CICS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 328 453
Rank change year-on-year +37 +125 +154
Contract jobs citing CICS 13 17 24
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.11% 0.093%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.15% 1.09% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 3
10th Percentile £362 £348 -
25th Percentile £402 £358 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £360 £330
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +9.09% -35.92%
75th Percentile £603 £439 £409
90th Percentile £673 £500 £456
UK median daily rate £465 £389 £600
% change year-on-year +19.41% -35.17% +18.81%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

CICS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,129 1,560 2,932
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.40% 10.17% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,093 2,063
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -2.50%
75th Percentile £633 £608 £638
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 39 72
10th Percentile £27.03 £16.28 £19.33
25th Percentile £38.39 £22.55 £22.16
Median hourly rate £57.00 £30.16 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.99% -45.16% +57.14%
75th Percentile £64.50 £47.94 £66.69
90th Percentile £66.00 £71.50 £82.40
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

CICS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CICS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CICS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

CICS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CICS.

CICS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CICS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing CICS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

CICS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (15.38%) CMS
2 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Apigee
2 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SNA
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) DB2
2 1 (7.69%) Adabas
2 1 (7.69%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) CICS Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Mainframe Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Programmer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst Programmer
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (7.69%) CICS Programmer
3 1 (7.69%) CICS Systems Programmer
3 1 (7.69%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Integration Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Programmer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Systems Programmer
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Programmer
3 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Middleware
2 2 (15.38%) Web Services
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (92.31%) Mainframe
2 5 (38.46%) IBM Mainframe
2 5 (38.46%) VSAM
3 1 (7.69%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) zOS
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Project Management
2 2 (15.38%) Capacity Management
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
2 2 (15.38%) User Experience
3 1 (7.69%) Agile
3 1 (7.69%) API Integration
3 1 (7.69%) Batch Processing
3 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
3 1 (7.69%) Code Quality
3 1 (7.69%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (7.69%) Microservices
3 1 (7.69%) Migration
3 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.69%) SDLC
3 1 (7.69%) Secure Coding
3 1 (7.69%) Service Delivery
3 1 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) COBOL
2 4 (30.77%) JCL
2 4 (30.77%) REXX
3 2 (15.38%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) Assembly Language
4 1 (7.69%) Natural
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) IBM