COBOL Developer Contracts

COBOL Developer
UK

The median COBOL Developer daily rate in the UK is £376, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 691 840
Rank change year-on-year +118 +149 -115
Contract jobs requiring a COBOL Developer 11 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.011% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.011% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile £325 £338 -
25th Percentile £336 £351 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £376 £378 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% -28.10% +21.74%
75th Percentile £422 £411 £575
90th Percentile £488 £427 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £351 £378 £525
% change year-on-year -7.02% -28.10% +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

COBOL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured COBOL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for COBOL Developer in the UK

COBOL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for COBOL Developer in the UK

COBOL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing COBOL Developer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for COBOL Developer in the UK

COBOL Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for COBOL Developer in the UK

COBOL Developer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Work from Home +120 9 £351 +6.21%
England +88 8 £400 +5.96%
London - 5 £475 -
UK excluding London +27 4 £351 -7.02%
Midlands +12 1 - -
South East - 1 £351 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £340 -
North of England - 1 £340 -
Scotland - 1 £400 -

COBOL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, COBOL Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring COBOL Developer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) COBOL
2 6 (54.55%) DB2
2 6 (54.55%) IBM
2 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
3 4 (36.36%) CMS
3 4 (36.36%) ICL
3 4 (36.36%) VMS
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Scrum
4 3 (27.27%) REXX
4 3 (27.27%) Syncsort
4 3 (27.27%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (18.18%) Micro Focus COBOL
5 2 (18.18%) SELCOPY
5 2 (18.18%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 2 (18.18%) CICS
5 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 2 (18.18%) JCL
5 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 2 (18.18%) Micro Focus
5 2 (18.18%) Mainframe
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Banking
5 2 (18.18%) Data Extraction
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration

COBOL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (36.36%) CMS
2 2 (18.18%) CICS
3 1 (9.09%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) DB2
2 1 (9.09%) Adabas
2 1 (9.09%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Mainframe
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) VMS
2 1 (9.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Agile
1 3 (27.27%) Requirements Gathering
1 3 (27.27%) Scrum
2 2 (18.18%) Analytics
2 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
2 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
2 2 (18.18%) Data Extraction
2 2 (18.18%) ETL
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
3 1 (9.09%) Order Management
3 1 (9.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) COBOL
2 3 (27.27%) REXX
3 2 (18.18%) JCL
3 2 (18.18%) Micro Focus COBOL
3 2 (18.18%) SELCOPY
4 1 (9.09%) CLIST
4 1 (9.09%) Natural
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) IBM
2 4 (36.36%) ICL
3 3 (27.27%) Syncsort
4 2 (18.18%) Micro Focus