West Yorkshire COBOL Jobs

This section looks at the demand for COBOL skills within the West Yorkshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barking Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire Chessington Chester Chichester City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Folkestone Glasgow Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Ipswich Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Rugby Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Ives Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	162	138
Rank change on same period last year	-24
Matching permanent IT job ads	21	60
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	0.837 %	2.013 %
Salaries quoted	8	55
Average minimum salary	£36,125	£27,461
Average salary	£38,000	£30,430
% change on same period last year	+24.87 %
Average maximum salary	£39,875	£33,398
UK excluding London average salary	£35,337	£34,554
% change on same period last year	+2.26 %
Programming Languages West Yorkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	2509	2981
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.325 %	1.221 %
Salaries quoted	2169	2577
Average minimum salary	£30,253	£30,221
Average salary	£32,539	£32,310
% change on same period last year	+0.70 %
Average maximum salary	£34,824	£34,399
UK excluding London average salary	£35,180	£35,575
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing COBOL across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing COBOL across the West Yorkshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COBOL across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leeds	+6	13	£28,000	-13.84 %
Bradford	-20	3	£49,167	+67.23 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 38 (77.55 %) Finance 2 34 (69.39 %) Mainframe 3 31 (63.27 %) MVS 4 27 (55.10 %) DB2 5 23 (46.94 %) CICS 6 20 (40.82 %) SQL 7 14 (28.57 %) Project Management 8 11 (22.45 %) Degree 9 10 (20.41 %) JCL 9 10 (20.41 %) Microsoft 9 10 (20.41 %) MS Excel 10 8 (16.33 %) Business Analysis 11 7 (14.29 %) HND 11 7 (14.29 %) Time Management 12 6 (12.24 %) IBM Mainframe

12 6 (12.24 %) IBM 13 5 (10.20 %) Java 14 4 (8.163 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 4 (8.163 %) E-business 15 3 (6.122 %) Workflow 15 3 (6.122 %) Health 15 3 (6.122 %) Papyrus 15 3 (6.122 %) Workflow Management 15 3 (6.122 %) J2EE 15 3 (6.122 %) Windows 15 3 (6.122 %) zOS 15 3 (6.122 %) Windows XP 15 3 (6.122 %) Supplier Management 16 2 (4.082 %) EDI 16 2 (4.082 %) Informix

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 Development 1 3 (6.122 %) J2EE 2 2 (4.082 %) EDI 3 1 (2.041 %) ISPF 3 1 (2.041 %) WebSphere 3 1 (2.041 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 23 (46.94 %) CICS 2 3 (6.122 %) Papyrus
Applications 1 10 (20.41 %) MS Excel 2 2 (4.082 %) DOC1	Database & Business Intelligence 1 27 (55.10 %) DB2 2 2 (4.082 %) Informix 3 1 (2.041 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 1 (2.041 %) ChangeMan	General 1 38 (77.55 %) Finance 2 3 (6.122 %) Health 3 1 (2.041 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 27 (55.10 %) Analyst 2 23 (46.94 %) Developer 3 16 (32.65 %) COBOL Developer 4 13 (26.53 %) Analyst Programmer 4 13 (26.53 %) Programmer 5 12 (24.49 %) Business Analyst 6 10 (20.41 %) Analyst Developer 6 10 (20.41 %) COBOL Analyst 6 10 (20.41 %) COBOL Analyst Programmer 6 10 (20.41 %) COBOL Programmer 7 7 (14.29 %) Team Leader 8 5 (10.20 %) Financial Business Analyst 8 5 (10.20 %) Financial Services Business Analyst 9 4 (8.163 %) Business Test Analyst 9 4 (8.163 %) Technical Business Analyst 9 4 (8.163 %) Technical Analyst 9 4 (8.163 %) Test Analyst 10 3 (6.122 %) Junior Project Manager 10 3 (6.122 %) Junior 10 3 (6.122 %) Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 34 (69.39 %) Mainframe 2 6 (12.24 %) IBM Mainframe 3 1 (2.041 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 31 (63.27 %) MVS 2 3 (6.122 %) Windows 2 3 (6.122 %) Windows XP 2 3 (6.122 %) zOS 3 2 (4.082 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (28.57 %) Project Management 2 8 (16.33 %) Business Analysis 3 7 (14.29 %) Time Management 4 4 (8.163 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 4 (8.163 %) E-business 5 3 (6.122 %) Supplier Management 5 3 (6.122 %) Workflow 5 3 (6.122 %) Workflow Management 6 2 (4.082 %) Data Security 7 1 (2.041 %) Change Management 7 1 (2.041 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 20 (40.82 %) SQL 2 10 (20.41 %) JCL 3 5 (10.20 %) Java 4 1 (2.041 %) C# 4 1 (2.041 %) LINC 4 1 (2.041 %) VB 4 1 (2.041 %) VB.NET 4 1 (2.041 %) Assembly Language 4 1 (2.041 %) REXX	Qualifications 1 11 (22.45 %) Degree 2 7 (14.29 %) HND
System Software 1 1 (2.041 %) RACF	Systems Management 1 1 (2.041 %) AllFusion Endevor
Vendors 1 10 (20.41 %) Microsoft 2 6 (12.24 %) IBM 3 1 (2.041 %) Serena 3 1 (2.041 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.041 %) Business Objects