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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 538 600
Rank change year-on-year +74 +62 +140
Contract jobs citing CICS 39 22 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.061% 0.065%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.27% 0.58% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 14 7
10th Percentile £313 £328 £410
25th Percentile £340 £353 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £374 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.49% -21.26% -3.06%
75th Percentile £472 £472 £538
90th Percentile £505 £483 £613
UK median daily rate £404 £370 £475
% change year-on-year +9.05% -22.11% -3.06%

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 3,072 3,766 4,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.29% 10.41% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,012 2,689 3,448
10th Percentile £289 £268 £263
25th Percentile £400 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -1.44%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £650
90th Percentile £737 £825 £763
UK median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 127 145
10th Percentile £17.33 £13.51 £16.40
25th Percentile £26.14 £19.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £46.65 £33.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.36% -30.53% +111.11%
75th Percentile £69.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £79.13 £74.18 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £47.12 £32.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +44.98% -38.10% +112.72%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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
North of England +24 20 £378 -19.57% 7
North West - 16 £368 - 1
London +42 13 £440 -6.49% 5
Yorkshire -4 4 £500 +6.38% 4
Midlands -3 3 £340 -5.03%
East Midlands - 3 £340 -
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 4 (10.26%) CMS
2 3 (7.69%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.56%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (5.13%) Azure
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.56%) Apigee
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.56%) IaaS
3 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.56%) PaaS
3 1 (2.56%) SaaS
3 1 (2.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (38.46%) DB2
2 3 (7.69%) Easytrieve
2 3 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.13%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.82%) Selenium
3 4 (10.26%) Git
3 4 (10.26%) Maven
4 3 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 3 (7.69%) Eclipse
4 3 (7.69%) IntelliJ
4 3 (7.69%) JIRA
4 3 (7.69%) REST Assured
5 2 (5.13%) SOAtest
6 1 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.56%) GitLab
6 1 (2.56%) JUnit
6 1 (2.56%) Mockito
6 1 (2.56%) Postman
6 1 (2.56%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.56%) Subversion
6 1 (2.56%) Xcode
6 1 (2.56%) XCTest
General
1 16 (41.03%) Banking
2 14 (35.90%) Finance
3 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 3 (7.69%) Legal
5 3 (7.69%) Retail Banking
6 2 (5.13%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.56%) Billing
7 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Programmer
2 8 (20.51%) Developer
2 8 (20.51%) Systems Programmer
3 5 (12.82%) CICS Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) CICS Programmer
3 5 (12.82%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Senior
4 4 (10.26%) Architect
4 4 (10.26%) CICS Systems Programmer
4 4 (10.26%) Mainframe Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Mainframe Programmer
4 4 (10.26%) Tester
4 4 (10.26%) z/OS Systems Programmer
5 3 (7.69%) Automation Tester
5 3 (7.69%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
6 2 (5.13%) Designer
6 2 (5.13%) Mainframe Designer
6 2 (5.13%) Test Architect
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Senior CICS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) ISPF
2 7 (17.95%) Web Services
3 5 (12.82%) Middleware
4 3 (7.69%) J2EE
4 3 (7.69%) JSON
4 3 (7.69%) REST
4 3 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.13%) Kafka
5 2 (5.13%) RESTful
5 2 (5.13%) SOAP
5 2 (5.13%) Spring
5 2 (5.13%) XML
6 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.56%) Bootstrap
6 1 (2.56%) CSS
6 1 (2.56%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.56%) HTML
6 1 (2.56%) HTML5
6 1 (2.56%) WSDL
6 1 (2.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 37 (94.87%) Mainframe
2 22 (56.41%) VSAM
3 8 (20.51%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (5.13%) Clustering
4 2 (5.13%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.56%) DataPower
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.56%) Replication
5 1 (2.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (46.15%) zOS
2 4 (10.26%) Unix
3 2 (5.13%) Linux
4 1 (2.56%) AIX
4 1 (2.56%) Solaris
4 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) DevOps
2 13 (33.33%) SDLC
3 12 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (17.95%) Agile
5 7 (17.95%) Migration
5 7 (17.95%) Problem Management
6 6 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 6 (15.38%) Test Strategy
7 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
7 5 (12.82%) Code Quality
7 5 (12.82%) ITIL
7 5 (12.82%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (12.82%) Project Management
7 5 (12.82%) Risk Management
7 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (10.26%) Data Sharing
8 4 (10.26%) High Availability
8 4 (10.26%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) JCL
2 20 (51.28%) COBOL
3 14 (35.90%) REXX
4 9 (23.08%) Java
5 7 (17.95%) CLIST
6 5 (12.82%) SQL
7 4 (10.26%) Assembly Language
8 1 (2.56%) Bash
8 1 (2.56%) Groovy
8 1 (2.56%) HLASM
8 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.56%) PL/1
8 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (2.56%) Degree
1 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) GDPR
2 1 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (28.21%) Time Sharing Option
2 4 (10.26%) RACF
3 1 (2.56%) Docker
3 1 (2.56%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) OMEGAMON
2 6 (15.38%) CA Endevor
3 1 (2.56%) Control-M
3 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.56%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 17 (43.59%) IBM
2 5 (12.82%) Oracle
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.13%) Ab Initio
4 2 (5.13%) Informatica
4 2 (5.13%) Parasoft
5 1 (2.56%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.56%) NetApp
5 1 (2.56%) Splunk