CICS Jobs
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for CICS skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CICS over the 3 months to 21 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.

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Rank 802 848 807
Rank change year-on-year
+46 -41
Permanent jobs citing CICS 58 39 64
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.053% 0.032% 0.052%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.249% 0.157% 0.275%
Number of salaries quoted 39 27 54
Average salary £55,000 £36,000 £39,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+52.77% -9.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,000 £23,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £68,000 £55,000 £61,250
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £28,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+84.21% -24.00%
All Application Platforms
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category		 23261 24865 23288
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 21.41% 20.52% 19.08%
Number of salaries quoted 19764 21620 20058
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -

CICS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

CICS Jobs Demand Trend

CICS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CICS within the UK.

CICS Salary Trend

CICS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing CICS over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

CICS Salary Histogram

CICS
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 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
England +27 54 £52,500 +45.83%
London +39 15 £65,000 +23.80%
North West -7 15 £52,500 +105.88%
South East +8 12 £58,750 -
Cheshire +9 11 £52,500 +105.88%
City of London +13 8 £80,000 +6.66%
East Midlands 0 7 £48,000 +26.31%
Kent - 7 £60,000 -
Nottingham -1 4 £50,000 +31.57%
Nottinghamshire -3 4 £50,000 +31.57%
Chester - 3 - -
Knutsford -3 2 £42,250 +65.68%
Scotland -4 2 - -
Manchester -13 2 £41,000 +28.12%
Folkestone - 2 - -
Erskine - 2 - -
Milton Keynes - 2 - -
Buckinghamshire - 2 - -
Northamptonshire - 2 £43,000 -
South West - 2 £38,000 -
Renfrewshire - 2 - -
Midlands +17 1 - -
Warwickshire +5 1 £60,000 +114.28%
West Midlands -22 1 £60,000 +114.28%
Wiltshire - 1 £47,500 -
Surrey - 1 £35,000 -
Gloucestershire - 1 £28,500 -
Northampton - 1 £46,000 -
Bromley - 1 £60,000 -
Croydon - 1 £65,000 -

CICS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 130 (90.91%) Mainframe
2 110 (76.92%) DB2
3 68 (47.55%) COBOL
4 64 (44.76%) Web Services
5 57 (39.86%) Oracle
6 55 (38.46%) IBM
7 52 (36.36%) ETL
7 52 (36.36%) JCL
8 47 (32.87%) XML
9 45 (31.47%) XML Schema
9 45 (31.47%) Finance
10 43 (30.07%) SOA
11 41 (28.67%) MQSeries
12 40 (27.97%) zOS
13 38 (26.57%) J2EE
14 36 (25.17%) FTP
14 36 (25.17%) WebSphere
15 34 (23.78%) Capacity Planning
16 33 (23.08%) Data Modelling
17 31 (21.68%) Java
18 29 (20.28%) XSLT
18 29 (20.28%) B2B
19 28 (19.58%) ITIL
19 28 (19.58%) IBM Mainframe
20 27 (18.88%) Load Balancing
20 27 (18.88%) Marketing
21 26 (18.18%) Project Management
21 26 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
21 26 (18.18%) UML
21 26 (18.18%) CA Endevor

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 64 (44.76%) Web Services
2 47 (32.87%) XML
3 45 (31.47%) XML Schema
4 38 (26.57%) J2EE
5 36 (25.17%) WebSphere
6 29 (20.28%) XSLT
7 21 (14.69%) ISPF
8 18 (12.59%) .NET
8 18 (12.59%) Spring
8 18 (12.59%) Hibernate
9 15 (10.49%) JAXB
9 15 (10.49%) WSDL
9 15 (10.49%) Grails
10 13 (9.091%) JMS
11 9 (6.294%) Java EE
11 9 (6.294%) JDBC
11 9 (6.294%) JSP
12 7 (4.895%) Middleware
13 6 (4.196%) JNDI
14 4 (2.797%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 41 (28.67%) MQSeries
2 21 (14.69%) GlassFish
3 18 (12.59%) Apache
4 8 (5.594%) WebSphere MQ
5 6 (4.196%) Tomcat
5 6 (4.196%) SAS
6 5 (3.497%) WebSphere Message Broker
7 4 (2.797%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (2.098%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
8 3 (2.098%) Lotus Notes
9 2 (1.399%) TPMS
10 1 (0.699%) ESB
Applications
1 6 (4.196%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.399%) MS Office
2 2 (1.399%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 4 (2.797%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (2.098%) Maximo
3 1 (0.699%) FLEXCUBE
Communications & Networking
1 36 (25.17%) FTP
2 7 (4.895%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.497%) HTTP
4 4 (2.797%) SNA
4 4 (2.797%) SSL
5 3 (2.098%) Firewall
5 3 (2.098%) LAN
5 3 (2.098%) WAN
6 2 (1.399%) SAN
6 2 (1.399%) SMTP
6 2 (1.399%) Intranet
6 2 (1.399%) Internet
7 1 (0.699%) Network Security
7 1 (0.699%) Wireless
7 1 (0.699%) X.500
7 1 (0.699%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (76.92%) DB2
2 25 (17.48%) BODI
3 23 (16.08%) Oracle 11g
4 11 (7.692%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.797%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.399%) MySQL
6 2 (1.399%) Informix
6 2 (1.399%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.699%) IDMS
7 1 (0.699%) Ingres
7 1 (0.699%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 18 (12.59%) JUnit
2 3 (2.098%) JIRA
2 3 (2.098%) JProfiler
2 3 (2.098%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.098%) Subversion
2 3 (2.098%) Maven
2 3 (2.098%) TestDirector
2 3 (2.098%) Ant
3 2 (1.399%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.699%) Eclipse
General
1 45 (31.47%) Finance
2 27 (18.88%) Marketing
3 20 (13.99%) Banking
4 10 (6.993%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.594%) Retail
6 6 (4.196%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.797%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.098%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.098%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.399%) International Banking
9 2 (1.399%) Legal
9 2 (1.399%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.699%) Games
10 1 (0.699%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 51 (35.66%) Architect
2 36 (25.17%) Solutions Architect
3 28 (19.58%) Mainframe Architect
4 26 (18.18%) Programmer
5 24 (16.78%) Systems Programmer
6 19 (13.29%) Mainframe Programmer
7 15 (10.49%) Team Leader
8 14 (9.790%) Software Engineer
9 12 (8.392%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (6.993%) Consultant
11 7 (4.895%) Developer
12 6 (4.196%) Analyst
12 6 (4.196%) Integration Architect
12 6 (4.196%) Mainframe Consultant
12 6 (4.196%) SOA Architect
13 5 (3.497%) Technical Architect
13 5 (3.497%) Integration Engineer
13 5 (3.497%) Technical Solutions Architect
14 4 (2.797%) Enterprise Architect
14 4 (2.797%) Environment Manager
Miscellaneous
1 130 (90.91%) Mainframe
2 28 (19.58%) IBM Mainframe
3 15 (10.49%) W3C
4 12 (8.392%) Credit Risk
5 6 (4.196%) VSAM
6 5 (3.497%) Computer Science
6 5 (3.497%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.797%) PMI
7 4 (2.797%) Tandem
8 3 (2.098%) LPAR
8 3 (2.098%) Digital Media
8 3 (2.098%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.098%) Online Banking
9 2 (1.399%) N-Tier
9 2 (1.399%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.699%) SWIFT
10 1 (0.699%) Data Extraction
10 1 (0.699%) Data Integration
10 1 (0.699%) AS400
10 1 (0.699%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 40 (27.97%) zOS
2 24 (16.78%) MVS
3 23 (16.08%) Linux
4 21 (14.69%) UNIX
5 18 (12.59%) Windows
6 9 (6.294%) Solaris
7 7 (4.895%) AIX
8 4 (2.797%) SUSE
9 3 (2.098%) HPUX
10 2 (1.399%) OS/390
10 2 (1.399%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.699%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (36.36%) ETL
2 43 (30.07%) SOA
3 34 (23.78%) Capacity Planning
4 33 (23.08%) Data Modelling
5 29 (20.28%) B2B
6 28 (19.58%) ITIL
7 27 (18.88%) Load Balancing
8 26 (18.18%) Project Management
8 26 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (18.18%) UML
9 25 (17.48%) OOA/OOD
10 19 (13.29%) PRINCE2
11 18 (12.59%) Agile Software Development
11 18 (12.59%) TDD
12 16 (11.19%) Scrum
13 15 (10.49%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (9.790%) Unit Testing
14 14 (9.790%) Kanban
14 14 (9.790%) Feature Driven Development
14 14 (9.790%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 68 (47.55%) COBOL
2 52 (36.36%) JCL
3 31 (21.68%) Java
4 22 (15.38%) REXX
5 21 (14.69%) SQL
6 7 (4.895%) PL/1
7 5 (3.497%) C#
8 4 (2.797%) C++
8 4 (2.797%) Assembly Language
9 3 (2.098%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.098%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.399%) VBA
10 2 (1.399%) Python
11 1 (0.699%) Ruby
11 1 (0.699%) NATURAL
11 1 (0.699%) Fortran
11 1 (0.699%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.699%) Perl
11 1 (0.699%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (4.895%) Degree
2 5 (3.497%) PMI Certification
3 3 (2.098%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.699%) CISA
4 1 (0.699%) CISM
4 1 (0.699%) CISSP
4 1 (0.699%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.797%) QA
2 2 (1.399%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.497%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.797%) RACF
3 3 (2.098%) vSphere
3 3 (2.098%) XenApp
3 3 (2.098%) XenServer
4 1 (0.699%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 26 (18.18%) CA Endevor
2 6 (4.196%) OMEGAMON
3 5 (3.497%) Tivoli
4 3 (2.098%) BladeLogic
4 3 (2.098%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 3 (2.098%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (1.399%) Tivoli NetView
6 1 (0.699%) BMC Performance Manager
6 1 (0.699%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 57 (39.86%) Oracle
2 55 (38.46%) IBM
3 25 (17.48%) Cognos
3 25 (17.48%) Business Objects
3 25 (17.48%) BMC
3 25 (17.48%) Informatica
4 24 (16.78%) CA
5 9 (6.294%) Microsoft
6 8 (5.594%) VMware
7 6 (4.196%) NetApp
8 5 (3.497%) Sybase
9 4 (2.797%) EMC
9 4 (2.797%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.098%) 3PAR
10 3 (2.098%) Pega
10 3 (2.098%) TIBCO
10 3 (2.098%) Cisco
10 3 (2.098%) Citrix
10 3 (2.098%) HP
10 3 (2.098%) Lotus
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