The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 17 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank - 76 67
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 0 8 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire - 0.811% 1.299%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 1.610% 2.887%
Number of salaries quoted 0 8 11
Average salary - £20,000 £19,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +23.07%
All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
402 497 381
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 37.08% 50.35% 44.98%
Number of salaries quoted 361 418 367
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,500 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COBOL
East of England

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire COBOL Salary Trend

COBOL
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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%) Web Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Graduate
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Graduate Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Graduate Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle