The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bath region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 24 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 Bath region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath - - -
As % of the Programming Languages category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +20.00%
All Programming Languages
Bath
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
228 147 116
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 60.96% 69.01% 56.31%
Number of salaries quoted 216 146 107
Average salary £39,500 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.85% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COBOL
Somerset

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing COBOL across the Bath region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Bath COBOL Jobs Demand Trend

COBOL
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing COBOL across the Bath region.

Bath COBOL Salary Trend

COBOL
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bath region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited COBOL.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bath region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited COBOL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Technical Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM