Cambridgeshire CICS Jobs

This section looks at the demand for IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS) skills within the Cambridgeshire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CICS over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Coventry Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Folkestone Glasgow Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lytham St Annes Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Sussex Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	158	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	13	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.038 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	10	0
Average minimum salary	£40,600	-
Average salary	£42,110	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£43,620	-
UK excluding London average salary	£40,176	£36,740
% change on same period last year	+9.35 %
Application Platforms Cambridgeshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	638	384
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.336 %	0.158 %
Salaries quoted	564	323
Average minimum salary	£33,346	£30,829
Average salary	£35,709	£33,162
% change on same period last year	+7.67 %
Average maximum salary	£38,072	£35,495
UK excluding London average salary	£37,124	£38,684
% change on same period last year	-4.03 %
CICS East of England

CICS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing CICS across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

CICS
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CICS across the Cambridgeshire region.

CICS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CICS across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

CICS
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Peterborough	-	11	£44,375	-
Cambridge	-	2	£33,050	-

CICS East of England

CICS
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 14 (100.00 %) DB2 1 14 (100.00 %) COBOL 2 12 (85.71 %) Mainframe 3 11 (78.57 %) JCL 3 11 (78.57 %) VSAM 4 10 (71.43 %) Assembly Language 5 3 (21.43 %) IBM Mainframe 5 3 (21.43 %) IBM 6 2 (14.29 %) HP 6 2 (14.29 %) SQL 6 2 (14.29 %) OS/390 6 2 (14.29 %) zOS 6 2 (14.29 %) ClearQuest 6 2 (14.29 %) Unit Testing 6 2 (14.29 %) ChangeMan

7 1 (7.143 %) Tivoli 7 1 (7.143 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 7 1 (7.143 %) UNIX 7 1 (7.143 %) SSADM 7 1 (7.143 %) RUP 7 1 (7.143 %) MQSeries 7 1 (7.143 %) MS Excel

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 Platforms 1 1 (7.143 %) MQSeries	Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (100.00 %) DB2	Development Applications 1 2 (14.29 %) ClearQuest 1 2 (14.29 %) ChangeMan
Job Titles 1 4 (28.57 %) Analyst 1 4 (28.57 %) Programmer 2 3 (21.43 %) Analyst Programmer 3 2 (14.29 %) CICS Programmer 3 2 (14.29 %) Administrator 4 1 (7.143 %) Analyst Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) COBOL Analyst Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) COBOL Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) Systems Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) COBOL Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) COBOL Analyst 4 1 (7.143 %) Mainframe Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) CICS Systems Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) Mainframe Consultant 4 1 (7.143 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (7.143 %) Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) Senior Consultant 4 1 (7.143 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 12 (85.71 %) Mainframe 2 11 (78.57 %) VSAM 3 3 (21.43 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 2 (14.29 %) OS/390 1 2 (14.29 %) zOS 2 1 (7.143 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (14.29 %) Unit Testing 2 1 (7.143 %) SSADM 2 1 (7.143 %) RUP
Programming Languages 1 14 (100.00 %) COBOL 2 11 (78.57 %) JCL 3 10 (71.43 %) Assembly Language 4 2 (14.29 %) SQL	System Software 1 1 (7.143 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management 1 1 (7.143 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 3 (21.43 %) IBM 2 2 (14.29 %) HP