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The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for COBOL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited COBOL over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
| COBOL |
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3 months to
27 Jun 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
Same period 2015 |
| Rank |
133 |
91 |
126 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-42 |
+35 |
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| Contract jobs citing COBOL |
6 |
68 |
27 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West |
0.20% |
1.79% |
0.74% |
| As % of the Programming Languages category |
0.56% |
5.21% |
2.27% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
1 |
41 |
20 |
| Median daily rate |
£400 |
£420 |
£375 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
-4.76% |
+12.00% |
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| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£374 |
£381 |
£370 |
| % change year-on-year |
-2.03% |
+3.04% |
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| Number of hourly rates quoted |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Median hourly rate |
- |
- |
- |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£32.00 |
£25.00 |
- |
| % change year-on-year |
+28.00% |
- |
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COBOL is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for programming language skills.
| Contract Programming Language Skills North West |
| Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills |
1078 |
1306 |
1190 |
| As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West |
36.60% |
34.40% |
32.71% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
708 |
870 |
767 |
| Median daily rate |
£400 |
£388 |
£363 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+3.22% |
+6.89% |
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| 90% offered a daily rate of more than |
£300 |
£288 |
£275 |
| 10% offered a daily rate of more than |
£513 |
£520 |
£525 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£400 |
£375 |
£350 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.66% |
+7.14% |
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| Number of hourly rates quoted |
56 |
31 |
25 |
| Median hourly rate |
£41.00 |
£28.50 |
£37.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+43.85% |
-22.97% |
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| 90% offered a hourly rate of more than |
£15.45 |
£18.80 |
£18.68 |
| 10% offered a hourly rate of more than |
£45.25 |
£45.00 |
£57.25 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£42.50 |
£37.50 |
£37.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+13.33% |
+1.35% |
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COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West
The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the North West citing COBOL as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Programming Languages category.
COBOL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing COBOL in the North West.
COBOL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL in the North West.
COBOL
Contract Job Locations in the North West
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 West region over the 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.
| Location |
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year |
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads |
Median
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months |
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year |
Live
Job
Vacancies |
| Manchester |
+19 |
5 |
- |
- |
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| Cheshire |
+20 |
1 |
£400 |
+23.07% |
1 |
COBOL
England |
For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing COBOL also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the North West region with a requirement for COBOL.
COBOL
Co-occurring IT Skills in the North West by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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