Milton Keynes COBOL Jobs

This section looks at the demand for COBOL skills within the Milton Keynes region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 28 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Banbury Barking Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Chichester City of London Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Folkestone Glasgow Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 28 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	88	95
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	7	3
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.031 %	0.346 %
Salaries quoted	6	0
Average minimum salary	£38,667	-
Average salary	£41,042	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£43,417	-
UK excluding London average salary	£38,405	£33,739
% change on same period last year	+13.82 %
Programming Languages Milton Keynes
Matching permanent IT job ads	679	867
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.369 %	0.364 %
Salaries quoted	630	754
Average minimum salary	£33,537	£33,429
Average salary	£36,740	£35,901
% change on same period last year	+2.33 %
Average maximum salary	£39,943	£38,372
UK excluding London average salary	£35,271	£35,635
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing COBOL across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COBOL across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 28 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 17 (73.91 %) Mainframe 2 12 (52.17 %) DB2 3 10 (43.48 %) Project Management 4 9 (39.13 %) IBM 4 9 (39.13 %) CICS 5 8 (34.78 %) Systems Analysis 6 7 (30.43 %) IBM Mainframe 6 7 (30.43 %) Finance 7 6 (26.09 %) JCL 8 5 (21.74 %) Unisys 8 5 (21.74 %) SQL 8 5 (21.74 %) PRINCE2 8 5 (21.74 %) SSADM 9 3 (13.04 %) RDBMS 9 3 (13.04 %) Microsoft

9 3 (13.04 %) ITIL Certification 9 3 (13.04 %) ProC 9 3 (13.04 %) Micro Focus 9 3 (13.04 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 3 (13.04 %) MS Excel 9 3 (13.04 %) Datawarehouse 9 3 (13.04 %) ITIL 9 3 (13.04 %) Oracle 9 3 (13.04 %) C 9 3 (13.04 %) C++ 9 3 (13.04 %) MS Office 9 3 (13.04 %) Service Delivery 9 3 (13.04 %) Banking 9 3 (13.04 %) Retail 10 2 (8.696 %) VSAM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 2 (8.696 %) XML 1 2 (8.696 %) XSLT 2 1 (4.348 %) XML Schema 2 1 (4.348 %) Spring 2 1 (4.348 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 9 (39.13 %) CICS
Applications 1 3 (13.04 %) MS Office 1 3 (13.04 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (52.17 %) DB2 2 3 (13.04 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 3 (13.04 %) Datawarehouse 2 3 (13.04 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 3 (13.04 %) ProC	General 1 7 (30.43 %) Finance 2 3 (13.04 %) Banking 2 3 (13.04 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 10 (43.48 %) Project Leader 1 10 (43.48 %) Analyst 2 7 (30.43 %) Technical Specialist 2 7 (30.43 %) Technical Project Leader 3 5 (21.74 %) Mainframe Project Leader 4 4 (17.39 %) Analyst Programmer 4 4 (17.39 %) Programmer 5 3 (13.04 %) Support Analyst 5 3 (13.04 %) C Programmer 5 3 (13.04 %) Systems Analyst 6 2 (8.696 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 6 2 (8.696 %) Applications Support 6 2 (8.696 %) 2nd Line Support 7 1 (4.348 %) Systems Manager 7 1 (4.348 %) Applications Support Analyst 7 1 (4.348 %) Team Leader 7 1 (4.348 %) Developer	Miscellaneous 1 17 (73.91 %) Mainframe 2 7 (30.43 %) IBM Mainframe 3 2 (8.696 %) VSAM
Operating Systems 1 1 (4.348 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (43.48 %) Project Management 2 8 (34.78 %) Systems Analysis 3 5 (21.74 %) PRINCE2 3 5 (21.74 %) SSADM 4 3 (13.04 %) ITIL 4 3 (13.04 %) Service Delivery 5 2 (8.696 %) GAP Analysis 5 2 (8.696 %) UML 6 1 (4.348 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 6 (26.09 %) JCL 2 5 (21.74 %) SQL 3 3 (13.04 %) C 3 3 (13.04 %) C++	Qualifications 1 3 (13.04 %) ITIL Certification
Vendors 1 9 (39.13 %) IBM 2 5 (21.74 %) Unisys 3 3 (13.04 %) Oracle 3 3 (13.04 %) Microsoft 3 3 (13.04 %) Micro Focus