The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognos products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cognos over the 3 months to 22 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 Docklands, 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.

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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cognos
Rank 28 31 53
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +22
Contract jobs citing Cognos 3 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 1.744% 0.463% 1.190%
As % of the Vendors category 4.225% 1.020% 2.682%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
Average daily rate £300 £300 £513
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -41.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £300 £470
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £300 £575
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
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
71 98 261
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 41.28% 45.37% 44.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 59 113
Average daily rate £400 £475 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.78% +11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £178 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £573 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £26.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +15.55%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Cognos
London

Cognos
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Docklands, London Cognos Daily Rate Histogram

Cognos
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 9 (75.00%) SQL
1 9 (75.00%) Oracle
2 8 (66.67%) IBM
3 7 (58.33%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (58.33%) Banking
4 6 (50.00%) Change Management
5 5 (41.67%) Windows
5 5 (41.67%) Retail
5 5 (41.67%) Finance
5 5 (41.67%) Retail Banking
6 4 (33.33%) ETL
6 4 (33.33%) Java
6 4 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
6 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (25.00%) RDBMS
7 3 (25.00%) DecisionStream
7 3 (25.00%) Perl
7 3 (25.00%) PL/SQL
7 3 (25.00%) Web Services
7 3 (25.00%) UNIX
7 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
7 3 (25.00%) TOAD
7 3 (25.00%) Linux
7 3 (25.00%) OO
7 3 (25.00%) Publishing
7 3 (25.00%) Scrum
7 3 (25.00%) C#
7 3 (25.00%) TDD
7 3 (25.00%) Bash shell
8 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports

Cognos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 3 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (8.333%) SAP XI
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) Apache
1 1 (8.333%) Tomcat
1 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
1 1 (8.333%) WebLogic
1 1 (8.333%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (25.00%) DecisionStream
3 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (25.00%) TOAD
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (16.67%) ReportNet
5 1 (8.333%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (8.333%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (8.333%) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Banking
2 5 (41.67%) Retail
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Retail Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Cognos Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Software Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Programme Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Report Writer
3 1 (8.333%) Business Intelligence Manager
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) UNIX
2 3 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (8.333%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Change Management
2 4 (33.33%) ETL
2 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) OO
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
3 3 (25.00%) TDD
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (8.333%) Service Management
5 1 (8.333%) Migration
5 1 (8.333%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (25.00%) Perl
3 3 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (25.00%) C#
3 3 (25.00%) Bash shell
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Oracle
2 8 (66.67%) IBM
3 1 (8.333%) Business Objects
3 1 (8.333%) SAP