COBOL Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

COBOL Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median COBOL Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £351 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 443 508
Rank change year-on-year +51 +65 -72
Contract jobs requiring a COBOL Developer 4 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.017% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.018% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £342 - £503
25th Percentile £346 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £351 £330 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% -37.14% +20.00%
75th Percentile £376 - £556
90th Percentile £390 - £568
UK median daily rate £400 £453 £500
% change year-on-year -11.60% -9.50% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

COBOL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for COBOL Developer in the UK excluding London

COBOL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for COBOL Developer in the UK excluding London

COBOL Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for COBOL Developer in the UK excluding London

COBOL Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Midlands +33 1 - -
North of England +29 1 £340 -
Yorkshire - 1 £340 -
South East - 1 £351 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £400 -
COBOL Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring COBOL Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) COBOL
2 3 (75.00%) DB2
2 3 (75.00%) IBM
3 2 (50.00%) CICS
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) JCL
3 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (25.00%) Syncsort
4 1 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) CLIST
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Order Management
4 1 (25.00%) REXX
4 1 (25.00%) zOS
4 1 (25.00%) Natural
4 1 (25.00%) Adabas
4 1 (25.00%) SAS
4 1 (25.00%) VMS
4 1 (25.00%) CMS
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) ICL
4 1 (25.00%) CA Endevor
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (25.00%) IDMS
4 1 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe

COBOL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (50.00%) CICS
2 1 (25.00%) CMS
2 1 (25.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) DB2
2 1 (25.00%) Adabas
2 1 (25.00%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
1 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (25.00%) Order Management
1 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (25.00%) Scrum
1 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) COBOL
2 2 (50.00%) JCL
3 1 (25.00%) CLIST
3 1 (25.00%) Natural
3 1 (25.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) ICL
2 1 (25.00%) Syncsort