The first table below looks at the demand for CICS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CICS over the 3 months to 17 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 Sheffield region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Rank - 63 47
Permanent jobs citing CICS 0 1 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield - 0.160% 2.707%
As % of the Application Platforms category - 0.775% 11.35%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 14
Average salary - £20,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -50.00%
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £28,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+84.21% -24.00%
All Application Platforms
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
116 129 141
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 22.18% 20.61% 23.86%
Number of salaries quoted 105 124 124
Average salary £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £22,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £49,000 £44,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
CICS
South Yorkshire

CICS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield CICS Salary Trend

CICS
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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%) COBOL
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) WSDL
1 3 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 3 (100.00%) JAXB
1 3 (100.00%) W3C
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (100.00%) Grails
1 3 (100.00%) GlassFish
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) WSDL
1 3 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 3 (100.00%) JAXB
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (100.00%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) GlassFish
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) W3C
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) COBOL
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle