The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognos products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cognos over the 3 months to 22 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 South Wales 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cognos
Rank - 40 34
Contract jobs citing Cognos 0 3 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales - 0.746% 2.920%
As % of the Vendors category - 1.639% 6.283%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 8
Average daily rate - £338 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.89%
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
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
150 183 191
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 45.59% 45.52% 46.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 81 108
Average daily rate £350 £313 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £236
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 8
Average hourly rate £15.00 £18.75 £13.05
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +43.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.80 £9.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £24.55 £20.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Cognos
Wales

Cognos
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales Cognos Daily Rate Trend

Cognos
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 12 (92.31%) SQL Server
1 12 (92.31%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (84.62%) T-SQL
2 11 (84.62%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (84.62%) ETL
2 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 11 (84.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (69.23%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 7 (53.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 7 (53.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (53.85%) SQL
5 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
5 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2008
6 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 5 (38.46%) Kimball Methodology
6 5 (38.46%) Data Mart
6 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2005
6 5 (38.46%) AS400
6 5 (38.46%) DTS
6 5 (38.46%) Project Management
6 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2000
6 5 (38.46%) Clustering
7 4 (30.77%) OLTP
8 3 (23.08%) Banking
9 1 (7.692%) ARCserve
9 1 (7.692%) Service Delivery
9 1 (7.692%) MS Exchange
9 1 (7.692%) Java
9 1 (7.692%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (7.692%) Business Objects

Cognos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) MS Exchange
1 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) SAN
1 1 (7.692%) LAN
1 1 (7.692%) WAN
1 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server
2 11 (84.62%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (84.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (53.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 7 (53.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2008
5 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 5 (38.46%) Data Mart
5 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (38.46%) DTS
5 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2000
6 4 (30.77%) OLTP
7 1 (7.692%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (7.692%) Cognos Impromptu
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 5 (38.46%) DBA
4 4 (30.77%) SQL DBA
4 4 (30.77%) SQL Server DBA
5 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Developer
5 2 (15.38%) SQL Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Analyst
6 1 (7.692%) Systems Manager
6 1 (7.692%) Technical Support Analyst
6 1 (7.692%) Java Developer
6 1 (7.692%) Support Analyst
6 1 (7.692%) Technical Support
6 1 (7.692%) Developer Analyst
6 1 (7.692%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (7.692%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (7.692%) EPoS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) AS400
1 5 (38.46%) Clustering
2 1 (7.692%) EPoS
2 1 (7.692%) Thin Client
2 1 (7.692%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) Windows
1 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (84.62%) ETL
3 5 (38.46%) Kimball Methodology
3 5 (38.46%) Project Management
4 1 (7.692%) Service Delivery
4 1 (7.692%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) T-SQL
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
3 1 (7.692%) Java
System Software
1 1 (7.692%) Terminal Services
1 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.692%) Business Objects
2 1 (7.692%) Intel
2 1 (7.692%) VMware