The first table below looks at the demand for Cognos Business Intelligence skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cognos Business Intelligence over the 3 months to 20 June 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 for the 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.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (Cognos BI)
Rank - 49 60
Contract jobs citing Cognos Business Intelligence 0 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales - 1.022% 0.142%
As % of the Business Applications category - 11.11% 1.370%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £325 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £425 £413
% change year-on-year
-5.82% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £37.50
All Business Applications
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
19 54 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 4.025% 9.199% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 24
Average daily rate £425 £445 £445
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.49% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £330 £326
10% offered a daily rate of more than £590 £500 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.50 £25.00 £29.25
% change year-on-year
+38.00% -14.52%
Cognos Business Intelligence
UK

Cognos Business Intelligence
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales Cognos Business Intelligence Jobs Demand Trend

Cognos Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Cognos Business Intelligence across the Wales region.

Wales Cognos Business Intelligence Daily Rate Trend

Cognos Business Intelligence
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing Cognos Business Intelligence 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 Business Intelligence.

1 6 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) Cognos
1 6 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (100.00%) ETL
1 6 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (50.00%) Data Mart
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 2 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (33.33%) Banking
4 2 (33.33%) AS400
4 2 (33.33%) Clustering
4 2 (33.33%) OLTP
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 2 (33.33%) DTS

Cognos Business Intelligence
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing Cognos Business Intelligence 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 Business Intelligence. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (50.00%) Data Mart
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (33.33%) OLTP
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (33.33%) DTS
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) SQL DBA
2 2 (33.33%) DBA
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) AS400
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) ETL
1 6 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cognos
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft