COBOL Jobs in the UK excluding London

COBOL
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for COBOL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited COBOL over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 640 706 776
Rank change year-on-year +66 +70 -109
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 120 45 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.075% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.53% 0.19% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 104 19 50
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,900 £38,625
25th Percentile £56,809 £51,750 £51,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,805 £66,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.98% -3.27% +44.74%
75th Percentile £84,964 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile - £116,070 £90,125
UK median annual salary £73,805 £63,000 £67,250
% change year-on-year +17.15% -6.32% +22.27%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

COBOL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,515 24,145 32,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.73% 40.07% 46.16%
Number of salaries quoted 16,386 13,576 21,262
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +3.14% +6.65%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,244
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing COBOL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for COBOL in the UK excluding London

COBOL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing COBOL in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for COBOL in the UK excluding London

COBOL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing COBOL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for COBOL in the UK excluding London

COBOL
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +96 71 £73,805 +6.27% 6
North West +23 29 £73,805 +6.27% 2
Yorkshire +100 24 £73,805 -26.74% 3
South East +36 23 £55,000 +22.22%
North East - 18 £73,805 - 3
West Midlands +12 12 £73,805 +57.03% 1
Midlands +1 12 £73,805 +29.48% 1
Scotland -50 12 £71,991 -
East of England +10 2 £42,000 -28.81%
COBOL
UK

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 37 (30.83%) Tuxedo
2 14 (11.67%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 48 (40.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.83%) Relational Database
2 15 (12.50%) DB2
3 3 (2.50%) Easytrieve
4 1 (0.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (9.17%) ChangeMan
2 5 (4.17%) Eclipse
General
1 14 (11.67%) Finance
2 11 (9.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (9.17%) Law
2 11 (9.17%) Marketing
3 5 (4.17%) Social Skills
4 1 (0.83%) Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (55.00%) Lead
1 66 (55.00%) Technical Leader
2 50 (41.67%) Senior
3 25 (20.83%) Developer
4 20 (16.67%) COBOL Developer
5 19 (15.83%) Mainframe Developer
6 12 (10.00%) Mainframe Software Engineer
6 12 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Architect
7 8 (6.67%) Senior Architect
7 8 (6.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.17%) Applications Support
8 5 (4.17%) IBM Mainframe Developer
8 5 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.17%) Senior Software Developer
8 5 (4.17%) Software Developer
9 3 (2.50%) Analyst
9 3 (2.50%) Applications Support Analyst
9 3 (2.50%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (30.83%) RESTful
2 5 (4.17%) EDI
2 5 (4.17%) OSGi
2 5 (4.17%) Spring
3 3 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (25.83%) Mainframe
2 14 (11.67%) VSAM
3 11 (9.17%) Reference Data
4 5 (4.17%) IBM Mainframe
5 3 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.83%) Linux
2 8 (6.67%) VME
3 5 (4.17%) Unix
4 3 (2.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (71.67%) Agile
2 74 (61.67%) Coaching
2 74 (61.67%) Mentoring
2 74 (61.67%) Product Roadmap
2 74 (61.67%) Roadmaps
3 66 (55.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 42 (35.00%) Front End Development
5 41 (34.17%) Software Engineering
6 37 (30.83%) Continuous Integration
6 37 (30.83%) Re-Platforming
7 29 (24.17%) Architectural Design
7 29 (24.17%) Feasibility Study
7 29 (24.17%) Open Source
8 19 (15.83%) Decision-Making
8 19 (15.83%) ITIL
8 19 (15.83%) Service Delivery
9 11 (9.17%) Artificial Intelligence
9 11 (9.17%) CI/CD
9 11 (9.17%) Machine Learning
9 11 (9.17%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 80 (66.67%) Micro Focus COBOL
2 54 (45.00%) Java
3 32 (26.67%) C
4 29 (24.17%) C++
4 29 (24.17%) Python
5 15 (12.50%) JCL
6 8 (6.67%) SQL
7 5 (4.17%) C#
8 3 (2.50%) REXX
9 1 (0.83%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.83%) PHP
9 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (15.83%) CTC Cleared
1 19 (15.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (11.67%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (2.50%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (2.50%) MAINVIEW
2 1 (0.83%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 80 (66.67%) Micro Focus
2 48 (40.00%) Oracle
3 19 (15.83%) Unisys
4 9 (7.50%) IBM
5 3 (2.50%) BMC
6 1 (0.83%) CA
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft