Bristol Cognos Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognos products and/or services in IT contracts within the Bristol region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cognos over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cognos
Location Andover Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Docklands, London Dover Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Highlands Hull Inverness Kent Lancashire Leeds London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxfordshire Preston Reading Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Surrey Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	55
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	1	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	0.302 %	3.855 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£256
Average daily rate	£225	£285
% change on same period last year	-21.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£250	£314
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£409
% change on same period last year	-19.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.79	£35.56
% change on same period last year	-44.35 %
Vendors Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	331	441
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.470 %	0.445 %
Daily rates quoted	93	138
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£307
Average daily rate	£335	£324
% change on same period last year	+3.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£341
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£355
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	61	65
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.21	£23.74
Average hourly rate	£29.33	£25.76
% change on same period last year	+13.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.44	£27.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.38	£24.36
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Cognos South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within IBM Cognos.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Cognos across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Cognos across the Bristol region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Cognos across the Bristol region.

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Cognos also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Cognos.

1 1 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 1 (100.00 %) Crystal Reports 1 1 (100.00 %) Business Objects 1 1 (100.00 %) Oracle Reports 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel 1 1 (100.00 %) Oracle Discoverer 1 1 (100.00 %) RDBMS 1 1 (100.00 %) BusinessObjects

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Cognos also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Cognos. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (100.00 %) Crystal Reports 1 1 (100.00 %) Oracle Reports 1 1 (100.00 %) Oracle Discoverer 1 1 (100.00 %) RDBMS 1 1 (100.00 %) BusinessObjects
Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Analyst	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 1 (100.00 %) Business Objects