Hampshire COBOL Programmer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the COBOL Programmer role in IT jobs within the Hampshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

COBOL Programmer
Location Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Coventry Docklands, London Ealing East Midlands East of England England Essex Hampshire Harrogate Ipswich Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Norwich Sheffield South East South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Thames Valley UK West Midlands West Yorkshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	192
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	0	17
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.250 %
Salaries quoted	0	13
Average minimum salary	-	£37,846
Average salary	-	£38,115
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	£38,385
UK excluding London average salary	£30,668	£30,988
% change on same period last year	-1.03 %
Job Titles Hampshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	6101	6809
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.213 %	2.793 %
Salaries quoted	4950	5428
Average minimum salary	£34,936	£35,019
Average salary	£38,081	£38,061
% change on same period last year	+0.05 %
Average maximum salary	£41,225	£41,103
UK excluding London average salary	£38,194	£39,492
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
COBOL Programmer South East

COBOL Programmer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing COBOL Programmer across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

COBOL Programmer
Salary Trend

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

COBOL Programmer
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Hampshire region that cited COBOL Programmer in their job title 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 with COBOL Programmer in their job title.

1 6 (100.00 %) COBOL 2 5 (83.33 %) Mainframe 3 4 (66.67 %) JCL 4 2 (33.33 %) Retail 4 2 (33.33 %) Java 4 2 (33.33 %) SQL 4 2 (33.33 %) DB2 4 2 (33.33 %) UML 4 2 (33.33 %) SSADM 4 2 (33.33 %) IBM 4 2 (33.33 %) CICS 4 2 (33.33 %) IBM Mainframe 5 1 (16.67 %) Billing 5 1 (16.67 %) Finance

COBOL Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Hampshire region that cited COBOL Programmer in their job title 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 with COBOL Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (33.33 %) CICS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (33.33 %) DB2
General 1 2 (33.33 %) Retail 2 1 (16.67 %) Billing 2 1 (16.67 %) Finance	Miscellaneous 1 5 (83.33 %) Mainframe 2 2 (33.33 %) IBM Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) UML 1 2 (33.33 %) SSADM	Programming Languages 1 6 (100.00 %) COBOL 2 4 (66.67 %) JCL 3 2 (33.33 %) Java 3 2 (33.33 %) SQL
Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) IBM