Cognos Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Cognos
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 7 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
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 132 138
Rank change year-on-year -21 +6 +68
Contract jobs citing Cognos 3 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.10% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Vendors category 0.20% 0.24% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £417 £353 -
25th Percentile £423 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -11.76% -32.00%
75th Percentile £461 £513 £438
90th Percentile £466 £588 -
England median daily rate £540 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +0.47% -2.27% +1.85%

All Vendors
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,519 1,248 1,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 51.65% 46.62% 51.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 993 808 930
10th Percentile £251 £250 £218
25th Percentile £363 £374 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -3.06%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 26 45
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.09 £12.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.66 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.41% -9.44% +11.43%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% -21.35% +73.08%

Cognos
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Cognos job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Cognos
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Cognos
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Cognos
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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
West Midlands -30 2 £425 -15.00% 2
East Midlands -18 1 £463 +32.14% 3
Cognos
England

Cognos
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) DB2
3 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cognos Support
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 19650
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle