COBOL Contracts in the Thames Valley

COBOL
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 151 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs citing COBOL 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.037% 0.034% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.19% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £588 -
South East median daily rate £358 £588 -
% change year-on-year -39.06% - -

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 535 713 790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.88% 24.27% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 530 580
10th Percentile £358 £336 £342
25th Percentile £425 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +15.94%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £575
90th Percentile £668 £680 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 5
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £31.30
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £56.88 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -13.17% +63.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.40
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £84.66
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £44.73
% change year-on-year +9.09% +22.97% +8.42%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing COBOL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for COBOL in the Thames Valley

COBOL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing COBOL in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for COBOL in the Thames Valley

COBOL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing COBOL in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for COBOL in the Thames Valley

COBOL
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
COBOL
South East

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (100.00%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL