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The table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills within the Buckinghamshire 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 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.
 COBOL |
| 3 months to
13 Oct 2008 | Same period last year |
| Rank | 138 | 144 |
| Rank change on same period last year |  +6 |
| Matching permanent IT job ads | 11 | 20 |
| As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled | 0.006 % | 0.009 % |
| As % of the category below | 0.707 % | 0.878 % |
| Salaries quoted | 10 | 17 |
| Average minimum salary | £36,700 | £29,765 |
| Average salary | £40,475 | £32,353 |
| % change on same period last year | +25.10 % |
| Average maximum salary | £44,250 | £34,941 |
| UK excluding London average salary | £40,832 | £37,068 |
| % change on same period last year | +10.15 % |
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| Matching permanent IT job ads | 1556 | 2278 |
| As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled | 0.904 % | 0.980 % |
| Salaries quoted | 1419 | 2026 |
| Average minimum salary | £33,872 | £34,581 |
| Average salary | £37,365 | £37,731 |
| % change on same period last year | -0.97 % |
| Average maximum salary | £40,857 | £40,880 |
| UK excluding London average salary | £35,513 | £35,793 |
| % change on same period last year | -0.78 % |
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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 Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.
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