The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Nottinghamshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank - 83 102
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 0 9 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire - 0.769% 0.074%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 1.378% 0.179%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 1
Average salary - £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +20.00%
All Programming Languages
Nottinghamshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
628 653 560
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 58.42% 55.76% 41.51%
Number of salaries quoted 562 584 496
Average salary £36,996 £34,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.81% +4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COBOL
East Midlands

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing COBOL across the Nottinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Nottinghamshire COBOL Jobs Demand Trend

COBOL
Salary Trend

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

Nottinghamshire COBOL Salary Trend

COBOL
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 2 (50.00%) DB2
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) CICS
1 2 (50.00%) BMC
1 2 (50.00%) CA
1 2 (50.00%) REXX
1 2 (50.00%) zOS
1 2 (50.00%) MVS
1 2 (50.00%) JCL
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (50.00%) ISPF
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Practice Management
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Subversion
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Micro Focus

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 (50.00%) ISPF
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Programmer
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) COBOL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) zOS
1 2 (50.00%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Practice Management
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) REXX
1 2 (50.00%) JCL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) BMC
1 2 (50.00%) CA
2 1 (25.00%) Micro Focus