CICS Contracts in Yorkshire

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 104 97
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +44
Contract jobs citing CICS 5 1 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.36% 0.060% 0.85%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.63% 0.64% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £284 - -
25th Percentile £320 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.09% -1.05% +17.28%
75th Percentile £445 - £488
90th Percentile £478 - -
England median daily rate £402 £378 £475
% change year-on-year +6.35% -20.42% -3.06%

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 190 156 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.72% 9.37% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 106 116
10th Percentile £262 £278 £179
25th Percentile £375 £400 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +14.12% +0.14%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £549
90th Percentile £600 £688 £628
England median daily rate £500 £518 £520
% change year-on-year -3.38% -0.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £13.38 £20.90
25th Percentile - £13.50 £21.13
Median hourly rate - £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -36.36% +6.02%
75th Percentile - £15.00 £22.63
90th Percentile - £15.38 £23.30
England median hourly rate £46.65 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +43.54% -31.58% +111.11%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing CICS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for CICS in Yorkshire

CICS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CICS in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for CICS in Yorkshire

CICS
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CICS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CICS in Yorkshire

CICS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CICS in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for CICS in Yorkshire

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 20 July 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 -2 5 £385 -18.09% 2
CICS
England

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 4 (80.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (80.00%) VisionPLUS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
1 1 (20.00%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) ChangeMan
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Legal
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Billing
4 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) CMS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (60.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Batch Scheduling
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Compliance Audit
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) COBOL
2 4 (80.00%) JCL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (20.00%) RACF
1 1 (20.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft