Cognos Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Cognos
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 4 November 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
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 61 67
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +33
Contract jobs citing Cognos 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.12% 0.14% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 0.26% 0.32% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.27% +1.85%

All Vendors
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 387 313 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 45.16% 42.99% 50.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 189 281
10th Percentile £188 £263 £213
25th Percentile £333 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -1.04% +6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £600
90th Percentile £638 £625 £705
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 25
10th Percentile £16.35 £13.86 £11.46
25th Percentile £18.54 £15.03 £13.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £17.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% +9.68% -11.73%
75th Percentile £25.15 £18.11 £65.00
90th Percentile - £51.30 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.16% -21.35% +73.08%

Cognos
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Cognos job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Cognos
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cognos.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cognos

Cognos
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cognos.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cognos

Cognos
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cognos within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Derbyshire - 1 £463 -
Cognos
England

Cognos
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 19650
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM