COBOL Contracts in the South East

COBOL
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for COBOL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited COBOL over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 218 -
Rank change year-on-year +22 - -
Contract jobs citing COBOL 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.090% 0.017% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.41% 0.063% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £352 - -
25th Percentile £355 £581 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £588 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.06% - -
75th Percentile - £594 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £400 £500 £470
% change year-on-year -20.00% +6.38% +24.83%

All Programming Languages
South East

COBOL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,209 1,584 2,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.78% 27.40% 27.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 832 1,123 1,361
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £588
90th Percentile £678 £699 £650
England median daily rate £542 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.16% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 90 89
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £60.14 £55.00 £43.64
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% +26.03% +5.16%
75th Percentile £66.01 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +14.94%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for COBOL in the South East

COBOL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for COBOL in the South East

COBOL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for COBOL in the South East

COBOL
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
West Sussex - 4 £358 -
Thames Valley 0 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
COBOL
England

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) CICS
2 4 (80.00%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) DB2
2 4 (80.00%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
1 4 (80.00%) IBM Mainframe Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (20.00%) COBOL Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 4 (80.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Product Vision
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) CLIST
1 4 (80.00%) REXX
2 3 (60.00%) SELCOPY
3 1 (20.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
1 4 (80.00%) Syncsort