CICS Contracts in Sheffield

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 55 29
Rank change year-on-year -1 -26 +35
Contract jobs citing CICS 15 2 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.65% 0.48% 5.08%
As % of the Application Platforms category 15.00% 3.45% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £329 - £466
25th Percentile £360 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £470 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% -3.59% +22.64%
75th Percentile £500 - £497
90th Percentile - - £499
South Yorkshire median daily rate £431 £470 £488
% change year-on-year -8.24% -3.59% +22.64%

All Application Platform Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 100 58 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 17.70% 14.01% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 40 27
10th Percentile £284 £365 £260
25th Percentile £360 £466 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £515 £439
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +17.38% -12.60%
75th Percentile £519 £600 £500
90th Percentile £600 £638 £688
South Yorkshire median daily rate £423 £507 £439
% change year-on-year -16.67% +15.56% -10.37%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for CICS in Sheffield

CICS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for CICS in Sheffield

CICS
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CICS in Sheffield over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CICS in Sheffield

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 11 (73.33%) CMS
2 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
2 2 (13.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (6.67%) Confluence
3 1 (6.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 11 (73.33%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) GCP
1 2 (13.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (6.67%) FCoE
2 1 (6.67%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (6.67%) iSCSI
2 1 (6.67%) LAN
2 1 (6.67%) Multicast
2 1 (6.67%) NAS
2 1 (6.67%) SAN
2 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) DB2
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Easytrieve
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) ChangeMan
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (53.33%) Banking
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Legal
3 5 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Retail Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Billing
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (6.67%) CMS Developer
3 1 (6.67%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Programmer
3 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Programmer
3 1 (6.67%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) LDAP
1 2 (13.33%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (86.67%) Mainframe
2 8 (53.33%) VSAM
3 2 (13.33%) Clustering
3 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (13.33%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (13.33%) Replication
4 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) zOS
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Solaris
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) SDLC
3 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (40.00%) Risk Management
4 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) High Availability
5 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (20.00%) Agile
6 3 (20.00%) Batch Scheduling
6 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
8 1 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (6.67%) Change Control
8 1 (6.67%) Continuous Delivery
8 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
8 1 (6.67%) Project Governance
8 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) COBOL
2 9 (60.00%) JCL
3 2 (13.33%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (13.33%) KVM
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (6.67%) NFS
2 1 (6.67%) RACF
2 1 (6.67%) SRDF
2 1 (6.67%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (6.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (6.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) CA Endevor
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco
1 2 (13.33%) EMC
1 2 (13.33%) F5
1 2 (13.33%) IBM
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) NetApp
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
1 2 (13.33%) VMware
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Pure Storage