COBOL Jobs in England
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 24 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 England region.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank 713 734 632
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -102
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 128 132 219
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.127% 0.116% 0.186%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.237% 0.214% 0.350%
Number of salaries quoted 102 103 178
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £33,100 £24,400 £19,000
10% offered a salary of more than £69,750 £60,000 £65,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +20.00%
Search 15 COBOL jobs in England
All Programming Languages
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 53970 61717 62590
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 53.36% 54.44% 53.13%
Number of salaries quoted 46892 54625 54597
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COBOL
UK

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 England region.

England COBOL Salary Trend

COBOL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COBOL across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England COBOL Salary Histogram

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 England region over the 3 months to 24 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
London +75 45 £52,500 -12.50%
North West +9 28 £39,500 +2.59%
South East -2 22 £40,000 +14.28%
West Midlands -12 15 £37,500 +10.29%
East of England -9 9 £35,000 -12.50%
Yorkshire -8 5 £45,000 -
South West +1 4 £31,750 -20.62%
COBOL
UK

COBOL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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.

1 124 (47.51%) Mainframe
2 122 (46.74%) Oracle
3 100 (38.31%) Finance
4 97 (37.16%) SQL
5 78 (29.89%) Java
6 73 (27.97%) DB2
7 68 (26.05%) ETL
8 62 (23.75%) CICS
9 57 (21.84%) JCL
10 52 (19.92%) Web Services
11 48 (18.39%) .NET
12 47 (18.01%) XML
13 43 (16.48%) SQL Server
13 43 (16.48%) Banking
14 41 (15.71%) Project Management
15 40 (15.33%) C#
16 39 (14.94%) WebSphere
17 38 (14.56%) XML Schema
18 37 (14.18%) UNIX
19 35 (13.41%) C++
20 33 (12.64%) Oracle 11g
21 32 (12.26%) MQSeries
21 32 (12.26%) Data Modelling
22 31 (11.88%) SOA
22 31 (11.88%) Windows
23 30 (11.49%) Risk Management
23 30 (11.49%) IBM
24 29 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
24 29 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
25 28 (10.73%) Unit Testing

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 52 (19.92%) Web Services
2 48 (18.39%) .NET
3 47 (18.01%) XML
4 39 (14.94%) WebSphere
5 38 (14.56%) XML Schema
6 28 (10.73%) J2EE
7 23 (8.812%) XSLT
8 19 (7.280%) ASP.NET
9 17 (6.513%) Hibernate
9 17 (6.513%) Spring
10 16 (6.130%) .NET Framework
11 15 (5.747%) JAXB
12 14 (5.364%) Grails
12 14 (5.364%) WSDL
13 13 (4.981%) HTML
14 9 (3.448%) ASP
15 7 (2.682%) CSS
16 6 (2.299%) Silverlight
16 6 (2.299%) Java EE
17 5 (1.916%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 62 (23.75%) CICS
2 32 (12.26%) MQSeries
3 17 (6.513%) GlassFish
4 15 (5.747%) Apache
5 8 (3.065%) SharePoint
6 7 (2.682%) CMS
7 4 (1.533%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.533%) WebSphere MQ
7 4 (1.533%) SAS
8 3 (1.149%) ColdFusion
8 3 (1.149%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.766%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.766%) LiveLink
9 2 (0.766%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.383%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.383%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.383%) IIS
Applications
1 24 (9.195%) MS Excel
2 17 (6.513%) MS Office
3 6 (2.299%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (0.766%) MS Project
4 2 (0.766%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (6.897%) BASE24
2 4 (1.533%) Summit
3 3 (1.149%) FLEXCUBE
Communications & Networking
1 28 (10.73%) FTP
2 21 (8.046%) TCP/IP
3 20 (7.663%) ATM
4 5 (1.916%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (27.97%) DB2
2 43 (16.48%) SQL Server
3 33 (12.64%) Oracle 11g
4 21 (8.046%) Oracle 8/8i
4 21 (8.046%) NonStop SQL
5 20 (7.663%) BODI
6 13 (4.981%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (4.981%) DataStage
7 10 (3.831%) SQL Server 2008
8 6 (2.299%) Oracle 10g
8 6 (2.299%) QlikView
9 5 (1.916%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.149%) IMS/DB
11 2 (0.766%) MySQL
11 2 (0.766%) SAP BI
11 2 (0.766%) SQLPlus
11 2 (0.766%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.766%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.766%) Xcelsius
11 2 (0.766%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 17 (6.513%) JUnit
2 12 (4.598%) Visual Studio
3 10 (3.831%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 4 (1.533%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (1.533%) Subversion
5 3 (1.149%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.149%) JProfiler
5 3 (1.149%) JIRA
5 3 (1.149%) Maven
5 3 (1.149%) Ant
6 2 (0.766%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.383%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.383%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.383%) JDeveloper
General
1 100 (38.31%) Finance
2 43 (16.48%) Banking
3 28 (10.73%) Marketing
4 21 (8.046%) Financial Institution
5 17 (6.513%) Retail
6 15 (5.747%) Music
6 15 (5.747%) Music Industry
6 15 (5.747%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.533%) Back Office
7 4 (1.533%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.149%) Wholesale Banking
8 3 (1.149%) Games
8 3 (1.149%) Billing
9 2 (0.766%) Advertising
10 1 (0.383%) Publishing
10 1 (0.383%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 104 (39.85%) Developer
2 49 (18.77%) Architect
3 35 (13.41%) COBOL Developer
4 31 (11.88%) Solutions Architect
5 23 (8.812%) Mainframe Architect
6 20 (7.663%) Senior Developer
7 17 (6.513%) Software Engineer
8 14 (5.364%) AS400 Developer
8 14 (5.364%) Analyst
8 14 (5.364%) Team Leader
9 12 (4.598%) Java Software Engineer
10 11 (4.215%) Software Developer
10 11 (4.215%) Programmer
11 10 (3.831%) Consultant
12 9 (3.448%) Technical Leader
13 8 (3.065%) Applications Support
14 7 (2.682%) Development Manager
14 7 (2.682%) Oracle Developer
15 6 (2.299%) C# Developer
15 6 (2.299%) Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 124 (47.51%) Mainframe
2 23 (8.812%) IBM Mainframe
3 20 (7.663%) AS400
4 14 (5.364%) W3C
5 10 (3.831%) Tandem
6 9 (3.448%) SWIFT
7 8 (3.065%) VSAM
8 6 (2.299%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.916%) EMV
10 4 (1.533%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.149%) Wiki
11 3 (1.149%) Computer Science
11 3 (1.149%) Replication
11 3 (1.149%) Chip and PIN
12 2 (0.766%) Cryptography
12 2 (0.766%) iSeries
12 2 (0.766%) Data Integration
13 1 (0.383%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.383%) Data Extraction
13 1 (0.383%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 37 (14.18%) UNIX
2 31 (11.88%) Windows
3 15 (5.747%) Linux
4 14 (5.364%) MVS
5 8 (3.065%) OpenVMS
6 7 (2.682%) VMS
7 6 (2.299%) AIX
7 6 (2.299%) zOS
8 4 (1.533%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (1.149%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.383%) Stratus VOS
10 1 (0.383%) OS/390
10 1 (0.383%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (26.05%) ETL
2 41 (15.71%) Project Management
3 32 (12.26%) Data Modelling
4 31 (11.88%) SOA
5 30 (11.49%) Risk Management
6 29 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
6 29 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
7 28 (10.73%) Unit Testing
8 23 (8.812%) B2B
9 22 (8.429%) UML
10 20 (7.663%) OOA/OOD
11 19 (7.280%) Load Balancing
12 16 (6.130%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (6.130%) Project Planning
12 16 (6.130%) PRINCE2
13 15 (5.747%) Configuration Management
13 15 (5.747%) TDD
13 15 (5.747%) Migration
13 15 (5.747%) Product Management
14 14 (5.364%) Feature Driven Development
Programming Languages
1 97 (37.16%) SQL
2 78 (29.89%) Java
3 57 (21.84%) JCL
4 40 (15.33%) C#
5 35 (13.41%) C++
6 25 (9.579%) VB
7 20 (7.663%) JavaScript
8 18 (6.897%) C
9 15 (5.747%) VB.NET
10 14 (5.364%) PL/SQL
11 12 (4.598%) Shell Script
11 12 (4.598%) PL/1
12 8 (3.065%) Perl
13 7 (2.682%) Pascal
14 6 (2.299%) Fortran
15 5 (1.916%) DCL
15 5 (1.916%) ABAP
16 3 (1.149%) F#
16 3 (1.149%) Groovy
16 3 (1.149%) Modula-2
Qualifications
1 26 (9.962%) Degree
2 4 (1.533%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (1.149%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.149%) PMP
3 3 (1.149%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.383%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.383%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.383%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.682%) QA
2 4 (1.533%) ISO 8583
3 2 (0.766%) SLA
4 1 (0.383%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 22 (8.429%) CA Endevor
2 3 (1.149%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.149%) BladeLogic
3 1 (0.383%) OMEGAMON
3 1 (0.383%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 122 (46.74%) Oracle
2 30 (11.49%) IBM
3 25 (9.579%) Business Objects
4 21 (8.046%) HP
4 21 (8.046%) Informatica
5 20 (7.663%) Cognos
6 17 (6.513%) Microsoft
7 14 (5.364%) Ab Initio
8 13 (4.981%) Siebel
8 13 (4.981%) Teradata
8 13 (4.981%) Micro Focus
9 12 (4.598%) Perforce
10 7 (2.682%) Unisys
11 6 (2.299%) JBoss
11 6 (2.299%) CA
11 6 (2.299%) Pega
12 5 (1.916%) BMC
12 5 (1.916%) SAP
13 4 (1.533%) Sybase
14 3 (1.149%) VMware
COBOL Developer
Telford, West Midlands
We have an excellent opportunity for a COBOL Developer with experience in PL/SQL to join our global client based in Telford-Ideally we are looking for someone...
GSA Techsource
Salary: Negotiable DOE + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Application Developer - Milton Keynes - £50,000
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
In this role you will be responsible under minimal supervision, to work with external trading partners to establish and maintain EDI trading partner relationships... Designs, develops, maintains, and...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Technical Lead
London
Responsibilities of the Technically lead role are: Managing the design of and building industrial Applications across a diverse range of languages inclusive of, but not limited to: - Mainframe -...
Spargonet Consulting Plc
Salary: £60000 to £65000 per annum - Exceptional Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Technical Lead
Berkshire
Responsibilities of the Technically lead role are: Managing the design of and building industrial Applications across a diverse range of languages inclusive of, but not limited to: - Mainframe -...
Spargonet Consulting Plc
Salary: £60000 to £65000 per annum - Exceptional Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Senior Systems Engineer (Mainframe, Cobol, CICS, ITIL)
Cheshire
The successful Senior Systems Engineer (Mainframe, Cobol, CICS, ITIL) will have: - Extensive application support experience (Unix, Linux, Websphere, Java, MQ Messaging, Connect Direct, SQL) - Experience with IBM Mainframe,...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £40,000 to £55,000 per annum + Bonus + Market-Leading Package
Posted: 22 May 2013
Mainframe Application Support - COBOL, CICS, JCL - Cheshire
Cheshire, North West
Lead Application Support Analyst x2 - Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2 - This is an excellent opportunity to progress a challenging, varied and stable career working for our leading...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £38000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Excellent Package
Posted: 4 May 2013
Cobol Developer
Birmingham, West Midlands
Any experience with vb.net for middleware would be an added advantage.This is a great opportunity for someone who is looking to be able to use a...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Data Architect
Hounslow, South East
Our client a leading Bank requires a Data Architect to lead the strategy of the companies data. This role will set and enforce data architecture design principles as...
Salary: £55000.00 - £64500.00 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
Broking Support Technical Architect - DBA / Oracle / SQL
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: 24 May 2013
Software Development Manager (Oracle, Forms, Reports, SQL, SharePoint, VB ASP, C#, C++, JDeveloper)
West Yorkshire
To maintain awareness and understanding of appropriate development tools and techniques - Lead and motivate development, testing and support teams - Definition, promotion and adherence to quality standards - Definition, promotion...
Axica Recruitment
Salary: £45,000 per year + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Batch Support/Development - Cobol
Surrey
Cobol support/development - Surrey. Our client, a leading financial services organisation based in the heart of Surrey look to recruit an experienced Cobol support/developer to join a...
JM
Salary: £32000 - £42000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
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