The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Cardiff region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank 28 30 27
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -3
Contract jobs citing COBOL 3 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 1.442% 1.951% 2.532%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.317% 6.250% 7.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
Average daily rate £375 £425 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +13.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £29.00 £33.50
% change year-on-year
-51.72% -13.43%
All Programming Languages
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
41 64 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 19.71% 31.22% 33.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 45 46
Average daily rate £310 £340 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.82% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £201 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
Average hourly rate £36.25 £23.75 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.63% +25.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
COBOL
South Wales

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing COBOL across the Cardiff region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Cardiff COBOL Jobs Demand Trend

COBOL
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing COBOL across the Cardiff region.

Cardiff COBOL Daily Rate Trend

COBOL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing COBOL across the Cardiff region.

Cardiff COBOL Hourly Rate Trend

COBOL
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing COBOL also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited COBOL.

1 10 (100.00%) IIS
1 10 (100.00%) UNIX
1 10 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 10 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 9 (90.00%) IBM
2 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (90.00%) MS Office
2 9 (90.00%) Project Management
3 8 (80.00%) Finance
3 8 (80.00%) iSeries
4 7 (70.00%) OS/400
4 7 (70.00%) RPG
4 7 (70.00%) DB2
5 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
5 6 (60.00%) AIX
6 5 (50.00%) UML
6 5 (50.00%) OO
6 5 (50.00%) MS Project
6 5 (50.00%) TestDirector
6 5 (50.00%) AS400
7 4 (40.00%) Degree
7 4 (40.00%) Windows
8 3 (30.00%) Banking
9 2 (20.00%) Rackspace
9 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (20.00%) SLA
10 1 (10.00%) SQL

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing COBOL also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited COBOL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (100.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 10 (100.00%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (90.00%) MS Office
2 5 (50.00%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) DB2
2 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) TestDirector
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Analyst
2 8 (80.00%) Applications Support
3 7 (70.00%) Applications Support Analyst
3 7 (70.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) AS400 Support
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) iSeries
2 5 (50.00%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) UNIX
2 7 (70.00%) OS/400
3 6 (60.00%) AIX
4 4 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Project Management
2 5 (50.00%) UML
2 5 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Shell Script
2 7 (70.00%) RPG
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) IBM
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Rackspace
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