CICS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring CICS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 107 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing CICS 1 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.057% 0.32% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.43% 4.03% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £358 -
England median daily rate £365 £461 £488
% change year-on-year -20.87% -5.38% +8.33%

All Application Platform Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 231 149 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.08% 7.87% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 100 162
10th Percentile £276 £255 £264
25th Percentile £373 £344 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -8.89% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £540
90th Percentile £600 £638 £600
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £34.10 £23.80 £17.58
25th Percentile £34.43 £35.50 £17.69
Median hourly rate £34.98 £55.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.40% +197.30% +12.80%
75th Percentile £47.80 £65.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £55.50 £71.00 £19.60
England median hourly rate £42.27 £38.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +11.24% -20.00% +120.93%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing CICS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for CICS in the West Midlands

CICS
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CICS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CICS

CICS
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CICS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CICS

CICS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Birmingham - 1 - -
CICS
England

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) VisionPLUS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ChangeMan
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CA Endevor