Cognos Contract Job Trends 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 16 October 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
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 359 379
Rank change year-on-year -14 +20 +110
Contract jobs citing Cognos 16 10 40
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.058% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 0.21% 0.13% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 26
10th Percentile £400 - £450
25th Percentile £456 £304 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £550
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -36.36% -
75th Percentile £548 £388 £644
90th Percentile £550 £538 £645
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - -22.22% -

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 7,740 7,701 9,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.38% 44.51% 46.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,808 4,423 6,328
10th Percentile £220 £220 £210
25th Percentile £363 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 630 480 522
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.98 £14.28
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £21.43 £30.21 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.07% -30.96% +113.41%
75th Percentile £36.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.17 £70.00 £75.48
UK median hourly rate £24.81 £32.75 £43.90
% change year-on-year -24.24% -25.40% +83.61%

Cognos
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Cognos job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cognos
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cognos.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cognos

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 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cognos in the UK excluding London

Cognos
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cognos.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cognos

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 16 October 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
Midlands -18 5 £494 +31.67% 4
North of England -20 5 £533 - 4
West Midlands -14 4 £525 +5.00% 1
North West - 4 £533 - 3
East of England - 3 £550 - 1
South East - 2 - - 7
South West +8 1 - - 1
East Midlands -9 1 £463 +32.14% 3
Yorkshire -28 1 - - 1
Cognos
UK

Cognos
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) SAS
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Power BI
2 7 (43.75%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (25.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
3 4 (25.00%) Cognos Report Studio
3 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (18.75%) DB2
4 3 (18.75%) Tableau
5 2 (12.50%) Cognos Transformer
5 2 (12.50%) OLAP
5 2 (12.50%) OLAP Cube
5 2 (12.50%) Power Query
6 1 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (6.25%) DataStage
6 1 (6.25%) Metadata
6 1 (6.25%) QlikView
General
1 10 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
4 2 (12.50%) Legal
4 2 (12.50%) Marketing
4 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Cognos Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Cognos Support
4 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Platform Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Pricing Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Systems Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Analytics Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Migration Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Power BI Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) CSS
1 2 (12.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (62.50%) Analytics
3 8 (50.00%) ETL
4 7 (43.75%) Dashboard Development
5 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (31.25%) Data Governance
6 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
7 4 (25.00%) Agile
7 4 (25.00%) Migration
7 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (18.75%) Data Visualisation
8 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
8 3 (18.75%) Sprint Review
8 3 (18.75%) Translating Business Requirements
8 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
9 2 (12.50%) API Integration
9 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
9 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
9 2 (12.50%) High Availability
9 2 (12.50%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) R
4 2 (12.50%) VB
5 1 (6.25%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) SAPscript
5 1 (6.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) ISO 19650
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) IBM
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle
4 2 (12.50%) SAP
5 1 (6.25%) Informatica
5 1 (6.25%) MicroStrategy