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 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 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank 447 462 409
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -53
Contract jobs citing COBOL 67 108 159
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.159% 0.199% 0.287%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.426% 0.561% 0.751%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 46 76
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 £525 £458 £464
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £310
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
Average hourly rate £20.98 £50.00 £50.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-58.04% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.98 - -
All Programming Languages
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 15742 19242 21162
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 37.29% 35.47% 38.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9938 11611 12478
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 £256
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 577 698 873
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £17.00 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £46.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +31 22 £500 +2.82%
South East -10 16 £290 -3.33%
Yorkshire +13 13 £300 -
South West +25 5 £435 +2.35%
West Midlands -6 4 £325 +27.45%
North West 0 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 £300 -
East of England +13 1 - -
COBOL
UK

COBOL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 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 48 (42.48%) Mainframe
2 32 (28.32%) SQL
2 32 (28.32%) DB2
3 30 (26.55%) CICS
3 30 (26.55%) Finance
4 24 (21.24%) Oracle
5 20 (17.70%) JCL
6 18 (15.93%) Banking
7 15 (13.27%) SQL Server
7 15 (13.27%) IBM
8 14 (12.39%) Micro Focus
8 14 (12.39%) zOS
9 12 (10.62%) UNIX
9 12 (10.62%) AS400
10 11 (9.735%) Migration
10 11 (9.735%) PL/SQL
10 11 (9.735%) Java
10 11 (9.735%) SLA
11 10 (8.850%) MVS
11 10 (8.850%) Retail
11 10 (8.850%) Release Management
11 10 (8.850%) iSeries
12 8 (7.080%) Tandem
12 8 (7.080%) .NET
12 8 (7.080%) SWIFT
13 7 (6.195%) Unisys
13 7 (6.195%) SOA
13 7 (6.195%) Control-M
13 7 (6.195%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (6.195%) VSAM

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 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 (7.080%) .NET
2 5 (4.425%) Web Services
2 5 (4.425%) XML
2 5 (4.425%) HTML
3 4 (3.540%) Oracle ADF
3 4 (3.540%) WebSphere
4 3 (2.655%) J2EE
5 2 (1.770%) ISPF
5 2 (1.770%) Java EE
5 2 (1.770%) Middleware
6 1 (0.885%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.885%) Swing
6 1 (0.885%) Silverlight
6 1 (0.885%) Synon Analyst Programmer
6 1 (0.885%) REST
Application Platforms
1 30 (26.55%) CICS
2 3 (2.655%) SAS
2 3 (2.655%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (1.770%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.885%) Apache
4 1 (0.885%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.885%) IIS
4 1 (0.885%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.885%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.885%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (4.425%) MS Office
2 4 (3.540%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.770%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.885%) MS Project
4 1 (0.885%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.540%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.885%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.885%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.770%) Firewall
1 2 (1.770%) Internet
1 2 (1.770%) DVB
2 1 (0.885%) VoIP
2 1 (0.885%) FTP
2 1 (0.885%) SAN
2 1 (0.885%) CTI
2 1 (0.885%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (28.32%) DB2
2 15 (13.27%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.425%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (3.540%) GIS
4 4 (3.540%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (2.655%) Oracle 9i
5 3 (2.655%) Base SAS
6 2 (1.770%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.770%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (1.770%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.770%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.885%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.885%) Adabas
7 1 (0.885%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.885%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (0.885%) IDMS
7 1 (0.885%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (0.885%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.425%) ChangeMan
2 4 (3.540%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (2.655%) QuickTest Pro
3 3 (2.655%) Selenium
4 2 (1.770%) Synon
5 1 (0.885%) COOL2E
5 1 (0.885%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (26.55%) Finance
2 18 (15.93%) Banking
3 10 (8.850%) Retail
4 4 (3.540%) Investment Banking
4 4 (3.540%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.655%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.770%) Billing
6 2 (1.770%) Music
7 1 (0.885%) German Language
7 1 (0.885%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.885%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.885%) Legal
7 1 (0.885%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 46 (40.71%) Developer
2 32 (28.32%) Analyst
3 25 (22.12%) COBOL Developer
4 20 (17.70%) Programmer
5 15 (13.27%) Analyst Programmer
6 10 (8.850%) Architect
7 8 (7.080%) COBOL Programmer
7 8 (7.080%) Systems Analyst
8 6 (5.310%) Mainframe Developer
8 6 (5.310%) COBOL Analyst Programmer
8 6 (5.310%) COBOL Analyst
9 5 (4.425%) Software Developer
10 4 (3.540%) Oracle Developer
10 4 (3.540%) AS400 Analyst Programmer
10 4 (3.540%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.540%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.540%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.540%) Test Analyst
11 3 (2.655%) Technical Support
11 3 (2.655%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 48 (42.48%) Mainframe
2 12 (10.62%) AS400
3 10 (8.850%) iSeries
4 8 (7.080%) Tandem
4 8 (7.080%) SWIFT
5 7 (6.195%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (6.195%) VSAM
6 5 (4.425%) IBM Mainframe
7 3 (2.655%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.655%) Data Integration
7 3 (2.655%) VAX
8 2 (1.770%) STB
8 2 (1.770%) Data Extraction
8 2 (1.770%) IPTV
8 2 (1.770%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.885%) MPEG
9 1 (0.885%) Computer Science
9 1 (0.885%) CMDB
9 1 (0.885%) Derivative
9 1 (0.885%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.39%) zOS
2 12 (10.62%) UNIX
3 10 (8.850%) MVS
4 4 (3.540%) Windows
5 3 (2.655%) VMS
5 3 (2.655%) OS/390
6 2 (1.770%) VME
6 2 (1.770%) Linux
6 2 (1.770%) AIX
7 1 (0.885%) HPUX
7 1 (0.885%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.885%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.885%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.885%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (9.735%) Migration
2 10 (8.850%) Release Management
3 7 (6.195%) SOA
4 6 (5.310%) Time Management
4 6 (5.310%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (4.425%) UML
5 5 (4.425%) System Testing
6 4 (3.540%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (3.540%) TOGAF
6 4 (3.540%) Problem Management
6 4 (3.540%) Project Management
6 4 (3.540%) ETL
6 4 (3.540%) OO
7 3 (2.655%) Data Modelling
7 3 (2.655%) ETRM
7 3 (2.655%) Systems Analysis
7 3 (2.655%) Process Management
7 3 (2.655%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (1.770%) PDM
8 2 (1.770%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (28.32%) SQL
2 20 (17.70%) JCL
3 11 (9.735%) PL/SQL
3 11 (9.735%) Java
4 6 (5.310%) C
5 5 (4.425%) C#
5 5 (4.425%) VB
6 4 (3.540%) ALGOL
7 2 (1.770%) PL/1
8 1 (0.885%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.885%) RPG
8 1 (0.885%) C++
8 1 (0.885%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.885%) Fortran
8 1 (0.885%) Assembly Language
8 1 (0.885%) REXX
8 1 (0.885%) Tcl
8 1 (0.885%) Pascal
8 1 (0.885%) PowerHouse
8 1 (0.885%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (4.425%) ISEB
2 1 (0.885%) HND
2 1 (0.885%) Degree
2 1 (0.885%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.885%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.735%) SLA
2 6 (5.310%) QA
3 1 (0.885%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (1.770%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 2 (1.770%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.885%) RACF
2 1 (0.885%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.885%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (6.195%) Control-M
2 3 (2.655%) Tivoli
2 3 (2.655%) Ganglia
3 2 (1.770%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.885%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.885%) Foglight
4 1 (0.885%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 24 (21.24%) Oracle
2 15 (13.27%) IBM
3 14 (12.39%) Micro Focus
4 7 (6.195%) Unisys
5 5 (4.425%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.655%) HP
6 3 (2.655%) Perforce
7 2 (1.770%) ICL
7 2 (1.770%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.770%) CA
7 2 (1.770%) Informatica
7 2 (1.770%) Cisco
8 1 (0.885%) Business Objects
8 1 (0.885%) Calypso
8 1 (0.885%) Citrix
8 1 (0.885%) Nokia
8 1 (0.885%) Salesforce.com
8 1 (0.885%) Brocade
8 1 (0.885%) ATG
8 1 (0.885%) VMware
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