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 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 885 900 1252
Rank change year-on-year +15 +352 -301
Permanent jobs citing CICS 19 19 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.021% 0.006%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.18% 0.18% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 0 18 8
10th Percentile - - £46,000
25th Percentile - £52,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - -7.60% +9.73%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £65,819
90th Percentile - - £71,043
UK excluding London median annual salary - £59,000 £56,013
% change year-on-year - +5.33% +4.60%

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 10,667 10,303 24,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.71% 11.14% 13.99%
Number of salaries quoted 7,124 7,261 11,556
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.16% +0.08% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £48,759 £45,500
% change year-on-year -12.84% +7.16% +1.11%

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 5 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -36 19 - - 4
Scotland - 11 - - 1
England +20 8 - - 6
East Midlands - 8 - - 2
Midlands - 8 - - 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (57.89%) DB2
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) ChangeMan
General
1 11 (57.89%) Finance
1 11 (57.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 11 (57.89%) Law
1 11 (57.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Mainframe Software Engineer
1 11 (57.89%) Software Engineer
2 8 (42.11%) CICS Programmer
2 8 (42.11%) CICS Systems Programmer
2 8 (42.11%) Programmer
2 8 (42.11%) Systems Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 11 (57.89%) Reference Data
2 11 (57.89%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Agile
1 11 (57.89%) Artificial Intelligence
1 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
1 11 (57.89%) Decision-Making
1 11 (57.89%) Machine Learning
1 11 (57.89%) Operational Stability
1 11 (57.89%) SDLC
1 11 (57.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) COBOL
1 11 (57.89%) Java
1 11 (57.89%) JCL
System Software
1 11 (57.89%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Oracle