CICS Contracts in England

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 463 515 618
Rank change year-on-year +52 +103 +122
Contract jobs citing CICS 22 27 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.090% 0.073% 0.069%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.78% 0.78% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £325 £330 £330
25th Percentile £366 £356 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £422 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% -29.75% +20.00%
75th Percentile £472 £488 £675
90th Percentile £479 £500 -
UK median daily rate £465 £389 £600
% change year-on-year +19.41% -35.17% +18.81%

All Application Platform Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,817 3,461 5,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.57% 9.31% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,884 2,471 3,915
10th Percentile £283 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £754
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 139 128
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%
75th Percentile £64.50 £45.59 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CICS in England

CICS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for CICS in England

CICS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CICS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CICS in England

CICS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for CICS in England

CICS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the England 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
London +37 9 £407 -14.26% 7
North of England +27 9 £402 -14.47% 1
North West - 9 £402 - 1
CICS
UK

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (13.64%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) Apigee
2 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) DB2
2 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.09%) Easytrieve
2 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Selenium
2 2 (9.09%) SOAtest
3 1 (4.55%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (50.00%) Banking
2 10 (45.45%) Finance
3 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
5 2 (9.09%) General Ledger
5 2 (9.09%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) CICS Engineer
1 5 (22.73%) Developer
1 5 (22.73%) Mainframe Developer
1 5 (22.73%) Senior
2 4 (18.18%) Programmer
2 4 (18.18%) Systems Programmer
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 2 (9.09%) Assembler Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Designer
4 2 (9.09%) Mainframe Assembler Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Mainframe Designer
4 2 (9.09%) Test Architect
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Architect
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (4.55%) CICS Programmer
5 1 (4.55%) CICS Systems Programmer
5 1 (4.55%) Integration Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Mainframe Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Senior CICS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) ISPF
1 6 (27.27%) Web Services
2 5 (22.73%) Middleware
3 3 (13.64%) JSON
4 2 (9.09%) J2EE
4 2 (9.09%) REST
4 2 (9.09%) RESTful
4 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 2 (9.09%) XML
5 1 (4.55%) JWT
5 1 (4.55%) Kafka
5 1 (4.55%) OAuth
5 1 (4.55%) SOAP
5 1 (4.55%) Spring
5 1 (4.55%) WSDL
5 1 (4.55%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (90.91%) Mainframe
2 8 (36.36%) VSAM
3 4 (18.18%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (9.09%) Clustering
4 2 (9.09%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (4.55%) DataPower
5 1 (4.55%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (50.00%) zOS
2 4 (18.18%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (27.27%) Agile
3 5 (22.73%) Migration
3 5 (22.73%) Project Management
4 4 (18.18%) SDLC
5 3 (13.64%) API Integration
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
5 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
6 2 (9.09%) API Testing
6 2 (9.09%) ETL
6 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 2 (9.09%) Performance Management
6 2 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (9.09%) Risk Management
6 2 (9.09%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (9.09%) Service Delivery
6 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (9.09%) Test Planning
6 2 (9.09%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) JCL
2 10 (45.45%) COBOL
3 7 (31.82%) REXX
4 6 (27.27%) Java
5 4 (18.18%) Assembly Language
6 2 (9.09%) HLASM
7 1 (4.55%) CLIST
7 1 (4.55%) SQL
7 1 (4.55%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) CA Endevor
2 1 (4.55%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) IBM
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) Ab Initio
3 2 (9.09%) Informatica
3 2 (9.09%) Parasoft
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft