CICS Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 126 173
Rank change year-on-year +6 +47 +21
Contract jobs citing CICS 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.046% 0.082%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.36% 0.36% 0.67%
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 - -
Central London median daily rate £350 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +93.55%

All Application Platform Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 220 281 449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.53% 12.82% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 210 292
10th Percentile £325 £250 £263
25th Percentile £413 £402 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £597 £713
90th Percentile £725 £725 £800
Central London median daily rate £500 £516 £550
% change year-on-year -3.15% -6.14% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -23.81% +98.11%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -33.88% -23.81% +98.11%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for CICS in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CICS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for CICS in the City of London

CICS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CICS in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for CICS in the City of London

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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