The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 24 January 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
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 with a requirement for coding skills.
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills
36,880
68,023
83,304
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK
58.01%
54.11%
54.90%
Number of salaries quoted
31,111
56,626
69,645
Median annual salary
£55,000
£52,500
£52,500
Median salary % change year-on-year
+4.76%
-
+5.00%
10th Percentile
£33,750
£31,500
£31,250
90th Percentile
£90,000
£87,500
£85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary
£50,000
£45,000
£45,000
% change year-on-year
+11.11%
-
+5.88%
COBOL Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing COBOL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
COBOL Salary Trend
3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing COBOL.
COBOL Salary Histogram
Salary distribution for jobs citing COBOL over the 6 months to 24 January 2021.
COBOL Top 6 Job Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the UK over the 6 months to 24 January 2021.
The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
For the 6 months to 24 January 2021, IT jobs citing COBOL also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for COBOL.
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
