The first table below looks at the demand for Cognos Planning skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cognos Planning 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 of the Business Applications category.

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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Cognos Planning
Rank 519 545 568
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +23
Contract jobs citing Cognos Planning 11 33 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.024% 0.057% 0.033%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.276% 0.636% 0.350%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 12
Average daily rate £425 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £341 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £486 £595 £511
UK excluding London average daily rate £483 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
+13.52% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £27.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Business Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
3983 5191 5719
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 8.584% 8.907% 9.330%
Number of daily rates quoted 1982 2535 2796
Average daily rate £450 £450 £450
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 61 104
Average hourly rate £37.80 £25.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+51.20% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.15 £14.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £62.50 £56.60 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.92 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+64.92% +14.60%

Cognos Planning
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cognos Planning within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

Cognos Planning Jobs Demand Trend

Cognos Planning
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Cognos Planning within the UK.

Cognos Planning Daily Rate Trend

Cognos Planning
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Cognos Planning within the UK.

Cognos Planning Hourly Rate Trend

Cognos Planning
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cognos Planning within the UK 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
England +27 10 £425 -2.85%
London +4 8 £410 -21.90%
City of London +11 6 £410 -23.72%
West Midlands - 1 £465 -
South West - 1 £500 -
Worcestershire - 1 £465 -
Redditch - 1 £465 -
Bristol - 1 £500 -

Cognos Planning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 15 (100.00%) Cognos
2 13 (86.67%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (86.67%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 10 (66.67%) ETL
4 6 (40.00%) Migration
5 5 (33.33%) Finance
6 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (26.67%) SQL
7 3 (20.00%) Oracle
8 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2005
8 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (13.33%) Banking
8 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
8 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
8 2 (13.33%) VBA
8 2 (13.33%) Windows
8 2 (13.33%) MS Access
8 2 (13.33%) Trillium
8 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
8 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
8 2 (13.33%) Spotfire
8 2 (13.33%) QlikView
8 2 (13.33%) Dimensional Modelling
8 2 (13.33%) Tableau
8 2 (13.33%) Business Transformation
9 1 (6.667%) Data Validation
9 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
9 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared

Cognos Planning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 13 (86.67%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (6.667%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (6.667%) HFM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) MS Access
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (13.33%) Spotfire
2 2 (13.33%) QlikView
3 1 (6.667%) SAP BW
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 8 (53.33%) Cognos Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Lead Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence Manager
6 1 (6.667%) Cognos Consultant
6 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (66.67%) ETL
3 6 (40.00%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
4 2 (13.33%) Business Transformation
4 2 (13.33%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (6.667%) Data Validation
5 1 (6.667%) ERP
5 1 (6.667%) Validation
5 1 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (6.667%) Integration Testing
5 1 (6.667%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) VBA
2 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Cognos
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) Tableau
3 2 (13.33%) Trillium
4 1 (6.667%) IBM
4 1 (6.667%) Hyperion
4 1 (6.667%) SAP