The first table below looks at the demand for CICS skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CICS over the 3 months to 24 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Rank 313 322 326
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +4
Permanent jobs citing CICS 8 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.069% 0.008% 0.032%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.349% 0.041% 0.198%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 4
Average salary £80,000 £75,000 £71,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +5.26%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £28,250 £37,250
% change year-on-year
+76.99% -24.16%
All Application Platforms
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
2294 2461 2524
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 19.67% 18.84% 16.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2019 2289 2315
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £33,500 £32,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
CICS
London

CICS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing CICS across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

City of London CICS Jobs Demand Trend

CICS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CICS across the City of London region.

City of London CICS Salary Trend

CICS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CICS across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London CICS Salary Histogram

CICS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 12 (100.00%) DB2
2 11 (91.67%) Mainframe
3 4 (33.33%) IBM
3 4 (33.33%) J2EE
3 4 (33.33%) Web Services
3 4 (33.33%) UML
3 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) QA
3 4 (33.33%) Use Case
4 3 (25.00%) Banking
4 3 (25.00%) CA
5 2 (16.67%) zOS
5 2 (16.67%) Change Management
5 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
5 2 (16.67%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (8.333%) SWIFT
6 1 (8.333%) COBOL
6 1 (8.333%) RACF
6 1 (8.333%) Clustering
6 1 (8.333%) CA Endevor
6 1 (8.333%) OMEGAMON
6 1 (8.333%) VSAM
6 1 (8.333%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (8.333%) MVS
6 1 (8.333%) EMC
6 1 (8.333%) Assembly Language
6 1 (8.333%) SAS
6 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 (33.33%) J2EE
1 4 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (8.333%) SAS
2 1 (8.333%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) FLEXCUBE
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) DB2
2 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
1 4 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Programmer
3 2 (16.67%) Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Programmer
3 2 (16.67%) CICS Programmer
4 1 (8.333%) Development Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Team Leader
4 1 (8.333%) WebSphere Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Team Leader
4 1 (8.333%) CICS Systems Programmer
4 1 (8.333%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 11 (91.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (8.333%) SWIFT
2 1 (8.333%) Clustering
2 1 (8.333%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) zOS
2 1 (8.333%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) UML
1 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 4 (33.33%) Use Case
2 2 (16.67%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.333%) COBOL
1 1 (8.333%) Assembly Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) CA Endevor
1 1 (8.333%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) IBM
2 3 (25.00%) CA
3 1 (8.333%) EMC
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle