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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Rank 25 42 -
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -
Permanent jobs citing CICS 1 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 0.481% 0.318% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.226% 2.083% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £51,250 £28,250 £37,250
% change year-on-year
+81.41% -24.16%
All Application Platforms
Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
31 48 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 14.90% 15.29% 15.65%
Number of salaries quoted 21 32 27
Average salary £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £36,750 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £68,000 £70,000 £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 Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

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 Midlands region.

Midlands CICS Salary Trend

CICS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) ISPF
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Grails
2 1 (50.00%) GlassFish
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Feature Driven Development
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) COBOL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) WSDL
2 1 (50.00%) XML Schema

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) ISPF
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (50.00%) Grails
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) WSDL
1 1 (50.00%) XML Schema
1 1 (50.00%) JAXB
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) GlassFish
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) REXX
1 1 (50.00%) JCL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) IBM