CICS Engineer Contract Job Trends

CICS Engineer
UK

The median CICS Engineer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 513 -
Rank change year-on-year -98 - -
Contract jobs requiring a CICS Engineer 4 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% 0.027% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.029% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 0
10th Percentile - £446 -
25th Percentile £463 £457 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £472 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% - -
75th Percentile £488 £479 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £479 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 42,836 27,359 40,556
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.64% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,486 17,911 26,489
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,746 1,013 2,627
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.44 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -14.29% -22.22%
75th Percentile £65.60 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £28.88 £37.18
% change year-on-year +52.38% -22.34% -12.52%

CICS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'CICS Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

CICS Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

CICS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for CICS Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for CICS Engineer job vacancies in the UK

CICS Engineer
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CICS Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 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
England -102 3 £475 +2.26%
Scotland +2 1 - - 1
UK excluding London -108 1 - - 1

CICS Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 April 2026, CICS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring CICS Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) CICS
1 4 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Assembly Language
2 3 (75.00%) Batch Processing
2 3 (75.00%) COBOL
2 3 (75.00%) DB2
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) HLASM
2 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 3 (75.00%) IBM UrbanCode
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) JCL
2 3 (75.00%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) REXX
2 3 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 3 (75.00%) zOS
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Confluence
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Python

CICS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) CICS
2 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (75.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Batch Processing
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Assembly Language
1 3 (75.00%) COBOL
1 3 (75.00%) HLASM
1 3 (75.00%) JCL
1 3 (75.00%) REXX
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (75.00%) IBM