The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Knutsford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 23 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 Knutsford region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank 29 28 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 1 11 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Knutsford 0.667% 6.111% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.587% 8.209% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 0
Average salary £40,000 £25,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+56.86% -
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £39,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+1.28% +20.00%
All Programming Languages
Knutsford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
63 134 44
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Knutsford 42.00% 74.44% 36.07%
Number of salaries quoted 60 106 39
Average salary £32,500 £39,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,750 £26,700 £29,625
10% offered a salary of more than £40,500 £48,750 £58,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COBOL
Cheshire

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Knutsford 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 Knutsford region.

Knutsford COBOL Salary Trend

COBOL
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix