COBOL Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

COBOL
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring COBOL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.12% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.64% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £54,000 - -

All Programming Languages
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 157 183 396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 18.51% 39.19% 39.72%
Number of salaries quoted 132 146 355
10th Percentile £26,288 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,188 £38,750 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £64,375
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,625 £71,250
East Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £49,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.52% -1.50% -5.21%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

COBOL job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

COBOL
Salary Trend in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing COBOL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing COBOL

COBOL
Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 21 March 2026. 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
Nottingham - 1 - - 1
COBOL
East Midlands

COBOL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM