The first table below looks at the demand for Cognos Business Intelligence skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cognos Business Intelligence over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Business Applications category for the Cardiff 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (Cognos BI)
Rank - 30 30
Contract jobs citing Cognos Business Intelligence 0 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff - 0.909% 2.183%
As % of the Business Applications category - 25.00% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Average daily rate - £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Business Applications
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
4 8 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 2.439% 3.636% 3.493%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 4
Average daily rate £600 £700 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +86.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £350 £358
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £1,250 £393
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.92 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+64.92% +14.60%
Cognos Business Intelligence
South Wales

Cognos Business Intelligence
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cognos Business Intelligence across the Cardiff region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

Cardiff Cognos Business Intelligence Jobs Demand Trend

Cognos Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cardiff Cognos Business Intelligence Daily Rate Trend

Cognos Business Intelligence
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing Cognos Business Intelligence 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 Business Intelligence.

1 9 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (100.00%) Cognos
1 9 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (100.00%) ETL
1 9 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 7 (77.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 7 (77.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (66.67%) SQL
3 6 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (55.56%) Kimball Methodology
4 5 (55.56%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 5 (55.56%) Clustering
4 5 (55.56%) AS400
4 5 (55.56%) DTS
4 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
4 5 (55.56%) SQL Server 2000
4 5 (55.56%) Project Management
5 4 (44.44%) OLTP
6 3 (33.33%) Data Mart
7 2 (22.22%) Banking

Cognos Business Intelligence
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing Cognos Business Intelligence 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 Business Intelligence. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 7 (77.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 7 (77.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (55.56%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (55.56%) SQL Server 2000
4 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 5 (55.56%) DTS
5 4 (44.44%) OLTP
6 3 (33.33%) Data Mart
General
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) DBA
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server DBA
2 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) SQL DBA
2 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) AS400
1 5 (55.56%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) ETL
1 9 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (55.56%) Project Management
2 5 (55.56%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) T-SQL
2 6 (66.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cognos
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft