COBOL Jobs in West Yorkshire

COBOL
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 161 198
Rank change year-on-year +48 +37 -
Permanent jobs citing COBOL 6 4 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.32% 0.17% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.12% 0.44% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 13
10th Percentile £46,525 £65,791 £45,244
25th Percentile £58,938 £71,852 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,465 £83,038 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -21.16% +39.50% -
75th Percentile £71,991 £91,934 £84,056
90th Percentile £85,063 - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,465 £83,038 £59,526
% change year-on-year -21.16% +39.50% -

All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 534 918 1,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.22% 39.03% 45.38%
Number of salaries quoted 320 661 1,261
10th Percentile £33,975 £38,591 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,331 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,991 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

COBOL
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for COBOL in West Yorkshire

COBOL
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing COBOL in West Yorkshire.

Salary trend for COBOL in West Yorkshire

COBOL
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing COBOL in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Salary histogram for COBOL in West Yorkshire

COBOL
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COBOL within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Halifax +36 3 £62,876 -24.77%
Leeds +32 3 £65,465 -20.65%
COBOL
Yorkshire

COBOL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 3 (50.00%) Tuxedo
2 2 (33.33%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) DB2
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) Postman
1 2 (33.33%) SoapUI
1 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Senior
2 5 (83.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Mainframe Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) ISPF
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) SOAP
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
1 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
1 2 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Coaching
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Open Source
2 3 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Community of Practice
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Micro Focus COBOL
3 2 (33.33%) JCL
4 1 (16.67%) AWK
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) C
4 1 (16.67%) Perl
4 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) CA Endevor
1 2 (33.33%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Micro Focus
2 2 (33.33%) BMC
2 2 (33.33%) IBM