CICS Contracts in Knutsford

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford 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 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CICS 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 4.79% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 18.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £384 - -
25th Percentile £402 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 - -
75th Percentile £447 - -
90th Percentile £457 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £405 - -

All Application Platform Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 38 13 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 26.03% 12.04% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 12 5
10th Percentile £330 - £380
25th Percentile £358 £311 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £398 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% -0.63% -3.15%
75th Percentile £413 £489 £565
90th Percentile £459 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £393 £400 £450
% change year-on-year -1.75% -11.11% +8.96%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for CICS in Knutsford

CICS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for CICS in Knutsford

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 (42.86%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) DB2
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Easytrieve
2 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) SOAtest
General
1 6 (85.71%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) General Ledger
3 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Designer
1 2 (28.57%) Mainframe Designer
1 2 (28.57%) Test Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Major Incident Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Web Services
2 2 (28.57%) J2EE
2 2 (28.57%) JSON
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 6 (85.71%) VSAM
3 2 (28.57%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
2 2 (28.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) API Integration
3 2 (28.57%) API Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Batch Processing
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) COBOL
1 6 (85.71%) JCL
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Ab Initio
1 2 (28.57%) Informatica
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) Parasoft