IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring CICS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited CICS over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 719 884 950
Rank change year-on-year +165 +66 +284
Permanent jobs citing CICS 11 15 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.015% 0.020%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.24% 0.14% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 18
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £90,801 £68,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £94,637 £71,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.29% +29.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £98,474 £74,000 £57,500
90th Percentile - - £78,921
UK excluding London median annual salary £94,637 £71,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year +33.29% +12.70% +26.00%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,517 10,689 11,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.09% 10.72% 11.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,975 7,091 7,621
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,150
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.34% +0.49%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,628 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.36% -10.53% +5.56%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CICS in the UK

CICS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CICS.

Salary trend for CICS in the UK

CICS
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the UK over the 6 months to 17 May 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
England +142 7 £94,637 +33.29% 15
London - 6 - - 11
UK excluding London +170 5 £94,637 +33.29% 6
Scotland +111 4 - - 1
Work from Home +129 1 £94,637 +33.29% 10
North of England +42 1 £94,637 +33.29% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £94,637 - 2

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) DB2
2 1 (9.09%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) GitLab
2 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
3 2 (18.18%) IntelliJ
4 1 (9.09%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Mainframe Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) JSON
2 2 (18.18%) RESTful
2 2 (18.18%) SOAP
2 2 (18.18%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Mainframe
2 2 (18.18%) Private Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) DataPower
3 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Low-Code
3 1 (9.09%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) zOS
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Customer-Centricity
5 3 (27.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Microservices
6 2 (18.18%) Observability
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) SOA
6 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (18.18%) Thought Leadership
7 1 (9.09%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) COBOL
2 5 (45.45%) JCL
3 4 (36.36%) Python
4 3 (27.27%) Java
5 2 (18.18%) Bash
5 2 (18.18%) REXX
5 2 (18.18%) SQL
6 1 (9.09%) Assembly Language
6 1 (9.09%) Natural
6 1 (9.09%) PL/1
6 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) RACF
2 1 (9.09%) ACF2
2 1 (9.09%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
1 2 (18.18%) CA Endevor
2 1 (9.09%) CA Service Virtualization
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) Broadcom
2 1 (9.09%) Cincom
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk