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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 17 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Birmingham region.
| COBOL |
| 3 months to
17 Mar 2010 | Same period 2009 | Same period 2008 |
| Rank | 66 | 90 | 133 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
 +24 | +43 |
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| Matching permanent IT job ads | 13 | 6 | 8 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham | 1.221 % | 0.407 % | 0.252 % |
| As % of the Programming Languages category | 2.838 % | 0.896 % | 0.696 % |
| Salaries quoted | 9 | 5 | 5 |
| Average salary | £30,500 | £22,000 | £22,000 |
| Average salary % change year-on-year | |
| UK excluding London average salary | £35,500 | £37,500 | £32,500 |
| % change year-on-year | |
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Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category | 458 | 670 | 1149 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham | 43.00 % | 45.49 % | 36.22 % |
| Salaries quoted | 411 | 611 | 1020 |
| Average salary | £35,000 | £32,500 | £32,500 |
| Average salary % change year-on-year | |
| 90% of jobs offered a salary of more than | £25,000 | £24,000 | £25,000 |
| 10% of jobs offered a salary of more than | £45,000 | £52,000 | £45,000 |
| UK excluding London average salary | £35,000 | £35,000 | £34,500 |
| % change year-on-year | |
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COBOL
Demand TrendThe chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing COBOL across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.
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