COBOL Job Trends in West Wales

COBOL
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales 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 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 0.30% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.78% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
Wales median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Programming Languages
West Wales

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 West Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 36 10 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 10.98% 16.13% 37.66%
Number of salaries quoted 13 5 76
10th Percentile £37,650 £39,140 £30,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £34,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,619 £50,124 £45,566
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +10.00% +18.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,762 £62,813
90th Percentile £79,000 - £70,000
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +11.11%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

COBOL job vacancy trend in West Wales

COBOL
Salary Trend in West Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing COBOL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing COBOL

COBOL
Job Locations in West Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the West Wales region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Swansea - 1 £80,000 - 1
COBOL
Wales

COBOL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales 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