CICS Contracts in the Midlands

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 132 156 200
Rank change year-on-year +24 +44 -36
Contract jobs citing CICS 9 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.31% 0.062% 0.100%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.88% 0.55% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £330 - -
25th Percentile £341 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £330 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.48% - -
75th Percentile £374 - -
90th Percentile £377 - -
England median daily rate £374 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -21.26% - -3.06%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

CICS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 232 362 670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.87% 11.25% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 263 461
10th Percentile £160 £176 £198
25th Percentile £313 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +8.76%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £540
90th Percentile £638 £625 £603
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 14
10th Percentile £15.79 £14.50 £14.60
25th Percentile £22.12 £18.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £48.56 £20.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +142.80% +6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £51.91 £26.48 £23.69
90th Percentile £53.76 - £33.75
England median hourly rate £30.16 £48.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -37.81% +120.45% +12.14%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for CICS in the Midlands

CICS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CICS in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for CICS in the Midlands

CICS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CICS in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for CICS in the Midlands

CICS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands - 9 £358 -
CICS
England

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (100.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) DB2
1 9 (100.00%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
1 9 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Mainframe Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 9 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
1 9 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 9 (100.00%) Scrum
1 9 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Data Extraction
3 1 (11.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) CLIST
1 9 (100.00%) COBOL
1 9 (100.00%) REXX
1 9 (100.00%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
1 9 (100.00%) Syncsort
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft