The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognos products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cognos over the 3 months to 17 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 Scotland 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cognos
Rank 119 93 89
Rank change year-on-year
-26 -4
Contract jobs citing Cognos 1 12 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.041% 0.453% 0.891%
As % of the Vendors category 0.090% 1.167% 2.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 5
Average daily rate £275 £383 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.10% +9.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.35 £16.50 £21.79
% change year-on-year
-19.09% -24.27%
All Vendors
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1108 1028 1215
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 45.43% 38.81% 43.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 464 525
Average daily rate £363 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.40% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £200 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 52 56
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% +51.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.70 £10.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.00 £33.20 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Cognos
UK

Cognos
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Cognos Hourly Rate Trend

Cognos
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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow -24 1 £275 -37.14%
Cognos
UK

Cognos
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 9 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (20.00%) CommVault
4 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 3 (20.00%) XML
4 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 3 (20.00%) IIS
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) .NET
4 3 (20.00%) J2EE
4 3 (20.00%) Windows
4 3 (20.00%) Solaris
4 3 (20.00%) Linux
4 3 (20.00%) Apache
4 3 (20.00%) GIS
4 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (20.00%) Marketing
4 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (20.00%) Customer Insight
5 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis

Cognos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 3 (20.00%) .NET
1 3 (20.00%) J2EE
1 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (6.667%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) IIS
1 3 (20.00%) Apache
1 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
1 1 (6.667%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) ResourceLink
1 1 (6.667%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (20.00%) GIS
5 1 (6.667%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (6.667%) Xcelsius
5 1 (6.667%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (6.667%) Cognos Impromptu
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
1 3 (20.00%) Banking
1 3 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Analyst
2 6 (40.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Applications Support
4 2 (13.33%) Cognos Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) MI Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Implementation Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Cognos Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) IT Business Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Business Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
1 3 (20.00%) Solaris
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (20.00%) Customer Insight
3 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis
4 1 (6.667%) ITIL
4 1 (6.667%) Time Management
4 1 (6.667%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (6.667%) ITIL V3
4 1 (6.667%) Project Management
4 1 (6.667%) Service Delivery
4 1 (6.667%) Information Management
4 1 (6.667%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.667%) VBA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (20.00%) CommVault
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Business Objects
3 1 (6.667%) JBoss
3 1 (6.667%) Siebel
3 1 (6.667%) Hyperion
3 1 (6.667%) Northgate
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