The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 22 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 Coventry region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank - 48 -
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 0 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry - 0.824% -
As % of the Programming Languages category - 1.515% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 0
Average salary - £40,250 -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+1.26% +21.53%
All Programming Languages
Coventry
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
295 198 153
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 47.35% 54.40% 40.69%
Number of salaries quoted 270 179 150
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% -10.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £24,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COBOL
West Midlands

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry COBOL Salary Trend

COBOL
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) PL/SQL
2 5 (83.33%) ETL
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle 10g
2 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Summit
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (83.33%) Integration Testing
3 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (66.67%) Silverlight
3 4 (66.67%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (66.67%) VB.NET
4 1 (16.67%) Sun
4 1 (16.67%) UNIX
4 1 (16.67%) Solaris
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (16.67%) Change Control
4 1 (16.67%) Release Management
4 1 (16.67%) Billing
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 5 (83.33%) .NET
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET
2 4 (66.67%) Silverlight
Business Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Summit
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Financials
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle 10g
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Support Team Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Team Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
1 1 (16.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ETL
1 5 (83.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Change Control
2 1 (16.67%) Release Management
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) PL/SQL
3 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (66.67%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Sun