COBOL Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 21 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 England 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank 447 453 390
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -63
Contract jobs citing COBOL 65 104 172
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.154% 0.194% 0.310%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.411% 0.549% 0.813%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 47 82
Average daily rate £325 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £220 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £529 £464 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £316
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +1.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 10
Average hourly rate £27.50 £50.00 £50.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.70 £50.00 £29.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.87 £50.00 £60.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - £29.50
All Programming Languages
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 15813 18954 21151
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 37.38% 35.42% 38.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9947 11473 12447
Average daily rate £400 £380 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -10.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 683 880
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £17.50 £19.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £46.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
COBOL
UK

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England 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 England region.

England COBOL Hourly Rate Trend

COBOL
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing COBOL across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England COBOL Hourly Rate Histogram

COBOL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +17 22 £501 +3.03%
South East -1 15 £290 -3.33%
Yorkshire +16 12 £338 -
South West +22 5 £435 +2.35%
West Midlands -3 4 £325 +17.11%
East of England +10 2 - -
North West +9 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £300 -
COBOL
UK

COBOL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 46 (42.20%) Mainframe
2 31 (28.44%) SQL
3 30 (27.52%) DB2
4 29 (26.61%) CICS
5 28 (25.69%) Finance
6 24 (22.02%) Oracle
7 18 (16.51%) JCL
8 17 (15.60%) Banking
9 15 (13.76%) SQL Server
10 14 (12.84%) IBM
11 13 (11.93%) Micro Focus
11 13 (11.93%) zOS
12 12 (11.01%) UNIX
13 11 (10.09%) PL/SQL
13 11 (10.09%) Java
13 11 (10.09%) AS400
13 11 (10.09%) Migration
14 10 (9.174%) Retail
14 10 (9.174%) Release Management
14 10 (9.174%) SLA
15 9 (8.257%) iSeries
16 8 (7.339%) MVS
16 8 (7.339%) .NET
17 7 (6.422%) SOA
17 7 (6.422%) Tandem
17 7 (6.422%) SWIFT
18 6 (5.505%) Time Management
18 6 (5.505%) QA
18 6 (5.505%) VSAM
18 6 (5.505%) Control-M

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 8 (7.339%) .NET
2 5 (4.587%) Web Services
2 5 (4.587%) XML
3 4 (3.670%) WebSphere
3 4 (3.670%) Oracle ADF
3 4 (3.670%) HTML
4 3 (2.752%) J2EE
5 2 (1.835%) ISPF
5 2 (1.835%) Java EE
5 2 (1.835%) Middleware
6 1 (0.917%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.917%) Swing
6 1 (0.917%) Silverlight
6 1 (0.917%) Synon Analyst Programmer
6 1 (0.917%) REST
Application Platforms
1 29 (26.61%) CICS
2 3 (2.752%) SAS
2 3 (2.752%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (1.835%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.917%) Apache
4 1 (0.917%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.917%) IIS
4 1 (0.917%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.917%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.917%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (4.587%) MS Office
2 4 (3.670%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.835%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.917%) MS Project
4 1 (0.917%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.670%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.917%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.917%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.835%) Firewall
1 2 (1.835%) DVB
1 2 (1.835%) Internet
2 1 (0.917%) VoIP
2 1 (0.917%) FTP
2 1 (0.917%) CTI
2 1 (0.917%) SAN
2 1 (0.917%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (27.52%) DB2
2 15 (13.76%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.587%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (3.670%) GIS
4 4 (3.670%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (2.752%) Oracle 9i
5 3 (2.752%) Base SAS
6 2 (1.835%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.835%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (1.835%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.835%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.917%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.917%) Adabas
7 1 (0.917%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (0.917%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.917%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.917%) IDMS
7 1 (0.917%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (4.587%) ChangeMan
2 4 (3.670%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (2.752%) QuickTest Pro
3 3 (2.752%) Selenium
4 2 (1.835%) Synon
5 1 (0.917%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.917%) COOL2E
General
1 28 (25.69%) Finance
2 17 (15.60%) Banking
3 10 (9.174%) Retail
4 4 (3.670%) Investment Banking
4 4 (3.670%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.752%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.835%) Music
6 2 (1.835%) Billing
7 1 (0.917%) Legal
7 1 (0.917%) Back Office
7 1 (0.917%) German Language
7 1 (0.917%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (41.28%) Developer
2 31 (28.44%) Analyst
3 24 (22.02%) COBOL Developer
4 20 (18.35%) Programmer
5 15 (13.76%) Analyst Programmer
6 10 (9.174%) Architect
7 8 (7.339%) COBOL Programmer
8 7 (6.422%) Systems Analyst
9 6 (5.505%) COBOL Analyst Programmer
9 6 (5.505%) Mainframe Developer
9 6 (5.505%) COBOL Analyst
10 5 (4.587%) Software Developer
11 4 (3.670%) AS400 Analyst Programmer
11 4 (3.670%) Oracle Developer
11 4 (3.670%) Business Analyst
11 4 (3.670%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.670%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.670%) Test Analyst
12 3 (2.752%) Technical Support
12 3 (2.752%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 46 (42.20%) Mainframe
2 11 (10.09%) AS400
3 9 (8.257%) iSeries
4 7 (6.422%) Tandem
4 7 (6.422%) SWIFT
5 6 (5.505%) VSAM
5 6 (5.505%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (4.587%) IBM Mainframe
7 3 (2.752%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.752%) VAX
7 3 (2.752%) Data Integration
8 2 (1.835%) Data Extraction
8 2 (1.835%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.835%) IPTV
8 2 (1.835%) STB
9 1 (0.917%) MPEG
9 1 (0.917%) PKI
9 1 (0.917%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.917%) Clustering
9 1 (0.917%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.93%) zOS
2 12 (11.01%) UNIX
3 8 (7.339%) MVS
4 4 (3.670%) Windows
5 3 (2.752%) VMS
6 2 (1.835%) VME
6 2 (1.835%) OS/390
6 2 (1.835%) Linux
6 2 (1.835%) AIX
7 1 (0.917%) HPUX
7 1 (0.917%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.917%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.917%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.917%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (10.09%) Migration
2 10 (9.174%) Release Management
3 7 (6.422%) SOA
4 6 (5.505%) Time Management
4 6 (5.505%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (4.587%) UML
5 5 (4.587%) System Testing
6 4 (3.670%) Problem Management
6 4 (3.670%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (3.670%) TOGAF
6 4 (3.670%) Project Management
6 4 (3.670%) ETL
6 4 (3.670%) OO
7 3 (2.752%) Data Modelling
7 3 (2.752%) Process Management
7 3 (2.752%) Systems Analysis
7 3 (2.752%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (2.752%) ETRM
8 2 (1.835%) Waterfall
8 2 (1.835%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 31 (28.44%) SQL
2 18 (16.51%) JCL
3 11 (10.09%) PL/SQL
3 11 (10.09%) Java
4 6 (5.505%) C
5 5 (4.587%) C#
5 5 (4.587%) VB
6 3 (2.752%) ALGOL
7 2 (1.835%) PL/1
8 1 (0.917%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.917%) RPG
8 1 (0.917%) C++
8 1 (0.917%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.917%) Fortran
8 1 (0.917%) PowerHouse
8 1 (0.917%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.917%) Assembly Language
8 1 (0.917%) REXX
8 1 (0.917%) Tcl
8 1 (0.917%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 5 (4.587%) ISEB
2 1 (0.917%) HND
2 1 (0.917%) Degree
2 1 (0.917%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.917%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.174%) SLA
2 6 (5.505%) QA
3 1 (0.917%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (1.835%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.917%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.917%) RACF
2 1 (0.917%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.917%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (5.505%) Control-M
2 3 (2.752%) Ganglia
3 2 (1.835%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.917%) Foglight
4 1 (0.917%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.917%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.917%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 24 (22.02%) Oracle
2 14 (12.84%) IBM
3 13 (11.93%) Micro Focus
4 6 (5.505%) Unisys
5 5 (4.587%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.752%) Perforce
7 2 (1.835%) ICL
7 2 (1.835%) HP
7 2 (1.835%) CA
7 2 (1.835%) Informatica
7 2 (1.835%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.835%) Cisco
8 1 (0.917%) Business Objects
8 1 (0.917%) Calypso
8 1 (0.917%) Salesforce.com
8 1 (0.917%) Citrix
8 1 (0.917%) Nokia
8 1 (0.917%) VMware
8 1 (0.917%) ATG
8 1 (0.917%) Brocade
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