Cognos Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cognos
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 25 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
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 113 132
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 +52
Contract jobs citing Cognos 2 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% 0.29% 0.12%
As % of the Vendors category 0.22% 0.67% 0.28%
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
Central London median daily rate - £638 £495
% change year-on-year - +28.79% -8.25%

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 903 892 1,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.13% 43.30% 42.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 554 765
10th Percentile £326 £313 £312
25th Percentile £413 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -3.57%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £748 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 5
10th Percentile £20.02 £17.05 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £41.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £85.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.35% +347.37% -7.32%
75th Percentile £44.72 £112.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £54.00 £137.50 £66.00
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £57.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.70% +202.63% -7.32%

Cognos
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Cognos job vacancy trend in the City of London

Cognos
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cognos.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cognos

Cognos
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cognos.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cognos

Cognos
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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