COBOL Job Trends in Bradford

COBOL
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bradford requiring COBOL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bradford 0.59% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.45% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £78,000 £75,359 £83,577
% change year-on-year +3.51% -9.83% +4.95%

All Programming Languages
Bradford

COBOL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bradford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 29 22 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bradford 17.06% 30.56% 35.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 59
10th Percentile £39,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,313 £39,063 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.95% -2.27% +18.28%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,525 £78,750 £71,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £61,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.82% -4.35% -

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing COBOL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bradford.

COBOL job vacancy trend in Bradford

COBOL
Salary Trend in Bradford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing COBOL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing COBOL

COBOL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Application Development Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Development Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management