CICS Contract Job Trends in the North of England

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring CICS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 154 179
Rank change year-on-year -20 +25 +59
Contract jobs citing CICS 26 4 15
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.58% 0.10% 0.31%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.59% 1.02% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 0 2
10th Percentile £291 - £466
25th Percentile £313 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £434 - £497
90th Percentile £500 - £499
England median daily rate £359 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -24.42% -5.00% +1.27%

All Application Platform Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 566 393 413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.60% 9.89% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 234 276
10th Percentile £214 £225 £196
25th Percentile £325 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £520 £565 £564
90th Percentile £575 £641 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 21
10th Percentile £34.50 £26.56 -
25th Percentile £38.76 £28.45 £16.25
Median hourly rate £55.26 £33.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.45% +50.00% -54.05%
75th Percentile £70.36 £38.44 £22.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £44.63 £23.75
England median hourly rate £41.00 £42.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -3.53% +57.41% +35.00%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

CICS job vacancy trend in the North of England

CICS
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CICS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CICS

CICS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CICS in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CICS in the North of England

CICS
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CICS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing CICS

CICS
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Yorkshire -14 18 £413 -
North West - 8 £327 - 1
CICS
England

CICS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 14 (53.85%) CMS
2 2 (7.69%) Tomcat
2 2 (7.69%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.85%) Confluence
3 1 (3.85%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 14 (53.85%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) GCP
2 2 (7.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (3.85%) FCoE
2 1 (3.85%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (3.85%) iSCSI
2 1 (3.85%) LAN
2 1 (3.85%) Multicast
2 1 (3.85%) NAS
2 1 (3.85%) SAN
2 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) DB2
2 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) ChangeMan
2 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.69%) Cucumber
3 2 (7.69%) Eclipse
3 2 (7.69%) Git
3 2 (7.69%) IntelliJ
3 2 (7.69%) JIRA
3 2 (7.69%) Maven
3 2 (7.69%) REST Assured
3 2 (7.69%) Selenium
4 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (46.15%) Banking
2 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
3 7 (26.92%) Finance
4 6 (23.08%) Legal
5 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 2 (7.69%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Billing
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Automation Tester
3 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Tester
4 1 (3.85%) CMS Developer
4 1 (3.85%) COBOL Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Mainframe Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Mainframe Tester
4 1 (3.85%) Programmer
4 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Systems Programmer
4 1 (3.85%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) ISPF
2 2 (7.69%) LDAP
2 2 (7.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (92.31%) Mainframe
2 16 (61.54%) VSAM
3 7 (26.92%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (7.69%) Clustering
4 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.69%) Replication
5 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) zOS
2 2 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Solaris
2 2 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (3.85%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) DevOps
2 14 (53.85%) SDLC
3 12 (46.15%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (23.08%) Agile
4 6 (23.08%) Batch Scheduling
4 6 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (23.08%) Problem Management
4 6 (23.08%) Risk Management
5 5 (19.23%) Release Management
5 5 (19.23%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 4 (15.38%) Configuration Management
6 4 (15.38%) High Availability
6 4 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (7.69%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (7.69%) Code Quality
7 2 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.69%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (69.23%) COBOL
1 18 (69.23%) JCL
2 7 (26.92%) REXX
3 6 (23.08%) CLIST
4 4 (15.38%) Java
5 3 (11.54%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) GDPR
1 1 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 2 (7.69%) KVM
2 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (3.85%) NFS
3 1 (3.85%) RACF
3 1 (3.85%) SRDF
3 1 (3.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (3.85%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (42.31%) CA Endevor
2 6 (23.08%) OMEGAMON
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.69%) Terraform
4 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) IBM
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 4 (15.38%) Oracle
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco
4 2 (7.69%) EMC
4 2 (7.69%) F5
4 2 (7.69%) NetApp
4 2 (7.69%) VMware
5 1 (3.85%) Google
5 1 (3.85%) Pure Storage