The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 24 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 Scotland 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank 115 99 106
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +7
Contract jobs citing COBOL 3 11 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.123% 0.414% 0.181%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.286% 1.719% 0.614%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 4
Average daily rate - £350 £343
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +1.96%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £303
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +5.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 - -
All Programming Languages
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1049 640 814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 43.01% 24.06% 29.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 290 405
Average daily rate £363 £313 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 27 22
Average hourly rate £28.50 £27.50 £31.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.63% -12.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £16.75 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £34.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
COBOL
UK

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland COBOL Daily Rate Trend

COBOL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing COBOL across the Scotland region.

Scotland COBOL Hourly Rate Trend

COBOL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Edinburgh +5 2 - -
West Lothian - 1 - -
COBOL
UK

COBOL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 (42.86%) DB2
1 3 (42.86%) Mainframe
2 2 (28.57%) VME
2 2 (28.57%) Time Management
2 2 (28.57%) CICS
2 2 (28.57%) MVS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (14.29%) zOS
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) VB
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) AIX
3 1 (14.29%) UML
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (14.29%) N-Tier
3 1 (14.29%) SOA
3 1 (14.29%) Unisys
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) MetaFrame
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Document Management
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Management

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 Development
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) DB2
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst Programmer
2 2 (28.57%) Programmer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) VME
1 2 (28.57%) MVS
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (14.29%) zOS
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) AIX
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Time Management
2 1 (14.29%) UML
2 1 (14.29%) SOA
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Document Management
2 1 (14.29%) Requirements Management
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) VB
1 1 (14.29%) ALGOL
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) MetaFrame
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Unisys
1 1 (14.29%) IBM
1 1 (14.29%) Citrix
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