COBOL Jobs in England

COBOL
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for COBOL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 733 900 1021
Rank change year-on-year +167 +121 -203
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 104 47 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.050% 0.074%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.38% 0.12% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 97 22 49
10th Percentile - £49,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,805 £66,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.57% +2.69% -1.89%
75th Percentile £84,964 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile - £116,070 £90,250
UK median annual salary £73,805 £66,750 £67,000
% change year-on-year +10.57% -0.37% +21.82%

All Programming Languages
England

COBOL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,578 40,867 69,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.47% 43.63% 53.36%
Number of salaries quoted 22,515 26,102 39,551
10th Percentile £35,050 £39,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for COBOL in England

COBOL
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing COBOL in England.

Salary trend for COBOL in England

COBOL
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing COBOL in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for COBOL in England

COBOL
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +90 66 £73,805 +6.27% 8
North West +27 27 £73,805 +6.27% 3
South East +42 24 £55,000 - 1
Yorkshire +103 21 £73,805 -26.74% 4
London +142 20 £55,000 -12.00% 3
North East - 18 £73,805 - 3
West Midlands +17 10 £73,805 +57.03% 1
Midlands +3 10 £73,805 +29.48% 1
East of England +26 2 £42,000 -28.81%
COBOL
UK

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 37 (35.58%) Tuxedo
2 3 (2.88%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 37 (35.58%) AWS
2 2 (1.92%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.27%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.85%) DB2
3 3 (2.88%) Easytrieve
4 2 (1.92%) OLTP
5 1 (0.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.81%) Eclipse
2 2 (1.92%) Git
2 2 (1.92%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 7 (6.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (2.88%) Finance
3 2 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (63.46%) Lead
1 66 (63.46%) Technical Leader
2 43 (41.35%) Senior
3 25 (24.04%) Developer
4 20 (19.23%) COBOL Developer
5 19 (18.27%) Mainframe Developer
6 5 (4.81%) Applications Support
6 5 (4.81%) IBM Mainframe Developer
6 5 (4.81%) Senior Developer
6 5 (4.81%) Senior Software Developer
6 5 (4.81%) Software Developer
7 3 (2.88%) Analyst
7 3 (2.88%) Applications Support Analyst
7 3 (2.88%) DB2 DBA
7 3 (2.88%) DBA
7 3 (2.88%) Support Analyst
8 2 (1.92%) IT Support Analyst
8 2 (1.92%) Linux Support
8 2 (1.92%) QA Engineer
8 2 (1.92%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (35.58%) RESTful
2 5 (4.81%) EDI
2 5 (4.81%) OSGi
2 5 (4.81%) Spring
3 3 (2.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (21.15%) Mainframe
2 5 (4.81%) IBM Mainframe
3 3 (2.88%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (2.88%) VSAM
4 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.46%) Linux
2 5 (4.81%) Unix
3 4 (3.85%) zOS
4 1 (0.96%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (66.35%) Agile
2 67 (64.42%) Coaching
2 67 (64.42%) Mentoring
2 67 (64.42%) Product Roadmap
2 67 (64.42%) Roadmaps
3 66 (63.46%) Strategic Thinking
4 42 (40.38%) Front End Development
5 39 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
6 30 (28.85%) Re-Platforming
7 29 (27.88%) Architectural Design
7 29 (27.88%) Feasibility Study
7 29 (27.88%) Open Source
7 29 (27.88%) Software Engineering
8 19 (18.27%) ITIL
8 19 (18.27%) Service Delivery
9 5 (4.81%) Time Management
10 4 (3.85%) Capacity Planning
10 4 (3.85%) Performance Tuning
11 3 (2.88%) Change Management
11 3 (2.88%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 73 (70.19%) Micro Focus COBOL
2 43 (41.35%) Java
3 32 (30.77%) C
4 31 (29.81%) Python
5 29 (27.88%) C++
6 8 (7.69%) SQL
7 6 (5.77%) REXX
8 5 (4.81%) C#
9 3 (2.88%) JCL
9 3 (2.88%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.92%) HLASM
11 1 (0.96%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (18.27%) CTC Cleared
1 19 (18.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.92%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.81%) GDPR
2 2 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.88%) RACF
1 3 (2.88%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (2.88%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 73 (70.19%) Micro Focus
2 37 (35.58%) Oracle
3 19 (18.27%) Unisys
4 8 (7.69%) IBM
5 3 (2.88%) BMC
6 1 (0.96%) Microsoft