The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Harrogate region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 23 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 Harrogate region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank 42 28 44
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +16
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 2 3 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Harrogate 0.722% 1.911% 0.725%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.786% 3.261% 1.342%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
Average salary £40,250 £39,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.89% -
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £39,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+1.28% +20.00%
All Programming Languages
Harrogate
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
112 92 149
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Harrogate 40.43% 58.60% 53.99%
Number of salaries quoted 84 82 116
Average salary £35,000 £32,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.37% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £26,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £37,400 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COBOL
North Yorkshire

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Harrogate 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 Harrogate region.

Harrogate COBOL Salary Trend

COBOL
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Harrogate 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 8 (100.00%) SQL
1 8 (100.00%) ATM
2 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 6 (75.00%) BASE24
2 6 (75.00%) NonStop SQL
2 6 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (75.00%) HP
2 6 (75.00%) VB
2 6 (75.00%) C++
2 6 (75.00%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) Mainframe
3 4 (50.00%) Project Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) ISO 8583
4 2 (25.00%) UNIX
4 2 (25.00%) EMV
4 2 (25.00%) Chip and PIN

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Harrogate 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.

Business Applications
1 6 (75.00%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) ATM
2 6 (75.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) NonStop SQL
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (25.00%) EMV
2 2 (25.00%) Chip and PIN
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) VB
2 6 (75.00%) C++
2 6 (75.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) HP