The first table below looks at the demand for the COBOL Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles advertised for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL Developer
Rank 107 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a COBOL Developer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.119% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.125% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £33,750 - -
UK excluding London average salary £36,250 £28,200 £36,500
% change year-on-year
+28.54% -22.73%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1597 1412 1298
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 94.78% 96.19% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1338 1263 1129
Average salary £41,500 £38,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.21% +1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £23,750
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
COBOL Developer
West Midlands

COBOL Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing COBOL Developer across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Birmingham COBOL Developer Jobs Demand Trend

COBOL Developer
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham COBOL Developer Salary Trend

COBOL Developer
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited COBOL Developer in their job title 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 with COBOL Developer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) iSeries
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Focus

COBOL Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited COBOL Developer in their job title 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 with COBOL Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Micro Focus
Birmingham, West Midlands
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