CICS Contracts in Northern Ireland

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for CICS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CICS over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CICS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.68% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK median daily rate £389 £600 £505
% change year-on-year -35.17% +18.81% -1.46%

All Application Platform Skills
Northern Ireland

CICS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 17 32 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 11.64% 16.00% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 15
10th Percentile £283 £375 £153
25th Percentile £398 - £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.44% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £514 £510 £488
90th Percentile £538 £525 £536
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.12 - -
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £38.00 £21.93
% change year-on-year -25.00% +73.28% -2.53%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for CICS in Northern Ireland

CICS
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
County Antrim - 1 £500 -
CICS
UK

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) IDMS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Test Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM