Cognos Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Cognos
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring knowledge or experience of Cognos products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cognos over the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -23 - -
Contract jobs citing Cognos 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.32% 0.37% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.72% 0.85% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £309 £516 -
25th Percentile £314 £522 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £322 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.09% - -
75th Percentile £324 £547 -
90th Percentile £324 £549 -
West Midlands median daily rate £324 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -38.38% -16.00% +47.06%

All Vendors
Birmingham

Cognos falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 417 235 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 45.03% 43.12% 46.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 161 253
10th Percentile £313 £150 £263
25th Percentile £390 £275 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £431 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.21% -4.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £542 £555 £575
90th Percentile £625 £649 £685
West Midlands median daily rate £468 £460 £450
% change year-on-year +1.74% +2.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 14
10th Percentile £15.11 £18.20 £13.48
25th Percentile £18.53 £18.51 £14.03
Median hourly rate £22.17 £22.50 £24.33
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -7.50% +12.60%
75th Percentile £32.99 £30.29 £43.50
90th Percentile £51.25 £48.49 £55.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.50 £30.00 £16.51
% change year-on-year +1.67% +81.76% -26.64%

Cognos
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cognos relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Cognos job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Cognos
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cognos.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cognos

Cognos
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cognos.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cognos

Cognos
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 3 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft