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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL 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 of the Programming Languages category for the Merseyside region.
| COBOL |
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19 Mar 2010 | Same period 2009 | Same period 2008 |
| Rank | - | - | 54 |
| Matching permanent IT job ads | 0 | 0 | 34 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside | - | - | 2.908 % |
| As % of the Programming Languages category | - | - | 6.204 % |
| Salaries quoted | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Average salary | - | - | £30,275 |
| UK excluding London average salary | £35,250 | £35,750 | £32,500 |
| % change year-on-year | |
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Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category | 159 | 250 | 548 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside | 41.19 % | 48.26 % | 46.88 % |
| Salaries quoted | 143 | 236 | 438 |
| Average salary | £32,764 | £32,500 | £30,000 |
| Average salary % change year-on-year | |
| 90% of jobs offered a salary of more than | £24,000 | £24,000 | £22,000 |
| 10% of jobs offered a salary of more than | £47,500 | £42,500 | £50,000 |
| UK excluding London average salary | £35,000 | £35,000 | £34,500 |
| % change year-on-year | |
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COBOL
Demand TrendThe chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing COBOL across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.
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