CICS Contracts in Northamptonshire

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CICS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 0.63% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £340 - -

All Application Platform Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 28 14 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 17.50% 6.73% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 11 23
10th Percentile £272 £355 £168
25th Percentile £321 £356 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £360 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +64.95%
75th Percentile £447 £409 £404
90th Percentile £488 £425 £688
East Midlands median daily rate £391 £356 £375
% change year-on-year +9.83% -5.07% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.96%
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £48.56 £23.24
% change year-on-year -60.87% +108.95% +2.15%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for CICS in Northamptonshire

CICS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for CICS in Northamptonshire

CICS
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 8 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
Northampton - 1 £340 -
CICS
East Midlands

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle