The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 21 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank 254 247 247
Rank change year-on-year
-7 0
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 8 23 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.096% 0.262% 0.245%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.171% 0.418% 0.428%
Number of salaries quoted 8 23 18
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £19,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +110.52%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+1.26% +21.53%
All Programming Languages
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
4687 5498 5373
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 56.49% 62.71% 57.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4184 4631 4718
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COBOL
England

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England COBOL Salary Trend

COBOL
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hertfordshire +9 5 £35,000 -36.36%
Essex +26 3 £40,000 -
COBOL
England

COBOL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 15 (62.50%) C#
1 15 (62.50%) VB
2 14 (58.33%) .NET
3 13 (54.17%) SQL Server
3 13 (54.17%) SQL
3 13 (54.17%) Retail
4 12 (50.00%) Windows
5 11 (45.83%) Migration
5 11 (45.83%) .NET Framework
6 9 (37.50%) ASP.NET
7 7 (29.17%) Finance
8 6 (25.00%) Visual Studio
9 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2008
9 5 (20.83%) Oracle
10 4 (16.67%) AS400
10 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
10 4 (16.67%) Client/Server
11 3 (12.50%) DB2
11 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
12 2 (8.333%) MS PowerPoint
12 2 (8.333%) Oracle 11g
12 2 (8.333%) PHP5
12 2 (8.333%) Xcelsius
12 2 (8.333%) SAP Data Services
12 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2012
12 2 (8.333%) Silverlight
12 2 (8.333%) Security Cleared
12 2 (8.333%) PHP
12 2 (8.333%) C++
12 2 (8.333%) HTML

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 14 (58.33%) .NET
2 11 (45.83%) .NET Framework
3 9 (37.50%) ASP.NET
4 2 (8.333%) Silverlight
4 2 (8.333%) HTML
4 2 (8.333%) XML
5 1 (4.167%) XHTML
5 1 (4.167%) CSS
5 1 (4.167%) Web Services
5 1 (4.167%) ASP
5 1 (4.167%) WCF
5 1 (4.167%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (4.167%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.333%) SharePoint
1 2 (8.333%) CMS
1 2 (8.333%) LiveLink
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS PowerPoint
1 2 (8.333%) MS Project
1 2 (8.333%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.167%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.167%) FTP
1 1 (4.167%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (12.50%) DB2
4 2 (8.333%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (8.333%) Xcelsius
4 2 (8.333%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (8.333%) MySQL
4 2 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (8.333%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (8.333%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (8.333%) SAP BW
4 2 (8.333%) SAP BI
5 1 (4.167%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (8.333%) Oracle Forms
General
1 13 (54.17%) Retail
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 6 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 6 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Development Manager
4 3 (12.50%) AS400 Support
5 2 (8.333%) Oracle Forms Developer
5 2 (8.333%) COBOL Developer
5 2 (8.333%) SAP BI Consultant
5 2 (8.333%) Analyst
5 2 (8.333%) Consultant
5 2 (8.333%) Business Intelligence Consultant
5 2 (8.333%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (8.333%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (8.333%) SAP BW Consultant
6 1 (4.167%) Analyst Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Graduate Software Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.167%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) AS400
1 4 (16.67%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.167%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.167%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.167%) OS/390
2 1 (4.167%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Migration
2 2 (8.333%) CRM
2 2 (8.333%) Project Management
2 2 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (4.167%) MVC
3 1 (4.167%) Validation
3 1 (4.167%) OOP
3 1 (4.167%) OO
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) C#
1 15 (62.50%) VB
2 13 (54.17%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.333%) PHP5
4 2 (8.333%) PHP
4 2 (8.333%) C++
4 2 (8.333%) ABAP
4 2 (8.333%) VBA
5 1 (4.167%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.333%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.167%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.167%) SLA
1 1 (4.167%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.333%) Business Objects
3 2 (8.333%) SAP
3 2 (8.333%) Micro Focus
Hertfordshire
Responsibilities: Utilization of Micro Focus products in order to develop and bug fix of a Wintel based system. The COBOL Developer will act as the direct line to...
ninesharp
Salary: £33000 - £37000 per annum + comprehensive benefits package
Posted: 17 May 2013
Basildon, Essex
Skills/Experience/Qualifications required to perform the role Essential: - DBA experience with Oracle 10g / 11g Standard Edition Databases on the Microsoft Windows platform. - Oracle Database Performance Tuning (manual) -...
Xuber
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 20 May 2013