CICS Contracts in London

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 344 381 477
Rank change year-on-year +37 +96 +95
Contract jobs citing CICS 9 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.072% 0.056% 0.059%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.62% 0.51% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 8
10th Percentile £325 £395 £463
25th Percentile £334 £460 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% -20.83% +18.81%
75th Percentile £474 £500 £675
90th Percentile £571 £568 -
England median daily rate £422 £422 £600
% change year-on-year +0.18% -29.75% +20.00%

All Application Platform Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,460 1,967 2,926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.64% 11.03% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 1,456 2,104
10th Percentile £333 £263 £310
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £675 £638 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 29
10th Percentile £25.34 £15.50 £17.75
25th Percentile £26.03 £22.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.73 £29.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.84% -17.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £50.94 £33.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £58.75 £82.60
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for CICS in London

CICS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for CICS in London

CICS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for CICS in London

CICS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for CICS in London

CICS
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
Central London +6 3 £350 - 1
CICS
England

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Apigee
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Programmer
1 3 (33.33%) Systems Programmer
1 3 (33.33%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 2 (22.22%) CICS Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Assembler Developer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Mainframe Assembler Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) ISPF
2 2 (22.22%) Middleware
2 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) JWT
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) WSDL
3 1 (11.11%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Mainframe
2 2 (22.22%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (11.11%) Clustering
3 1 (11.11%) DataPower
3 1 (11.11%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) zOS
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Agile
1 2 (22.22%) DevOps
1 2 (22.22%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (22.22%) Project Management
1 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
2 1 (11.11%) API Development
2 1 (11.11%) API Integration
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (11.11%) Functional Programming
2 1 (11.11%) Microservices
2 1 (11.11%) OOP
2 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) SDLC
2 1 (11.11%) SOA
2 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) JCL
2 3 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) REXX
3 2 (22.22%) Assembly Language
3 2 (22.22%) COBOL
4 1 (11.11%) CLIST
4 1 (11.11%) HLASM
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) CA Endevor
1 1 (11.11%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle