CICS Job Trends in the Midlands

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring CICS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 242 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Permanent jobs citing CICS 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.013% 0.014% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.28% 0.21% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 - -
England median annual salary £54,000 £85,253 £71,000
% change year-on-year -36.66% +20.07% -10.84%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

CICS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 357 471 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.62% 6.80% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 262 294 397
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £28,200
25th Percentile £31,313 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,688 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £65,175 £74,050
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

CICS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

CICS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CICS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CICS

CICS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands -9 1 £54,000 - 1
CICS
England

CICS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Adabas
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior COBOL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) Natural
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM