The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guernsey 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 Guernsey 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 - 8 -
Contract jobs citing COBOL 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guernsey - 11.11% -
As % of the Programming Languages category - 40.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £316
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +1.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - £29.50
All Programming Languages
Guernsey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
0 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guernsey - 27.78% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
COBOL
Channel Islands

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guernsey COBOL Jobs Demand Trend

COBOL
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guernsey 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 3 (100.00%) SAP
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) AS400
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
2 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
3 1 (33.33%) Intranet
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) Extranet
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
3 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (33.33%) MS Project
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guernsey 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 Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
1 1 (33.33%) MS Project
1 1 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Intranet
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) Extranet
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) AS400
2 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) SAP