Yorkshire COBOL Jobs

This section looks at the demand for COBOL skills within the 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	122	126
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching permanent IT job ads	153	156
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.081 %	0.064 %
As % of the category below	3.297 %	2.936 %
Salaries quoted	121	145
Average minimum salary	£29,615	£29,658
Average salary	£31,265	£32,089
% change on same period last year	-2.56 %
Average maximum salary	£32,915	£34,519
UK excluding London average salary	£35,337	£34,554
% change on same period last year	+2.26 %
Programming Languages Yorkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	4640	5314
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.449 %	2.176 %
Salaries quoted	3908	4475
Average minimum salary	£29,822	£29,752
Average salary	£32,254	£31,887
% change on same period last year	+1.15 %
Average maximum salary	£34,685	£34,021
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 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 Yorkshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COBOL across the 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 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
South Yorkshire	+52	88	£28,973	-7.65 %
North Yorkshire	-12	53	£32,958	-0.70 %
West Yorkshire	-24	21	£38,000	+24.87 %
East Yorkshire	-	1	£50,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the 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.

1 203 (68.35 %) DB2 2 198 (66.67 %) Finance 3 190 (63.97 %) Mainframe 4 124 (41.75 %) MVS 5 119 (40.07 %) CICS 6 83 (27.95 %) SQL 7 67 (22.56 %) JCL 8 45 (15.15 %) System Testing 9 33 (11.11 %) Degree 10 32 (10.77 %) Financial Institution 11 31 (10.44 %) Project Management 12 28 (9.428 %) IBM 13 26 (8.754 %) Microsoft 14 24 (8.081 %) Time Management 15 22 (7.407 %) HND

15 22 (7.407 %) Pensions 16 21 (7.071 %) MS Excel 17 16 (5.387 %) IBM Mainframe 18 13 (4.377 %) UNIX 18 13 (4.377 %) Java 19 11 (3.704 %) Health 19 11 (3.704 %) VSAM 19 11 (3.704 %) Banking 19 11 (3.704 %) Oracle 19 11 (3.704 %) DataStage 20 10 (3.367 %) REXX 20 10 (3.367 %) VB 20 10 (3.367 %) User Acceptance Testing 20 10 (3.367 %) AllFusion Endevor 21 9 (3.030 %) WebSphere

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the 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 9 (3.030 %) WebSphere 2 7 (2.357 %) .NET 3 6 (2.020 %) J2EE 4 5 (1.684 %) ISPF 5 4 (1.347 %) XML 6 2 (0.673 %) EDI	Application Platforms 1 119 (40.07 %) CICS 2 4 (1.347 %) BizTalk Server 2 4 (1.347 %) Papyrus 2 4 (1.347 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 21 (7.071 %) MS Excel 2 4 (1.347 %) MS Visio 2 4 (1.347 %) MS Office 3 2 (0.673 %) DOC1	Business Applications 1 4 (1.347 %) Oracle 11i 2 3 (1.010 %) VisionPLUS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 203 (68.35 %) DB2 2 11 (3.704 %) DataStage 3 7 (2.357 %) Oracle Reports 4 4 (1.347 %) SQL Server 4 4 (1.347 %) Adabas 5 3 (1.010 %) Oracle 10g 6 2 (0.673 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 2 (0.673 %) Informix 7 1 (0.337 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 7 (2.357 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (0.337 %) ChangeMan
General 1 198 (66.67 %) Finance 2 32 (10.77 %) Financial Institution 3 22 (7.407 %) Pensions 4 11 (3.704 %) Health 4 11 (3.704 %) Banking 5 9 (3.030 %) Insurance 6 6 (2.020 %) Retail 7 2 (0.673 %) Automotive 7 2 (0.673 %) Construction	Job Titles 1 221 (74.41 %) Analyst 2 150 (50.51 %) Programmer 3 113 (38.05 %) Analyst Programmer 4 66 (22.22 %) COBOL Programmer 5 58 (19.53 %) COBOL Analyst 6 51 (17.17 %) COBOL Analyst Programmer 7 39 (13.13 %) Developer 7 39 (13.13 %) Senior Analyst 8 27 (9.091 %) Senior Programmer 9 25 (8.418 %) Business Analyst 10 24 (8.081 %) COBOL Developer 11 23 (7.744 %) Team Leader 12 17 (5.724 %) Senior Analyst Programmer 13 16 (5.387 %) Test Analyst 14 12 (4.040 %) Systems Analyst 15 11 (3.704 %) Analyst Developer 16 9 (3.030 %) Senior COBOL Programmer 16 9 (3.030 %) Project Manager 16 9 (3.030 %) Operations Analyst 16 9 (3.030 %) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 190 (63.97 %) Mainframe 2 16 (5.387 %) IBM Mainframe 3 11 (3.704 %) VSAM 4 4 (1.347 %) AS400 5 1 (0.337 %) Client/Server 5 1 (0.337 %) Smartcard	Operating Systems 1 124 (41.75 %) MVS 2 13 (4.377 %) UNIX 3 3 (1.010 %) Windows 3 3 (1.010 %) Windows XP 3 3 (1.010 %) zOS 4 2 (0.673 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 45 (15.15 %) System Testing 2 31 (10.44 %) Project Management 3 24 (8.081 %) Time Management 4 10 (3.367 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 9 (3.030 %) E-business 6 8 (2.694 %) Business Analysis 7 5 (1.684 %) Workflow 7 5 (1.684 %) Workflow Management 7 5 (1.684 %) Systems Analysis 8 4 (1.347 %) PRINCE2 8 4 (1.347 %) UML 9 3 (1.010 %) Validation 9 3 (1.010 %) Supplier Management 9 3 (1.010 %) ITIL 10 2 (0.673 %) Requirements Analysis 10 2 (0.673 %) Software Testing 10 2 (0.673 %) Data Security 10 2 (0.673 %) Agile Software Development 10 2 (0.673 %) SSADM 10 2 (0.673 %) RUP	Programming Languages 1 83 (27.95 %) SQL 2 67 (22.56 %) JCL 3 13 (4.377 %) Java 4 10 (3.367 %) VB 4 10 (3.367 %) REXX 5 7 (2.357 %) C++ 5 7 (2.357 %) PL/SQL 6 6 (2.020 %) C# 7 4 (1.347 %) NATURAL 8 3 (1.010 %) C 9 2 (0.673 %) RPG 9 2 (0.673 %) VB.NET 9 2 (0.673 %) LINC 10 1 (0.337 %) Assembly Language
Qualifications 1 33 (11.11 %) Degree 2 22 (7.407 %) HND 3 4 (1.347 %) OCP 3 4 (1.347 %) Oracle Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (2.357 %) SLA 2 6 (2.020 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (0.337 %) RACF	Systems Management 1 10 (3.367 %) AllFusion Endevor
Vendors 1 28 (9.428 %) IBM 2 26 (8.754 %) Microsoft 3 11 (3.704 %) Oracle 4 4 (1.347 %) Micro Focus 5 1 (0.337 %) Serena 5 1 (0.337 %) Business Objects