 6 (9.524%) Firewall
16 6 (9.524%) Retail
16 6 (9.524%) Citrix
16 6 (9.524%) SAN
16 6 (9.524%) SQL Server

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 13 (20.63%) WebSphere
2 6 (9.524%) Middleware
3 4 (6.349%) Web Services
4 3 (4.762%) SOAP
4 3 (4.762%) ISPF
5 2 (3.175%) HTML
5 2 (3.175%) XML
6 1 (1.587%) .NET
6 1 (1.587%) J2EE
6 1 (1.587%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (1.587%) Spring
6 1 (1.587%) REST
Application Platforms
1 4 (6.349%) WebLogic
2 3 (4.762%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (4.762%) SAS
3 2 (3.175%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 2 (3.175%) IBM Notes
3 2 (3.175%) MQSeries
3 2 (3.175%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.587%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (3.175%) MS Office
2 1 (1.587%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 6 (9.524%) Firewall
2 6 (9.524%) SAN
3 5 (7.937%) Internet
4 4 (6.349%) SNA
5 2 (3.175%) NAS
5 2 (3.175%) FTP
6 1 (1.587%) VoIP
6 1 (1.587%) CTI
6 1 (1.587%) HTTP
6 1 (1.587%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (57.14%) DB2
2 6 (9.524%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.937%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.175%) IDMS
5 1 (1.587%) Informix
5 1 (1.587%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.587%) TOAD
5 1 (1.587%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (19.05%) ChangeMan
2 2 (3.175%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.587%) LoadRunner
General
1 19 (30.16%) Finance
2 15 (23.81%) Banking
3 6 (9.524%) Retail
4 3 (4.762%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.175%) Dutch Language
5 2 (3.175%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.587%) Billing
6 1 (1.587%) French Language
6 1 (1.587%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (22.22%) Analyst
2 12 (19.05%) Programmer
3 7 (11.11%) Architect
4 6 (9.524%) Analyst Programmer
4 6 (9.524%) Systems Programmer
5 5 (7.937%) Designer
6 4 (6.349%) Mainframe Architect
6 4 (6.349%) Systems Analyst
6 4 (6.349%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.349%) Technical Support
7 3 (4.762%) COBOL Programmer
7 3 (4.762%) Developer
7 3 (4.762%) CICS Programmer
8 2 (3.175%) Technical Design Leader
8 2 (3.175%) CICS Systems Programmer
8 2 (3.175%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.175%) Test Analyst
8 2 (3.175%) Solutions Designer
8 2 (3.175%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (3.175%) Mainframe Developer
Miscellaneous
1 47 (74.60%) Mainframe
2 14 (22.22%) VSAM
3 11 (17.46%) IBM Mainframe
4 5 (7.937%) Online Banking
5 4 (6.349%) Mobile Banking
5 4 (6.349%) PKI
6 3 (4.762%) Replication
7 1 (1.587%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.587%) IVR
7 1 (1.587%) Tandem
7 1 (1.587%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.587%) CMDB
7 1 (1.587%) Derivative
7 1 (1.587%) Visualisation
7 1 (1.587%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 28 (44.44%) zOS
2 8 (12.70%) Windows
2 8 (12.70%) AIX
3 5 (7.937%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (7.937%) MVS
3 5 (7.937%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (4.762%) UNIX
5 2 (3.175%) Linux
6 1 (1.587%) Android
6 1 (1.587%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (14.29%) Release Management
2 7 (11.11%) Migration
2 7 (11.11%) Problem Management
3 5 (7.937%) ETL
3 5 (7.937%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (4.762%) ITIL
4 3 (4.762%) UML
4 3 (4.762%) Configuration Management
4 3 (4.762%) ETRM
5 2 (3.175%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (3.175%) Requirements Management
5 2 (3.175%) Stress Testing
5 2 (3.175%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (3.175%) Project Management
5 2 (3.175%) Validation
5 2 (3.175%) PDM
5 2 (3.175%) Document Management
5 2 (3.175%) Data Modelling
5 2 (3.175%) SOA
6 1 (1.587%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 34 (53.97%) COBOL
2 18 (28.57%) JCL
3 14 (22.22%) SQL
4 5 (7.937%) ALGOL
5 3 (4.762%) Java
6 2 (3.175%) REXX
7 1 (1.587%) C
7 1 (1.587%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.587%) RPG
7 1 (1.587%) PL/1
7 1 (1.587%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 1 (1.587%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (20.63%) RACF
2 5 (7.937%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 4 (6.349%) Hyper-V
3 4 (6.349%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.349%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.175%) SRDF
5 1 (1.587%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 9 (14.29%) Control-M
2 5 (7.937%) Tivoli
3 2 (3.175%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.587%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (1.587%) MAINVIEW
4 1 (1.587%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.587%) Foglight
4 1 (1.587%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 22 (34.92%) IBM
2 13 (20.63%) CA
3 9 (14.29%) Oracle
4 6 (9.524%) Citrix
5 5 (7.937%) HP
5 5 (7.937%) Cisco
5 5 (7.937%) Unisys
5 5 (7.937%) CheckPoint
5 5 (7.937%) VMware
5 5 (7.937%) Micro Focus
6 4 (6.349%) Brocade
7 3 (4.762%) Microsoft
8 2 (3.175%) Remedy
8 2 (3.175%) EMC
8 2 (3.175%) Lotus
9 1 (1.587%) Sybase
9 1 (1.587%) Nokia
9 1 (1.587%) Teradata
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