COBOL Jobs in the UK excluding London

COBOL
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 639 709 760
Rank change year-on-year +70 +51 -100
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 112 45 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.072% 0.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.50% 0.18% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 96 19 52
10th Percentile - £49,750 £37,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,375 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,805 £67,000 £67,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -0.37% +41.58%
75th Percentile £84,964 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile - £116,070 £90,000
UK median annual salary £73,805 £66,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year +10.98% -0.75% +21.82%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,460 25,200 32,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.21% 40.44% 46.37%
Number of salaries quoted 16,420 14,136 21,554
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,635 £55,000 £53,850
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +2.14% +7.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,463
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for COBOL in the UK excluding London

COBOL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for COBOL in the UK excluding London

COBOL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing COBOL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for COBOL in the UK excluding London

COBOL
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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 +88 65 £73,805 +6.27% 7
North West +18 26 £73,805 +6.27% 3
South East +39 24 £55,000 -
Yorkshire +102 21 £73,805 -26.74% 3
North East - 18 £73,805 - 3
Scotland -53 11 £71,991 - 1
West Midlands +29 10 £73,805 +57.03% 1
Midlands +16 10 £73,805 +29.48% 1
East of England +31 2 £42,000 -28.81%
COBOL
UK

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 37 (33.04%) Tuxedo
2 13 (11.61%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 47 (41.96%) AWS
2 1 (0.89%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.89%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.96%) Relational Database
2 14 (12.50%) DB2
3 3 (2.68%) Easytrieve
4 1 (0.89%) MySQL
4 1 (0.89%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 10 (8.93%) ChangeMan
2 5 (4.46%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.89%) Git
3 1 (0.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.89%) JIRA
General
1 13 (11.61%) Finance
2 10 (8.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (8.93%) Law
2 10 (8.93%) Marketing
3 6 (5.36%) Social Skills
4 1 (0.89%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.89%) Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (58.93%) Lead
1 66 (58.93%) Technical Leader
2 42 (37.50%) Senior
3 25 (22.32%) Developer
4 20 (17.86%) COBOL Developer
5 19 (16.96%) Mainframe Developer
6 11 (9.82%) Mainframe Software Engineer
6 11 (9.82%) Software Engineer
7 5 (4.46%) Applications Support
7 5 (4.46%) IBM Mainframe Developer
7 5 (4.46%) Senior Developer
7 5 (4.46%) Senior Software Developer
7 5 (4.46%) Software Developer
8 3 (2.68%) Analyst
8 3 (2.68%) Applications Support Analyst
8 3 (2.68%) DB2 DBA
8 3 (2.68%) DBA
8 3 (2.68%) Support Analyst
9 2 (1.79%) IT Support Analyst
9 2 (1.79%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (33.04%) RESTful
2 5 (4.46%) EDI
2 5 (4.46%) OSGi
2 5 (4.46%) Spring
3 3 (2.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (27.68%) Mainframe
2 13 (11.61%) VSAM
3 10 (8.93%) Reference Data
4 5 (4.46%) IBM Mainframe
5 3 (2.68%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.71%) Linux
2 5 (4.46%) Unix
3 3 (2.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (69.64%) Agile
2 66 (58.93%) Coaching
2 66 (58.93%) Mentoring
2 66 (58.93%) Product Roadmap
2 66 (58.93%) Roadmaps
2 66 (58.93%) Strategic Thinking
3 42 (37.50%) Front End Development
4 40 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 38 (33.93%) Continuous Integration
6 29 (25.89%) Architectural Design
6 29 (25.89%) Feasibility Study
6 29 (25.89%) Open Source
6 29 (25.89%) Re-Platforming
7 19 (16.96%) ITIL
7 19 (16.96%) Service Delivery
8 11 (9.82%) CI/CD
9 10 (8.93%) Artificial Intelligence
9 10 (8.93%) Decision-Making
9 10 (8.93%) Operational Stability
9 10 (8.93%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 72 (64.29%) Micro Focus COBOL
2 53 (47.32%) Java
3 32 (28.57%) C
4 30 (26.79%) Python
5 29 (25.89%) C++
6 14 (12.50%) JCL
7 8 (7.14%) SQL
8 5 (4.46%) C#
9 4 (3.57%) REXX
10 2 (1.79%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.89%) HLASM
11 1 (0.89%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (16.96%) CTC Cleared
1 19 (16.96%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.89%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.46%) GDPR
2 1 (0.89%) QA
System Software
1 13 (11.61%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (2.68%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (2.68%) MAINVIEW
2 1 (0.89%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 72 (64.29%) Micro Focus
2 47 (41.96%) Oracle
3 19 (16.96%) Unisys
4 9 (8.04%) IBM
5 3 (2.68%) BMC
6 1 (0.89%) CA
6 1 (0.89%) Microsoft