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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 12 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Surrey region.
| COBOL |
| 3 months to
12 Mar 2010 | Same period 2009 | Same period 2008 |
| Rank | 152 | 149 | 234 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
 -3 |  +85 |
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| Matching permanent IT job ads | 1 | 10 | 9 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey | 0.031 % | 0.250 % | 0.100 % |
| As % of the Programming Languages category | 0.063 % | 0.511 % | 0.224 % |
| Salaries quoted | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| Average salary | £75,000 | £42,500 | £30,000 |
| Average salary % change year-on-year | |
| UK excluding London average salary | £35,500 | £37,500 | £32,500 |
| % change year-on-year | |
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Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category | 1597 | 1958 | 4025 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey | 49.43 % | 48.99 % | 44.70 % |
| Salaries quoted | 1390 | 1740 | 3382 |
| Average salary | £40,000 | £40,000 | £35,625 |
| Average salary % change year-on-year | |
| 90% of jobs offered a salary of more than | £27,500 | £26,000 | £25,000 |
| 10% of jobs offered a salary of more than | £54,000 | £50,000 | £50,000 |
| UK excluding London average salary | £35,000 | £35,000 | £34,500 |
| % change year-on-year | |
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COBOL
Demand TrendThe chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing COBOL across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.
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