CICS Job Trends in the Thames Valley

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring CICS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing CICS 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.018% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.62% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £62,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £60,000 - -

All Application Platform Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 162 233 638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.86% 7.06% 9.83%
Number of salaries quoted 99 129 472
10th Percentile £30,662 £30,400 £29,775
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +3.26% -2.13%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,500 £68,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +20.00% -15.00%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

CICS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

CICS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CICS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CICS

CICS
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
Oxfordshire - 1 £60,000 - 2
CICS
South East

CICS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ChangeMan
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior COBOL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CA Endevor