The first table below looks at the demand for CICS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Knutsford 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 Knutsford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Rank 30 28 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Permanent jobs citing CICS 2 11 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Knutsford 1.290% 6.145% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.091% 24.44% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 0
Average salary £42,250 £25,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+65.68% -
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £28,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+84.21% -24.00%
All Application Platforms
Knutsford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
22 45 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Knutsford 14.19% 25.14% 29.66%
Number of salaries quoted 22 44 29
Average salary £32,500 £39,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
CICS
Cheshire

CICS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Knutsford 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 Knutsford region.

Knutsford CICS Salary Trend

CICS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CICS across the Knutsford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Knutsford CICS Salary Histogram

CICS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Knutsford 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 3 (100.00%) DB2
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) J2EE
2 2 (66.67%) JMS
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) COBOL
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) PMI
3 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Assembly Language
3 1 (33.33%) REXX
3 1 (33.33%) zOS
3 1 (33.33%) MVS
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE
3 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
3 1 (33.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (33.33%) Tivoli NetView
3 1 (33.33%) JCL
3 1 (33.33%) JDBC
3 1 (33.33%) JSP
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (33.33%) RUP
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Knutsford 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 2 (66.67%) J2EE
1 2 (66.67%) JMS
2 1 (33.33%) JNDI
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) JDBC
2 1 (33.33%) JSP
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe Operator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) zOS
1 1 (33.33%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) RUP
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE
2 1 (33.33%) CMMI
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Assembly Language
2 1 (33.33%) REXX
2 1 (33.33%) JCL
2 1 (33.33%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
1 1 (33.33%) Tivoli NetView
1 1 (33.33%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft