Knutsford COBOL Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills within the Knutsford region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Altrincham Banbury Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Cleveland Coventry Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Elland England Essex Folkestone Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Perthshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull South East South West South Yorkshire St Albans Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Wakefield Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	17	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	12.23 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	16	0
Average minimum salary	£37,313	-
Average salary	£39,625	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£41,938	-
UK excluding London average salary	£40,832	£37,068
% change on same period last year	+10.15 %
Programming Languages Knutsford
Matching permanent IT job ads	139	18
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.081 %	0.008 %
Salaries quoted	138	18
Average minimum salary	£35,126	£34,148
Average salary	£37,237	£36,926
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Average maximum salary	£39,349	£39,704
UK excluding London average salary	£35,513	£35,793
% change on same period last year	-0.78 %
COBOL Cheshire

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COBOL across the Knutsford region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT jobs across the Knutsford 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 20 (90.91 %) Finance 2 17 (77.27 %) Tandem 3 14 (63.64 %) ITIL 4 7 (31.82 %) ITIL Certification 4 7 (31.82 %) Banking 5 6 (27.27 %) Unit Testing 6 5 (22.73 %) WebSphere 6 5 (22.73 %) CICS 6 5 (22.73 %) Project Management 6 5 (22.73 %) C 6 5 (22.73 %) C++ 6 5 (22.73 %) Java 7 4 (18.18 %) Health 7 4 (18.18 %) Pensions 8 3 (13.64 %) Supplier Management

8 3 (13.64 %) Systems Analysis 9 2 (9.091 %) SQL 10 1 (4.545 %) Service Delivery 10 1 (4.545 %) Change Management 10 1 (4.545 %) Risk Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT jobs across the Knutsford 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 5 (22.73 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 5 (22.73 %) CICS
General 1 20 (90.91 %) Finance 2 7 (31.82 %) Banking 3 4 (18.18 %) Pensions 3 4 (18.18 %) Health	Job Titles 1 15 (68.18 %) Analyst 1 15 (68.18 %) Analyst Programmer 1 15 (68.18 %) Programmer 2 10 (45.45 %) Developer 3 7 (31.82 %) Developer Analyst 4 5 (22.73 %) Architect 5 2 (9.091 %) Applications Architect 5 2 (9.091 %) COBOL Analyst Programmer 5 2 (9.091 %) COBOL Programmer 5 2 (9.091 %) COBOL Analyst 6 1 (4.545 %) Java Architect 6 1 (4.545 %) Lead Developer 6 1 (4.545 %) Analyst Developer
Miscellaneous 1 17 (77.27 %) Tandem	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (63.64 %) ITIL 2 6 (27.27 %) Unit Testing 3 5 (22.73 %) Project Management 4 3 (13.64 %) Systems Analysis 4 3 (13.64 %) Supplier Management 5 1 (4.545 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (4.545 %) Change Management 5 1 (4.545 %) Risk Management
Programming Languages 1 5 (22.73 %) C 1 5 (22.73 %) C++ 1 5 (22.73 %) Java 2 2 (9.091 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 7 (31.82 %) ITIL Certification