North West Cognos Planning Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for IBM Cognos Planning skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Business Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cognos Planning over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM Cognos Planning
Location Berkshire City of London England Hampshire London North West South East Southampton UK	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	125	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.897 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£288	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Business Applications North West
Matching contract IT job ads	223	355
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.358 %	0.381 %
Daily rates quoted	46	60
Average minimum daily rate	£422	£390
Average daily rate	£453	£411
% change on same period last year	+10.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£485	£433
UK excluding London average daily rate	£446	£434
% change on same period last year	+2.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.96	£23.27
Average hourly rate	£28.05	£24.82
% change on same period last year	+12.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.13	£26.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.01	£26.58
% change on same period last year	+12.88 %
Cognos Planning England

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.

Cognos Planning
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Cognos Planning across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

Cognos Planning
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Cognos Planning 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 Planning.

1 3 (100.00 %) Cognos 2 2 (66.67 %) Business Intelligence 2 2 (66.67 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 3 1 (33.33 %) Ascential 3 1 (33.33 %) DataStage 3 1 (33.33 %) Health 3 1 (33.33 %) Migration

Cognos Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Cognos Planning 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 Planning. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) Cognos Business Intelligence	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) DataStage
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Health	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) DBA 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle DBA
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Business Intelligence 2 1 (33.33 %) Migration	Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Cognos 2 1 (33.33 %) Ascential 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle