COBOL Contracts in London

COBOL
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for COBOL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited COBOL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 475 588
Rank change year-on-year +99 +113 -139
Contract jobs citing COBOL 18 20 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.074% 0.041%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.28% 0.18% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 4
10th Percentile £380 £430 £302
25th Percentile £413 £446 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -12.44% +8.50%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £790
90th Percentile £500 £716 £795
England median daily rate £413 £500 £464
% change year-on-year -17.50% +7.82% +23.17%

All Programming Languages
London

COBOL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,358 11,052 16,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.90% 40.82% 42.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,852 8,230 12,504
10th Percentile £380 £413 £418
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 87 114
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.70 £29.08
25th Percentile £35.19 £49.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.25 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.94 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.94 £84.25 £79.28
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing COBOL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for COBOL in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing COBOL in London.

Daily rate trend for COBOL in London

COBOL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing COBOL in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for COBOL in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing COBOL in London.

Hourly rate trend for COBOL in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +38 1 - -
COBOL
England

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (50.00%) CICS
2 3 (16.67%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) DB2
2 2 (11.11%) IDMS
2 2 (11.11%) OLTP
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) COBOL Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Mainframe Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Backend Developer
4 3 (16.67%) DB2 Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Architect
5 2 (11.11%) COBOL Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Mainframe Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Backend Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Mainframe Developer
5 2 (11.11%) SQL Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Test Architect
5 2 (11.11%) z/OS Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) ISPF
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) VSAM
3 1 (5.56%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) VMS
1 7 (38.89%) zOS
2 4 (22.22%) OpenVMS
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Migration
3 4 (22.22%) Change Data Capture
3 4 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (22.22%) Reverse Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.11%) Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Batch Processing
5 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (11.11%) Data Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Data Extraction
5 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (11.11%) Scrum
5 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
5 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) System Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) DCL
1 4 (22.22%) REXX
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) JCL
3 2 (11.11%) Assembly Language
3 2 (11.11%) SELCOPY
4 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) IBM
2 3 (16.67%) ICL
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) Syncsort