The first table below looks at the demand for CICS skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CICS over the 3 months to 21 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Rank 793 820 805
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -15
Permanent jobs citing CICS 54 36 57
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.053% 0.032% 0.049%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.247% 0.154% 0.258%
Number of salaries quoted 37 25 47
Average salary £52,500 £36,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+45.83% -10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,000 £23,500 £29,400
10% offered a salary of more than £68,500 £55,000 £59,500
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £28,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+84.21% -24.00%
All Application Platforms
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
21839 23409 22071
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 21.49% 20.58% 19.10%
Number of salaries quoted 18759 20486 19091
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
CICS
UK

CICS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England CICS Salary Trend

CICS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CICS across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 21 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
London +39 15 £65,000 +23.80%
North West -7 15 £52,500 +105.88%
South East +8 12 £58,750 -
East Midlands 0 7 £48,000 +26.31%
South West - 2 £38,000 -
Midlands +17 1 - -
West Midlands -22 1 £60,000 +114.28%
CICS
UK

CICS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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.

1 123 (90.44%) Mainframe
2 106 (77.94%) DB2
3 65 (47.79%) COBOL
4 61 (44.85%) Web Services
5 55 (40.44%) Oracle
6 54 (39.71%) IBM
7 50 (36.76%) ETL
8 49 (36.03%) JCL
9 45 (33.09%) XML
10 43 (31.62%) XML Schema
11 42 (30.88%) Finance
12 41 (30.15%) SOA
13 38 (27.94%) MQSeries
13 38 (27.94%) J2EE
14 37 (27.21%) zOS
15 36 (26.47%) WebSphere
16 34 (25.00%) FTP
17 32 (23.53%) Capacity Planning
18 31 (22.79%) Data Modelling
18 31 (22.79%) Java
19 28 (20.59%) ITIL
19 28 (20.59%) IBM Mainframe
20 27 (19.85%) XSLT
20 27 (19.85%) B2B
21 26 (19.12%) Project Management
21 26 (19.12%) Stakeholder Management
22 25 (18.38%) Load Balancing
22 25 (18.38%) Marketing
23 24 (17.65%) CA Endevor
23 24 (17.65%) UML

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 61 (44.85%) Web Services
2 45 (33.09%) XML
3 43 (31.62%) XML Schema
4 38 (27.94%) J2EE
5 36 (26.47%) WebSphere
6 27 (19.85%) XSLT
7 21 (15.44%) ISPF
8 18 (13.24%) Spring
8 18 (13.24%) Hibernate
8 18 (13.24%) .NET
9 15 (11.03%) JAXB
9 15 (11.03%) WSDL
9 15 (11.03%) Grails
10 13 (9.559%) JMS
11 9 (6.618%) Java EE
11 9 (6.618%) JDBC
11 9 (6.618%) JSP
12 7 (5.147%) Middleware
13 6 (4.412%) JNDI
14 4 (2.941%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 38 (27.94%) MQSeries
2 21 (15.44%) GlassFish
3 18 (13.24%) Apache
4 8 (5.882%) WebSphere MQ
5 6 (4.412%) Tomcat
6 5 (3.676%) WebSphere Message Broker
7 4 (2.941%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (2.941%) SAS
8 3 (2.206%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
8 3 (2.206%) Lotus Notes
9 2 (1.471%) TPMS
10 1 (0.735%) ESB
Applications
1 6 (4.412%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.471%) MS Office
2 2 (1.471%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 4 (2.941%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (2.206%) Maximo
3 1 (0.735%) FLEXCUBE
Communications & Networking
1 34 (25.00%) FTP
2 5 (3.676%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.941%) HTTP
3 4 (2.941%) SSL
4 3 (2.206%) Firewall
4 3 (2.206%) LAN
4 3 (2.206%) WAN
5 2 (1.471%) SNA
5 2 (1.471%) SAN
5 2 (1.471%) Intranet
5 2 (1.471%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (77.94%) DB2
2 23 (16.91%) BODI
3 21 (15.44%) Oracle 11g
4 11 (8.088%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.941%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.471%) MySQL
6 2 (1.471%) Informix
6 2 (1.471%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.735%) IDMS
7 1 (0.735%) Ingres
7 1 (0.735%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 18 (13.24%) JUnit
2 3 (2.206%) JProfiler
2 3 (2.206%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.206%) JIRA
2 3 (2.206%) Subversion
2 3 (2.206%) Maven
2 3 (2.206%) TestDirector
2 3 (2.206%) Ant
3 2 (1.471%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.735%) Eclipse
General
1 42 (30.88%) Finance
2 25 (18.38%) Marketing
3 19 (13.97%) Banking
4 10 (7.353%) Telecoms
5 7 (5.147%) Retail
6 6 (4.412%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.941%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.206%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.206%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.471%) International Banking
9 2 (1.471%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.471%) Legal
10 1 (0.735%) Games
Job Titles
1 49 (36.03%) Architect
2 36 (26.47%) Solutions Architect
3 26 (19.12%) Mainframe Architect
4 23 (16.91%) Programmer
5 21 (15.44%) Systems Programmer
6 17 (12.50%) Mainframe Programmer
7 15 (11.03%) Team Leader
8 14 (10.29%) Software Engineer
9 12 (8.824%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (6.618%) Consultant
11 6 (4.412%) Developer
11 6 (4.412%) Analyst
11 6 (4.412%) Integration Architect
11 6 (4.412%) SOA Architect
11 6 (4.412%) Mainframe Consultant
12 5 (3.676%) Integration Engineer
12 5 (3.676%) Technical Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.676%) Technical Architect
13 4 (2.941%) Environment Manager
13 4 (2.941%) Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 123 (90.44%) Mainframe
2 28 (20.59%) IBM Mainframe
3 15 (11.03%) W3C
4 12 (8.824%) Credit Risk
5 6 (4.412%) VSAM
6 5 (3.676%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.941%) PMI
7 4 (2.941%) Tandem
8 3 (2.206%) LPAR
8 3 (2.206%) Digital Media
8 3 (2.206%) Computer Science
8 3 (2.206%) Online Banking
9 2 (1.471%) N-Tier
9 2 (1.471%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.471%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.735%) Data Extraction
10 1 (0.735%) Data Integration
10 1 (0.735%) SWIFT
10 1 (0.735%) AS400
10 1 (0.735%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 37 (27.21%) zOS
2 23 (16.91%) Linux
2 23 (16.91%) MVS
3 19 (13.97%) UNIX
4 18 (13.24%) Windows
5 9 (6.618%) Solaris
6 7 (5.147%) AIX
7 4 (2.941%) SUSE
8 3 (2.206%) HPUX
9 2 (1.471%) OS/390
9 2 (1.471%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.735%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (36.76%) ETL
2 41 (30.15%) SOA
3 32 (23.53%) Capacity Planning
4 31 (22.79%) Data Modelling
5 28 (20.59%) ITIL
6 27 (19.85%) B2B
7 26 (19.12%) Project Management
7 26 (19.12%) Stakeholder Management
8 25 (18.38%) Load Balancing
9 24 (17.65%) UML
10 23 (16.91%) OOA/OOD
11 19 (13.97%) PRINCE2
12 18 (13.24%) Agile Software Development
12 18 (13.24%) TDD
13 16 (11.76%) Scrum
14 15 (11.03%) Continuous Integration
15 14 (10.29%) Unit Testing
15 14 (10.29%) Kanban
15 14 (10.29%) Feature Driven Development
15 14 (10.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 65 (47.79%) COBOL
2 49 (36.03%) JCL
3 31 (22.79%) Java
4 21 (15.44%) SQL
5 20 (14.71%) REXX
6 5 (3.676%) PL/1
6 5 (3.676%) C#
7 4 (2.941%) C++
8 3 (2.206%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.206%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.471%) VBA
9 2 (1.471%) Python
9 2 (1.471%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.735%) Ruby
10 1 (0.735%) NATURAL
10 1 (0.735%) Fortran
10 1 (0.735%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.735%) Perl
10 1 (0.735%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (3.676%) Degree
1 5 (3.676%) PMI Certification
2 3 (2.206%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (0.735%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.941%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.676%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.206%) XenApp
2 3 (2.206%) XenServer
2 3 (2.206%) vSphere
3 1 (0.735%) RACF
3 1 (0.735%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 24 (17.65%) CA Endevor
2 6 (4.412%) OMEGAMON
3 5 (3.676%) Tivoli
4 3 (2.206%) BladeLogic
4 3 (2.206%) BMC PATROL
4 3 (2.206%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 2 (1.471%) Tivoli NetView
6 1 (0.735%) BMC Performance Manager
6 1 (0.735%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 55 (40.44%) Oracle
2 54 (39.71%) IBM
3 23 (16.91%) Cognos
3 23 (16.91%) Business Objects
3 23 (16.91%) BMC
3 23 (16.91%) Informatica
4 22 (16.18%) CA
5 9 (6.618%) Microsoft
6 8 (5.882%) VMware
7 6 (4.412%) NetApp
8 5 (3.676%) Sybase
9 4 (2.941%) EMC
9 4 (2.941%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.206%) Pega
10 3 (2.206%) 3PAR
10 3 (2.206%) Lotus
10 3 (2.206%) Citrix
10 3 (2.206%) HP
10 3 (2.206%) Cisco
10 3 (2.206%) TIBCO
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