The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognos products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Cognos over the 3 months to 20 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 Kent region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within IBM Cognos.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cognos
Rank 77 71 -
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -
Permanent jobs citing Cognos 13 6 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 1.114% 0.845% -
As % of the Vendors category 2.457% 1.786% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 4 0
Average salary £62,500 £27,250 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+129.35% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -11.11%
All Vendors
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
529 336 590
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 45.33% 47.32% 57.06%
Number of salaries quoted 455 305 524
Average salary £43,000 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.66% -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £90,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Cognos
South East

Cognos
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent Cognos Jobs Demand Trend

Cognos
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Cognos across the Kent region.

Kent Cognos Salary Trend

Cognos
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cognos within the Kent region over the 3 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Stansted - 1 - -
Cognos
South East

Cognos
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Cognos.

1 15 (53.57%) Business Objects
1 15 (53.57%) Web Services
1 15 (53.57%) XML
1 15 (53.57%) XSLT
1 15 (53.57%) OOA/OOD
1 15 (53.57%) SOA
1 15 (53.57%) ETL
1 15 (53.57%) XML Schema
1 15 (53.57%) B2B
1 15 (53.57%) Informatica
1 15 (53.57%) BODI
1 15 (53.57%) Marketing
1 15 (53.57%) Load Balancing
2 12 (42.86%) Business Development
2 12 (42.86%) Requirements Analysis
2 12 (42.86%) CA Endevor
2 12 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
2 12 (42.86%) Analytics
2 12 (42.86%) Mainframe
2 12 (42.86%) Content Management
2 12 (42.86%) CICS
2 12 (42.86%) FTP
2 12 (42.86%) Documentum
2 12 (42.86%) MQSeries
2 12 (42.86%) DB2
2 12 (42.86%) J2EE
3 10 (35.71%) Oracle
4 9 (32.14%) COBOL
4 9 (32.14%) UML
4 9 (32.14%) Data Modelling

Cognos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Cognos. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (53.57%) Web Services
1 15 (53.57%) XML
1 15 (53.57%) XSLT
1 15 (53.57%) XML Schema
2 12 (42.86%) J2EE
3 3 (10.71%) EJB
3 3 (10.71%) JAXB
3 3 (10.71%) JMX
3 3 (10.71%) JSF
3 3 (10.71%) JAX-WS
4 1 (3.571%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 12 (42.86%) MQSeries
1 12 (42.86%) Documentum
1 12 (42.86%) CICS
2 3 (10.71%) GlassFish
2 3 (10.71%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 12 (42.86%) FTP
2 1 (3.571%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (53.57%) BODI
2 12 (42.86%) DB2
3 9 (32.14%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (3.571%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (3.571%) Data Warehouse
General
1 15 (53.57%) Marketing
2 8 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Architect
1 15 (53.57%) Solutions Architect
2 12 (42.86%) Consultant
2 12 (42.86%) Documentum Consultant
3 7 (25.00%) Team Leader
4 5 (17.86%) Mainframe Architect
5 1 (3.571%) OBIEE Developer
5 1 (3.571%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (3.571%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (3.571%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (3.571%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.571%) Developer
5 1 (3.571%) Analyst
5 1 (3.571%) Business Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) OOA/OOD
1 15 (53.57%) SOA
1 15 (53.57%) ETL
1 15 (53.57%) B2B
1 15 (53.57%) Load Balancing
2 12 (42.86%) Requirements Analysis
2 12 (42.86%) Business Development
2 12 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
2 12 (42.86%) Analytics
2 12 (42.86%) Content Management
3 9 (32.14%) Data Modelling
3 9 (32.14%) UML
4 8 (28.57%) Performance Management
4 8 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (10.71%) Document Management
6 1 (3.571%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) COBOL
1 9 (32.14%) JCL
2 1 (3.571%) PL/SQL
2 1 (3.571%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.571%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) OpenSSO
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 15 (53.57%) Business Objects
1 15 (53.57%) Informatica
2 10 (35.71%) Oracle
3 3 (10.71%) Sun
4 1 (3.571%) IBM