Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for COBOL skills in IT jobs advertised for the York 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 York region.

 COBOL
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank-3224
Matching permanent IT job ads0980
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in York-3.103 %7.055 %
As % of the Programming Languages category-7.087 %15.30 %
Salaries quoted0456
Average salary-£28,500£30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
--5.000 %
UK excluding London average salary£35,250£35,750£32,500
% change year-on-year
-1.390 %+10.00 %
York IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
York
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
84127523
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in York61.31 %43.79 %46.12 %
Salaries quoted73105402
Average salary£33,000£31,000£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.450 %-4.610 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,200£21,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£40,000£40,000£40,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %
COBOL North YorkshireCOBOL
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COBOL
Demand Trend

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

York COBOL Demand Trend

COBOL
Salary Trend

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

York COBOL Salary Trend

COBOL
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the York 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.

11 (100.00 %)SQL
11 (100.00 %)DB2
11 (100.00 %)HND
11 (100.00 %)MS Excel
11 (100.00 %)Microsoft
11 (100.00 %)CICS
11 (100.00 %)MVS
11 (100.00 %)JCL
11 (100.00 %)Mainframe
11 (100.00 %)Finance
11 (100.00 %)Degree

COBOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the York 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.

York IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (100.00 %)CICS
York IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (100.00 %)MS Excel
York IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (100.00 %)DB2
York IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (100.00 %)Finance
York IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11 (100.00 %)Analyst
11 (100.00 %)Programmer
11 (100.00 %)COBOL Programmer
11 (100.00 %)COBOL Analyst
York IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (100.00 %)Mainframe
York IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (100.00 %)MVS
York IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11 (100.00 %)SQL
11 (100.00 %)JCL
York IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11 (100.00 %)HND
11 (100.00 %)Degree
York IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11 (100.00 %)Microsoft