The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 0.439% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.136% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £34,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +20.00%
All Programming Languages
Hemel Hempstead
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
88 119 62
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 38.60% 52.89% 38.27%
Number of salaries quoted 84 114 53
Average salary £35,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,500 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COBOL
Hertfordshire

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

Hemel Hempstead COBOL Salary Trend

COBOL
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 12 (100.00%) C#
1 12 (100.00%) .NET
1 12 (100.00%) Retail
2 11 (91.67%) .NET Framework
2 11 (91.67%) Migration
2 11 (91.67%) VB
3 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
3 7 (58.33%) ASP.NET
3 7 (58.33%) Windows
4 6 (50.00%) Visual Studio
4 6 (50.00%) SQL
5 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (8.333%) Microsoft
5 1 (8.333%) Micro Focus

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (91.67%) .NET Framework
3 7 (58.33%) ASP.NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 6 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 6 (50.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 6 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 5 (41.67%) Development Manager
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) C#
2 11 (91.67%) VB
3 6 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (8.333%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.333%) Micro Focus