Kent Cognos Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognos products and/or services in IT contracts within the Kent 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Cognos
Location Andover Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Brentford Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff City of London County Antrim Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hull Huntingdon Inverness Kent Lancashire Leeds London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Surrey Thames Valley UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	38
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	8	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	4.372 %	5.283 %
Daily rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£273
Average daily rate	£333	£273
% change on same period last year	+21.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£273
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£383
% change on same period last year	-12.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.65	£33.43
% change on same period last year	-32.25 %
Vendors Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	183	265
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.294 %	0.285 %
Daily rates quoted	68	61
Average minimum daily rate	£271	£343
Average daily rate	£282	£368
% change on same period last year	-23.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£294	£392
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£349
% change on same period last year	+2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.01	£19.46
Average hourly rate	£17.83	£20.88
% change on same period last year	-14.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.65	£22.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.78	£24.08
% change on same period last year	-1.22 %
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.

Cognos
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Cognos across the Kent 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 Kent region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cognos across the Kent region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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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 Kent region.

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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 Kent region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Dover	-	3	£315	-

Cognos South East

Cognos
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 7 (77.78 %) Business Intelligence 2 6 (66.67 %) Datawarehouse 2 6 (66.67 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 3 5 (55.56 %) SQL 4 3 (33.33 %) DTS 4 3 (33.33 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 2 (22.22 %) Project Management 5 2 (22.22 %) Teradata 5 2 (22.22 %) NHS 6 1 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (11.11 %) OpenView 6 1 (11.11 %) HP 6 1 (11.11 %) ETL 6 1 (11.11 %) SQL Server 6 1 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2005

6 1 (11.11 %) Finance 6 1 (11.11 %) Health 6 1 (11.11 %) Migration

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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.

Business Applications 1 6 (66.67 %) Cognos Business Intelligence	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (66.67 %) Datawarehouse 2 3 (33.33 %) DTS 2 3 (33.33 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 1 (11.11 %) SQL Server 3 1 (11.11 %) ETL 3 1 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 1 (11.11 %) Finance 1 1 (11.11 %) Health	Job Titles 1 6 (66.67 %) Developer 2 5 (55.56 %) Datawarehouse Developer 3 1 (11.11 %) Cognos Consultant 3 1 (11.11 %) Technical Lead 3 1 (11.11 %) Cognos Developer 3 1 (11.11 %) Report Writer 3 1 (11.11 %) Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 2 (22.22 %) NHS	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (77.78 %) Business Intelligence 2 2 (22.22 %) Project Management 3 1 (11.11 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 5 (55.56 %) SQL	Systems Management 1 1 (11.11 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 2 (22.22 %) Teradata 2 1 (11.11 %) HP