COBOL Contracts in Knutsford

COBOL
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford 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 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing COBOL 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 4.11% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £380 - -
25th Percentile £402 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 - -
75th Percentile £437 - -
90th Percentile £447 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £404 - -

All Programming Languages
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 73 46 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 50.00% 42.59% 51.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 41 72
10th Percentile £344 £376 £325
25th Percentile £358 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -11.09% +35.47%
75th Percentile £488 £583 £575
90th Percentile £520 £606 £617
Cheshire median daily rate £410 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -16.16% -2.20% +23.15%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for COBOL in Knutsford

COBOL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for COBOL in Knutsford

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) CICS
2 3 (50.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) DB2
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Easytrieve
2 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) SOAtest
General
1 5 (83.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) General Ledger
2 2 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Designer
1 2 (33.33%) Mainframe Designer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) J2EE
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 6 (100.00%) VSAM
2 2 (33.33%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (33.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) API Integration
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Batch Processing
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) User Stories
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JCL
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Ab Initio
1 2 (33.33%) Informatica
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) Parasoft
28 COBOL jobs in England