The first table below looks at the demand for the COBOL Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles advertised for the Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL Developer
Rank 143 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a COBOL Developer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.081% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £35,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £36,250 £28,600 £36,500
% change year-on-year
+26.74% -21.64%
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2307 2488 3097
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 93.93% 96.28% 93.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1880 2021 2521
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £59,500 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
COBOL Developer
East of England

COBOL Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing COBOL Developer across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Hertfordshire COBOL Developer Jobs Demand Trend

COBOL Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing COBOL Developer across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire COBOL Developer Salary Trend

COBOL Developer
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited COBOL Developer 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 Developer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Focus
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) ASP
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript

COBOL Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited COBOL Developer 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) ASP
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Focus