COBOL Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 22 May 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 City of London 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank 197 208 229
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +21
Contract jobs citing COBOL 8 7 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.124% 0.088% 0.124%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.298% 0.240% 0.295%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
Average daily rate £450 £425 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% -8.10%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £310
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £50.00 £62.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.98 - -
All Programming Languages
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 2683 2919 4069
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 41.73% 36.58% 42.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2079 2187 3084
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 33 37
Average hourly rate £39.51 £32.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.55% +16.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.81 £15.00 £17.24
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £50.00 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
COBOL
London

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London COBOL Daily Rate Trend

COBOL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing COBOL across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London COBOL Daily Rate Histogram

COBOL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London COBOL Hourly Rate Trend

COBOL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 7 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 6 (42.86%) DB2
3 5 (35.71%) CICS
3 5 (35.71%) Banking
4 4 (28.57%) SWIFT
5 3 (21.43%) Finance
5 3 (21.43%) IBM
5 3 (21.43%) SQL
5 3 (21.43%) Oracle
6 2 (14.29%) UNIX
6 2 (14.29%) UML
6 2 (14.29%) Client/Server
6 2 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Financial Institution
6 2 (14.29%) Tandem
6 2 (14.29%) IBM Mainframe
6 2 (14.29%) System Testing
6 2 (14.29%) ETRM
6 2 (14.29%) Java
7 1 (7.143%) Jenkins
7 1 (7.143%) Data Integration
7 1 (7.143%) TOGAF
7 1 (7.143%) VSAM
7 1 (7.143%) Document Management
7 1 (7.143%) Critical Path Analysis
7 1 (7.143%) VAX
7 1 (7.143%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (7.143%) MS PowerPoint
7 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 1 (7.143%) ISPF
1 1 (7.143%) WebSphere
1 1 (7.143%) Java EE
1 1 (7.143%) Swing
1 1 (7.143%) .NET
1 1 (7.143%) HTML
1 1 (7.143%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) CICS
2 1 (7.143%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (7.143%) MS Visio
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
1 1 (7.143%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) DB2
2 1 (7.143%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle 9i
2 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.143%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (35.71%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) COBOL Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.143%) Designer
5 1 (7.143%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Architect
5 1 (7.143%) Test Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Technical Architect
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 4 (28.57%) SWIFT
3 2 (14.29%) Client/Server
3 2 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (14.29%) Tandem
3 2 (14.29%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (7.143%) Data Integration
4 1 (7.143%) VSAM
4 1 (7.143%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) UNIX
2 1 (7.143%) OS/390
2 1 (7.143%) zOS
2 1 (7.143%) MVS
2 1 (7.143%) VMS
2 1 (7.143%) Windows
2 1 (7.143%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (14.29%) UML
1 2 (14.29%) Migration
1 2 (14.29%) System Testing
1 2 (14.29%) ETRM
2 1 (7.143%) TOGAF
2 1 (7.143%) Document Management
2 1 (7.143%) Critical Path Analysis
2 1 (7.143%) Requirements Management
2 1 (7.143%) Load Balancing
2 1 (7.143%) Test Scripting
2 1 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (7.143%) TDD
2 1 (7.143%) Risk Management
2 1 (7.143%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (7.143%) PDM
2 1 (7.143%) Project Management
2 1 (7.143%) ETL
2 1 (7.143%) OO
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (7.143%) JCL
3 1 (7.143%) C
3 1 (7.143%) C#
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) IBM
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 1 (7.143%) Micro Focus
2 1 (7.143%) Unisys
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.143%) Informatica
2 1 (7.143%) Business Objects
COBOL / Tandem Developer
City, London
A tier 1 investment bank is looking to hire a Cobol Developer with experience in Tandem to sit within a cash settlements and payments technology team responsible for...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Batch Processing Expert
City of London
Batch/Critical Path Analysis/Batch Performance/Batch Best Practice/IBM Mainframe Batch Processing Expert - A leading Financial Institution is looking for a Batch Processing Expert who has extensive...
Salt
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 15 May 2013
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