The first table below looks at the demand for CICS skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CICS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Rank 216 238 220
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -18
Permanent jobs citing CICS 30 13 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.410% 0.178% 0.143%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.132% 0.840% 0.816%
Number of salaries quoted 25 13 10
Average salary £55,000 £25,500 £46,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+115.68% -44.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,600 £23,500 £42,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £38,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £31,500 £37,750
% change year-on-year
+74.60% -16.55%
All Application Platforms
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1407 1548 1225
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 19.24% 21.15% 17.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1202 1375 1126
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -5.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £52,500 £49,300
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
CICS
England

CICS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West CICS Salary Trend

CICS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CICS across the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Cheshire +23 20 £55,000 +115.68%
Manchester -5 8 £60,000 +87.50%
CICS
England

CICS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 33 (94.29%) Mainframe
2 32 (91.43%) DB2
3 27 (77.14%) Finance
4 26 (74.29%) IBM Mainframe
4 26 (74.29%) IBM
5 17 (48.57%) Java
6 16 (45.71%) .NET
6 16 (45.71%) WebSphere
6 16 (45.71%) Banking
7 15 (42.86%) JMS
8 14 (40.00%) J2EE
8 14 (40.00%) JDBC
8 14 (40.00%) JSP
8 14 (40.00%) Microsoft
9 12 (34.29%) Project Management
10 11 (31.43%) Degree
10 11 (31.43%) Software Engineering
10 11 (31.43%) PRINCE
10 11 (31.43%) JCL
10 11 (31.43%) PRINCE2
11 10 (28.57%) RUP
11 10 (28.57%) COBOL
11 10 (28.57%) ITIL
11 10 (28.57%) PMI
11 10 (28.57%) PMI Certification
11 10 (28.57%) JNDI
11 10 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
11 10 (28.57%) CMMI
11 10 (28.57%) Waterfall
12 9 (25.71%) zOS

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 16 (45.71%) .NET
1 16 (45.71%) WebSphere
2 15 (42.86%) JMS
3 14 (40.00%) J2EE
3 14 (40.00%) JDBC
3 14 (40.00%) JSP
4 10 (28.57%) JNDI
5 8 (22.86%) Web Services
5 8 (22.86%) WebSphere MQ
6 4 (11.43%) ISPF
7 1 (2.857%) XML
7 1 (2.857%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 8 (22.86%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 8 (22.86%) ESB
2 4 (11.43%) MQSeries
3 3 (8.571%) GlassFish
3 3 (8.571%) Tomcat
3 3 (8.571%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (8.571%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (8.571%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.714%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.571%) Firewall
1 3 (8.571%) LAN
1 3 (8.571%) WAN
2 2 (5.714%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.857%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (91.43%) DB2
2 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
General
1 27 (77.14%) Finance
2 16 (45.71%) Banking
3 8 (22.86%) Financial Institution
4 6 (17.14%) Retail
5 5 (14.29%) Retail Banking
6 4 (11.43%) Private Banking
6 4 (11.43%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.857%) Games
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Architect
2 8 (22.86%) Integration Architect
3 6 (17.14%) Consultant
3 6 (17.14%) Applications Support
4 5 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Mainframe Consultant
6 3 (8.571%) Support Analyst
6 3 (8.571%) Applications Support Analyst
7 2 (5.714%) Tester
7 2 (5.714%) Support Engineer
7 2 (5.714%) Support Specialist
7 2 (5.714%) Environment Manager
8 1 (2.857%) Technical Leader
8 1 (2.857%) EAI Architect
8 1 (2.857%) WebSphere Engineer
8 1 (2.857%) Junior Test Analyst
8 1 (2.857%) Junior Analyst
8 1 (2.857%) Mainframe Operator
8 1 (2.857%) Mainframe Architect
Miscellaneous
1 33 (94.29%) Mainframe
2 26 (74.29%) IBM Mainframe
3 10 (28.57%) PMI
4 4 (11.43%) Online Banking
4 4 (11.43%) LPAR
5 2 (5.714%) VSAM
6 1 (2.857%) AS400
6 1 (2.857%) Tandem
6 1 (2.857%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.71%) zOS
1 9 (25.71%) Windows
2 8 (22.86%) UNIX
3 6 (17.14%) MVS
4 5 (14.29%) Linux
5 4 (11.43%) SUSE
6 3 (8.571%) Solaris
7 1 (2.857%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) Project Management
2 11 (31.43%) Software Engineering
2 11 (31.43%) PRINCE
2 11 (31.43%) PRINCE2
3 10 (28.57%) RUP
3 10 (28.57%) ITIL
3 10 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (28.57%) CMMI
3 10 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (20.00%) Migration
5 7 (20.00%) Data Management
6 6 (17.14%) EAI
7 5 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 4 (11.43%) Asset Management
8 4 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (11.43%) Wealth Management
8 4 (11.43%) Problem Management
8 4 (11.43%) Investment Management
9 3 (8.571%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) Java
2 11 (31.43%) JCL
3 10 (28.57%) COBOL
4 8 (22.86%) C#
5 5 (14.29%) SQL
6 2 (5.714%) REXX
6 2 (5.714%) VBA
6 2 (5.714%) Python
7 1 (2.857%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) Degree
2 10 (28.57%) PMI Certification
3 7 (20.00%) Sun Certification
4 1 (2.857%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (2.857%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.857%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) OMEGAMON
2 2 (5.714%) Tivoli
2 2 (5.714%) Tivoli NetView
3 1 (2.857%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 26 (74.29%) IBM
2 14 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (20.00%) Sun
4 6 (17.14%) Oracle
5 4 (11.43%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.857%) Endeca
6 1 (2.857%) FatWire
6 1 (2.857%) VMware
6 1 (2.857%) TIBCO
6 1 (2.857%) webMethods
6 1 (2.857%) CA
6 1 (2.857%) Citrix
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