Cognos Business Intelligence Contracts

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (Cognos BI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cognos Business Intelligence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cognos Business Intelligence over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 573 668
Rank change year-on-year +27 +95 +186
Contract jobs citing Cognos Business Intelligence 4 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.002% 0.019%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.15% 0.032% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 9
10th Percentile - - £401
25th Percentile - £304 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £308 £450
Median % change year-on-year +51.22% -31.67% -2.70%
75th Percentile - £311 £488
90th Percentile - - £505
UK excluding London median daily rate - £308 -

All Business Application Skills
UK

Cognos Business Intelligence falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 2,631 3,150 3,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.27% 7.27% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 1,853 2,247
10th Percentile £386 £363 £373
25th Percentile £456 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £671 £675 £678
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 116 62
10th Percentile £20.19 £16.21 £22.66
25th Percentile £30.25 £25.75 £39.56
Median hourly rate £57.50 £40.33 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.59% -19.35% +40.53%
75th Percentile £72.50 £58.94 £67.81
90th Percentile £86.00 £65.00 £88.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £40.33 £55.00
% change year-on-year +48.79% -26.68% +69.26%

Cognos Business Intelligence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cognos Business Intelligence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cognos Business Intelligence in the UK

Cognos Business Intelligence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cognos Business Intelligence.

Daily rate trend for Cognos Business Intelligence in the UK

Cognos Business Intelligence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cognos Business Intelligence.

Hourly rate trend for Cognos Business Intelligence in the UK

Cognos Business Intelligence
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cognos Business Intelligence within the UK over the 6 months to 5 July 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
England +56 4 £465 +51.22% 4
London - 4 £465 - 3

Cognos Business Intelligence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Cognos Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) CODA
1 4 (100.00%) Cognos
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) IBM