Coventry COBOL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills within the Coventry region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

COBOL
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Brighton Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Ipswich Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Oxfordshire Potters Bar Scotland Shropshire South East South Wales South West Southampton Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	31
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	4.545 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£364	£300
% change on same period last year	+21.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.89	£34.06
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
Programming Languages Coventry
Matching contract IT job ads	48	66
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.078 %	0.072 %
Daily rates quoted	7	12
Average minimum daily rate	£215	£243
Average daily rate	£239	£257
% change on same period last year	-7.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£263	£272
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£330
% change on same period last year	-4.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.84	£31.50
Average hourly rate	£17.06	£32.86
% change on same period last year	-48.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.27	£34.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.08	£32.56
% change on same period last year	-4.55 %
COBOL West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

COBOL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing COBOL across the Coventry region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

COBOL
Daily Rate Trend

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