Norfolk COBOL Jobs

This section looks at the demand for COBOL skills within the Norfolk 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 29 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 Halifax 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 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	26	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	9.091 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	25	0
Average minimum salary	£39,312	-
Average salary	£40,416	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£41,520	-
UK excluding London average salary	£38,378	£33,739
% change on same period last year	+13.75 %
Programming Languages Norfolk
Matching permanent IT job ads	286	380
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.156 %	0.160 %
Salaries quoted	221	324
Average minimum salary	£32,360	£31,082
Average salary	£35,076	£34,205
% change on same period last year	+2.54 %
Average maximum salary	£37,792	£37,328
UK excluding London average salary	£35,257	£35,638
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
COBOL East of England

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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 Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COBOL across the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Norwich	-	25	£40,416	-

COBOL East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Norfolk 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 37 (84.09 %) Finance 2 34 (77.27 %) VB 3 33 (75.00 %) Java 4 30 (68.18 %) WebSphere 5 28 (63.64 %) Construction 6 27 (61.36 %) C++ 7 21 (47.73 %) CICS 8 12 (27.27 %) J2EE 9 9 (20.45 %) Mainframe 10 7 (15.91 %) DB2 10 7 (15.91 %) QA 11 6 (13.64 %) JCL 12 5 (11.36 %) Enterprise Architecture 12 5 (11.36 %) LINC 13 4 (9.091 %) Oracle

13 4 (9.091 %) .NET 14 3 (6.818 %) ETL 14 3 (6.818 %) Datawarehouse 14 3 (6.818 %) BusinessObjects 14 3 (6.818 %) Informatica 14 3 (6.818 %) Business Objects 14 3 (6.818 %) Risk Analysis 15 2 (4.545 %) Pensions 15 2 (4.545 %) Degree 15 2 (4.545 %) Data Analysis 15 2 (4.545 %) Insurance 15 2 (4.545 %) C# 15 2 (4.545 %) PMI 15 2 (4.545 %) OO 15 2 (4.545 %) OOD

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Norfolk 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 30 (68.18 %) WebSphere 2 12 (27.27 %) J2EE 3 4 (9.091 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 21 (47.73 %) CICS
Applications 1 1 (2.273 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (15.91 %) DB2 2 3 (6.818 %) Datawarehouse 2 3 (6.818 %) ETL 2 3 (6.818 %) BusinessObjects 3 1 (2.273 %) InterBase 3 1 (2.273 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (2.273 %) MySQL 3 1 (2.273 %) SQL Server
General 1 37 (84.09 %) Finance 2 28 (63.64 %) Construction 3 2 (4.545 %) Insurance 3 2 (4.545 %) Pensions 4 1 (2.273 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 32 (72.73 %) Analyst 2 24 (54.55 %) Senior Analyst 3 23 (52.27 %) Analyst Programmer 3 23 (52.27 %) Programmer 4 15 (34.09 %) Senior Analyst Programmer 4 15 (34.09 %) Senior Programmer 5 9 (20.45 %) Senior Systems Analyst 5 9 (20.45 %) Systems Analyst 6 3 (6.818 %) Systems Designer 6 3 (6.818 %) Team Leader 6 3 (6.818 %) Developer 7 2 (4.545 %) Development Team Leader 7 2 (4.545 %) Java Team Leader 7 2 (4.545 %) COBOL Analyst Programmer 7 2 (4.545 %) COBOL Programmer 7 2 (4.545 %) COBOL Analyst 7 2 (4.545 %) Mainframe Analyst Programmer 7 2 (4.545 %) Mainframe Programmer 7 2 (4.545 %) CICS Programmer 8 1 (2.273 %) Software Team Leader
Miscellaneous 1 9 (20.45 %) Mainframe 2 2 (4.545 %) PMI 3 1 (2.273 %) IBM Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 1 (2.273 %) UNIX 1 1 (2.273 %) Windows 1 1 (2.273 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (2.273 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (11.36 %) Enterprise Architecture 2 3 (6.818 %) Risk Analysis 3 2 (4.545 %) OO 3 2 (4.545 %) OOD 3 2 (4.545 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (2.273 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 34 (77.27 %) VB 2 33 (75.00 %) Java 3 27 (61.36 %) C++ 4 6 (13.64 %) JCL 5 5 (11.36 %) LINC 6 2 (4.545 %) C# 7 1 (2.273 %) C 7 1 (2.273 %) Delphi 7 1 (2.273 %) SQL 7 1 (2.273 %) VB.NET 7 1 (2.273 %) Pascal
Qualifications 1 2 (4.545 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (15.91 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (2.273 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler	Systems Management 1 1 (2.273 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 4 (9.091 %) Oracle 2 3 (6.818 %) Business Objects 2 3 (6.818 %) Informatica 3 1 (2.273 %) IBM 3 1 (2.273 %) Microsoft