COBOL Contracts in West Sussex

COBOL
South East > West Sussex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing COBOL 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 1.54% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £352 - -
25th Percentile £355 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £358 £588 -
% change year-on-year -39.06% - -

All Programming Languages
West Sussex

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 West Sussex with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 100 84 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 38.46% 29.37% 21.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 67 63
10th Percentile £293 £303 £377
25th Percentile £362 £396 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £488 £630 £567
90th Percentile £588 £678 £624
South East median daily rate £500 £528 £500
% change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £23.18 - £52.40
25th Percentile £23.81 - £53.38
Median hourly rate £25.75 £22.16 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.20% -59.71% -
75th Percentile £27.81 £23.29 £62.63
90th Percentile £28.53 £25.33 £67.05
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £44.86
% change year-on-year +9.09% +22.60% +10.77%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Job postings citing COBOL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for COBOL in West Sussex

COBOL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing COBOL in West Sussex.

Daily rate trend for COBOL in West Sussex

COBOL
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Worthing - 4 £358 -
COBOL
South East

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 4 (100.00%) CICS
1 4 (100.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) DB2
1 4 (100.00%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (25.00%) COBOL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) CLIST
1 4 (100.00%) REXX
2 3 (75.00%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
1 4 (100.00%) Syncsort