The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognos products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Scottish Borders 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 Scottish Borders 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 - - -
Contract jobs citing Cognos 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Scottish Borders - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Scottish Borders
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Scottish Borders 66.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £238 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Cognos
Scotland

Cognos
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scottish Borders 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) IIS
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) CommVault
1 3 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) GIS
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss
2 1 (33.33%) ASP
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle

Cognos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scottish Borders 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 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) IIS
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) GIS
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Applications Support
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) CommVault
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss