46,287 companies use COBOL, based on their job posts and their employees' public profiles. Hiring for it has slowed, though 13,476 job posts still named it from October 2025 to August 2026. IT teams are its most common home.
Tata Consultancy Services leads with 1,117 job posts naming COBOL, followed by Accenture and Capgemini. Of the five companies in the table, Tata Consultancy Services has the most employees who list it on their profiles: 5,281.
CompanyPostsPeopleRecent job post
Tata Consultancy ServicesProfessional Services · first seen Jun 20231,1175,281
"Lead-level COBOL professional with substantial hands-on experience in banking applications."cobol developer, Nov 7, 2026
AccentureProfessional Services · first seen Sep 20221,0982,872
"Develop, modify, and maintain programs using RPG IV/ILE, COBOL, and Control Language (CL)."as400 data engineer , Nov 7, 2026
CapgeminiProfessional Services · first seen Jul 20221,0952,404
"Develop and maintain COBOL-based applications supporting core banking operations."Mainframe Developer with Finance/Banking (FTE - Atlanta, Chicago & New York), Nov 7, 2026
IBMInformation · first seen Jul 20221,0582,858
"…environment, utilizing expertise in a wide range of AS/400 products, including RPG, COBOL/400, SYNON, and new age offerings on the platform."AS400 & Manhattan Active Support Analyst, Oct 23, 2026
Accenture in IndiaProfessional Services · first seen Dec 2023932278
"The candidate should have minimum 7.5 years of experience in COBOL."Custom Software Engineer, Nov 7, 2026
COBOL turned up in a shrinking share of job posts: 6.4 in every 10,000 job posts from June to August 2026, compared with 7.3 from March to May. August 2026 was its lowest month since October 2025, at 5.9.
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Month
Job posts naming COBOL
All job posts
Per 10,000
Oct 2025
977
1,413,673
6.9
Nov 2025
1,405
1,822,119
7.7
Dec 2025
903
1,236,103
7.3
Jan 2026
1,336
1,828,002
7.3
Feb 2026
1,347
1,856,647
7.3
Mar 2026
1,426
1,850,711
7.7
Apr 2026
1,241
1,728,886
7.2
May 2026
1,288
1,821,509
7.1
Jun 2026
1,260
1,909,496
6.6
Jul 2026
1,207
1,815,180
6.6
Aug 2026
1,086
1,835,698
5.9
How many companies named COBOL in a job post for the first time in recent months?
Job posts named COBOL for the first time at 164 companies from June to August 2026, against 161 from March to May. The 164 from June to August are 2.1% of all 7,738 companies whose job posts name it.
March to May 2026161
June to August 2026164
October 2025 to August 2026614
Companies whose first job post naming it appeared in that period. Recruiters, staffing firms and job boards are left out.
How do we know which companies use COBOL?
Most of these companies come from employees' profiles: 83% have no job post naming COBOL. 7,738 name it in their own job posts.
How we knowCompaniesShare
Job posts name COBOL
7,73817%
Employees' profiles list COBOL
38,54983%
46,287 companies. Each is counted once, under the strongest evidence we have for it.
What size are the companies that use COBOL?
COBOL skews toward smaller firms. 28% of its users are companies with fewer than 50 employees, against 22% on the typical tech page. 3,722 of its companies have more than 5,000 employees.
Share of its companies
Typical tech page
ShareTypical
Under 50 employees
28%22%
50 to 999
47%38%
1,000 to 5,000
17%17%
Over 5,000
8%23%
Where are COBOL companies based?
Spain is 2.3 times as common among COBOL companies as on the typical tech page, at 4.1%. The United States leads overall with 37%. India is less common than usual, at 4.4% against 6.9% on the typical tech page.
ShareTypical
United States
37%43%
Brazil
6%2.8%
United Kingdom
5.2%6.4%
France
4.9%4.6%
India
4.4%6.9%
Spain
4.1%1.8%
Companies in 159 countries and territories. Shares are of companies with a known headquarters country.
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Country
Companies
Share
Typical tech page
United States
15,940
37%
43%
Brazil
2,579
6%
2.8%
United Kingdom
2,219
5.2%
6.4%
France
2,123
4.9%
4.6%
India
1,875
4.4%
6.9%
Spain
1,760
4.1%
1.8%
Which teams work with COBOL?
At 208 companies, the team named in COBOL job posts is IT, at least twice the next.
TeamCompanies
IT
208
Technology
49
Development
30
Mainframe
30
Application development
28
QA
23
What else do COBOL companies use?
COBOL companies are 22 times as likely as similar companies to use IBM Assembler: 7.8% of them, against 0.35%. Next is PowerBuilder: 5.4% of these companies use it, against 0.26% of similar ones.
Share of the 4,478 COBOL companies counted here whose job posts also name the tool
Typical for companies the same size
Which companies started naming COBOL in job posts recently?
From April to August 2026, 151 companies with 50 or more employees posted their first job naming COBOL: 87 commercial, 35 mid-market and 29 enterprise. BCNC GROUP has the most job posts of the new commercial companies, 12 from April to August.
Companies that named COBOL in a job post for the first time between April and August 2026, ranked by their job posts in those months. AI-native companies get a group of their own, whatever their size. Recruiters and job boards are left out.
Which roles mention COBOL most?
Software Engineer is the role behind 47% of the job posts that mention COBOL. Business Systems is second, at 5.7%.
RoleSharePosts
Software Engineer
47%6,357
Business Systems
5.7%764
IT Support
3.8%511
Automation Engineer
2.2%299
Software Development Engineer in Test
2.1%277
Analyst
1.9%261
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Role
Share
Oct 2025 to Aug 2026
Mar to May 2026
Jun to Aug 2026
Software Engineer
47%
6,357
1,771
1,565
Business Systems
5.7%
764
240
139
IT Support
3.8%
511
118
109
Automation Engineer
2.2%
299
93
69
Software Development Engineer in Test
2.1%
277
85
50
Analyst
1.9%
261
63
49
Which project themes come up in COBOL job posts?
7,894 job posts naming COBOL describe broad digital transformation, and 2,584 describe Data Infrastructure Migration work. After that comes Cloud Migration, with 528.
Project themeJob posts
Digital Transformation7,894
Data Infrastructure Migration2,584
Cloud Migration528
Microservices Migration416
"Drive modernization of IBM zSeries applications (COBOL, DB2, CICS) into microservices-based architecture"
Capgemini, Mainframe Developer With CICS, Nov 6, 2026
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