Wiltshire COBOL Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills within the Wiltshire 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Altrincham Banbury Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Coventry Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Elland England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Ipswich Jersey Kent Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Perthshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Scotland Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West St Albans Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	106	122
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching permanent IT job ads	6	4
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.626 %	0.363 %
Salaries quoted	5	2
Average minimum salary	£31,200	£34,000
Average salary	£33,600	£34,750
% change on same period last year	-3.30 %
Average maximum salary	£36,000	£35,500
UK excluding London average salary	£43,573	£39,021
% change on same period last year	+11.66 %
Programming Languages Wiltshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	959	1102
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.641 %	0.492 %
Salaries quoted	894	958
Average minimum salary	£31,251	£31,354
Average salary	£34,404	£33,933
% change on same period last year	+1.38 %
Average maximum salary	£37,557	£36,512
UK excluding London average salary	£35,731	£35,965
% change on same period last year	-0.65 %
COBOL South West

COBOL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing COBOL across the Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COBOL across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Swindon	+19	5	£33,600	-3.30 %

COBOL South West

COBOL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 6 (75.00 %) Tandem 2 5 (62.50 %) BASE24 3 4 (50.00 %) Finance 3 4 (50.00 %) SQL 3 4 (50.00 %) C++ 4 3 (37.50 %) ATM 4 3 (37.50 %) HP 5 2 (25.00 %) HND 5 2 (25.00 %) Degree 6 1 (12.50 %) Credit Risk 6 1 (12.50 %) Data Migration 6 1 (12.50 %) Data Cleansing 6 1 (12.50 %) Data Extraction 6 1 (12.50 %) Data Architecture 6 1 (12.50 %) Spreadsheet

6 1 (12.50 %) C 6 1 (12.50 %) Ada 6 1 (12.50 %) Cognos 6 1 (12.50 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (12.50 %) Government 6 1 (12.50 %) Migration 6 1 (12.50 %) Local Government 6 1 (12.50 %) Korn 6 1 (12.50 %) Pascal 6 1 (12.50 %) Prolog 6 1 (12.50 %) Shell Script 6 1 (12.50 %) Java 6 1 (12.50 %) JavaScript 6 1 (12.50 %) PHP 6 1 (12.50 %) VBScript

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 1 (12.50 %) .NET 1 1 (12.50 %) ASP 1 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (12.50 %) JSP	Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Spreadsheet
Business Applications 1 5 (62.50 %) BASE24	Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 1 1 (12.50 %) Data Cleansing	General 1 4 (50.00 %) Finance 2 1 (12.50 %) Government 2 1 (12.50 %) Local Government 2 1 (12.50 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 6 (75.00 %) Developer 2 5 (62.50 %) Systems Developer 2 5 (62.50 %) Senior Systems Developer 2 5 (62.50 %) Senior Developer 3 2 (25.00 %) Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Analyst Programmer 4 1 (12.50 %) Programmer 4 1 (12.50 %) Data Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 6 (75.00 %) Tandem 2 1 (12.50 %) Credit Risk 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Extraction
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) Migration 1 1 (12.50 %) Data Migration 1 1 (12.50 %) Data Architecture	Programming Languages 1 4 (50.00 %) SQL 1 4 (50.00 %) C++ 2 1 (12.50 %) Java 2 1 (12.50 %) JavaScript 2 1 (12.50 %) PHP 2 1 (12.50 %) C 2 1 (12.50 %) VBScript 2 1 (12.50 %) VB 2 1 (12.50 %) Ada 2 1 (12.50 %) Pascal 2 1 (12.50 %) Prolog 2 1 (12.50 %) Shell Script 2 1 (12.50 %) Korn
Qualifications 1 2 (25.00 %) HND 1 2 (25.00 %) Degree	Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) HP 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 2 1 (12.50 %) SAP 2 1 (12.50 %) Cognos