Cognos Contract Job Trends in Central London

Cognos
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 20 December 2025, 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
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 128 143
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 +58
Contract jobs citing Cognos 2 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.100% 0.26% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.20% 0.59% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £581 £429
25th Percentile - £591 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £638 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +28.79% -8.25%
75th Percentile - £672 £573
90th Percentile - £674 £619
London median daily rate £550 £588 £531
% change year-on-year -6.38% +10.59% -1.62%

All Vendors
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 983 1,009 1,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 48.95% 43.16% 42.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 643 845
10th Percentile £325 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £669 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 8
10th Percentile £19.05 £18.50 £15.58
25th Percentile £20.18 £33.07 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £57.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.70% +202.63% -7.32%
75th Percentile £41.94 £112.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £54.90 £137.50 £57.38
London median hourly rate £25.47 £34.50 £38.16
% change year-on-year -26.17% -9.58% +48.41%

Cognos
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Cognos job vacancy trend in Central London

Cognos
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cognos.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cognos

Cognos
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cognos.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cognos

Cognos
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cognos within the Central London region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. 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
City of London -11 2 - -
Cognos
London

Cognos
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) IBM Watson
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 2 (100.00%) NumPy
1 2 (100.00%) Pandas
1 2 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (100.00%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Dialogue System
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Linear Algebra
1 2 (100.00%) Linear Regression
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Neural Network
1 2 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Statistics
1 2 (100.00%) Time Series Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Sage