The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognos products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 90 81 66
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -15
Contract jobs citing Cognos 9 17 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.579% 1.056% 2.069%
As % of the Vendors category 1.036% 1.930% 4.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 3
Average daily rate £413 £488 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% +14.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £244 £425 £355
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £650 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £13.35 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.35 £16.50 £21.79
% change year-on-year
-19.09% -24.27%
All Vendors
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
869 881 949
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 55.92% 54.72% 51.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 416 335
Average daily rate £365 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 117 136
Average hourly rate £25.00 £27.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +8.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.88 £13.38 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £36.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Cognos
South East

Cognos
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Hampshire Cognos Daily Rate Histogram

Cognos
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Cognos Hourly Rate Trend

Cognos
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cognos within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Southampton -7 2 £275 -57.69%
Cognos
South East

Cognos
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 11 (61.11%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (33.33%) IBM
2 6 (33.33%) Cognos Impromptu
2 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 5 (27.78%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (22.22%) Dimensional Modelling
4 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) Scrum
4 4 (22.22%) OLAP
4 4 (22.22%) SQL
4 4 (22.22%) ETL
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2
5 3 (16.67%) Windows
5 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
5 3 (16.67%) ISEB
6 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (11.11%) Project Management
6 2 (11.11%) Tivoli
6 2 (11.11%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 2 (11.11%) Netcool
6 2 (11.11%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
6 2 (11.11%) Oracle
6 2 (11.11%) MS Office
6 2 (11.11%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
6 2 (11.11%) ResourceLink

Cognos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (5.556%) MS Exchange
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle 9iAS
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Office
2 1 (5.556%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 2 (11.11%) ResourceLink
3 1 (5.556%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) LAN
1 1 (5.556%) WAN
1 1 (5.556%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.556%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Cognos Impromptu
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (22.22%) OLAP
3 2 (11.11%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (5.556%) DTS
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (5.556%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.556%) SQLPlus
4 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 1 (5.556%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Report Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Business Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Tester
4 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Agile Tester
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Agile Tester
4 2 (11.11%) ScrumMaster
4 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Tester
4 2 (11.11%) Cognos Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.556%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Business Project Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Business Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Report Writer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.556%) Fat Client
2 1 (5.556%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (5.556%) AIX
3 1 (5.556%) Solaris
3 1 (5.556%) Windows 2000
3 1 (5.556%) UNIX
3 1 (5.556%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (22.22%) Dimensional Modelling
2 4 (22.22%) Scrum
2 4 (22.22%) ETL
3 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 2 (11.11%) Project Management
4 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
4 2 (11.11%) Agile Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.11%) User Stories
5 1 (5.556%) Agile Project Management
5 1 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (5.556%) Data Analysis
5 1 (5.556%) Resource Management
5 1 (5.556%) Business Analysis
5 1 (5.556%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (5.556%) Time Management
5 1 (5.556%) Capacity Management
5 1 (5.556%) DSDM
5 1 (5.556%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (5.556%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.556%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) ISEB
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (5.556%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Tivoli
1 2 (11.11%) Tivoli Monitoring
1 2 (11.11%) Netcool
1 2 (11.11%) Netcool/OMNIbus
1 2 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle Statspack
2 1 (5.556%) Data Guard
2 1 (5.556%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) IBM
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (5.556%) Northgate
4 1 (5.556%) Business Objects
4 1 (5.556%) SAP
4 1 (5.556%) Intel
4 1 (5.556%) VMware
4 1 (5.556%) Remedy
4 1 (5.556%) Red Hat