Cognos Report Studio Contracts

IBM Cognos Report Studio
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cognos Report Studio skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cognos Report Studio over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 - 664
Rank change year-on-year - - +193
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cognos Report Studio 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% - 0.008%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.068% - 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £530 - £405
25th Percentile £536 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +38.46%
75th Percentile £548 - £481
90th Percentile £549 - £485
UK excluding London median daily rate £544 - £438
% change year-on-year - - +34.62%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Cognos Report Studio falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,877 7,030 8,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.94% 18.13% 17.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,943 4,930 6,090
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.23% -1.36%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 100 167
10th Percentile £21.21 £14.93 £20.95
25th Percentile £29.00 £19.77 £31.37
Median hourly rate £38.85 £32.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.52% -40.91% +29.41%
75th Percentile £64.00 £54.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.93 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.88 £30.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +12.93% -44.19% +53.57%

Cognos Report Studio
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cognos Report Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cognos Report Studio in the UK

Cognos Report Studio
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cognos Report Studio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cognos Report Studio

Cognos Report Studio
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cognos Report Studio.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cognos Report Studio

Cognos Report Studio
Top 6 DemandTrendContract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cognos Report Studio within the UK over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England - 4 £544 -
UK excluding London - 4 £544 -
North of England - 3 £540 -
North West - 3 £540 -
Work from Home - 1 £550 -
East of England - 1 £550 -

Cognos Report Studio
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
1 4 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) Cognos Transformer
2 2 (50.00%) OLAP
2 2 (50.00%) OLAP Cube
3 1 (25.00%) DataStage
3 1 (25.00%) DB2
3 1 (25.00%) Metadata
3 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Cognos Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cognos Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 4 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Sprint Review
2 3 (75.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (50.00%) API Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
4 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cognos
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Informatica
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle