Senior COBOL Developer Contracts

Senior COBOL Developer
UK

The median Senior COBOL Developer daily rate in the UK is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 716 853
Rank change year-on-year +126 +137 -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior COBOL Developer 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.003% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% 0.004% 0.001%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Senior COBOL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior COBOL Developer in the UK

Senior COBOL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior COBOL Developer in the UK

Senior COBOL Developer
Top 1 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior COBOL Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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 +129 1 £425 -

Senior COBOL Developer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior COBOL Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) OpenVMS
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database 10g
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) DCL
1 1 (100.00%) VAX
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills

Senior 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) OpenVMS
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) DCL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle