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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 Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 15 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 Sussex region.
| COBOL |
| 3 months to
15 Mar 2010 | Same period 2009 | Same period 2008 |
| Rank | 64 | - | - |
| Rank change year-on-year |
 - |  0 |
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| Matching permanent IT job ads | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Sussex | 0.909 % | - | - |
| As % of the Programming Languages category | 2.059 % | - | - |
| Salaries quoted | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Average salary | £50,000 | - | - |
| UK excluding London average salary | £35,250 | £37,000 | £32,500 |
| % change year-on-year | |
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Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category | 340 | 356 | 550 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Sussex | 44.16 % | 39.16 % | 40.86 % |
| Salaries quoted | 320 | 326 | 521 |
| Average salary | £35,000 | £37,500 | £32,500 |
| Average salary % change year-on-year | |
| 90% of jobs offered a salary of more than | £24,800 | £24,000 | £22,000 |
| 10% of jobs offered a salary of more than | £55,000 | £48,000 | £52,500 |
| 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 West Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.
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