Hampshire Cognos Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognos products and/or services in IT contracts within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cognos over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cognos
Location Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Docklands, London Dover Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Hull Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxfordshire Preston Reading Rugby Salford Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Strathclyde Surrey Swindon Tadworth Thame Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	97	119
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	1	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.114 %	0.571 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£475
Average daily rate	-	£475
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£475
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£418
% change on same period last year	-17.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£40.00
Average hourly rate	-	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.11	£26.81
% change on same period last year	+19.76 %
Vendors Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	875	1051
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.183 %	1.036 %
Daily rates quoted	210	237
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£341
Average daily rate	£370	£360
% change on same period last year	+2.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	189	209
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.69	£23.72
Average hourly rate	£25.29	£25.70
% change on same period last year	-1.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.89	£27.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.29	£24.78
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Cognos South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within IBM Cognos.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Cognos across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Cognos across the Hampshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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 5 (62.50 %) SQL Server 2 4 (50.00 %) Intel 3 3 (37.50 %) FormScape 3 3 (37.50 %) SharePoint 4 2 (25.00 %) SQL 4 2 (25.00 %) Remedy 4 2 (25.00 %) Cognos Powerplay 4 2 (25.00 %) AS400 5 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 5 1 (12.50 %) Workflow 5 1 (12.50 %) Health 5 1 (12.50 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (12.50 %) Systems Analysis 5 1 (12.50 %) BPR 5 1 (12.50 %) .NET

5 1 (12.50 %) CRM 5 1 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (12.50 %) MicroStrategy 5 1 (12.50 %) Six Sigma

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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 Development 1 1 (12.50 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) SharePoint 1 3 (37.50 %) FormScape
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (62.50 %) SQL Server 2 2 (25.00 %) Cognos Powerplay	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 1 1 (12.50 %) Health 1 1 (12.50 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Administrator 2 3 (37.50 %) Cognos Administrator 3 2 (25.00 %) Applications Support 3 2 (25.00 %) Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Test Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Systems Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Consultant 4 1 (12.50 %) Technical Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Systems Architect 4 1 (12.50 %) Technical Test Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) .NET Architect 4 1 (12.50 %) MicroStrategy Consultant 4 1 (12.50 %) Cognos Support 4 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms Project Manager 4 1 (12.50 %) PMO Manager 4 1 (12.50 %) Architect 4 1 (12.50 %) Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (25.00 %) AS400
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) CRM 1 1 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) Six Sigma 1 1 (12.50 %) BPR 1 1 (12.50 %) Workflow 1 1 (12.50 %) Systems Analysis	Programming Languages 1 2 (25.00 %) SQL
Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) Intel 2 2 (25.00 %) Remedy 3 1 (12.50 %) MicroStrategy