COBOL Contracts in West Yorkshire

COBOL
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing COBOL 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.91% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +22.32%

All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 186 263 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 33.94% 26.33% 28.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 196 335
10th Percentile £325 £300 £403
25th Percentile £405 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £31.62 - £57.55
25th Percentile £44.87 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £91.05 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +169.23%
75th Percentile £101.14 - -
90th Percentile £102.00 - £74.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.05 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +45.68% - +126.98%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for COBOL in West Yorkshire

COBOL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for COBOL in West Yorkshire

COBOL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing COBOL in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for COBOL in West Yorkshire

COBOL
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Leeds - 5 £450 - 3
Bradford - 2 £450 -
COBOL
Yorkshire

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (40.00%) Confluence
1 2 (40.00%) Tuxedo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Development Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) COBOL Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Project Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Perforce
3 1 (20.00%) IBM