The first table below looks at the demand for Cognos Business Intelligence skills in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 24 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 England 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (Cognos BI)
Rank 458 508 448
Rank change year-on-year
+50 -60
Contract jobs citing Cognos Business Intelligence 55 51 123
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.132% 0.096% 0.219%
As % of the Business Applications category 1.590% 1.116% 2.507%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 30 64
Average daily rate £425 £425 £425
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £299 £353
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £440 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
+3.52% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Business Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
3459 4570 4907
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 8.320% 8.568% 8.733%
Number of daily rates quoted 1839 2338 2537
Average daily rate £450 £450 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £290 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £430 £420
% change year-on-year
-1.16% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 52 90
Average hourly rate £37.80 £34.00 £22.98
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.17% +47.95%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.00 £15.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £62.50 £57.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+68.00% -10.00%
Cognos Business Intelligence
UK

Cognos Business Intelligence
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Cognos Business Intelligence Daily Rate Trend

Cognos Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cognos Business Intelligence across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Cognos Business Intelligence Daily Rate Histogram

Cognos Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Cognos Business Intelligence across the England region.

England Cognos Business Intelligence Hourly Rate Trend

Cognos Business Intelligence
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cognos Business Intelligence within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +55 32 £410 +19.27%
South East +8 13 £450 +2.27%
North West +15 4 £380 -
East of England - 3 £413 -
West Midlands +4 2 - -
Midlands +1 1 - -
Cognos Business Intelligence
UK

Cognos Business Intelligence
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 125 (100.00%) Cognos
1 125 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (35.20%) Finance
3 43 (34.40%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (31.20%) ETL
5 37 (29.60%) SQL
6 25 (20.00%) SQL Server
6 25 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 19 (15.20%) IBM
8 18 (14.40%) Oracle
9 17 (13.60%) OLAP
9 17 (13.60%) Microsoft
9 17 (13.60%) Banking
10 14 (11.20%) OLTP
10 14 (11.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 13 (10.40%) Dimensional Modelling
11 13 (10.40%) Migration
12 12 (9.600%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 12 (9.600%) Data Modelling
12 12 (9.600%) Windows
13 11 (8.800%) Windows Server 2003
13 11 (8.800%) Cognos Planning
13 11 (8.800%) Analytics
14 10 (8.000%) Windows Server 2008
15 9 (7.200%) Project Management
15 9 (7.200%) Intel
15 9 (7.200%) Clustering
16 8 (6.400%) Blackberry
17 7 (5.600%) Star Schema
17 7 (5.600%) PL/SQL

Cognos Business Intelligence
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

Application Development
1 3 (2.400%) .NET
2 2 (1.600%) MDX
3 1 (0.800%) COM
Application Platforms
1 3 (2.400%) SharePoint
1 3 (2.400%) SAS
2 1 (0.800%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 6 (4.800%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.600%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (1.600%) MS Project
2 2 (1.600%) MS Office
3 1 (0.800%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 11 (8.800%) Cognos Planning
2 4 (3.200%) Cognos Controller
3 3 (2.400%) Movex
4 2 (1.600%) Infor M3
4 2 (1.600%) MFGPRO
4 2 (1.600%) Lawson
5 1 (0.800%) Hyperion Planning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.600%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (34.40%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 25 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (13.60%) OLAP
4 14 (11.20%) OLTP
4 14 (11.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 12 (9.600%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (5.600%) Star Schema
7 6 (4.800%) QlikView
7 6 (4.800%) TOAD
7 6 (4.800%) RDBMS
7 6 (4.800%) DecisionStream
8 5 (4.000%) DataStage
8 5 (4.000%) SQL Server 2008
9 4 (3.200%) Spotfire
9 4 (3.200%) SQL Server 2005
9 4 (3.200%) Oracle 10g
9 4 (3.200%) Oracle 8/8i
9 4 (3.200%) Cognos Powerplay
9 4 (3.200%) Cognos Impromptu
General
1 44 (35.20%) Finance
2 17 (13.60%) Banking
3 5 (4.000%) Investment Banking
4 4 (3.200%) Publishing
4 4 (3.200%) Retail
5 3 (2.400%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.400%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.600%) Billing
7 1 (0.800%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.800%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.800%) Electronics
7 1 (0.800%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 63 (50.40%) Developer
2 46 (36.80%) Cognos Developer
3 25 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 24 (19.20%) Consultant
5 20 (16.00%) Analyst
6 19 (15.20%) Cognos Consultant
7 14 (11.20%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 9 (7.200%) Business Analyst
9 8 (6.400%) Business Developer
9 8 (6.400%) Administrator
10 7 (5.600%) Business Intelligence Consultant
10 7 (5.600%) SQL Developer
10 7 (5.600%) Business Intelligence Manager
11 5 (4.000%) Lead Developer
12 4 (3.200%) Report Developer
12 4 (3.200%) Cognos Administrator
12 4 (3.200%) Project Manager
13 3 (2.400%) Systems Analyst
13 3 (2.400%) Test Manager
13 3 (2.400%) MI Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.200%) Clustering
2 8 (6.400%) Blackberry
3 2 (1.600%) Data Integration
3 2 (1.600%) iPad
3 2 (1.600%) Mathematics
3 2 (1.600%) Computer Science
4 1 (0.800%) NHS
4 1 (0.800%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.600%) Windows
2 11 (8.800%) Windows Server 2003
3 10 (8.000%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (4.800%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 39 (31.20%) ETL
3 13 (10.40%) Dimensional Modelling
3 13 (10.40%) Migration
4 12 (9.600%) Data Modelling
5 11 (8.800%) Analytics
6 9 (7.200%) Project Management
7 6 (4.800%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (4.000%) Business Analysis
8 5 (4.000%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (4.000%) Kimball Methodology
9 4 (3.200%) Data Governance
9 4 (3.200%) ERP
10 3 (2.400%) PRINCE2
10 3 (2.400%) Information Management
10 3 (2.400%) Use Case
10 3 (2.400%) Business Analytics
10 3 (2.400%) Data Migration
10 3 (2.400%) Data Cleansing
10 3 (2.400%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (29.60%) SQL
2 7 (5.600%) PL/SQL
3 4 (3.200%) Java
4 2 (1.600%) VBA
5 1 (0.800%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.800%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (3.200%) Degree
1 4 (3.200%) IBM Certification
2 3 (2.400%) CIPD
3 1 (0.800%) ISEB
3 1 (0.800%) CITP
3 1 (0.800%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (0.800%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.800%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.400%) ISO 9001
1 3 (2.400%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.800%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.800%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 125 (100.00%) Cognos
2 19 (15.20%) IBM
3 18 (14.40%) Oracle
4 17 (13.60%) Microsoft
5 9 (7.200%) Intel
6 6 (4.800%) SAP
7 4 (3.200%) Business Objects
8 3 (2.400%) Teradata
8 3 (2.400%) Tableau
9 2 (1.600%) Infor
9 2 (1.600%) QAD
9 2 (1.600%) Trillium
9 2 (1.600%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.600%) Informatica
10 1 (0.800%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (0.800%) Siebel
10 1 (0.800%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.800%) HP
10 1 (0.800%) Ab Initio
City of London
Cognos BI Specialist - Immediate - Day Rate NegotiableI'm currently looking for a Cognos BI developer to come on board and start a 3 month interim assignment, there is...
Hudson IT London
Rate: Day Rate Negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013
Warrington, North West
Job Title: Cognos Developer, Warrington, £325 - £375 per day, contract 3 months +My client are looking for an experienced Cognos Developer to join their organisation on a 3 -...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £325.00 - £375.00 per day
Posted: 9 May 2013
London
COGNOS - Framework Manager - BI - Oracle - Datastage This time around, they are looking for a seasoned COGNOS Developer to join their busy team on a significant project... Any Datastage...
Executive Resource Group
Rate: From £400 to £415 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Warwickshire
My client is a leading consultancy who are looking for a Senior Cognos BI Consultant for a new Cognos deployment... Cognos Data Manager 8.x/10.1/10...
Firway Consulting
Rate: Unspecified Negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013
Warrington, North West
You will have worked with large scale Data Warehouses (ideally Oracle based) and have a strong understanding of business intelligence and information reporting Ideally you will have developed...
Applause IT Ltd
Rate: £360 - £410 per day
Posted: 8 May 2013
City, London
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence TM1 Developer required to develop TM1 Cubes and MI for a Tier one Banking client (financial services) in Canary Wharf London £450 pd - Role...
Advantage Resourcing
Salary: £450 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
You will need to have around 5 years solid experience working as a Cognos BI Developer with experience of the Lifecycle of Reports development using IBM Cognos 10...
Hudson
Rate: Market rate
Posted: 7 May 2013
Warwickshire
You will have 5 years plus exposure of Cognos. The successful candidate Must be capable of installing and configuring a multi-server Cognos environment, including the following elements :-...
Firway Consulting
Rate: Unspecified Negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013