Cobol Job Market Heating Up

snydeq writes "Developers seeking job security in the years ahead could find an unlikely edge in Cobol. According to an InfoWorld report, demand for Cobol skills is surging, with salaries on the rise. More importantly, the short supply of offshore Cobol programmers and the fact that mainframes aren't going away anytime soon are spurring longevity for big-iron skills, with many companies looking to hire in-house Cobol pros to bridge mainframe Cobol apps to the rest of the enterprise. The report provides further evidence that Cobol may indeed be primed for a comeback, with new kinds of Cobol integration jobs emerging to prove old-guard skills are critical to some of the hottest areas of software development today."

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Until this story was posted.

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Yes, COBOL was an excellent skill, until it was posted here. Now every two-bit hacker is going to learn COBOL so they can apply everywhere.

Reminds me of turbolinux, or whatever the last big bubble IPO was. It was posted on linux, and I knew then and there that I was looking at a stock that would be skyrocketing. It ended up making some investors something like 1000% profit, and I'm positive the fact that it was posted here contributed.