The first table below looks at the demand for Cognos Planning 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 Planning 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Cognos Planning
Rank 195 206 241
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +35
Contract jobs citing Cognos Planning 6 7 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.095% 0.090% 0.051%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.183% 1.331% 0.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
Average daily rate £410 £538 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.72% +7.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £483 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
+13.52% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Business Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
507 526 723
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 8.054% 6.761% 7.346%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 359 515
Average daily rate £450 £455 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.15% -13.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £310 £361
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 2
Average hourly rate £35.44 £50.00 £34.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-29.12% +45.98%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.90 £14.75 £19.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.51 £56.25 £48.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.92 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+64.92% +14.60%
Cognos Planning
London

Cognos Planning
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Cognos Planning Jobs Demand Trend

Cognos Planning
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Cognos Planning Daily Rate Trend

Cognos Planning
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cognos Planning 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 Planning.

1 6 (100.00%) Cognos
2 5 (83.33%) ETL
2 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 5 (83.33%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
4 2 (33.33%) Banking
5 1 (16.67%) HFM
5 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
5 1 (16.67%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Validation
5 1 (16.67%) Hyperion
5 1 (16.67%) FTP

Cognos Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cognos Planning 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 Planning. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (16.67%) HFM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) FTP
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Lead Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Cognos Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
1 5 (83.33%) ETL
1 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cognos
2 1 (16.67%) Hyperion