CICS Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring CICS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CICS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 425 596
Rank change year-on-year +98 +171 -120
Contract jobs citing CICS 14 32 27
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.095% 0.13% 0.062%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.84% 1.21% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 10
10th Percentile £343 £357 £424
25th Percentile £356 £396 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -24.42% -3.06% -0.51%
75th Percentile £364 £488 £583
90th Percentile £401 - £654
UK median daily rate £370 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -22.11% - -1.55%

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 contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,670 2,646 5,457
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.32% 11.08% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 1,866 3,980
10th Percentile £300 £322 £321
25th Percentile £400 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £850 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.15% -1.73% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 71 87
10th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £15.77
25th Percentile £22.61 £22.16 £20.75
Median hourly rate £31.14 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.39% +10.00% +92.31%
75th Percentile £45.41 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £31.71 £52.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -39.60% +128.26% +15.00%

CICS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CICS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CICS trend for jobs with a WFH option

CICS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CICS.

CICS daily rate 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (64.29%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (85.71%) DB2
2 9 (64.29%) IDMS
3 2 (14.29%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
1 9 (64.29%) Mainframe Developer
2 8 (57.14%) IBM Mainframe Developer
3 3 (21.43%) z/OS Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) DB2 Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Backend Developer
5 1 (7.14%) CICS Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) CICS Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) COBOL Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Backend Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Mainframe Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (92.86%) Mainframe
2 9 (64.29%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
1 9 (64.29%) Scrum
2 8 (57.14%) Requirements Gathering
2 8 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (14.29%) Data Security
4 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (7.14%) Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Change Data Capture
5 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Data Extraction
5 1 (7.14%) ETL
5 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Project Management
5 1 (7.14%) Reverse Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) COBOL
2 11 (78.57%) REXX
3 9 (64.29%) CLIST
4 8 (57.14%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) ACF2
1 1 (7.14%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) CA Endevor
1 1 (7.14%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) IBM
2 9 (64.29%) Syncsort