Hybrid/Remote Micro Focus COBOL Contract Job Trends

Micro Focus COBOL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Micro Focus COBOL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 - 349
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Micro Focus COBOL 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.008% - 0.020%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.026% - 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £350
75th Percentile - - £375
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate - - £350
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

Micro Focus COBOL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,801 3,699 5,147
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 31.41% 37.34% 33.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,592 2,629 3,710
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 59 146
10th Percentile £50.15 £24.60 £27.50
25th Percentile £64.00 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £66.50 £65.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% +10.64% -6.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.25 £72.50
90th Percentile £83.65 £90.50 £86.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +3.31% -0.33%

Micro Focus COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Micro Focus COBOL and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Micro Focus COBOL job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Micro Focus COBOL
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Micro Focus COBOL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Micro Focus COBOL

Micro Focus COBOL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Micro Focus