COBOL Jobs in London

COBOL
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring COBOL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited COBOL over the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 468 535
Rank change year-on-year +71 +67 +387
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 10 10 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.077% 0.048% 0.030%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.19% 0.12% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 7
10th Percentile - £52,000 -
25th Percentile £66,250 £52,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £82,500
90th Percentile - £58,500 £89,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £73,805 £64,750
% change year-on-year +8.39% +13.98% +3.60%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,393 8,207 12,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.46% 39.80% 46.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,537 6,066 10,531
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £135,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for COBOL in London

COBOL
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for COBOL in London

COBOL
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the London region over the 6 months to 31 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London - 2 £67,500 -
COBOL
England

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (50.00%) CICS
2 2 (20.00%) Confluence
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) DB2
2 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) Adabas
3 1 (10.00%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Advertising
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Mainframe Architect
3 2 (20.00%) COBOL Programmer
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Programmer
3 2 (20.00%) Mainframe Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Mainframe Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Programmer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior COBOL Programmer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Programmer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) JSON
2 2 (20.00%) RESTful
2 2 (20.00%) SOAP
2 2 (20.00%) Web Services
2 2 (20.00%) WSDL
3 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 4 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (20.00%) VAX
4 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (10.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) zOS
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) SOA
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Refactoring
4 2 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
4 2 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (10.00%) Capacity Management
5 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) High Availability
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) JCL
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) Assembly Language
4 1 (10.00%) Natural
4 1 (10.00%) PL/1
4 1 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) REXX
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO 15022
1 1 (10.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) ACF2
1 1 (10.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (10.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) CA Endevor
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Cincom
2 1 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat