COBOL Contracts in Scotland

COBOL
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 164 170
Rank change year-on-year +40 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing COBOL 2 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.092% 0.14% 0.058%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.31% 0.42% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £486 -
25th Percentile - £503 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.71% -3.41% -
75th Percentile - £545 £575
90th Percentile - £548 -
UK median daily rate £400 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% +23.46%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 641 958 953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 29.39% 34.65% 27.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 698 651
10th Percentile £363 £406 £363
25th Percentile £414 £438 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.84% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £550
90th Percentile £650 £666 £638
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.43 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £51.25 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +25.60% +8.05%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.75 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for COBOL in Scotland

COBOL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for COBOL in Scotland

COBOL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for COBOL in Scotland

COBOL
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Edinburgh +34 1 £400 -24.71%
Glasgow - 1 - -
COBOL
UK

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JCL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM