IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CICS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CICS over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 678 804
Rank change year-on-year +120 +126 -161
Contract jobs citing CICS 33 40 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.076% 0.068% 0.056%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.79% 0.62% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 11
10th Percentile £333 £352 £305
25th Percentile £358 £463 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £600 £505
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% +18.81% -1.46%
75th Percentile £471 £675 £578
90th Percentile £488 - £799
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £330 £500
% change year-on-year +8.48% -34.00% -2.44%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

CICS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,156 6,483 11,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.63% 10.96% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 4,533 7,612
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +8.42%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 152 211
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.55 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.50 £16.24
Median hourly rate £26.50 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.65% +88.89% +2.81%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.88 £79.19 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £26.48 £18.50
% change year-on-year -11.25% +43.14% -2.63%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CICS in the UK

CICS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CICS in the UK

CICS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CICS over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CICS in the UK

CICS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CICS.

Hourly rate trend for CICS in the UK

CICS
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 +97 25 £374 -37.67% 6
Work from Home +118 15 £359 -10.81% 3
UK excluding London +62 14 £358 +8.48% 1
Midlands +36 9 £358 +8.48% 1
West Midlands - 9 £358 -
London +92 8 £475 -20.83% 2
South East - 5 £358 -
North of England +11 1 £470 -
Yorkshire +6 1 £470 -
Scotland - 1 £400 -

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (42.42%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.12%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) SNA
1 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.03%) ATM
2 1 (3.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (84.85%) DB2
2 14 (42.42%) IDMS
3 5 (15.15%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 14 (42.42%) Git
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (60.61%) Developer
2 17 (51.52%) Mainframe Developer
3 13 (39.39%) IBM Mainframe Developer
4 9 (27.27%) z/OS Specialist
5 4 (12.12%) CICS Specialist
5 4 (12.12%) DB2 Specialist
6 3 (9.09%) Backend Developer
7 2 (6.06%) COBOL Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Backend Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Mainframe Developer
7 2 (6.06%) z/OS Developer
8 1 (3.03%) AWS Developer
8 1 (3.03%) DB2 Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Java Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Mainframe Expert
8 1 (3.03%) Mainframe Specialist
8 1 (3.03%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) ISPF
2 2 (6.06%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (3.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (96.97%) Mainframe
2 15 (45.45%) IBM Mainframe
3 5 (15.15%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 30 (90.91%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Agile
2 14 (42.42%) Requirements Gathering
2 14 (42.42%) Scrum
3 13 (39.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (21.21%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (15.15%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (15.15%) Data Security
6 5 (15.15%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (12.12%) Change Data Capture
7 4 (12.12%) Project Delivery
7 4 (12.12%) Project Management
7 4 (12.12%) Reverse Engineering
8 3 (9.09%) Configuration Management
8 3 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (9.09%) Software Engineering
9 2 (6.06%) Analytics
9 2 (6.06%) Data Analytics
9 2 (6.06%) Data Extraction
9 2 (6.06%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 27 (81.82%) COBOL
2 20 (60.61%) REXX
3 14 (42.42%) CLIST
4 13 (39.39%) SELCOPY
5 3 (9.09%) JCL
6 1 (3.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 11 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) RACF
2 4 (12.12%) ACF2
3 2 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) CA Endevor
1 4 (12.12%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 21 (63.64%) IBM
2 14 (42.42%) Syncsort
3 2 (6.06%) SunGard
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.03%) Teradata