COBOL Developer Contracts in London

COBOL Developer
England > London

The median COBOL Developer daily rate in London is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 - 593
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a COBOL Developer 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.039% - 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% - 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £463 £330 £500
% change year-on-year +40.15% -34.00% +35.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,640 26,016 37,232
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.31% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,027 18,790 27,160
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 295 454
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.99 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.01 £22.57 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.99% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.45 £77.30 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%

COBOL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured COBOL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for COBOL Developer in London

COBOL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for COBOL Developer in London

COBOL Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for COBOL Developer in London

COBOL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, COBOL Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring COBOL Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) COBOL
2 5 (71.43%) VMS
3 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
4 3 (42.86%) IBM
4 3 (42.86%) DB2
4 3 (42.86%) CMS
4 3 (42.86%) ICL
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) DCL
5 2 (28.57%) QA
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Data Extraction
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) Finance
5 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) ETL
5 2 (28.57%) SQL
5 2 (28.57%) REXX
5 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
5 2 (28.57%) OpenVMS
5 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (28.57%) Banking
5 2 (28.57%) Syncsort
5 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) SELCOPY
5 2 (28.57%) Time Sharing Option

COBOL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (42.86%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) DB2
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) VMS
2 2 (28.57%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Data Extraction
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) COBOL
2 2 (28.57%) DCL
2 2 (28.57%) REXX
2 2 (28.57%) SELCOPY
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) IBM
1 3 (42.86%) ICL
2 2 (28.57%) Syncsort