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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Rank 203 183 170
Rank change year-on-year
-20 -13
Permanent jobs citing CICS 1 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.020% 0.022% 0.047%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.101% 0.124% 0.246%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
Average salary £60,000 £28,000 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+114.28% -27.74%
UK excluding London average salary £51,250 £28,250 £37,250
% change year-on-year
+81.41% -24.16%
All Application Platforms
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
990 804 812
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 19.77% 17.71% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 840 694 741
Average salary £37,500 £37,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.35% -1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £61,500 £57,500
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

West 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands CICS Salary Trend

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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 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
Warwickshire +8 1 £60,000 +114.28%
CICS
England

CICS
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West 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%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) EJB
1 2 (100.00%) Informix
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) JavaBeans
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) TPMS
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West 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 2 (100.00%) EJB
1 2 (100.00%) JavaBeans
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) TPMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) Informix
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase