The first table below looks at the demand for CICS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bath region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CICS over the 3 months to 17 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 Bath region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing CICS 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath - - -
As % of the Application Platforms category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £28,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+84.21% -24.00%
All Application Platforms
Bath
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
93 48 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 23.72% 23.19% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 88 48 33
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,100 £29,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
CICS
Somerset

CICS
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bath 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 IT job ads sampled that cited CICS.

1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) DB2
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) SOA
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
1 4 (100.00%) zOS
1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Java EE
1 4 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 4 (100.00%) Investment Management
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (50.00%) COBOL
2 2 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bath 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 IT job ads sampled that cited CICS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) Java EE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Solutions Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Mainframe Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Designer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Designer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Technical Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Designer
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 4 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) SOA
1 4 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Investment Management
2 2 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) COBOL
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) IBM