CICS Contract Job Trends in the South East

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring CICS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 - 175
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CICS 1 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.015% - 0.16%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.22% - 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £355
25th Percentile £463 - £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £389
75th Percentile £488 - £451
90th Percentile - - £468
England median daily rate £550 £384 £439
% change year-on-year +43.42% -12.59% -10.00%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 453 353 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 6.96% 9.94% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 206 236
10th Percentile £273 £207 £259
25th Percentile £408 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £663 £631
England median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 11 29
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.25 £28.02
25th Percentile £18.42 £19.50 £30.41
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.05 £63.15
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% -49.25% +7.78%
75th Percentile £65.29 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £94.63 £71.50 -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -17.14% -22.22% +12.50%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

CICS job vacancy trend in the South East

CICS
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CICS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CICS

CICS
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CICS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CICS

CICS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 October 2026. 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
Thames Valley - 1 £475 - 1
Berkshire - 1 £475 - 1
CICS
England

CICS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) RACF
1 1 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 1 (100.00%) IBM