CICS Contracts

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 655 789
Rank change year-on-year +102 +134 -110
Contract jobs citing CICS 31 42 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.071% 0.076% 0.068%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.71% 0.70% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 19
10th Percentile £333 £423 £373
25th Percentile £358 £463 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -22.11% - -1.55%
75th Percentile £471 £656 £594
90th Percentile £488 £675 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 £403 £450
% change year-on-year -11.06% -10.56% -9.09%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,358 5,965 10,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.98% 10.74% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,043 4,178 7,543
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -1.73% +9.47%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £625
90th Percentile £775 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 145 206
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £31.71 £52.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.60% +128.26% +15.00%
75th Percentile £51.91 £66.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £73.60 £78.00 £75.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.41 £48.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -37.29% +162.16% -

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +71 24 £374 -21.26% 3
Work from Home +98 14 £359 -24.42%
UK excluding London +17 14 £358 -11.06% 2
Midlands +24 9 £358 +8.48% 1
West Midlands - 9 £358 -
London +78 8 £475 -11.63% 2
South East - 5 £358 -
North of England -6 1 £470 -1.05%
Yorkshire -9 1 £470 -1.05%
Scotland - 1 £400 - 1

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 (45.16%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (80.65%) DB2
2 14 (45.16%) IDMS
3 5 (16.13%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 14 (45.16%) Git
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (64.52%) Developer
2 17 (54.84%) Mainframe Developer
3 13 (41.94%) IBM Mainframe Developer
4 8 (25.81%) z/OS Specialist
5 4 (12.90%) CICS Specialist
5 4 (12.90%) DB2 Specialist
6 3 (9.68%) Backend Developer
7 2 (6.45%) COBOL Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Backend Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Mainframe Developer
7 2 (6.45%) z/OS Developer
8 1 (3.23%) AWS Developer
8 1 (3.23%) CICS Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) DB2 Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Java Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) ISPF
2 1 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 29 (93.55%) Mainframe
2 15 (48.39%) IBM Mainframe
3 5 (16.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.23%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 28 (90.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Agile
2 14 (45.16%) Requirements Gathering
2 14 (45.16%) Scrum
3 13 (41.94%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (16.13%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (16.13%) Data Security
5 5 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (12.90%) Change Data Capture
6 4 (12.90%) Project Delivery
6 4 (12.90%) Project Management
6 4 (12.90%) Reverse Engineering
7 3 (9.68%) Configuration Management
7 3 (9.68%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (9.68%) Software Engineering
8 2 (6.45%) Analytics
8 2 (6.45%) Data Analytics
8 2 (6.45%) Data Extraction
8 2 (6.45%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 26 (83.87%) COBOL
2 19 (61.29%) REXX
3 14 (45.16%) CLIST
4 13 (41.94%) SELCOPY
5 3 (9.68%) JCL
6 1 (3.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (38.71%) Security Cleared
2 11 (35.48%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) ACF2
1 4 (12.90%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) CA Endevor
1 4 (12.90%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 19 (61.29%) IBM
2 14 (45.16%) Syncsort
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft