COBOL Contracts in Northern Ireland

COBOL
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing COBOL 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.35% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK median daily rate £419 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -20.24% +5.00% +23.46%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 35 59 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 23.65% 29.21% 36.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 38 40
10th Percentile £318 - £355
25th Percentile £375 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -7.22% +12.53%
75th Percentile £500 £530 £506
90th Percentile £553 £615 £562
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £19.02 - -
25th Percentile £23.37 £13.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £13.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +131.48% -28.95% -
75th Percentile £31.88 £13.75 £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.25%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for COBOL in Northern Ireland

COBOL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for COBOL in Northern Ireland

COBOL
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 28 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
County Antrim - 2 £500 -
COBOL
UK

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (50.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) IDMS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Test Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (50.00%) JCL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM