The first table below looks at the demand for Cognos Impromptu skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cognos Impromptu over the 3 months to 20 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 Database & Business Intelligence category for the City of London 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Cognos Impromptu
Rank 196 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cognos Impromptu 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.079% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.367% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £525 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £275 -
% change year-on-year
+63.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1364 1405 1787
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 21.59% 17.99% 18.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1028 1009 1340
Average daily rate £425 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £338
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 14
Average hourly rate £39.51 £32.25 £25.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.49% +25.24%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £16.50 £17.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.90 £47.50 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
Cognos Impromptu
London

Cognos Impromptu
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cognos Impromptu across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

City of London Cognos Impromptu Jobs Demand Trend

Cognos Impromptu
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Cognos Impromptu across the City of London region.

City of London Cognos Impromptu Daily Rate Trend

Cognos Impromptu
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Cognos Impromptu across the City of London region.

City of London Cognos Impromptu Hourly Rate Trend

Cognos Impromptu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cognos Impromptu 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 Impromptu.

1 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) Cognos
2 5 (71.43%) Cognos Powerplay
2 5 (71.43%) Teradata
3 4 (57.14%) Finance
3 4 (57.14%) Banking
3 4 (57.14%) Change Management
4 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) Investment Banking
5 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
5 2 (28.57%) HTML
5 2 (28.57%) Retail
5 2 (28.57%) Information Management
5 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (28.57%) Tivoli
5 2 (28.57%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
5 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
5 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) ETL
5 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
5 2 (28.57%) .NET
5 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
5 2 (28.57%) UNIX
6 1 (14.29%) MS Excel

Cognos Impromptu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cognos Impromptu 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 Impromptu. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) COM
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Office
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Cognos Powerplay
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Investment Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Retail
4 1 (14.29%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Teradata Developer
4 1 (14.29%) MI Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Change Management
2 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
3 2 (28.57%) Information Management
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Process Management
4 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
4 1 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cognos
2 5 (71.43%) Teradata
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft