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

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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cognos
Rank 131 126 131
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Cognos 26 28 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.831% 0.814% 0.727%
As % of the Vendors category 1.648% 1.693% 1.589%
Number of salaries quoted 12 23 18
Average salary £37,500 £37,000 £42,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.35% -12.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,800 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,400 £40,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% -11.11%
All Vendors
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1578 1654 1573
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 50.42% 48.10% 45.75%
Number of salaries quoted 976 1165 1171
Average salary £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89% -3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Cognos
UK

Cognos
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Cognos Salary Trend

Cognos
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Cognos across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland Cognos Salary Histogram

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 Scotland region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Edinburgh +6 11 £35,000 -5.40%
Glasgow -15 10 £40,000 +17.64%
South Lanarkshire +7 1 - -
Stirling - 1 £45,000 -
Aberdeenshire - 1 £25,000 -
Cognos
UK

Cognos
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 31 (75.61%) Business Intelligence
2 24 (58.54%) Oracle
3 22 (53.66%) Business Objects
4 17 (41.46%) SQL Server
5 16 (39.02%) SQL
5 16 (39.02%) .NET
5 16 (39.02%) Finance
6 15 (36.59%) QlikView
7 14 (34.15%) ETL
8 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
9 12 (29.27%) PL/SQL
10 11 (26.83%) IBM
11 10 (24.39%) Oracle 10g
11 10 (24.39%) Sybase
11 10 (24.39%) UNIX
11 10 (24.39%) Oracle 11g
11 10 (24.39%) Derivative
11 10 (24.39%) Degree
11 10 (24.39%) Banking
12 9 (21.95%) Data Analysis
12 9 (21.95%) Investment Banking
12 9 (21.95%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (21.95%) Management Information System
13 8 (19.51%) DataStage
13 8 (19.51%) C#
14 7 (17.07%) Equities
14 7 (17.07%) Agile Software Development
14 7 (17.07%) TDD
14 7 (17.07%) Subversion
14 7 (17.07%) Spring

Cognos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 16 (39.02%) .NET
2 7 (17.07%) J2EE
2 7 (17.07%) Apache Flex
2 7 (17.07%) JMS
2 7 (17.07%) FpML
2 7 (17.07%) Hibernate
2 7 (17.07%) Spring
3 1 (2.439%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.439%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (9.756%) SAS
2 3 (7.317%) MQSeries
Applications
1 4 (9.756%) MS Excel
1 4 (9.756%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 2 (4.878%) Cognos Planning
3 1 (2.439%) Cognos Controller
3 1 (2.439%) Siebel Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (41.46%) SQL Server
2 15 (36.59%) QlikView
3 10 (24.39%) Oracle 11g
3 10 (24.39%) Oracle 10g
4 9 (21.95%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (19.51%) DataStage
6 7 (17.07%) RDBMS
6 7 (17.07%) Sybase ASE
6 7 (17.07%) Oracle 8/8i
6 7 (17.07%) DB2
6 7 (17.07%) Oracle BI EE
6 7 (17.07%) MarkLogic
7 5 (12.20%) IBM InfoSphere
8 4 (9.756%) Pentaho
8 4 (9.756%) Hadoop
8 4 (9.756%) Big Data
8 4 (9.756%) BusinessObjects XI
8 4 (9.756%) Spotfire
8 4 (9.756%) Oracle OLAP
8 4 (9.756%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Subversion
1 7 (17.07%) Maven
1 7 (17.07%) MagicDraw
1 7 (17.07%) ClearCase
1 7 (17.07%) Eclipse
1 7 (17.07%) Hudson
2 3 (7.317%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (2.439%) Oracle APEX
General
1 16 (39.02%) Finance
2 10 (24.39%) Banking
3 9 (21.95%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.878%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.878%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (36.59%) Developer
2 11 (26.83%) Consultant
3 10 (24.39%) Analyst
3 10 (24.39%) Applications Support
3 10 (24.39%) Oracle Developer
4 9 (21.95%) Applications Support Analyst
4 9 (21.95%) Support Analyst
5 8 (19.51%) Senior Developer
5 8 (19.51%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 7 (17.07%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (17.07%) Java Developer
6 7 (17.07%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 5 (12.20%) Business Consultant
8 3 (7.317%) 3rd Line Support
9 2 (4.878%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 2 (4.878%) Business Intelligence Manager
9 2 (4.878%) Cognos Consultant
9 2 (4.878%) Business Manager
9 2 (4.878%) Cognos Developer
10 1 (2.439%) Cognos Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 10 (24.39%) Derivative
2 9 (21.95%) Management Information System
3 7 (17.07%) Equities
3 7 (17.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (17.07%) Open Source
4 2 (4.878%) Data Conversion
4 2 (4.878%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 10 (24.39%) UNIX
2 1 (2.439%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (75.61%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (34.15%) ETL
3 9 (21.95%) Data Analysis
4 7 (17.07%) Business Analysis
4 7 (17.07%) Strategic Planning
4 7 (17.07%) Project Planning
4 7 (17.07%) Use Case
4 7 (17.07%) User Acceptance Testing
4 7 (17.07%) Unit Testing
4 7 (17.07%) RAD
4 7 (17.07%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (17.07%) TDD
4 7 (17.07%) Multithreading
5 5 (12.20%) Analytics
6 4 (9.756%) Master Data Management
6 4 (9.756%) Data Cleansing
6 4 (9.756%) Data Management
6 4 (9.756%) Information Management
6 4 (9.756%) Data Modelling
7 3 (7.317%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (39.02%) SQL
2 12 (29.27%) PL/SQL
3 8 (19.51%) C#
4 7 (17.07%) Java
4 7 (17.07%) Python
4 7 (17.07%) XQuery
4 7 (17.07%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.439%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) Degree
Vendors
1 24 (58.54%) Oracle
2 22 (53.66%) Business Objects
3 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
4 11 (26.83%) IBM
5 10 (24.39%) Sybase
6 7 (17.07%) Informatica
7 6 (14.63%) MicroStrategy
8 5 (12.20%) SAP
8 5 (12.20%) DataFlux
8 5 (12.20%) Ab Initio
9 4 (9.756%) Teradata
9 4 (9.756%) Netezza
9 4 (9.756%) Tableau
10 3 (7.317%) Actuate
11 1 (2.439%) Siebel
11 1 (2.439%) Sage
11 1 (2.439%) Salesforce.com
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