Cognos Support Contracts

Cognos Support
UK

The median Cognos Support daily rate in the UK is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 580 685
Rank change year-on-year +54 +105 -
Contract jobs requiring a Cognos Support 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.002% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.002% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £406
25th Percentile £413 £304 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £308 £436
Median % change year-on-year +38.21% -29.51% -
75th Percentile £438 £311 £463
90th Percentile - - £475
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £308 £400
% change year-on-year +38.21% -23.13% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,353 40,577 52,460
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.88% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,571 26,035 36,589
10th Percentile £289 £280 £313
25th Percentile £402 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,148 2,946 1,492
10th Percentile £13.96 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £16.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -16.67% +80.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £76.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -37.13% -1.45% +102.95%

Cognos Support
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cognos Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cognos Support in the UK

Cognos Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cognos Support in the UK

Cognos Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cognos Support in the UK

Cognos Support
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cognos Support within the UK over the 6 months to 14 June 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 +60 2 £425 +38.21%
UK excluding London +57 2 £425 +38.21%
Midlands - 2 £425 -
West Midlands - 2 £425 -

Cognos Support Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 June 2025, Cognos Support contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Cognos Support in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Cognos
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving

Cognos Support Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cognos
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle