COBOL Contracts in Birmingham

COBOL
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring COBOL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited COBOL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 66 -
Rank change year-on-year +21 - -
Contract jobs citing COBOL 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.96% 0.13% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.97% 0.54% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £604 £358 £540
% change year-on-year +68.64% -33.70% +4.65%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

COBOL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 126 186 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.14% 24.06% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 144 158
10th Percentile £341 £259 £313
25th Percentile £425 £310 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £410 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.88% -18.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £650
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £456 £525
% change year-on-year +4.11% -13.10% +14.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £40.20 £21.70
25th Percentile £47.50 £40.50 £24.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +64.74% -
75th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £75.63
90th Percentile - - £98.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.50 £57.50 £29.32
% change year-on-year -52.17% +96.13% +68.59%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing COBOL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for COBOL in Birmingham

COBOL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing COBOL in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for COBOL in Birmingham

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) SAP Developer
2 2 (40.00%) ABAP Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) IDoc
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) SOAP
2 2 (40.00%) BAPI
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) CSS3
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) HTML5
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Smart Forms
2 2 (40.00%) SAPUI5
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) EDI
3 1 (20.00%) J2EE
3 1 (20.00%) JDBC
3 1 (20.00%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) ERP
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) OO
3 2 (40.00%) SAP Implementation
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 2 (40.00%) Workflow
4 1 (20.00%) API Management
4 1 (20.00%) B2B
4 1 (20.00%) BPMN
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) ABAP
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Groovy
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Certification
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) SAP
2 2 (40.00%) Adobe