CICS Jobs in England

IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 735 690 1029
Rank change year-on-year -45 +339 -17
Permanent jobs citing CICS 22 11 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.022% 0.014%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.41% 0.20% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 16
10th Percentile - - £44,375
25th Percentile £76,727 £52,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £55,000 £67,263
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -18.23% +16.98%
75th Percentile £93,778 £82,967 £84,056
90th Percentile - £91,934 -
UK median annual salary £85,253 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +55.00% -8.33% +4.35%

All Application Platform Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 5,307 5,536 14,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.95% 11.19% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,216 4,354 8,985
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,375 £38,084 £39,807
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £93,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

CICS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CICS in England

CICS
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for CICS in England

CICS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CICS within the England region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -2 14 £85,253 +2.01%
North West -26 12 - -
East Midlands - 8 - -
Midlands - 8 - -
Yorkshire +27 2 £85,253 +2.01%
CICS
UK

CICS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Rational Functional Tester
1 4 (18.18%) Selenium
2 2 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) Postman
2 2 (9.09%) SoapUI
2 2 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (36.36%) Billing
2 6 (27.27%) Banking
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
1 8 (36.36%) Mainframe Developer
2 7 (31.82%) CICS Programmer
2 7 (31.82%) CICS Systems Programmer
2 7 (31.82%) Programmer
2 7 (31.82%) Systems Programmer
3 4 (18.18%) Mainframe Tester
3 4 (18.18%) Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Mainframe Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Mainframe Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) ISPF
1 2 (9.09%) JSON
1 2 (9.09%) SOAP
1 2 (9.09%) Web Services
1 2 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 4 (18.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 4 (18.18%) VSAM
3 2 (9.09%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Integration Testing
1 12 (54.55%) System Integration Testing
2 9 (40.91%) Migration
3 8 (36.36%) Batch Processing
3 8 (36.36%) Unit Testing
4 4 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (18.18%) Functional Testing
4 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) Regression Testing
4 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 4 (18.18%) Test Planning
4 4 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) API Testing
6 2 (9.09%) Community of Practice
6 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 1 (4.55%) CI/CD
7 1 (4.55%) Containerisation
7 1 (4.55%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) COBOL
1 15 (68.18%) JCL
2 8 (36.36%) Assembly Language
3 4 (18.18%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (9.09%) CA Endevor
2 2 (9.09%) MAINVIEW
3 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) IBM
2 4 (18.18%) HP
3 2 (9.09%) BMC