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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Rank - - 152
Permanent jobs citing CICS 0 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire - - 0.034%
As % of the Application Platforms category - - 0.154%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £28,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+84.21% -24.00%
All Application Platforms
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
786 656 648
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 21.28% 20.34% 21.94%
Number of salaries quoted 638 577 545
Average salary £32,500 £34,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.41% +4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £23,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
CICS
Yorkshire

CICS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire CICS Salary Trend

CICS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 12 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 12 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 11 (91.67%) Spring
2 11 (91.67%) Hibernate
2 11 (91.67%) TDD
2 11 (91.67%) Grails
2 11 (91.67%) GlassFish
2 11 (91.67%) Continuous Integration
2 11 (91.67%) WSDL
2 11 (91.67%) XML Schema
2 11 (91.67%) JAXB
2 11 (91.67%) W3C
2 11 (91.67%) Java
2 11 (91.67%) JUnit
2 11 (91.67%) Web Services
2 11 (91.67%) XML
2 11 (91.67%) Apache
3 10 (83.33%) ETL
3 10 (83.33%) SQL
3 10 (83.33%) Oracle
3 10 (83.33%) PRINCE2
3 10 (83.33%) COBOL
3 10 (83.33%) Project Management
3 10 (83.33%) Kanban
3 10 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (83.33%) Scrum
3 10 (83.33%) Feature Driven Development
3 10 (83.33%) User Stories
4 8 (66.67%) Unit Testing
5 2 (16.67%) zOS

CICS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 12 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 11 (91.67%) Grails
2 11 (91.67%) Web Services
2 11 (91.67%) XML
2 11 (91.67%) WSDL
2 11 (91.67%) XML Schema
2 11 (91.67%) JAXB
2 11 (91.67%) Hibernate
2 11 (91.67%) Spring
3 1 (8.333%) HTML
3 1 (8.333%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 11 (91.67%) Apache
1 11 (91.67%) GlassFish
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) DB2
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Software Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Team Leader
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Team Leader
2 2 (16.67%) Java Team Leader
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Lead Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Leader
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Java Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Environment Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 11 (91.67%) W3C
3 1 (8.333%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) zOS
2 1 (8.333%) SUSE
2 1 (8.333%) UNIX
2 1 (8.333%) Solaris
2 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) TDD
1 11 (91.67%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (83.33%) Kanban
2 10 (83.33%) Feature Driven Development
2 10 (83.33%) User Stories
2 10 (83.33%) PRINCE2
2 10 (83.33%) ETL
2 10 (83.33%) Project Management
2 10 (83.33%) Scrum
2 10 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (66.67%) Unit Testing
4 1 (8.333%) ITIL
4 1 (8.333%) Performance Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (8.333%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Java
2 10 (83.33%) COBOL
2 10 (83.33%) SQL
3 1 (8.333%) Ruby
3 1 (8.333%) C#
3 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.333%) Perl
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.333%) IBM
2 1 (8.333%) Red Hat