The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank - 51 -
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 0 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford - 0.238% -
As % of the Programming Languages category - 0.543% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Average salary - £38,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +23.07%
All Programming Languages
Bradford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
176 184 152
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 51.92% 43.71% 46.63%
Number of salaries quoted 130 160 117
Average salary £36,500 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.30% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £22,650 £23,700
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £43,250 £43,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COBOL
West Yorkshire

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford COBOL Salary Trend

COBOL
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bradford 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 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
1 10 (100.00%) JUnit
1 10 (100.00%) Web Services
1 10 (100.00%) XML
1 10 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 10 (100.00%) Apache
1 10 (100.00%) ETL
1 10 (100.00%) WSDL
1 10 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 10 (100.00%) JAXB
1 10 (100.00%) CICS
1 10 (100.00%) W3C
1 10 (100.00%) Project Management
1 10 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 10 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 10 (100.00%) TDD
1 10 (100.00%) Spring
1 10 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 10 (100.00%) Grails
1 10 (100.00%) GlassFish
1 10 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 10 (100.00%) Scrum
1 10 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 10 (100.00%) Kanban
1 10 (100.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 10 (100.00%) User Stories
2 8 (80.00%) Unit Testing

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bradford 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 10 (100.00%) Web Services
1 10 (100.00%) XML
1 10 (100.00%) WSDL
1 10 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 10 (100.00%) JAXB
1 10 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 10 (100.00%) Spring
1 10 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 10 (100.00%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 10 (100.00%) Apache
1 10 (100.00%) CICS
1 10 (100.00%) GlassFish
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Software Engineer
1 8 (80.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Java Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) W3C
1 10 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 10 (100.00%) ETL
1 10 (100.00%) Project Management
1 10 (100.00%) Scrum
1 10 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 10 (100.00%) TDD
1 10 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 10 (100.00%) Kanban
1 10 (100.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 10 (100.00%) User Stories
2 8 (80.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle