CICS Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring CICS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CICS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.17% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate - £358 -

All Application Platform Skills
Birmingham

CICS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 69 40 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.90% 5.66% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 27 57
10th Percentile £275 £308 £197
25th Percentile £316 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £511 £525 £538
90th Percentile £593 £585 £649
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +15.85% -8.89% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £19.90 £18.35
25th Percentile £56.88 £25.75 £18.50
Median hourly rate £58.75 £35.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.49% +86.84% +37.38%
75th Percentile £60.63 £45.25 £19.50
90th Percentile - £51.10 £19.65
West Midlands median hourly rate £34.98 £55.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -36.40% +197.30% +12.80%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing CICS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for CICS in Birmingham

CICS
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing CICS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing CICS

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) VisionPLUS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ChangeMan
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CA Endevor