The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognos products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cognos over the 3 months to 24 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 Oxford 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cognos
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cognos 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 0.427% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.833% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
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
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
120 198 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 51.28% 59.64% 47.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 99 34
Average daily rate £340 £438 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.28% +52.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £300 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £550 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 27 16
Average hourly rate £14.81 £14.25 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.94% -38.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.40 £10.00 £12.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £20.06 £27.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Cognos
Oxfordshire

Cognos
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Cognos Daily Rate Trend

Cognos
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 8 (100.00%) SQL
1 8 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 7 (87.50%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (87.50%) SQL Server
3 5 (62.50%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 5 (62.50%) Star Schema
4 2 (25.00%) ERP
4 2 (25.00%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (25.00%) QlikView
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) QA
5 1 (12.50%) SAP

Cognos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 5 (62.50%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 7 (87.50%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (87.50%) SQL Server
3 5 (62.50%) Star Schema
4 2 (25.00%) QlikView
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
1 7 (87.50%) SQL Developer
1 7 (87.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) ERP
2 2 (25.00%) ETL
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) SAP