The first table below looks at the demand for CICS skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CICS over the 3 months to 22 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Rank 586 642 617
Rank change year-on-year
+56 -25
Permanent jobs citing CICS 15 7 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.034% 0.013% 0.023%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.152% 0.060% 0.119%
Number of salaries quoted 10 4 10
Average salary £65,000 £52,500 £58,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.80% -10.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £47,350 £52,500 £39,750
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £68,250 £76,000
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £28,250 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+85.84% -24.66%
All Application Platforms
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
9884 11730 10889
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 22.46% 21.54% 19.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8491 10299 9408
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £71,000 £72,500
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 London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

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 London region.

London CICS Salary Trend

CICS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CICS across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 22 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
City of London +27 8 £80,000 +6.66%
Bromley - 1 £60,000 -
Croydon - 1 £65,000 -
CICS
England

CICS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 20 (76.92%) Mainframe
2 18 (69.23%) DB2
3 10 (38.46%) Web Services
4 8 (30.77%) Oracle
4 8 (30.77%) COBOL
4 8 (30.77%) IBM
5 7 (26.92%) UML
5 7 (26.92%) Data Modelling
5 7 (26.92%) Finance
5 7 (26.92%) WebSphere
6 6 (23.08%) J2EE
7 5 (19.23%) SOA
7 5 (19.23%) MQSeries
7 5 (19.23%) FTP
7 5 (19.23%) Banking
8 4 (15.38%) CA Endevor
8 4 (15.38%) QA
8 4 (15.38%) Use Case
8 4 (15.38%) JMS
8 4 (15.38%) JCL
8 4 (15.38%) WebSphere MQ
8 4 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (11.54%) Cognos
9 3 (11.54%) ETL
9 3 (11.54%) OOA/OOD
9 3 (11.54%) Java
9 3 (11.54%) XML
9 3 (11.54%) XSLT
9 3 (11.54%) Business Objects
9 3 (11.54%) B2B

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 10 (38.46%) Web Services
2 7 (26.92%) WebSphere
3 6 (23.08%) J2EE
4 4 (15.38%) JMS
5 3 (11.54%) XML
5 3 (11.54%) XSLT
5 3 (11.54%) Middleware
5 3 (11.54%) XML Schema
6 2 (7.692%) JNDI
6 2 (7.692%) EJB
6 2 (7.692%) JDBC
6 2 (7.692%) JSP
6 2 (7.692%) SOAP
6 2 (7.692%) ODBC
6 2 (7.692%) .NET
6 2 (7.692%) CORBA
7 1 (3.846%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 5 (19.23%) MQSeries
2 4 (15.38%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (3.846%) SAS
3 1 (3.846%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (3.846%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 1 (3.846%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
Applications
1 2 (7.692%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.692%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (3.846%) FLEXCUBE
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) FTP
2 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.692%) SNA
3 2 (7.692%) HTTP
3 2 (7.692%) Intranet
3 2 (7.692%) Internet
4 1 (3.846%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (69.23%) DB2
2 4 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (11.54%) BODI
4 2 (7.692%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) TestDirector
2 1 (3.846%) Eclipse
General
1 7 (26.92%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Banking
3 3 (11.54%) Retail
4 2 (7.692%) Legal
4 2 (7.692%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Architect
2 4 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Mainframe Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Programmer
4 2 (7.692%) Environment Manager
4 2 (7.692%) Administrator
4 2 (7.692%) Pre Sales Consultant
4 2 (7.692%) Sales Consultant
4 2 (7.692%) Consultant
4 2 (7.692%) TIBCO Consultant
4 2 (7.692%) Systems Programmer
4 2 (7.692%) CICS Programmer
5 1 (3.846%) Integration Architect
5 1 (3.846%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Developer
5 1 (3.846%) Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) Lead Architect
5 1 (3.846%) CICS Systems Programmer
5 1 (3.846%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Services Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 20 (76.92%) Mainframe
2 3 (11.54%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (7.692%) VSAM
3 2 (7.692%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.692%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.846%) SWIFT
4 1 (3.846%) Clustering
4 1 (3.846%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.692%) OS/390
1 2 (7.692%) zOS
1 2 (7.692%) UNIX
1 2 (7.692%) Solaris
2 1 (3.846%) Windows
2 1 (3.846%) AIX
2 1 (3.846%) HPUX
2 1 (3.846%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) UML
1 7 (26.92%) Data Modelling
2 5 (19.23%) SOA
3 4 (15.38%) Use Case
4 3 (11.54%) ETL
4 3 (11.54%) OOA/OOD
4 3 (11.54%) B2B
4 3 (11.54%) Test Management
4 3 (11.54%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (11.54%) Load Balancing
4 3 (11.54%) Change Control
5 2 (7.692%) Analytics
5 2 (7.692%) Product Management
5 2 (7.692%) Business Continuity
5 2 (7.692%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (7.692%) ERP
5 2 (7.692%) Project Management
5 2 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (7.692%) Process Management
5 2 (7.692%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) COBOL
2 4 (15.38%) JCL
3 3 (11.54%) Java
4 2 (7.692%) C++
5 1 (3.846%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.846%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 1 (3.846%) PMP
1 1 (3.846%) PMI Certification
1 1 (3.846%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.846%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) CA Endevor
2 1 (3.846%) Tivoli
2 1 (3.846%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 1 (3.846%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Oracle
1 8 (30.77%) IBM
2 3 (11.54%) Cognos
2 3 (11.54%) Business Objects
2 3 (11.54%) CA
2 3 (11.54%) Informatica
3 2 (7.692%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.692%) TIBCO
3 2 (7.692%) Sybase
4 1 (3.846%) EMC
4 1 (3.846%) Mincom
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