Southampton COBOL Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills within the Southampton 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 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

COBOL
Location Altrincham Banbury Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London Cleveland 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 Kent 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 Southampton St Albans Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	0	0
Average minimum salary	-	-
Average salary	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	-
UK excluding London average salary	£43,531	£38,942
% change on same period last year	+11.78 %
Programming Languages Southampton
Matching permanent IT job ads	386	391
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.253 %	0.173 %
Salaries quoted	325	363
Average minimum salary	£31,334	£30,178
Average salary	£34,397	£34,035
% change on same period last year	+1.06 %
Average maximum salary	£37,460	£37,891
UK excluding London average salary	£35,719	£35,955
% change on same period last year	-0.65 %
COBOL Hampshire

COBOL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing COBOL across the Southampton 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 Southampton region.

COBOL
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 3 (100.00 %) DB2 1 3 (100.00 %) E-Commerce 1 3 (100.00 %) Eclipse 1 3 (100.00 %) IBM 1 3 (100.00 %) CICS 1 3 (100.00 %) zOS 1 3 (100.00 %) Mainframe

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 Platforms 1 3 (100.00 %) CICS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (100.00 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 3 (100.00 %) Eclipse	Miscellaneous 1 3 (100.00 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (100.00 %) E-Commerce
Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 3 (100.00 %) IBM