COBOL Contracts in Leeds

COBOL
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing COBOL 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.08% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 - -

All Programming Languages
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 171 236 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 36.77% 29.54% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 173 305
10th Percentile £325 £300 £412
25th Percentile £405 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £570 £588 £600
90th Percentile £703 £648 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £31.62 - £57.55
25th Percentile £44.87 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £91.05 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +169.23%
75th Percentile £101.14 - -
90th Percentile £102.00 - £74.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.05 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +169.23%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for COBOL in Leeds

COBOL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for COBOL in Leeds

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
1 2 (40.00%) Tuxedo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Development Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) COBOL Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Project Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Perforce
3 1 (20.00%) IBM