CICS Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 589 667
Rank change year-on-year +195 +78 +179
Permanent jobs citing CICS 3 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.009% 0.014%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.17% 0.075% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £78,135 - £64,764
25th Percentile £80,246 £68,000 £85,410
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £89,945 £71,000 £100,740
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -29.52% +96.57%
75th Percentile £97,300 £74,000 £116,070
90th Percentile £98,004 - -
UK median annual salary £89,945 £71,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +26.68% +29.09% -2.22%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,802 3,989 5,290
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.05% 11.79% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,303 2,838 3,804
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,772 £78,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +1.85%

CICS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CICS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CICS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

CICS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CICS.

CICS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) SoapUI
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (33.33%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Mainframe Software Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ISPF
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (66.67%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Community of Practice
2 2 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (33.33%) Batch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JCL
2 2 (66.67%) COBOL
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) CA Endevor
1 2 (66.67%) MAINVIEW
2 1 (33.33%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) BMC