The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chatham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL 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 of the Programming Languages category for the Chatham region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chatham - - -
As % of the Programming Languages category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £39,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+1.28% +20.00%
All Programming Languages
Chatham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
4 6 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chatham 36.36% 28.57% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 0
Average salary £40,000 £25,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+60.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COBOL
Kent

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chatham 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 Chatham region.

Chatham COBOL Salary Trend

COBOL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chatham 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 9 (100.00%) J2EE
1 9 (100.00%) DB2
1 9 (100.00%) XML
1 9 (100.00%) MQSeries
1 9 (100.00%) SOA
1 9 (100.00%) ETL
1 9 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 9 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 9 (100.00%) CICS
2 8 (88.89%) B2B
2 8 (88.89%) FTP
2 8 (88.89%) Web Services
2 8 (88.89%) XSLT
3 7 (77.78%) Oracle
3 7 (77.78%) Data Modelling
3 7 (77.78%) Oracle 11g
4 6 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (66.67%) BODI
4 6 (66.67%) Marketing
4 6 (66.67%) CA Endevor
4 6 (66.67%) Load Balancing
4 6 (66.67%) Informatica
4 6 (66.67%) JCL
4 6 (66.67%) Cognos
4 6 (66.67%) Business Objects
4 6 (66.67%) UML
4 6 (66.67%) OOA/OOD
5 3 (33.33%) Finance
6 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (22.22%) Performance Management

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chatham 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 9 (100.00%) J2EE
1 9 (100.00%) XML
1 9 (100.00%) XML Schema
2 8 (88.89%) Web Services
2 8 (88.89%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) MQSeries
1 9 (100.00%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) DB2
2 7 (77.78%) Oracle 11g
3 6 (66.67%) BODI
General
1 6 (66.67%) Marketing
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Architect
2 8 (88.89%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (55.56%) Team Leader
3 5 (55.56%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (11.11%) J2EE Architect
4 1 (11.11%) J2EE Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) SOA
1 9 (100.00%) ETL
2 8 (88.89%) B2B
3 7 (77.78%) Data Modelling
4 6 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (66.67%) Load Balancing
4 6 (66.67%) UML
4 6 (66.67%) OOA/OOD
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) JCL
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Oracle
2 6 (66.67%) Informatica
2 6 (66.67%) Cognos
2 6 (66.67%) Business Objects