COBOL Contracts in Merseyside
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 17 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 Merseyside 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank - 33 20
Contract jobs citing COBOL 0 6 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside - 2.308% 4.280%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 6.250% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 5
Average daily rate - £220 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £317
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - £29.50
All Programming Languages
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 75 96 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 35.89% 36.92% 26.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 49 33
Average daily rate £350 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £260 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 1
Average hourly rate £16.72 £21.86 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.51% +45.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
COBOL
North West

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside COBOL Daily Rate Trend

COBOL
Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Finance

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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.

General
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL Developer
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
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