Cognos Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cognos
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 394 433
Rank change year-on-year +60 +39 +52
Contract jobs citing Cognos 5 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.024% 0.058%
As % of the Vendors category 0.080% 0.057% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile - - £328
25th Percentile £356 £304 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £354 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.83% -11.56% -11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £425 £513
90th Percentile - £470 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £27.50

All Vendors
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,247 8,846 10,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.84% 42.63% 44.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,971 5,327 7,325
10th Percentile £216 £205 £205
25th Percentile £370 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.58%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 949 474
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.80 £14.28
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%
75th Percentile £58.61 £58.70 £63.00
90th Percentile £74.88 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.00 £43.69
% change year-on-year +20.23% -49.65% +107.85%

Cognos
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cognos in the UK excluding London

Cognos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cognos in the UK excluding London

Cognos
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cognos in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cognos in the UK excluding London

Cognos
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cognos in the UK excluding London

Cognos
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cognos within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
South East - 3 £363 - 6
Midlands +19 1 £500 - 2
East of England - 1 £500 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £500 -
Cognos
UK

Cognos
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) OLAP
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) General Ledger
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Cognos Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Developer Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Process Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) SAP Financial Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) MDX
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Accounts Payable
3 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) PLM
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GAAP
1 1 (20.00%) IFRS
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) SAP