The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognos products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cognos over the 3 months to 23 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 Manchester 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cognos
Rank 63 76 57
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -19
Contract jobs citing Cognos 10 9 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.070% 0.696% 1.132%
As % of the Vendors category 2.604% 1.382% 2.721%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 7
Average daily rate £350 £500 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +42.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £360 £323
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £536 £435
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
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
384 651 441
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 41.07% 50.31% 41.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 289 182
Average daily rate £314 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.46% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £523
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 37 46
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% +29.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.77 £12.05 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.80 £25.00 £21.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Cognos
North West

Cognos
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Cognos Daily Rate Trend

Cognos
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Cognos Hourly Rate Trend

Cognos
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (22.22%) Migration
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 4 (22.22%) Stress Testing
2 4 (22.22%) Data Quality
3 3 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (16.67%) OLAP
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Business Objects
4 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 2 (11.11%) VB.NET
4 2 (11.11%) VBA
4 2 (11.11%) .NET
4 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (11.11%) IBM
4 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (11.11%) MDX
4 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
5 1 (5.556%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.556%) Unica
5 1 (5.556%) QlikView
5 1 (5.556%) DecisionStream
5 1 (5.556%) Tivoli
5 1 (5.556%) Project Management
5 1 (5.556%) E-Commerce
5 1 (5.556%) ETL

Cognos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) MDX
2 1 (5.556%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) Dynamics AX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (16.67%) OLAP
3 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
4 1 (5.556%) QlikView
4 1 (5.556%) DecisionStream
4 1 (5.556%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Cognos Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Data Manager
4 4 (22.22%) Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) SQL Developer
5 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Report Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.556%) Trainer
6 1 (5.556%) Developer Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Technical Trainer
6 1 (5.556%) Report Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) IT Project Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.556%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (22.22%) Migration
2 4 (22.22%) Stress Testing
3 1 (5.556%) Project Management
3 1 (5.556%) E-Commerce
3 1 (5.556%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
1 2 (11.11%) T-SQL
1 2 (11.11%) VB.NET
1 2 (11.11%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Business Objects
1 2 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (5.556%) Unica