Canary Wharf Cognos Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognos products and/or services in IT contracts within the Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf 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	-	49
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	2.295 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£350
Average daily rate	-	£375
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£400
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 Canary Wharf
Matching contract IT job ads	171	305
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.243 %	0.308 %
Daily rates quoted	74	126
Average minimum daily rate	£412	£443
Average daily rate	£428	£466
% change on same period last year	-8.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£444	£490
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£355
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.50	£15.92
Average hourly rate	£19.50	£17.79
% change on same period last year	+9.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.50	£19.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.38	£24.36
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Cognos London

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.

Cognos
Demand Trend

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

Cognos
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cognos
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 8 (100.00 %) Business Intelligence 2 6 (75.00 %) RDBMS 2 6 (75.00 %) Oracle 10g 2 6 (75.00 %) DecisionStream 2 6 (75.00 %) Oracle 2 6 (75.00 %) Oracle 9i 2 6 (75.00 %) Finance 3 5 (62.50 %) Publishing 3 5 (62.50 %) Datawarehouse 4 4 (50.00 %) ETL 5 3 (37.50 %) TOAD 5 3 (37.50 %) PL/SQL 5 3 (37.50 %) SQL 5 3 (37.50 %) Government 6 2 (25.00 %) Oracle 8/8i

7 1 (12.50 %) Data Management 7 1 (12.50 %) Office Project Server 7 1 (12.50 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 7 1 (12.50 %) Matrix Management 7 1 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 1 (12.50 %) System Testing 7 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 7 1 (12.50 %) Data Architecture 7 1 (12.50 %) MS Project 7 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Reports 7 1 (12.50 %) ISEB

Cognos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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.

Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) Office Project Server	Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Project
Business Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Cognos Business Intelligence	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (75.00 %) RDBMS 1 6 (75.00 %) Oracle 10g 1 6 (75.00 %) DecisionStream 1 6 (75.00 %) Oracle 9i 2 5 (62.50 %) Datawarehouse 3 4 (50.00 %) ETL 4 3 (37.50 %) TOAD 5 2 (25.00 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Reports
General 1 6 (75.00 %) Finance 2 5 (62.50 %) Publishing 3 3 (37.50 %) Government	Job Titles 1 6 (75.00 %) Developer 1 6 (75.00 %) Business Intelligence Developer 1 6 (75.00 %) Cognos Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) IT Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Test Coordinator 2 1 (12.50 %) Systems Tester 2 1 (12.50 %) IT Project Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) BI Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Coordinator 2 1 (12.50 %) Project Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Tester
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (100.00 %) Business Intelligence 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Matrix Management 2 1 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (12.50 %) System Testing 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Architecture 2 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) PL/SQL 1 3 (37.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 1 1 (12.50 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 6 (75.00 %) Oracle