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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Rank 189 171 167
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -4
Permanent jobs citing CICS 3 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.073% 0.055% 0.076%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.361% 0.260% 0.475%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 3
Average salary £50,000 £32,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+56.25% -44.34%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £28,250 £37,250
% change year-on-year
+76.99% -24.16%
All Application Platforms
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
830 768 631
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 20.27% 21.19% 15.96%
Number of salaries quoted 707 682 591
Average salary £36,500 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.30% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £61,500 £44,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
CICS
North West

CICS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester CICS Salary Trend

CICS
Salary Histogram

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 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
Altrincham - 1 £60,000 -
CICS
North West

CICS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 6 (100.00%) DB2
2 5 (83.33%) UNIX
2 5 (83.33%) Mainframe
3 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 4 (66.67%) Oracle
3 4 (66.67%) IBM
3 4 (66.67%) WebSphere
3 4 (66.67%) IBM Mainframe
4 3 (50.00%) GlassFish
4 3 (50.00%) Tomcat
4 3 (50.00%) LAN
4 3 (50.00%) WAN
4 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (50.00%) Solaris
4 3 (50.00%) Linux
4 3 (50.00%) Apache
4 3 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (50.00%) zOS
4 3 (50.00%) Firewall
4 3 (50.00%) SUSE
5 2 (33.33%) Banking
5 2 (33.33%) JCL
5 2 (33.33%) Project Management
5 2 (33.33%) MS Office
5 2 (33.33%) Java
5 2 (33.33%) VBA
5 2 (33.33%) Python
5 2 (33.33%) ITIL
5 2 (33.33%) V-Model

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 1 (16.67%) JMS
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) J2EE
2 1 (16.67%) JDBC
2 1 (16.67%) JSP
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) JNDI
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) GlassFish
1 3 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 3 (50.00%) Apache
1 3 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (16.67%) ESB
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) DB2
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Junior
3 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
3 1 (16.67%) Environment Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Mainframe
2 4 (66.67%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (16.67%) PMI
3 1 (16.67%) AS400
3 1 (16.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) UNIX
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) Solaris
3 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) zOS
3 3 (50.00%) SUSE
4 1 (16.67%) VMS
4 1 (16.67%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Project Management
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) V-Model
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
2 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
2 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) Release Management
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 1 (16.67%) RUP
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE
2 1 (16.67%) CMMI
2 1 (16.67%) Data Management
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) JCL
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) VBA
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) REXX
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Sun Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) CA Wily
1 1 (16.67%) OMEGAMON
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
1 4 (66.67%) IBM
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Sun
3 1 (16.67%) CA
3 1 (16.67%) Endeca
3 1 (16.67%) FatWire
3 1 (16.67%) VMware