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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Rank 103 - 83
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing CICS 2 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.155% - 0.307%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.697% - 1.485%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 2
Average salary - - £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £51,250 £28,250 £37,250
% change year-on-year
+81.41% -24.16%
All Application Platforms
Milton Keynes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
287 134 202
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 22.27% 13.02% 20.70%
Number of salaries quoted 259 114 177
Average salary £40,000 £38,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89% +5.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £24,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
CICS
Buckinghamshire

CICS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes CICS Salary Trend

CICS
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) EMC
1 3 (100.00%) BMC
1 3 (100.00%) NetApp
1 3 (100.00%) BMC PATROL
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (100.00%) 3PAR
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) International Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Spanish Language
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) N-Tier
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) BMC Performance Manager
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Finance

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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.

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) International Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Spanish Language
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planner
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (33.33%) BMC Performance Manager
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) EMC
1 3 (100.00%) BMC
1 3 (100.00%) NetApp
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) 3PAR
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle