CICS Contracts in Central London

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring CICS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CICS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 132 169
Rank change year-on-year +6 +37 +28
Contract jobs citing CICS 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.15% 0.041% 0.078%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.17% 0.32% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +93.55%
75th Percentile £381 - £650
90th Percentile £385 - -
London median daily rate £407 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -14.26% -20.83% +18.81%

All Application Platform Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 256 314 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.82% 12.84% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 236 319
10th Percentile £256 £250 £262
25th Percentile £403 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% -6.14% +4.76%
75th Percentile £603 £588 £700
90th Percentile £689 £716 £800
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £34.40 -
25th Percentile - £36.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £26.45 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.88% -23.81% +98.11%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £26.73 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.84% -17.14% -3.45%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for CICS in Central London

CICS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CICS in Central London.

Daily rate trend for CICS in Central London

CICS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CICS in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for CICS in Central London

CICS
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +10 3 £350 - 1
CICS
London

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (33.33%) SAS
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Programmer
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Programmer
1 3 (100.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JCL
1 3 (100.00%) REXX
2 1 (33.33%) Assembly Language
2 1 (33.33%) CLIST
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM