CICS Contract Job Trends in London

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring CICS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 370 430
Rank change year-on-year +14 +60 +147
Contract jobs citing CICS 10 10 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.075% 0.063% 0.019%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.65% 0.51% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £326 - -
25th Percentile £346 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.39%
75th Percentile £606 - £538
90th Percentile £708 - £568
England median daily rate £384 £466 £488
% change year-on-year -17.75% -4.36% +5.41%

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 1,527 1,977 2,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.41% 12.44% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,322 1,524
10th Percentile £313 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £638 £738 £675
90th Percentile £775 £850 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 21 27
10th Percentile £19.71 £18.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.66 - £21.50
Median hourly rate £33.50 £23.80 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.76% -13.45% +14.58%
75th Percentile £52.19 £35.00 £53.29
90th Percentile £88.63 £75.00 £74.80
England median hourly rate £35.25 £42.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.06% +57.41% +35.00%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CICS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

CICS job vacancy trend in London

CICS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CICS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CICS

CICS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CICS in London over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CICS in London

CICS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CICS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CICS

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 23 October 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 - 2 £750 -
CICS
England

CICS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) CMS
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (10.00%) IaaS
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) DB2
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) ChangeMan
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) JUnit
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) Mockito
3 1 (10.00%) Postman
3 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (10.00%) Subversion
3 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (10.00%) Xcode
3 1 (10.00%) XCTest
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) CICS Programmer
1 4 (40.00%) Mainframe Programmer
1 4 (40.00%) Programmer
2 3 (30.00%) CICS Systems Programmer
2 3 (30.00%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
2 3 (30.00%) Systems Programmer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) COBOL Developer
4 1 (10.00%) DB2 Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) DB2 Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Mainframe Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Mainframe Support
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) SOAP
1 2 (20.00%) Spring
1 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) HTML5
2 1 (10.00%) J2EE
2 1 (10.00%) JPA
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) JWT
2 1 (10.00%) Material-UI
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (10.00%) WSDL
2 1 (10.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (30.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (20.00%) VSAM
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (10.00%) DataPower
4 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (10.00%) Replication
4 1 (10.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) zOS
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) AIX
3 1 (10.00%) Solaris
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Data Sharing
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Change Management
3 3 (30.00%) Cost Reduction
3 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Runbook
5 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Data Collection
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) COBOL
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) REXX
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Assembly Language
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) CLIST
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) JCL
3 1 (10.00%) PL/1
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) XPath
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) RACF
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) CA Endevor
2 3 (30.00%) OMEGAMON
3 1 (10.00%) Control-M
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (10.00%) NetApp
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk