COBOL Developer Contracts

COBOL Developer
UK

The median COBOL Developer daily rate in the UK is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 714 839
Rank change year-on-year +132 +125 -160
Contract jobs requiring a COBOL Developer 16 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.008% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.009% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 5
10th Percentile £325 - -
25th Percentile £359 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £330 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -34.00% +35.59%
75th Percentile £469 £459 £575
90th Percentile £488 £536 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £385 £330 £525
% change year-on-year +16.67% -37.14% +42.37%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

COBOL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured COBOL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for COBOL Developer in the UK

COBOL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for COBOL Developer in the UK

COBOL Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for COBOL Developer in the UK

COBOL Developer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
Work from Home +140 13 £444 +34.47%
England +134 10 £463 +40.15%
London - 7 £463 -
UK excluding London +65 4 £385 +16.67%
Midlands +21 1 - -
South East - 1 £351 -
South West - 1 £385 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £400 -

COBOL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, COBOL Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring COBOL Developer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) COBOL
2 8 (50.00%) VMS
3 7 (43.75%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 6 (37.50%) SQL
5 5 (31.25%) IBM
5 5 (31.25%) DB2
6 4 (25.00%) OpenVMS
6 4 (25.00%) Oracle
6 4 (25.00%) CMS
6 4 (25.00%) QA
6 4 (25.00%) ICL
6 4 (25.00%) DCL
6 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
7 3 (18.75%) Micro Focus COBOL
7 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (18.75%) Syncsort
7 3 (18.75%) Scrum
7 3 (18.75%) Finance
7 3 (18.75%) Migration
7 3 (18.75%) Micro Focus
7 3 (18.75%) REXX
8 2 (12.50%) CICS
8 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
8 2 (12.50%) Mainframe
8 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
8 2 (12.50%) ITIL

COBOL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (25.00%) CMS
2 2 (12.50%) CICS
3 1 (6.25%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) DB2
2 1 (6.25%) IDMS
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Smart Meter
2 1 (6.25%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) VMS
2 4 (25.00%) OpenVMS
3 2 (12.50%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Unix
4 1 (6.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Agile
2 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (18.75%) Migration
2 3 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (18.75%) Scrum
3 2 (12.50%) Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) Data Extraction
3 2 (12.50%) ETL
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
4 1 (6.25%) SDLC
4 1 (6.25%) TDD
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Analysis
4 1 (6.25%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) COBOL
2 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) DCL
4 3 (18.75%) Micro Focus COBOL
4 3 (18.75%) REXX
5 2 (12.50%) SELCOPY
6 1 (6.25%) CLIST
6 1 (6.25%) JCL
6 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) IBM
2 4 (25.00%) ICL
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle
3 3 (18.75%) Micro Focus
3 3 (18.75%) Syncsort