The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognos products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cognos over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Canary Wharf region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within IBM Cognos.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cognos
Rank 51 48 59
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +11
Contract jobs citing Cognos 3 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.746% 0.262% 0.402%
As % of the Vendors category 1.948% 0.508% 0.976%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
Average daily rate £450 £300 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -42.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £352 £300 £465
10% offered a daily rate of more than £730 £300 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.35 £16.50 £21.79
% change year-on-year
-19.09% -24.27%
All Vendors
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
154 197 205
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 38.31% 51.57% 41.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 117 161
Average daily rate £575 £550 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.54% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £334 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £675 £600 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
Average hourly rate £42.50 £25.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+70.00% +66.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Cognos
London

Cognos
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf Cognos Jobs Demand Trend

Cognos
Daily Rate Trend

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

Canary Wharf Cognos Daily Rate Trend

Cognos
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cognos across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Canary Wharf Cognos Daily Rate Histogram

Cognos
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Business Objects
3 2 (40.00%) SAP
3 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (40.00%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (40.00%) ReportNet
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
4 1 (20.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) QlikView
4 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk
4 1 (20.00%) Market Risk
4 1 (20.00%) Stress Testing
4 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (20.00%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Retail
4 1 (20.00%) Data Management
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma
4 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) SAS
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence

Cognos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 Development
1 1 (20.00%) SAP XI
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) SAS
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (20.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (40.00%) ReportNet
2 1 (20.00%) QlikView
2 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects XI
2 1 (20.00%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Cognos Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (20.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Stress Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Business Objects
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle