COBOL Contracts in London

COBOL
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for COBOL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited COBOL over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 461 595
Rank change year-on-year +81 +134 -137
Contract jobs citing COBOL 15 19 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.086% 0.074% 0.031%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.23% 0.18% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 4
10th Percentile £368 £420 £302
25th Percentile £403 £444 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £488 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -10.14% +8.50%
75th Percentile £488 £556 £790
90th Percentile £506 £724 £795
England median daily rate £400 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -23.81% +6.06% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
London

COBOL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,419 10,421 16,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.73% 40.34% 41.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,902 7,798 12,394
10th Percentile £380 £413 £415
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £831 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 80 112
10th Percentile £23.80 £26.20 £31.03
25th Percentile £40.77 £48.01 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.13 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64.02 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.63
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +19.46%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for COBOL in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing COBOL in London.

Daily rate trend for COBOL in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing COBOL in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for COBOL in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing COBOL in London.

Hourly rate trend for COBOL in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +51 1 - -
COBOL
England

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (46.67%) CICS
2 3 (20.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) DB2
2 2 (13.33%) OLTP
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Banking
2 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) COBOL Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Mainframe Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Backend Developer
4 3 (20.00%) DB2 Developer
5 2 (13.33%) COBOL Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) Senior
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Backend Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Mainframe Developer
5 2 (13.33%) z/OS Developer
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Developer
6 1 (6.67%) DB2 Specialist
6 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) OpenVMS Consultant
6 1 (6.67%) SQL Developer
6 1 (6.67%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) ISPF
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Mainframe
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) zOS
2 6 (40.00%) VMS
3 3 (20.00%) OpenVMS
4 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) Change Data Capture
2 4 (26.67%) Reverse Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Data Extraction
4 2 (13.33%) Data Security
4 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (13.33%) ETL
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (13.33%) Scrum
4 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) REXX
2 3 (20.00%) DCL
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) SELCOPY
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) JCL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) IBM
2 3 (20.00%) ICL
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) Syncsort