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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 22 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 Midlands region.
| COBOL |
| 3 months to
22 Mar 2010 | Same period 2009 | Same period 2008 |
| Rank | 31 | - | 84 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
 - |  0 |
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| Matching permanent IT job ads | 8 | 0 | 1 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands | 1.835 % | - | 0.064 % |
| As % of the Programming Languages category | 6.107 % | - | 0.238 % |
| Salaries quoted | 8 | 0 | 1 |
| Average salary | £32,500 | - | £20,000 |
| UK excluding London average salary | £35,500 | £35,000 | £32,500 |
| % change year-on-year | |
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Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category | 131 | 130 | 420 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands | 30.05 % | 29.21 % | 26.87 % |
| Salaries quoted | 81 | 90 | 349 |
| Average salary | £40,000 | £43,500 | £37,000 |
| Average salary % change year-on-year | |
| 90% of jobs offered a salary of more than | £31,000 | £29,500 | £27,500 |
| 10% of jobs offered a salary of more than | £62,500 | £52,500 | £60,000 |
| 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 Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.
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