CICS Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 - 173
Rank change year-on-year - - -47
Contract jobs citing CICS 9 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.47% - 0.028%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.38% - 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £330 - -
25th Percentile £341 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile £374 - -
90th Percentile £377 - -
England median daily rate £374 £600 £503
% change year-on-year -37.67% +19.40% -0.74%

All Application Platform Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 141 280 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.37% 12.07% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 207 338
10th Percentile £213 £262 £275
25th Percentile £313 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.25% +6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £544 £540 £540
90th Percentile £638 £600 £613
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 11
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.63 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.21 £13.56 £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.83 £15.25 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -10.29% -
75th Percentile £25.75 £17.06 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.30 £18.08 £25.00
England median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -24.29% +55.56% +12.50%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for CICS in the West Midlands

CICS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for CICS in the West Midlands

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 12 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
Shropshire - 9 £358 -
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 9 (100.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) DB2
1 9 (100.00%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
1 9 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Mainframe Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 9 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
1 9 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 9 (100.00%) Scrum
1 9 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Data Extraction
3 1 (11.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) CLIST
1 9 (100.00%) COBOL
1 9 (100.00%) REXX
1 9 (100.00%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
1 9 (100.00%) Syncsort
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft