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The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 20 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 for the West Midlands 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.
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3 months to
20 May 2013 |
Same period 2012 |
Same period 2011 |
| COBOL |
| Rank |
91 |
83 |
91 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
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| Contract jobs citing COBOL |
4 |
20 |
1 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands |
0.241% |
0.888% |
0.054% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category |
0.777% |
2.649% |
0.164% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
4 |
12 |
1 |
| Average daily rate |
£325 |
£278 |
£450 |
| Average daily rate % change year-on-year |
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| UK excluding London average daily rate |
£325 |
£335 |
£316 |
| % change year-on-year |
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| Number of hourly rates quoted |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Average hourly rate |
- |
- |
- |
| UK excluding London average hourly rate |
£27.50 |
- |
£29.50 |
All Programming Languages
West Midlands |
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category |
515 |
755 |
611 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands |
30.99% |
33.54% |
32.76% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
250 |
386 |
313 |
| Average daily rate |
£325 |
£320 |
£300 |
| Average daily rate % change year-on-year |
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| 90% offered a daily rate of more than |
£225 |
£225 |
£206 |
| 10% offered a daily rate of more than |
£425 |
£425 |
£410 |
| UK excluding London average daily rate |
£325 |
£325 |
£325 |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
21 |
31 |
31 |
| Average hourly rate |
£36.25 |
£32.00 |
£20.50 |
| Average hourly rate % change year-on-year |
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| 90% offered a hourly rate of more than |
£20.10 |
£12.50 |
£13.13 |
| 10% offered a hourly rate of more than |
£37.80 |
£37.50 |
£34.25 |
| UK excluding London average hourly rate |
£35.00 |
£34.50 |
£35.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
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COBOL
England |
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