COBOL Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

COBOL Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median COBOL Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 467 616
Rank change year-on-year +137 +149 -134
Contract jobs requiring a COBOL Developer 14 4 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.092% 0.016% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.016% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile £325 - -
25th Percentile £340 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £330 £500
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% -34.00% -
75th Percentile £469 £459 £538
90th Percentile £488 £536 £560
UK median daily rate £400 £330 £500
% change year-on-year +21.21% -34.00% +35.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,262 24,476 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,547 17,287 30,849
10th Percentile £325 £356 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 563 608
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.98 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

COBOL Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured COBOL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

COBOL Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

COBOL Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing COBOL Developer.

COBOL Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

COBOL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing COBOL Developer over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

COBOL Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

COBOL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring COBOL Developer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) COBOL
2 7 (50.00%) VMS
2 7 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) IBM
3 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 5 (35.71%) DB2
4 4 (28.57%) OpenVMS
4 4 (28.57%) QA
4 4 (28.57%) DCL
4 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
5 3 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (21.43%) Micro Focus COBOL
5 3 (21.43%) ICL
5 3 (21.43%) Syncsort
5 3 (21.43%) REXX
5 3 (21.43%) Oracle
5 3 (21.43%) Micro Focus
5 3 (21.43%) Migration
5 3 (21.43%) CMS
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
6 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
6 2 (14.29%) Finance
6 2 (14.29%) ITIL
6 2 (14.29%) Linux
6 2 (14.29%) ETL
6 2 (14.29%) Data Analytics
6 2 (14.29%) Analytics

COBOL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (21.43%) CMS
2 1 (7.14%) CICS
2 1 (7.14%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) DB2
2 1 (7.14%) Adabas
2 1 (7.14%) IDMS
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.14%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
1 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
1 1 (7.14%) Smart Meter
1 1 (7.14%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) VMS
2 4 (28.57%) OpenVMS
3 2 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (7.14%) Unix
4 1 (7.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) Migration
2 3 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (21.43%) Scrum
3 2 (14.29%) Analytics
3 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (14.29%) Data Analytics
3 2 (14.29%) Data Extraction
3 2 (14.29%) ETL
3 2 (14.29%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
4 1 (7.14%) Order Management
4 1 (7.14%) SDLC
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) COBOL
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) DCL
4 3 (21.43%) Micro Focus COBOL
4 3 (21.43%) REXX
5 2 (14.29%) SELCOPY
6 1 (7.14%) CLIST
6 1 (7.14%) JCL
6 1 (7.14%) Natural
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) IBM
2 3 (21.43%) ICL
2 3 (21.43%) Micro Focus
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Syncsort