Cognos Contract Job Trends in the South West

Cognos
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 19 December 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
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 123 147
Rank change year-on-year -9 +24 +32
Contract jobs citing Cognos 1 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.043% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.31% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £449
25th Percentile - - £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £645
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.27%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £533 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -0.93% -2.27% +1.85%

All Vendors
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 951 967 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 40.82% 45.79% 41.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 586 823
10th Percentile £261 £223 £232
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -6.51% +4.76%
75th Percentile £624 £618 £638
90th Percentile £725 £709 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 48 121
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £32.56 £46.39
Median hourly rate £23.58 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.73% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £41.72 £70.31 £65.98
90th Percentile £70.30 £75.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%

Cognos
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Cognos job vacancy trend in the South West

Cognos
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cognos

Cognos
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cognos

Cognos
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cognos within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Bristol -4 1 - -
Cognos
England

Cognos
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SAPscript
1 1 (100.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP