# COBOL Programming

Skill · Programming Languages

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/cobol-programming

COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) is a procedural programming language developed in 1959, designed for business, financial, and administrative data processing. It remains widely used in legacy systems at banks, insurance companies, and government agencies, and specialists who maintain and modernize these mainframe systems are still in demand today.

Related skills: [Fortran](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/fortran)

## Open roles requiring COBOL Programming (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.