COBOL Contracts in Buckinghamshire

COBOL
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 37 53 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Contract jobs citing COBOL 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.42% 0.21% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.00% 0.81% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - £358 £588
% change year-on-year - -39.06% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All Programming Languages
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 50 123 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 21.19% 25.84% 22.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 91 166
10th Percentile £305 £388 £252
25th Percentile £344 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.81% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £568 £575
90th Percentile £613 £610 £675
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 1
10th Percentile £51.38 £22.61 -
25th Percentile £51.56 £29.89 £41.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £47.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% +11.76% +286.36%
75th Percentile £56.56 £51.56 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.13 £54.25 -
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for COBOL in Buckinghamshire

COBOL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for COBOL in Buckinghamshire

COBOL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing COBOL in Buckinghamshire.

Hourly rate trend for COBOL in Buckinghamshire

COBOL
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +13 1 - -
COBOL
South East

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Support
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA