Cognos
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Cognos products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cognos over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within IBM Cognos.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 664 791
Rank change year-on-year +84 +127 -161
Contract jobs citing Cognos 14 52 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.087% 0.072%
As % of the Vendors category 0.076% 0.20% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 36 37
10th Percentile £304 £381 £365
25th Percentile £376 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% +12.64%
75th Percentile £534 £594 £570
90th Percentile £671 £650 £621
UK excluding London median daily rate £354 £400 £450
% change year-on-year -11.56% -11.11% +8.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £27.50 -

All Vendors
UK

Cognos is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,599 35,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.57% 42.88% 39.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,421 17,163 23,490
10th Percentile £263 £273 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £628 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 691 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.03 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.16
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% +0.85%

Cognos
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cognos as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cognos in the UK

Cognos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cognos.

Daily rate trend for Cognos in the UK

Cognos
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cognos over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cognos in the UK

Cognos
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cognos.

Hourly rate trend for Cognos in the UK

Cognos
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cognos within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +84 12 £475 -5.00% 13
London +81 8 £556 +11.25% 1
Work from Home +111 5 £398 -20.50% 9
UK excluding London +56 5 £354 -11.56% 11
South West +11 3 £308 -38.50%
Scotland +32 1 - -
Midlands +27 1 £500 +66.67% 2
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 1

Cognos
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (7.14%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (7.14%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) Cognos Framework Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cognos Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Cognos Support
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Modeller
3 1 (7.14%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Remote Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Functional Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Security Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) User Experience
2 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 2 (14.29%) ETL
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.14%) Data Migration
5 1 (7.14%) Functional Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Management
5 1 (7.14%) Software Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Statistical Modelling
5 1 (7.14%) Statistics
5 1 (7.14%) Test Scripting
5 1 (7.14%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) ABAP
3 1 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GRC
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) IBM
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Concur
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) JD Edwards
3 1 (7.14%) Murex
3 1 (7.14%) SAP