CICS Contracts in South Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 60 36
Rank change year-on-year -2 -24 +28
Contract jobs citing CICS 5 1 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.91% 0.21% 3.85%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.00% 1.75% 27.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £284 - -
25th Percentile £320 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.09% -1.05% +19.50%
75th Percentile £445 - £488
90th Percentile £478 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £385 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -18.09% -1.05% +17.28%

All Application Platform Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 100 57 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 18.28% 11.70% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 41 36
10th Percentile £323 £366 £211
25th Percentile £375 £468 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +14.29% -9.28%
75th Percentile £520 £600 £500
90th Percentile £622 £638 £594
Yorkshire median daily rate £447 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -10.60% +14.12% +0.14%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for CICS in South Yorkshire

CICS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for CICS in South Yorkshire

CICS
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CICS in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CICS in South Yorkshire

CICS
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Sheffield -3 5 £385 -18.09% 2
CICS
Yorkshire

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 4 (80.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (80.00%) VisionPLUS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
1 1 (20.00%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) ChangeMan
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Legal
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Billing
4 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) CMS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (60.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Batch Scheduling
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Compliance Audit
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) COBOL
2 4 (80.00%) JCL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (20.00%) RACF
1 1 (20.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft