The first table below looks at the demand for CICS skills in IT jobs advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CICS over the 3 months to 23 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 East Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Rank 157 156 166
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +10
Permanent jobs citing CICS 8 7 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.261% 0.210% 0.083%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.327% 1.201% 0.435%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 3
Average salary £40,000 £38,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
UK excluding London average salary £51,250 £28,250 £37,250
% change year-on-year
+81.41% -24.16%
All Application Platforms
East Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
603 583 690
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 19.65% 17.46% 19.07%
Number of salaries quoted 542 511 619
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £48,000 £50,300 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
CICS
England

CICS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands CICS Salary Trend

CICS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CICS across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

East Midlands CICS Salary Histogram

CICS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Northamptonshire - 4 £37,500 -
Nottinghamshire -4 3 - -
CICS
England

CICS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 22 (100.00%) DB2
1 22 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 19 (86.36%) IBM
3 17 (77.27%) BMC
3 17 (77.27%) CA
3 17 (77.27%) REXX
3 17 (77.27%) zOS
3 17 (77.27%) MVS
3 17 (77.27%) JCL
3 17 (77.27%) ISPF
4 16 (72.73%) ITIL
5 15 (68.18%) Linux
6 12 (54.55%) Credit Risk
6 12 (54.55%) Marketing
6 12 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (27.27%) Finance
8 5 (22.73%) WebSphere
8 5 (22.73%) Solaris
8 5 (22.73%) SSL
8 5 (22.73%) Middleware
8 5 (22.73%) UNIX
8 5 (22.73%) AIX
8 5 (22.73%) WebSphere MQ
8 5 (22.73%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 4 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (18.18%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
9 4 (18.18%) Tandem
9 4 (18.18%) Tivoli
9 4 (18.18%) Tivoli Monitoring
9 4 (18.18%) Shell Script

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 17 (77.27%) ISPF
2 5 (22.73%) WebSphere
2 5 (22.73%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) WebSphere MQ
1 5 (22.73%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 4 (18.18%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 12 (54.55%) Marketing
2 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (77.27%) Programmer
1 17 (77.27%) Systems Programmer
2 15 (68.18%) Mainframe Programmer
3 2 (9.091%) WebSphere Specialist
3 2 (9.091%) Middleware Specialist
4 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 22 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 12 (54.55%) Credit Risk
3 4 (18.18%) Tandem
4 3 (13.64%) Digital Media
5 1 (4.545%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 17 (77.27%) zOS
1 17 (77.27%) MVS
2 15 (68.18%) Linux
3 5 (22.73%) Solaris
3 5 (22.73%) UNIX
3 5 (22.73%) AIX
4 4 (18.18%) HPUX
4 4 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) ITIL
2 12 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (18.18%) Business Continuity
4 2 (9.091%) Validation
4 2 (9.091%) Service Management
4 2 (9.091%) SOA
5 1 (4.545%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) REXX
1 17 (77.27%) JCL
2 4 (18.18%) Shell Script
3 2 (9.091%) COBOL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.091%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Tivoli
1 4 (18.18%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 19 (86.36%) IBM
2 17 (77.27%) BMC
2 17 (77.27%) CA
3 4 (18.18%) Oracle