North East COBOL Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills within the North East 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 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Altrincham Banbury Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Coventry Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Elland England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Ipswich Jersey Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Perthshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Scotland Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West St Albans Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	87
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.155 %
Salaries quoted	0	0
Average minimum salary	-	-
Average salary	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	-
UK excluding London average salary	£43,551	£38,874
% change on same period last year	+12.02 %
Programming Languages North East
Matching permanent IT job ads	464	645
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.314 %	0.293 %
Salaries quoted	404	531
Average minimum salary	£31,257	£30,190
Average salary	£33,307	£33,169
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Average maximum salary	£35,357	£36,149
UK excluding London average salary	£35,738	£35,968
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
COBOL England

COBOL
Demand Trend

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

COBOL
Salary Trend

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

COBOL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT jobs across the North East 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 6 (85.71 %) Mainframe 2 5 (71.43 %) Degree 3 4 (57.14 %) Java 3 4 (57.14 %) SQL 3 4 (57.14 %) XML 3 4 (57.14 %) HND 3 4 (57.14 %) HP 4 3 (42.86 %) CICS 5 2 (28.57 %) ISPF 5 2 (28.57 %) Finance 5 2 (28.57 %) Assembly Language 5 2 (28.57 %) DB2 6 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel 6 1 (14.29 %) Client/Server 6 1 (14.29 %) IBM

6 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft 6 1 (14.29 %) REXX 6 1 (14.29 %) zOS 6 1 (14.29 %) MVS 6 1 (14.29 %) RACF 6 1 (14.29 %) JCL 6 1 (14.29 %) XPEDITER 6 1 (14.29 %) Configuration Management 6 1 (14.29 %) Serena 6 1 (14.29 %) ChangeMan 6 1 (14.29 %) VSAM 6 1 (14.29 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (14.29 %) AllFusion Endevor 6 1 (14.29 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (14.29 %) IBM Mainframe

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT jobs across the North East 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 4 (57.14 %) XML 2 2 (28.57 %) ISPF	Application Platforms 1 3 (42.86 %) CICS
Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel 1 1 (14.29 %) MS PowerPoint	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (28.57 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) XPEDITER 1 1 (14.29 %) ChangeMan	General 1 2 (28.57 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 4 (57.14 %) Analyst 2 3 (42.86 %) Programmer 3 2 (28.57 %) Analyst Programmer 3 2 (28.57 %) Senior Analyst 4 1 (14.29 %) Systems Programmer 4 1 (14.29 %) Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 6 (85.71 %) Mainframe 2 1 (14.29 %) VSAM 2 1 (14.29 %) IBM Mainframe 2 1 (14.29 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 1 (14.29 %) zOS 1 1 (14.29 %) MVS	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) Configuration Management 1 1 (14.29 %) Change Management 1 1 (14.29 %) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages 1 4 (57.14 %) Java 1 4 (57.14 %) SQL 2 2 (28.57 %) Assembly Language 3 1 (14.29 %) REXX 3 1 (14.29 %) JCL	Qualifications 1 5 (71.43 %) Degree 2 4 (57.14 %) HND
System Software 1 1 (14.29 %) RACF	Systems Management 1 1 (14.29 %) AllFusion Endevor
Vendors 1 4 (57.14 %) HP 2 1 (14.29 %) Serena 2 1 (14.29 %) IBM 2 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft