COBOL Contracts in the North East

COBOL
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing COBOL 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.33% - 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.39% - 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £415 £378 £536
% change year-on-year +9.79% -29.48% +7.20%

All Programming Languages
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 72 88 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 23.53% 26.75% 36.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 34 99
10th Percentile £327 £318 £361
25th Percentile £380 £384 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -19.64% +6.67%
75th Percentile £500 £501 £700
90th Percentile £575 £585 £775
England median daily rate £520 £540 £560
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 16 2
10th Percentile - £20.77 £32.74
25th Percentile - £43.54 £34.98
Median hourly rate £52.00 £47.50 £39.34
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% +20.74% -20.53%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £43.07
90th Percentile - £68.75 £44.94
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing COBOL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for COBOL in the North East

COBOL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing COBOL in the North East.

Daily rate trend for COBOL in the North East

COBOL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing COBOL in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for COBOL in the North East

COBOL
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the North East region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £525 - 5
COBOL
England

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes