COBOL Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 21 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 South East 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank 205 204 200
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -4
Contract jobs citing COBOL 15 41 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.189% 0.404% 0.516%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.569% 1.351% 1.525%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 19
Average daily rate £290 £300 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £214 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £369 £463 £442
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £316
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +1.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £14.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - £29.50
All Programming Languages
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 2637 3034 3475
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 33.29% 29.87% 33.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1295 1477 1507
Average daily rate £342 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.23% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 202 294
Average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% -2.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.91 £20.50 £26.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
COBOL
England

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 21 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
Berkshire +12 4 £369 +18.95%
Home Counties - 4 - -
Hampshire -15 3 £260 -43.78%
Surrey +17 1 £320 -
Oxfordshire 0 1 - -
Buckinghamshire -24 1 - -
COBOL
England

COBOL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 13 (43.33%) Mainframe
2 11 (36.67%) JCL
3 10 (33.33%) Micro Focus
4 9 (30.00%) DB2
5 8 (26.67%) AS400
6 7 (23.33%) IBM
7 6 (20.00%) CICS
7 6 (20.00%) Oracle
8 5 (16.67%) Finance
8 5 (16.67%) SQL
9 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
9 4 (13.33%) UNIX
9 4 (13.33%) Retail
9 4 (13.33%) iSeries
10 3 (10.00%) Ganglia
10 3 (10.00%) ALGOL
10 3 (10.00%) Systems Analysis
10 3 (10.00%) IBM Mainframe
10 3 (10.00%) Base SAS
10 3 (10.00%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (10.00%) Migration
10 3 (10.00%) MVS
10 3 (10.00%) SAS
10 3 (10.00%) Unisys
11 2 (6.667%) Web Services
11 2 (6.667%) Financial Institution
11 2 (6.667%) QA
12 1 (3.333%) VSAM
12 1 (3.333%) Billing
12 1 (3.333%) Retail Banking

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 2 (6.667%) Web Services
2 1 (3.333%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 6 (20.00%) CICS
2 3 (10.00%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (10.00%) SAS
3 1 (3.333%) MQSeries
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.333%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) DB2
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.00%) Base SAS
General
1 5 (16.67%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Retail
3 2 (6.667%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.333%) Billing
4 1 (3.333%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.333%) Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Developer
2 12 (40.00%) COBOL Developer
3 7 (23.33%) Programmer
3 7 (23.33%) Analyst
4 6 (20.00%) Analyst Programmer
5 5 (16.67%) COBOL Programmer
6 4 (13.33%) Software Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) COBOL Analyst
6 4 (13.33%) AS400 Analyst Programmer
6 4 (13.33%) COBOL Analyst Programmer
7 3 (10.00%) SAS Developer
7 3 (10.00%) Software Developer
8 2 (6.667%) Systems Developer
8 2 (6.667%) Mainframe Developer
9 1 (3.333%) Systems Programmer
9 1 (3.333%) Senior Programmer
9 1 (3.333%) Senior Systems Programmer
9 1 (3.333%) Mainframe Architect
9 1 (3.333%) Senior Analyst Programmer
9 1 (3.333%) IT Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) Mainframe
2 8 (26.67%) AS400
3 4 (13.33%) iSeries
4 3 (10.00%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (3.333%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) UNIX
2 3 (10.00%) MVS
3 1 (3.333%) Windows
3 1 (3.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (10.00%) Systems Analysis
1 3 (10.00%) Migration
2 1 (3.333%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (3.333%) ITIL
2 1 (3.333%) OO
2 1 (3.333%) Data Modelling
2 1 (3.333%) SOA
2 1 (3.333%) ETL
2 1 (3.333%) Project Management
2 1 (3.333%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) JCL
2 5 (16.67%) SQL
3 3 (10.00%) ALGOL
4 1 (3.333%) C#
4 1 (3.333%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.333%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.667%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.333%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Micro Focus
2 7 (23.33%) IBM
3 6 (20.00%) Oracle
4 3 (10.00%) Unisys
5 1 (3.333%) Salesforce.com
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