CICS Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 384 431
Rank change year-on-year +61 +47 +64
Contract jobs citing CICS 16 15 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.072% 0.067%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.07% 0.84% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 2
10th Percentile £366 £334 -
25th Percentile £402 £353 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £364 £330
Median % change year-on-year +22.80% +10.30% -34.00%
75th Percentile £479 £395 -
90th Percentile £583 £473 -
UK median daily rate £465 £389 £600
% change year-on-year +19.41% -35.17% +18.81%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,500 1,778 2,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.73% 8.57% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 982 1,188 1,917
10th Percentile £213 £211 £200
25th Percentile £350 £324 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.15% -1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 125 98
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.30 £15.00 £17.56
Median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -10.31% +43.14%
75th Percentile £64.50 £46.18 £65.44
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £45.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -38.86% +104.55%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CICS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CICS in the UK excluding London

CICS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CICS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CICS in the UK excluding London

CICS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CICS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CICS in the UK excluding London

CICS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CICS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for CICS in the UK excluding London

CICS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +31 9 £402 -14.47%
North West - 9 £402 -
Scotland +19 7 £515 +28.63% 2
CICS
UK

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (25.00%) CMS
2 3 (18.75%) WebSphere
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) DB2
2 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (12.50%) Easytrieve
2 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Selenium
2 2 (12.50%) SOAtest
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 11 (68.75%) Banking
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) General Ledger
4 2 (12.50%) Retail Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) CICS Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Consultant
1 3 (18.75%) Mainframe Consultant
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Architect
2 2 (12.50%) Designer
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Mainframe Designer
2 2 (12.50%) Mainframe Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Test Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst Programmer
3 1 (6.25%) Incident Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Major Incident Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Programmer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) Middleware
2 5 (31.25%) Web Services
3 2 (12.50%) J2EE
3 2 (12.50%) JSON
3 2 (12.50%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) XML
4 1 (6.25%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 11 (68.75%) VSAM
3 2 (12.50%) Clustering
3 2 (12.50%) Mobile Payment
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (6.25%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Unix
1 3 (18.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (25.00%) Capacity Management
2 4 (25.00%) Migration
2 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 4 (25.00%) User Experience
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) SDLC
3 3 (18.75%) Test Strategy
4 2 (12.50%) API Integration
4 2 (12.50%) API Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Batch Processing
4 2 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Management
4 2 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (12.50%) Test Planning
4 2 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) JCL
1 8 (50.00%) REXX
2 7 (43.75%) COBOL
3 3 (18.75%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Ab Initio
1 2 (12.50%) IBM
1 2 (12.50%) Informatica
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
1 2 (12.50%) Parasoft
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft