Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Isle of Man region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Isle of Man region.

 COBOL
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank8--
Rank change year-on-year
New entry-No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads300
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Isle of Man11.11 %--
As % of the Programming Languages category13.04 %--
Salaries quoted300
Average salary£35,500--
UK excluding London average salary£35,500£35,000£32,500
% change year-on-year
+1.420 %+7.690 %
Isle of Man IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
Isle of Man
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
233342
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Isle of Man85.19 %84.62 %53.85 %
Salaries quoted172638
Average salary£35,500£35,000£50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.420 %-30.00 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£30,000£33,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£45,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %
COBOL UKCOBOL
UK

COBOL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing COBOL across the Isle of Man region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Isle of Man COBOL Demand Trend

COBOL
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs across the Isle of Man 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.

13 (100.00 %)HTML
13 (100.00 %)Java
13 (100.00 %)SQL
13 (100.00 %)XML
13 (100.00 %)WebSphere
22 (66.67 %)AS400
22 (66.67 %)iSeries

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT jobs across the Isle of Man 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.

Isle of Man IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13 (100.00 %)HTML
13 (100.00 %)XML
13 (100.00 %)WebSphere
Isle of Man IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
13 (100.00 %)Developer
22 (66.67 %)Senior Developer
22 (66.67 %)AS400 Developer
22 (66.67 %)COBOL Developer
22 (66.67 %)Senior COBOL Developer
31 (33.33 %)Senior AS400 Developer
Isle of Man IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (66.67 %)AS400
12 (66.67 %)iSeries
Isle of Man IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13 (100.00 %)Java
13 (100.00 %)SQL