Cognos Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Cognos
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 14 September 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
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 168 175
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 +75
Contract jobs citing Cognos 5 2 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.13% 0.048% 0.45%
As % of the Vendors category 0.27% 0.12% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 18
10th Percentile £401 - £450
25th Percentile £481 - £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +69.23%
75th Percentile £542 - £639
90th Percentile £545 - £645
England median daily rate £530 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +8.72% -7.14% +5.00%

All Vendors
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,870 1,676 2,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 47.56% 40.60% 45.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,194 955 1,454
10th Percentile £271 £300 £219
25th Percentile £370 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £567 £594 £594
90th Percentile £649 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 82 108
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.06 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.10 £16.21 £17.49
Median hourly rate £22.63 £33.75 £29.39
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% +14.83% +46.95%
75th Percentile £58.76 £44.69 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.25 £55.21 £49.52
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +77.75%

Cognos
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cognos in the North of England

Cognos
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cognos.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cognos

Cognos
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cognos in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cognos in the North of England

Cognos
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cognos.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cognos

Cognos
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
North West - 4 £533 - 1
Yorkshire -14 1 - - 1
Cognos
England

Cognos
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (60.00%) SAS
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Cognos Report Studio
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Cognos Transformer
2 2 (40.00%) OLAP
2 2 (40.00%) OLAP Cube
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 2 (40.00%) Power Query
3 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (20.00%) QlikView
3 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Cognos Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Excel Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Cognos Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (80.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Sprint Review
3 2 (40.00%) API Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
4 1 (20.00%) Budgeting
4 1 (20.00%) Business Case
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Financial Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) ANSI SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) MicroStrategy
1 1 (20.00%) SAP