IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 684 801
Rank change year-on-year +122 +117 -168
Contract jobs citing CICS 36 35 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.059% 0.054%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.87% 0.53% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 10
10th Percentile £337 £341 £305
25th Percentile £359 £456 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £600 £503
Median % change year-on-year -35.17% +19.40% -1.95%
75th Percentile £484 £675 £567
90th Percentile £500 - £799
UK excluding London median daily rate £364 £330 £500
% change year-on-year +10.30% -34.00% -1.23%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,145 6,581 11,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.57% 11.00% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,849 4,620 7,600
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 150 212
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.52 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +93.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £79.19 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.75 £26.24 £18.75
% change year-on-year -9.49% +39.95% -6.25%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CICS in the UK

CICS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CICS in the UK

CICS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CICS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CICS in the UK

CICS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CICS in the UK

CICS
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +121 27 £422 -29.75% 7
Work from Home +126 17 £360 +9.09% 1
UK excluding London +65 15 £364 +10.30% 2
London +95 10 £475 -20.83% 4
Midlands +30 9 £358 +8.48% 1
West Midlands - 9 £358 -
South East - 5 £358 -
North of England +21 1 £470 -
Yorkshire +8 1 £470 -
Scotland - 1 £400 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 -

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (38.89%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (5.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) SNA
1 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.78%) ATM
2 1 (2.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (86.11%) DB2
2 17 (47.22%) IDMS
3 5 (13.89%) OLTP
4 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (38.89%) Git
General
1 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.56%) Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (55.56%) Developer
2 17 (47.22%) Mainframe Developer
3 13 (36.11%) IBM Mainframe Developer
4 9 (25.00%) z/OS Specialist
5 4 (11.11%) CICS Specialist
5 4 (11.11%) DB2 Specialist
6 3 (8.33%) Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Backend Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Mainframe Architect
6 3 (8.33%) Test Architect
7 2 (5.56%) COBOL Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Backend Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Mainframe Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
7 2 (5.56%) z/OS Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Java Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Lead Architect
8 1 (2.78%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) ISPF
2 2 (5.56%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (2.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 35 (97.22%) Mainframe
2 15 (41.67%) IBM Mainframe
3 5 (13.89%) Management Information System
4 4 (11.11%) Data Structures
4 4 (11.11%) VSAM
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (83.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Agile
1 16 (44.44%) Requirements Gathering
2 14 (38.89%) Scrum
3 13 (36.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (19.44%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (13.89%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (13.89%) Data Security
6 5 (13.89%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (11.11%) Change Data Capture
7 4 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 4 (11.11%) Project Management
7 4 (11.11%) Reverse Engineering
8 3 (8.33%) Batch Processing
8 3 (8.33%) Configuration Management
8 3 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (8.33%) Migration
8 3 (8.33%) Software Engineering
8 3 (8.33%) Test Automation
9 2 (5.56%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (83.33%) COBOL
2 20 (55.56%) REXX
3 14 (38.89%) CLIST
4 13 (36.11%) SELCOPY
5 6 (16.67%) JCL
6 3 (8.33%) Assembly Language
7 1 (2.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (30.56%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) RACF
2 4 (11.11%) ACF2
3 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) CA Endevor
1 4 (11.11%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 24 (66.67%) IBM
2 14 (38.89%) Syncsort
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.56%) SunGard
5 1 (2.78%) Teradata