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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 19 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 West Midlands region.
| COBOL |
| 3 months to
19 Mar 2010 | Same period 2009 | Same period 2008 |
| Rank | 114 | 165 | 204 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
 +51 | +39 |
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| Matching permanent IT job ads | 33 | 11 | 32 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands | 0.921 % | 0.237 % | 0.364 % |
| As % of the Programming Languages category | 2.052 % | 0.487 % | 0.829 % |
| Salaries quoted | 28 | 7 | 27 |
| Average salary | £30,500 | £22,000 | £22,000 |
| Average salary % change year-on-year | |
| 90% of jobs offered a salary of more than | £30,000 | £22,000 | £17,000 |
| 10% of jobs offered a salary of more than | £41,500 | £29,300 | £40,000 |
| UK excluding London average salary | £35,250 | £35,750 | £32,500 |
| % change year-on-year | |
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Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category | 1608 | 2258 | 3862 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands | 44.88 % | 48.65 % | 43.96 % |
| Salaries quoted | 1429 | 1899 | 3309 |
| Average salary | £34,000 | £32,500 | £32,500 |
| Average salary % change year-on-year | |
| 90% of jobs offered a salary of more than | £24,500 | £24,000 | £23,000 |
| 10% of jobs offered a salary of more than | £45,000 | £45,000 | £45,000 |
| UK excluding London average salary | £35,000 | £35,000 | £34,500 |
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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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.
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