The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 17 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 Sheffield region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank - 56 46
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 0 8 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield - 1.278% 2.876%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 2.508% 4.521%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 9
Average salary - £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +23.07%
All Programming Languages
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
295 319 376
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 56.41% 50.96% 63.62%
Number of salaries quoted 246 284 330
Average salary £34,000 £32,500 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.61% +4.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £21,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,300 £38,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COBOL
South Yorkshire

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield COBOL Salary Trend

COBOL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 3 (75.00%) JUnit
1 3 (75.00%) Web Services
1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) PRINCE2
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
1 3 (75.00%) WSDL
1 3 (75.00%) XML Schema
1 3 (75.00%) JAXB
1 3 (75.00%) CICS
1 3 (75.00%) W3C
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
1 3 (75.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (75.00%) Grails
1 3 (75.00%) GlassFish
1 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (75.00%) Kanban
1 3 (75.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 3 (75.00%) User Stories
1 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Subversion

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 3 (75.00%) Web Services
1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) WSDL
1 3 (75.00%) XML Schema
1 3 (75.00%) JAXB
1 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (75.00%) Grails
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) CICS
1 3 (75.00%) GlassFish
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) COBOL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) W3C
1 3 (75.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) PRINCE2
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
1 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (75.00%) Kanban
1 3 (75.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 3 (75.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Micro Focus