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This section looks at the demand for COBOL skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.
 COBOL |
| 3 months to 16 May 2008 | Same period last year |
| Rank | 138 | 130 |
| Rank change on same period last year |  -8 |
| Matching permanent IT job ads | 3 | 1 |
| As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled | 0.001 % | 0.000 % |
| As % of the category below | 0.244 % | 0.083 % |
| Salaries quoted | 3 | 1 |
| Average minimum salary | £18,000 | £33,000 |
| Average salary | £22,000 | £33,000 |
| % change on same period last year | -33.33 % |
| Average maximum salary | £26,000 | £33,000 |
| UK excluding London average salary | £35,347 | £35,710 |
| % change on same period last year | -1.01 % |
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| Matching permanent IT job ads | 1230 | 1198 |
| As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled | 0.603 % | 0.530 % |
| Salaries quoted | 1087 | 967 |
| Average minimum salary | £31,642 | £29,548 |
| Average salary | £35,086 | £32,033 |
| % change on same period last year | +9.53 % |
| Average maximum salary | £38,531 | £34,519 |
| UK excluding London average salary | £35,401 | £35,481 |
| % change on same period last year | -0.22 % |
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COBOL
Demand TrendThe chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing COBOL across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.
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