Cognos Contracts in England

Cognos
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 530 609
Rank change year-on-year +60 +79 +123
Contract jobs citing Cognos 15 12 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.032% 0.087%
As % of the Vendors category 0.13% 0.077% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 31
10th Percentile £359 £304 £400
25th Percentile £465 £376 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £613
90th Percentile £548 £671 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £27.50

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Cognos
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cognos as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cognos in England

Cognos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cognos in England.

Daily rate trend for Cognos in England

Cognos
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cognos in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cognos in England

Cognos
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cognos in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cognos in England

Cognos
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cognos within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +39 9 £513 -7.87% 12
South East - 3 £363 - 6
Midlands +22 1 £500 - 3
East of England - 1 £500 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 1
Cognos
UK

Cognos
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (20.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (6.67%) SAP CO
3 1 (6.67%) SAP FI
3 1 (6.67%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (20.00%) Power BI
4 2 (13.33%) Cognos Query Studio
4 2 (13.33%) Data Mining
4 2 (13.33%) Tableau
5 1 (6.67%) Apache Hive
5 1 (6.67%) Big Data
5 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.67%) Impala
5 1 (6.67%) MySQL
5 1 (6.67%) OLAP
5 1 (6.67%) SAP BW
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (6.67%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) LSMW
General
1 10 (66.67%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Automotive
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) General Ledger
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Analyst
2 6 (40.00%) Cognos Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) SAP Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Consultant
4 2 (13.33%) Developer Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) SAP Data Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) TM1 Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Migration Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Process Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Support Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) TM1 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) XML
2 1 (6.67%) MDX
2 1 (6.67%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (40.00%) Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Analytics
3 4 (26.67%) Data Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (13.33%) Accounts Payable
5 2 (13.33%) Accounts Receivable
5 2 (13.33%) Agile Project Management
5 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
5 2 (13.33%) Data Management
5 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) ERP
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) User Stories
6 1 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (6.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) PL/SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) R
3 2 (13.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) GAAP
2 1 (6.67%) GRC
2 1 (6.67%) IFRS
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) CODA
2 4 (26.67%) SAP
3 3 (20.00%) IBM
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) Alteryx
4 2 (13.33%) Ariba
4 2 (13.33%) Informatica
5 1 (6.67%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (6.67%) Salesforce