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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Jersey - - -
As % of the Programming Languages category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +20.00%
All Programming Languages
Jersey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
7 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Jersey 22.58% - 6.250%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
Average salary £30,000 - £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COBOL
Channel Islands

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Jersey 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 Jersey region.

Jersey COBOL Salary Trend

COBOL
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Jersey 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 1 (100.00%) RPG
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Cognos
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) TickIT
1 1 (100.00%) CMMI
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
1 1 (100.00%) AS400
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) eTOM
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) iSeries

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Jersey 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) AS400
1 1 (100.00%) iSeries
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) CMMI
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) eTOM
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) RPG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) TickIT
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cognos
1 1 (100.00%) IBM