The first table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the West Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COBOL
Rank 173 168 127
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -41
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 1 3 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.028% 0.094% 0.901%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.050% 0.175% 1.676%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 25
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +53.84%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +20.00%
All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1989 1718 1611
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 54.70% 53.91% 53.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1621 1536 1403
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COBOL
Yorkshire

COBOL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire COBOL Jobs Demand Trend

COBOL
Salary Trend

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

West Yorkshire COBOL Salary Trend

COBOL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 11 (100.00%) Java
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle
2 10 (90.91%) Apache
2 10 (90.91%) ETL
2 10 (90.91%) WSDL
2 10 (90.91%) JAXB
2 10 (90.91%) CICS
2 10 (90.91%) W3C
2 10 (90.91%) Project Management
2 10 (90.91%) Mainframe
2 10 (90.91%) JUnit
2 10 (90.91%) Web Services
2 10 (90.91%) XML
2 10 (90.91%) PRINCE2
2 10 (90.91%) XML Schema
2 10 (90.91%) Hibernate
2 10 (90.91%) Scrum
2 10 (90.91%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (90.91%) TDD
2 10 (90.91%) Spring
2 10 (90.91%) WebSphere
2 10 (90.91%) Grails
2 10 (90.91%) GlassFish
2 10 (90.91%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (90.91%) Kanban
2 10 (90.91%) Feature Driven Development
2 10 (90.91%) User Stories
3 8 (72.73%) Unit Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Waterfall

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 10 (90.91%) WSDL
1 10 (90.91%) JAXB
1 10 (90.91%) Web Services
1 10 (90.91%) XML
1 10 (90.91%) XML Schema
1 10 (90.91%) Hibernate
1 10 (90.91%) Spring
1 10 (90.91%) WebSphere
1 10 (90.91%) Grails
2 1 (9.091%) WCF
2 1 (9.091%) WPF
2 1 (9.091%) ASP
2 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET
2 1 (9.091%) .NET
2 1 (9.091%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 10 (90.91%) Apache
1 10 (90.91%) CICS
1 10 (90.91%) GlassFish
2 1 (9.091%) Tuxedo
2 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) TOAD
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) JUnit
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (9.091%) JDeveloper
2 1 (9.091%) Eclipse
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.091%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (9.091%) Banking
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Java Software Engineer
1 8 (72.73%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Leader
2 2 (18.18%) Team Leader
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Team Leader
2 2 (18.18%) Java Team Leader
2 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Developer
3 1 (9.091%) C++/C# Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Software Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Software Development Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) W3C
1 10 (90.91%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) ETL
1 10 (90.91%) Project Management
1 10 (90.91%) PRINCE2
1 10 (90.91%) Scrum
1 10 (90.91%) Agile Software Development
1 10 (90.91%) TDD
1 10 (90.91%) Continuous Integration
1 10 (90.91%) Kanban
1 10 (90.91%) Feature Driven Development
1 10 (90.91%) User Stories
2 8 (72.73%) Unit Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Waterfall
3 1 (9.091%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (9.091%) VB6
2 1 (9.091%) VBScript
2 1 (9.091%) VB
2 1 (9.091%) VB.NET
2 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.091%) PL/SQL
2 1 (9.091%) C#
2 1 (9.091%) C++
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) Infragistics
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) Micro Focus
West Yorkshire
Skills: Legacy Systems, Subject matter expert, Change Management, Stakeholder Management, Unisys, Cobol, Mainframe. My client is looking for a legacy systems professional to support the maintenance and integrity...
Sanderson
Salary: £40000 - £44000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
West Yorkshire
To maintain awareness and understanding of appropriate development tools and techniques - Lead and motivate development, testing and support teams - Definition, promotion and adherence to quality standards - Definition, promotion...
Axica Recruitment
Salary: £45,000 per year + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013