East of England COBOL Jobs

This section looks at the demand for COBOL skills within the East of England 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Chessington Chichester City of London Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Folkestone Glasgow Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	180	236
Rank change on same period last year	+56
Matching permanent IT job ads	93	55
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.050 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	1.336 %	0.774 %
Salaries quoted	81	51
Average minimum salary	£37,161	£29,923
Average salary	£40,358	£31,942
% change on same period last year	+26.34 %
Average maximum salary	£43,554	£33,962
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£33,617
% change on same period last year	+13.62 %
Programming Languages East of England
Matching permanent IT job ads	6959	7109
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.746 %	2.963 %
Salaries quoted	5955	6061
Average minimum salary	£33,384	£33,264
Average salary	£36,594	£36,494
% change on same period last year	+0.27 %
Average maximum salary	£39,805	£39,724
UK excluding London average salary	£35,245	£35,645
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing COBOL across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing COBOL across the East of England region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COBOL across the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section 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 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hertfordshire	+15	39	£40,833	+31.66 %
Norfolk	-	22	£40,214	-
Cambridgeshire	-	21	£42,881	-
Essex	+9	10	£37,300	+8.50 %
Suffolk	+2	2	£33,600	+12.00 %
East Anglia	-	2	£32,500	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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 62 (49.60 %) CICS 2 60 (48.00 %) Finance 3 55 (44.00 %) Mainframe 4 50 (40.00 %) DB2 5 33 (26.40 %) Java 5 33 (26.40 %) WebSphere 6 32 (25.60 %) VB 7 31 (24.80 %) IBM 8 30 (24.00 %) C++ 8 30 (24.00 %) Retail 9 26 (20.80 %) JCL 9 26 (20.80 %) Construction 10 23 (18.40 %) VSAM 11 22 (17.60 %) Assembly Language 12 17 (13.60 %) IBM Mainframe

12 17 (13.60 %) SQL 12 17 (13.60 %) Oracle 13 16 (12.80 %) ERP 13 16 (12.80 %) Business Analysis 14 14 (11.20 %) UNIX 14 14 (11.20 %) Windows 15 13 (10.40 %) J2EE 15 13 (10.40 %) MVS 16 11 (8.800 %) BusinessObjects 16 11 (8.800 %) Business Objects 16 11 (8.800 %) Windows XP 17 10 (8.000 %) Microsoft 17 10 (8.000 %) Windows Server 2003 18 9 (7.200 %) Micro Focus 18 9 (7.200 %) Data Modelling

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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 33 (26.40 %) WebSphere 2 13 (10.40 %) J2EE 3 9 (7.200 %) ISPF 4 7 (5.600 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 62 (49.60 %) CICS 2 1 (0.800 %) MQSeries
Applications 1 8 (6.400 %) MS Excel 2 6 (4.800 %) MS Office 2 6 (4.800 %) MS PowerPoint 3 3 (2.400 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 3 (2.400 %) VisionPLUS
Communications & Networking 1 4 (3.200 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 50 (40.00 %) DB2 2 11 (8.800 %) BusinessObjects 3 2 (1.600 %) Datawarehouse 3 2 (1.600 %) ETL 4 1 (0.800 %) InterBase 4 1 (0.800 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (0.800 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (0.800 %) MySQL 4 1 (0.800 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 2 (1.600 %) ClearQuest 1 2 (1.600 %) ChangeMan	General 1 60 (48.00 %) Finance 2 30 (24.00 %) Retail 3 26 (20.80 %) Construction 4 9 (7.200 %) Banking 5 8 (6.400 %) Pensions 6 5 (4.000 %) Insurance 7 1 (0.800 %) Health 7 1 (0.800 %) Back Office 7 1 (0.800 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 56 (44.80 %) Analyst 2 31 (24.80 %) Programmer 3 29 (23.20 %) Developer 4 28 (22.40 %) Analyst Programmer 5 22 (17.60 %) Senior Analyst 6 19 (15.20 %) COBOL Developer 7 16 (12.80 %) Business Analyst 8 15 (12.00 %) Systems Analyst 8 15 (12.00 %) Senior Programmer 8 15 (12.00 %) Senior Analyst Programmer 9 7 (5.600 %) Senior Systems Analyst 10 6 (4.800 %) Team Leader 10 6 (4.800 %) Consultant 11 5 (4.000 %) COBOL Analyst Programmer 11 5 (4.000 %) COBOL Programmer 11 5 (4.000 %) COBOL Analyst 11 5 (4.000 %) Mainframe Programmer 11 5 (4.000 %) CICS Programmer 12 4 (3.200 %) Mainframe Developer 12 4 (3.200 %) Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 55 (44.00 %) Mainframe 2 23 (18.40 %) VSAM 3 17 (13.60 %) IBM Mainframe 4 4 (3.200 %) PMI 4 4 (3.200 %) EFT 5 3 (2.400 %) Data Conversion 6 1 (0.800 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 14 (11.20 %) UNIX 1 14 (11.20 %) Windows 2 13 (10.40 %) MVS 3 11 (8.800 %) Windows XP 4 10 (8.000 %) Windows Server 2003 5 8 (6.400 %) zOS 6 4 (3.200 %) OS/390 7 1 (0.800 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (12.80 %) ERP 1 16 (12.80 %) Business Analysis 2 9 (7.200 %) Data Modelling 3 4 (3.200 %) Service Delivery 3 4 (3.200 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 3 (2.400 %) Enterprise Architecture 4 3 (2.400 %) Risk Analysis 4 3 (2.400 %) RUP 5 2 (1.600 %) CMMI 5 2 (1.600 %) Wealth Management 5 2 (1.600 %) Unit Testing 6 1 (0.800 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (0.800 %) Data Analysis 6 1 (0.800 %) OOD 6 1 (0.800 %) OO 6 1 (0.800 %) SSADM
Programming Languages 1 33 (26.40 %) Java 2 32 (25.60 %) VB 3 30 (24.00 %) C++ 4 26 (20.80 %) JCL 5 22 (17.60 %) Assembly Language 6 17 (13.60 %) SQL 7 8 (6.400 %) LINC 8 5 (4.000 %) VB.NET 9 2 (1.600 %) C# 10 1 (0.800 %) C 10 1 (0.800 %) Delphi 10 1 (0.800 %) Pascal	Qualifications 1 7 (5.600 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (4.800 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (0.800 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management 1 4 (3.200 %) OMEGAMON 2 2 (1.600 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 31 (24.80 %) IBM 2 17 (13.60 %) Oracle 3 11 (8.800 %) Business Objects 4 10 (8.000 %) Microsoft 5 9 (7.200 %) Micro Focus 6 3 (2.400 %) Ab Initio 7 2 (1.600 %) Unisys 7 2 (1.600 %) HP 7 2 (1.600 %) Informatica