CICS Job Trends in Northern Ireland

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring CICS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing CICS 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.24% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.50% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median annual salary - - £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

All Application Platform Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 8 46 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.93% 9.50% 12.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4 18 34
10th Percentile £35,075 £27,825 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,063 £34,625 £34,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £65,313 £53,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,125 £88,000 £91,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

CICS job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

CICS
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing CICS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing CICS

CICS
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
County Antrim - 1 - -
CICS
UK

CICS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Product Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Human-Centred Design
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Telematics
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager