COBOL Job Trends in Swansea

COBOL
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring COBOL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 0.36% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.78% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
West Wales median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Programming Languages
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 36 10 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 12.90% 20.00% 47.25%
Number of salaries quoted 13 5 75
10th Percentile £37,650 £39,140 £30,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £33,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,619 £50,124 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +11.39% +16.88%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,762 £63,125
90th Percentile £79,000 - £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £51,619 £50,124 £45,566
% change year-on-year +2.98% +10.00% +18.35%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

COBOL job vacancy trend in Swansea

COBOL
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing COBOL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing COBOL

COBOL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform