COBOL Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 22 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.

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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank 456 461 415
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -46
Contract jobs citing COBOL 78 125 173
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.166% 0.211% 0.287%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.445% 0.610% 0.767%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 53 84
Average daily rate £326 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.78% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £220 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £518 £442 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £310
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
Average hourly rate £20.98 £50.00 £50.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-58.04% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.98 - -
All Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 17528 20495 22548
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 37.19% 34.57% 37.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10822 12098 13078
Average daily rate £385 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £563 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 734 915
Average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £17.00 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

COBOL Daily Rate Trend

COBOL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing COBOL within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

COBOL Daily Rate Histogram

COBOL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing COBOL within the UK.

COBOL Hourly Rate Trend

COBOL
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing COBOL within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

COBOL Hourly Rate Histogram

COBOL
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England +15 67 £325 +1.56%
London +31 22 £500 +2.82%
South East -10 16 £290 -3.33%
Yorkshire +13 13 £300 -
West Yorkshire - 13 £300 -
City of London +11 8 £450 +5.88%
Leeds - 7 £338 -
South West +25 5 £435 +2.35%
Berkshire +16 5 £369 +18.95%
Scotland -22 5 - -
Reading - 5 £369 -
West Midlands -6 4 £325 +27.45%
Home Counties - 4 - -
Wales +10 3 £375 -11.76%
Cardiff +4 3 £375 -11.76%
Stratford-upon-Avon +3 3 £325 -
South Wales +3 3 £375 -11.76%
Warwickshire -4 3 £325 +44.44%
Hampshire -7 3 £260 -43.78%
Warwick - 3 £325 -
Leamington Spa - 3 £325 -
Kenilworth - 3 £325 -
Redditch - 3 £325 -
Worcestershire - 3 £325 -
Manchester +14 2 - -
Dorset +4 2 - -
Edinburgh +2 2 - -
Bournemouth 0 2 - -
North West 0 2 - -
Bristol - 2 - -

COBOL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 52 (37.68%) Mainframe
2 44 (31.88%) DB2
3 43 (31.16%) Finance
4 39 (28.26%) SQL
5 33 (23.91%) CICS
6 25 (18.12%) Oracle
6 25 (18.12%) IBM
7 22 (15.94%) SQL Server
7 22 (15.94%) UNIX
8 21 (15.22%) AS400
8 21 (15.22%) Banking
9 20 (14.49%) JCL
10 18 (13.04%) iSeries
11 15 (10.87%) Project Management
11 15 (10.87%) zOS
11 15 (10.87%) MS Office
12 14 (10.14%) Microsoft
12 14 (10.14%) Micro Focus
12 14 (10.14%) WebSphere
13 13 (9.420%) SLA
14 12 (8.696%) Java
14 12 (8.696%) MVS
14 12 (8.696%) Migration
15 11 (7.971%) Shell Script
15 11 (7.971%) PL/SQL
15 11 (7.971%) IIS
15 11 (7.971%) UML
16 10 (7.246%) .NET
16 10 (7.246%) Retail
16 10 (7.246%) Release Management

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 14 (10.14%) WebSphere
2 10 (7.246%) .NET
3 5 (3.623%) HTML
3 5 (3.623%) Web Services
3 5 (3.623%) XML
4 4 (2.899%) Oracle ADF
5 3 (2.174%) J2EE
6 2 (1.449%) Middleware
6 2 (1.449%) ISPF
6 2 (1.449%) Java EE
7 1 (0.725%) Silverlight
7 1 (0.725%) DWR
7 1 (0.725%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.725%) Swing
7 1 (0.725%) Synon Analyst Programmer
7 1 (0.725%) REST
Application Platforms
1 33 (23.91%) CICS
2 11 (7.971%) IIS
3 3 (2.174%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (2.174%) SAS
4 2 (1.449%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.725%) CMS
5 1 (0.725%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.725%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.725%) Apache
5 1 (0.725%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.725%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 15 (10.87%) MS Office
2 7 (5.072%) MS Project
3 6 (4.348%) MS Excel
4 3 (2.174%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.449%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.899%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.725%) Summit
2 1 (0.725%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.725%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.174%) Firewall
1 3 (2.174%) Internet
2 2 (1.449%) DVB
3 1 (0.725%) RTSP
3 1 (0.725%) VoIP
3 1 (0.725%) FTP
3 1 (0.725%) SAN
3 1 (0.725%) CTI
3 1 (0.725%) Intranet
3 1 (0.725%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (31.88%) DB2
2 22 (15.94%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.623%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (2.899%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (2.899%) GIS
5 3 (2.174%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (2.174%) Oracle 9i
5 3 (2.174%) Base SAS
6 2 (1.449%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (1.449%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.449%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (1.449%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.725%) IDMS
7 1 (0.725%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.725%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.725%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (0.725%) Adabas
7 1 (0.725%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.725%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.725%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.623%) ChangeMan
1 5 (3.623%) TestDirector
2 4 (2.899%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (2.174%) Selenium
3 3 (2.174%) Eclipse
3 3 (2.174%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (1.449%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.449%) Synon
5 1 (0.725%) COOL2E
General
1 43 (31.16%) Finance
2 21 (15.22%) Banking
3 10 (7.246%) Retail
4 5 (3.623%) Financial Institution
5 4 (2.899%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.174%) Billing
6 3 (2.174%) Dutch Language
6 3 (2.174%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.449%) Music
7 2 (1.449%) French Language
7 2 (1.449%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.725%) Back Office
8 1 (0.725%) Legal
8 1 (0.725%) German Language
8 1 (0.725%) Welsh Language
8 1 (0.725%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (36.23%) Developer
2 49 (35.51%) Analyst
3 25 (18.12%) COBOL Developer
4 24 (17.39%) Programmer
5 18 (13.04%) Analyst Programmer
6 11 (7.971%) Architect
7 9 (6.522%) COBOL Programmer
7 9 (6.522%) Systems Analyst
8 8 (5.797%) Business Analyst
8 8 (5.797%) Support Analyst
8 8 (5.797%) Applications Support
9 7 (5.072%) Applications Support Analyst
10 6 (4.348%) Mainframe Developer
10 6 (4.348%) COBOL Analyst
10 6 (4.348%) COBOL Analyst Programmer
11 5 (3.623%) Software Developer
11 5 (3.623%) Technical Architect
12 4 (2.899%) Software Engineer
12 4 (2.899%) Test Analyst
12 4 (2.899%) AS400 Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 52 (37.68%) Mainframe
2 21 (15.22%) AS400
3 18 (13.04%) iSeries
4 8 (5.797%) SWIFT
4 8 (5.797%) Tandem
5 7 (5.072%) VSAM
5 7 (5.072%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (4.348%) Client/Server
7 5 (3.623%) IBM Mainframe
8 3 (2.174%) VAX
8 3 (2.174%) Data Integration
8 3 (2.174%) Data Extraction
9 2 (1.449%) IPTV
9 2 (1.449%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.449%) STB
10 1 (0.725%) IVR
10 1 (0.725%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.725%) Clustering
10 1 (0.725%) Computer Science
10 1 (0.725%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.94%) UNIX
2 15 (10.87%) zOS
3 12 (8.696%) MVS
4 9 (6.522%) Windows
4 9 (6.522%) AIX
5 7 (5.072%) OS/400
6 4 (2.899%) VME
7 3 (2.174%) VMS
7 3 (2.174%) OS/390
8 2 (1.449%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.449%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (1.449%) Linux
9 1 (0.725%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.725%) HPUX
9 1 (0.725%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (10.87%) Project Management
2 12 (8.696%) Migration
3 11 (7.971%) UML
4 10 (7.246%) Release Management
5 9 (6.522%) OO
5 9 (6.522%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (5.797%) Time Management
6 8 (5.797%) SOA
7 5 (3.623%) Business Analysis
7 5 (3.623%) ETL
7 5 (3.623%) System Testing
8 4 (2.899%) PRINCE2
8 4 (2.899%) Use Case
8 4 (2.899%) Problem Management
8 4 (2.899%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (2.899%) TOGAF
9 3 (2.174%) Change Management
9 3 (2.174%) Process Management
9 3 (2.174%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (2.174%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (28.26%) SQL
2 20 (14.49%) JCL
3 12 (8.696%) Java
4 11 (7.971%) Shell Script
4 11 (7.971%) PL/SQL
5 8 (5.797%) RPG
6 7 (5.072%) VB
7 6 (4.348%) C
8 5 (3.623%) C#
8 5 (3.623%) ALGOL
9 2 (1.449%) PL/1
10 1 (0.725%) VB6
10 1 (0.725%) Fortran
10 1 (0.725%) C++
10 1 (0.725%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.725%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.725%) PowerHouse
10 1 (0.725%) REXX
10 1 (0.725%) Tcl
10 1 (0.725%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 5 (3.623%) Degree
1 5 (3.623%) ISEB
2 1 (0.725%) HND
2 1 (0.725%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.725%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.420%) SLA
2 6 (4.348%) QA
3 1 (0.725%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (1.449%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 2 (1.449%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.725%) MetaFrame
2 1 (0.725%) RACF
2 1 (0.725%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.725%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.072%) Control-M
2 3 (2.174%) Tivoli
2 3 (2.174%) Ganglia
3 2 (1.449%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.725%) Foglight
4 1 (0.725%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.725%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 25 (18.12%) Oracle
1 25 (18.12%) IBM
2 14 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.14%) Micro Focus
3 8 (5.797%) Unisys
4 5 (3.623%) SAP
5 3 (2.174%) Perforce
5 3 (2.174%) HP
6 2 (1.449%) Rackspace
6 2 (1.449%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.449%) Citrix
6 2 (1.449%) CA
6 2 (1.449%) Informatica
6 2 (1.449%) Business Objects
6 2 (1.449%) Cisco
6 2 (1.449%) ICL
7 1 (0.725%) ATG
7 1 (0.725%) VMware
7 1 (0.725%) Brocade
7 1 (0.725%) Calypso
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