Peterborough COBOL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills within the Peterborough region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

COBOL
Location Basingstoke Bicester Brighton Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Croydon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Norfolk North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Potters Bar Scotland Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West Southampton Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£366	£298
% change on same period last year	+22.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.69	£34.00
% change on same period last year	-15.62 %
Programming Languages Peterborough
Matching contract IT job ads	26	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.052 %	0.049 %
Daily rates quoted	7	12
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£364
Average daily rate	£303	£390
% change on same period last year	-22.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£416
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£335
% change on same period last year	-5.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£16.50
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£18.25
% change on same period last year	+78.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.94	£32.49
% change on same period last year	-4.75 %
COBOL Cambridgeshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

COBOL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing COBOL across the Peterborough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.