CICS Contracts with Work from Home Options

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 327 441 590
Rank change year-on-year +114 +149 -140
Contract jobs citing CICS 14 27 25
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.093% 0.11% 0.057%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.89% 0.95% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 8
10th Percentile £343 £357 £414
25th Percentile £356 £396 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year -24.42% -7.77% -1.90%
75th Percentile £364 £488 £574
90th Percentile £401 - £651
UK median daily rate £370 £600 £503
% change year-on-year -38.33% +19.40% -3.13%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,568 2,846 5,413
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.40% 11.34% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,113 1,998 3,913
10th Percentile £300 £313 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +8.42%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £618
90th Percentile £800 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 71 72
10th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £14.60
25th Percentile £22.61 £22.16 £18.69
Median hourly rate £30.16 £55.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.16% +46.67% +41.51%
75th Percentile £50.47 £66.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £72.25 £81.50 £68.48
UK median hourly rate £27.52 £46.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -40.51% +105.56% +5.14%

CICS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CICS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CICS trend for jobs with a WFH option

CICS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CICS.

CICS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (64.29%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (92.86%) DB2
2 9 (64.29%) IDMS
3 2 (14.29%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
1 9 (64.29%) Mainframe Developer
2 8 (57.14%) IBM Mainframe Developer
3 3 (21.43%) z/OS Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) DB2 Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Backend Developer
5 1 (7.14%) CICS Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) COBOL Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Mainframe Expert
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Backend Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 9 (64.29%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
1 9 (64.29%) Scrum
2 8 (57.14%) Requirements Gathering
2 8 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (14.29%) Data Security
4 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (7.14%) Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Change Data Capture
5 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Data Extraction
5 1 (7.14%) ETL
5 1 (7.14%) Migration
5 1 (7.14%) Project Management
5 1 (7.14%) Reverse Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) COBOL
2 12 (85.71%) REXX
3 9 (64.29%) CLIST
4 8 (57.14%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) ACF2
1 1 (7.14%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) CA Endevor
1 1 (7.14%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) IBM
2 9 (64.29%) Syncsort