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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the COBOL Programmer role in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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 Job Titles advertised for the Leeds region.

 COBOL Programmer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank-100158
Matching permanent IT job ads039
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds-0.206 %0.230 %
As % of the Job Titles category-0.213 %0.238 %
Salaries quoted001
Average salary--£28,500
UK excluding London average salary£30,500£42,000£32,500
% change year-on-year
-27.38 %+29.23 %
Leeds IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
120314063779
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds97.02 %96.57 %96.65 %
Salaries quoted105611663067
Average salary£32,500£31,000£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.830 %-4.610 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£21,000£20,500£22,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£45,000£49,291
UK excluding London average salary£35,556£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.580 %-
COBOL Programmer West YorkshireCOBOL Programmer
West Yorkshire

COBOL Programmer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing COBOL Programmer across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Leeds COBOL Programmer Demand Trend

COBOL Programmer
Salary Trend

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

Leeds COBOL Programmer Salary Trend

COBOL Programmer
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Leeds region that cited COBOL Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title.

11 (100.00 %)COBOL
11 (100.00 %)SQL
11 (100.00 %)DB2
11 (100.00 %)HND
11 (100.00 %)MS Excel
11 (100.00 %)Microsoft
11 (100.00 %)CICS
11 (100.00 %)MVS
11 (100.00 %)JCL
11 (100.00 %)Mainframe
11 (100.00 %)Finance
11 (100.00 %)Degree

COBOL Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Leeds region that cited COBOL Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Leeds IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (100.00 %)CICS
Leeds IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (100.00 %)MS Excel
Leeds IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (100.00 %)DB2
Leeds IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (100.00 %)Finance
Leeds IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (100.00 %)Mainframe
Leeds IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (100.00 %)MVS
Leeds IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11 (100.00 %)COBOL
11 (100.00 %)SQL
11 (100.00 %)JCL
Leeds IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11 (100.00 %)HND
11 (100.00 %)Degree
Leeds IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11 (100.00 %)Microsoft