CICS Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring CICS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 85 103
Rank change year-on-year -33 +18 -
Contract jobs citing CICS 15 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.82% 0.34% 0.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.38% 2.21% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £307 - -
25th Percentile £359 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £500
75th Percentile £442 - -
90th Percentile £500 - -
England median daily rate £411 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -13.42% -5.00% -3.61%

All Application Platform Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 235 181 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.86% 15.21% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 97 140
10th Percentile £187 £222 £189
25th Percentile £304 £400 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +14.71% -10.53%
75th Percentile £530 £565 £575
90th Percentile £581 £679 £643
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile - - £15.80
25th Percentile - £40.50 £17.14
Median hourly rate £14.25 £41.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.24% +86.36% +1.15%
75th Percentile - £41.50 -
90th Percentile - - £23.43
England median hourly rate £35.00 £41.91 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.49% +74.63% +29.73%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CICS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

CICS job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

CICS
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing CICS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing CICS

CICS
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CICS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CICS in Yorkshire

CICS
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing CICS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing CICS

CICS
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
South Yorkshire -33 15 £413 -
CICS
England

CICS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (73.33%) CMS
2 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
2 2 (13.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (6.67%) Confluence
3 1 (6.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 11 (73.33%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) GCP
1 2 (13.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (6.67%) FCoE
2 1 (6.67%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (6.67%) iSCSI
2 1 (6.67%) LAN
2 1 (6.67%) Multicast
2 1 (6.67%) NAS
2 1 (6.67%) SAN
2 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) DB2
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) ChangeMan
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (60.00%) Banking
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Legal
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (6.67%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Programmer
3 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Programmer
3 1 (6.67%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) LDAP
1 2 (13.33%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (86.67%) Mainframe
2 5 (33.33%) VSAM
3 2 (13.33%) Clustering
3 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (13.33%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (13.33%) Replication
4 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) zOS
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Solaris
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Batch Scheduling
3 5 (33.33%) SDLC
4 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (26.67%) High Availability
4 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architecture
7 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
7 1 (6.67%) ITIL
7 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) COBOL
2 7 (46.67%) JCL
3 2 (13.33%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) REXX
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (13.33%) KVM
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (6.67%) NFS
2 1 (6.67%) RACF
2 1 (6.67%) SRDF
2 1 (6.67%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (6.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (6.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) CA Endevor
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) EMC
2 2 (13.33%) F5
2 2 (13.33%) IBM
2 2 (13.33%) NetApp
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Pure Storage