Cognos Contracts in London

Cognos
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 344 383 460
Rank change year-on-year +39 +77 +115
Contract jobs citing Cognos 9 8 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.072% 0.045% 0.12%
As % of the Vendors category 0.16% 0.11% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 26
10th Percentile - £464 £413
25th Percentile £465 £475 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £556 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% +11.25% -
75th Percentile £543 £666 £623
90th Percentile £633 £716 £650
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +2.04%

All Vendors
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,695 7,227 10,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.39% 40.53% 38.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,736 4,950 7,441
10th Percentile £325 £300 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £549 £563
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -2.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £653 £663 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £798
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 138 127
10th Percentile £15.91 £13.86 £16.28
25th Percentile £22.27 £17.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £23.99 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +20.88% -21.98% -12.14%
75th Percentile £51.20 £36.56 £57.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £64.13 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Cognos
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cognos in London

Cognos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cognos in London

Cognos
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cognos in London

Cognos
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cognos in London

Cognos
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (11.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) Cognos Query Studio
2 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Tableau
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Hive
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (11.11%) Data Mining
3 1 (11.11%) Impala
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 7 (77.78%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Cognos Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Data Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) SAP Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) SAP Data Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Consultant
5 1 (11.11%) Data Migration Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Migration Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) SAP Data Migration Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Data Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Support Consultant
5 1 (11.11%) TM1 Consultant
5 1 (11.11%) TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Agile Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Data Management
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) User Stories
4 1 (11.11%) Budgeting
4 1 (11.11%) Data Augmentation
4 1 (11.11%) ERP
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Project Governance
4 1 (11.11%) SDLC
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Use Case
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) PL/SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) R
3 2 (22.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) GRC
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
2 4 (44.44%) CODA
3 2 (22.22%) Alteryx
3 2 (22.22%) Ariba
3 2 (22.22%) IBM
3 2 (22.22%) Informatica
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) SAP
4 1 (11.11%) CA Agile Central