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 12 August 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
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 517 536
Rank change year-on-year +27 +19 +217
Contract jobs citing Cognos 19 16 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.069% 0.048% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.15% 0.11% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 53
10th Percentile £356 £304 £415
25th Percentile £390 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -7.14% +8.81%
75th Percentile £544 £638 £645
90th Percentile £550 £670 £650
UK median daily rate £465 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -15.45% - +17.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £45.00

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 13,073 14,522 19,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.22% 43.58% 43.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,266 9,238 13,128
10th Percentile £276 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £621 £627 £650
90th Percentile £719 £735 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 652 759 575
10th Percentile £14.65 £13.69 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.62 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% -12.60% +55.56%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.15 £59.01
90th Percentile £69.65 £71.25 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.89 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.84% -25.29% +81.82%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +8 7 £530 -14.34% 1
Midlands -9 5 £494 +31.67% 1
West Midlands -11 4 £525 +5.00%
South East - 3 £363 - 10
North of England -16 2 £355 - 3
Yorkshire -6 1 - -
East Midlands -7 1 £463 +32.14% 1
North West - 1 £355 - 3
East of England - 1 £550 - 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (26.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (5.26%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (5.26%) Loan IQ
2 1 (5.26%) Maximo
2 1 (5.26%) SAP CO
2 1 (5.26%) SAP FI
2 1 (5.26%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.26%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 7 (36.84%) Power BI
3 5 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (21.05%) DB2
4 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
5 2 (10.53%) Data Mining
5 2 (10.53%) Power Query
6 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
6 1 (5.26%) Big Data
6 1 (5.26%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (5.26%) DataStage
6 1 (5.26%) Metadata
6 1 (5.26%) MySQL
6 1 (5.26%) QlikView
6 1 (5.26%) SAP BW
6 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (5.26%) Tableau
6 1 (5.26%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
1 1 (5.26%) LSMW
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (31.58%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Automotive
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Front Office
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Legal
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Cognos Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Cognos Support
4 2 (10.53%) Developer Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Platform Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) TM1 Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Analytics Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Maximo Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) HTML
1 1 (5.26%) MDX
1 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (52.63%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (36.84%) Analytics
4 6 (31.58%) ETL
4 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (26.32%) Migration
6 4 (21.05%) Dashboard Development
6 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
7 3 (15.79%) Agile
7 3 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (15.79%) Project Management
7 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
8 2 (10.53%) Data Governance
8 2 (10.53%) Data Integration
8 2 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (10.53%) High Availability
8 2 (10.53%) ITIL
8 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (10.53%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (10.53%) Java
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
4 2 (10.53%) VBA
5 1 (5.26%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (5.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) IBM
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (5.26%) CODA
3 1 (5.26%) Informatica
3 1 (5.26%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce