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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank 174 162 169
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +7
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 18 11 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.440% 0.304% 0.025%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.701% 0.502% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 14 10 1
Average salary £35,500 £53,750 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.95% +51.40%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +20.00%
All Programming Languages
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2566 2191 1950
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 62.66% 60.46% 49.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2296 1982 1823
Average salary £35,000 £33,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.47% +6.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £24,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COBOL
North West

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester COBOL Salary Trend

COBOL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COBOL across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Manchester COBOL Salary Histogram

COBOL
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Altrincham - 2 £34,000 -
COBOL
North West

COBOL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 15 (71.43%) Oracle
2 13 (61.90%) JCL
2 13 (61.90%) Mainframe
2 13 (61.90%) Finance
3 10 (47.62%) Ab Initio
3 10 (47.62%) Financial Institution
3 10 (47.62%) Risk Management
3 10 (47.62%) Teradata
3 10 (47.62%) IBM Mainframe
3 10 (47.62%) DataStage
3 10 (47.62%) IBM
3 10 (47.62%) SQL
3 10 (47.62%) UNIX
3 10 (47.62%) Siebel
3 10 (47.62%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (47.62%) ETL
4 9 (42.86%) Oracle 8/8i
5 5 (23.81%) Banking
5 5 (23.81%) Windows
5 5 (23.81%) Perl
5 5 (23.81%) C
5 5 (23.81%) Unisys
5 5 (23.81%) Shell Script
6 4 (19.05%) AIX
6 4 (19.05%) Linux
6 4 (19.05%) Degree
6 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (9.524%) Unit Testing
7 2 (9.524%) Test Scripting
7 2 (9.524%) QA

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.762%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) HTTP
2 1 (4.762%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) DataStage
1 10 (47.62%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (42.86%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (4.762%) DB2
General
1 13 (61.90%) Finance
2 10 (47.62%) Financial Institution
3 5 (23.81%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) IT Consultant
1 4 (19.05%) Consultant
1 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 2 (9.524%) Developer
3 1 (4.762%) Analyst
3 1 (4.762%) Tester
3 1 (4.762%) Support Analyst
3 1 (4.762%) Applications Support
3 1 (4.762%) Mainframe Tester
3 1 (4.762%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (4.762%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (4.762%) Team Leader
3 1 (4.762%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 13 (61.90%) Mainframe
2 10 (47.62%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (4.762%) EMV
3 1 (4.762%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) UNIX
2 5 (23.81%) Windows
3 4 (19.05%) AIX
3 4 (19.05%) Linux
3 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.762%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Risk Management
1 10 (47.62%) ETL
2 2 (9.524%) Unit Testing
2 2 (9.524%) Test Scripting
3 1 (4.762%) Project Management
3 1 (4.762%) Problem Management
3 1 (4.762%) Release Management
3 1 (4.762%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) JCL
2 10 (47.62%) SQL
3 5 (23.81%) Perl
3 5 (23.81%) C
3 5 (23.81%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.762%) C++
4 1 (4.762%) Java
4 1 (4.762%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.524%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Oracle
2 10 (47.62%) Ab Initio
2 10 (47.62%) Teradata
2 10 (47.62%) IBM
2 10 (47.62%) Siebel
3 5 (23.81%) Unisys
Manchester, Lancashire
Skills: Legacy Systems, Subject matter expert, Change Management, Stakeholder Management, Unisys, Cobol, Mainframe. My client is looking for a legacy systems professional to support the maintenance and integrity...
Sanderson
Salary: £40000 - £44000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013