COBOL Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

COBOL
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring COBOL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited COBOL over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 451 482 591
Rank change year-on-year +31 +109 +262
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 6 93 21
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.029% 0.27% 0.058%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.084% 0.68% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3 92 18
10th Percentile £67,500 £52,500 -
25th Percentile £69,375 £58,938 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,805 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +6.27% +6.84%
75th Percentile £80,625 £84,964 £77,715
90th Percentile £82,500 - £82,548
UK median annual salary £80,000 £73,805 £64,750
% change year-on-year +8.39% +13.98% -3.36%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

COBOL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 7,120 13,644 17,026
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.60% 40.00% 47.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4,464 11,003 13,380
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £40,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

COBOL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing COBOL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

COBOL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

COBOL
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing COBOL.

COBOL salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

COBOL
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing COBOL over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

COBOL salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (33.33%) DB2
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) VersaTest
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Advertising
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Electronics
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Data Integration Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Design Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) COBOL Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Java Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior COBOL Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) SOA Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (33.33%) Tandem
2 1 (16.67%) EMV
2 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) VMS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) OOD
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Change
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) SOA
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 15022
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat