The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Swindon 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank - - 37
Contract jobs citing COBOL 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon - - 0.571%
As % of the Programming Languages category - - 1.887%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £29.00 £33.50
% change year-on-year
-51.72% -13.43%
All Programming Languages
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
75 91 106
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 21.13% 27.00% 30.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 54 48
Average daily rate £350 £330 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -17.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £213 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 7
Average hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% -25.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £25.00 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £185.00 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
COBOL
Wiltshire

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon COBOL Hourly Rate Trend

COBOL
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) ICL
1 1 (100.00%) Retail Banking
1 1 (100.00%) VME

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VME
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ICL
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