Cognos Contract Job Trends

Cognos
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 May 2026, 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
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 499 577
Rank change year-on-year -116 +78 +78
Contract jobs citing Cognos 14 22 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.029% 0.077% 0.021%
As % of the Vendors category 0.070% 0.16% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 5
10th Percentile £316 £363 -
25th Percentile £324 £465 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £453 £538 £494
90th Percentile £591 £550 £498
UK excluding London median daily rate £369 £481 £308
% change year-on-year -23.38% +56.50% -23.13%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 20,001 13,678 18,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.95% 47.74% 42.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,624 8,506 11,301
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +0.10% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 573 1,107
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.55 £17.30 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.46% +12.44% -47.06%
75th Percentile £58.75 £56.00 £57.41
90th Percentile £76.62 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.75 £22.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +32.22% +4.85% -45.74%

Cognos
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cognos job vacancy trend in the UK

Cognos
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Cognos
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cognos over the 6 months to 28 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cognos in the UK

Cognos
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Cognos
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 May 2026. 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 -132 12 £413 -17.50% 8
UK excluding London -89 9 £369 -23.38% 7
Midlands -58 7 £324 -36.88% 1
Work from Home -52 5 £419 -16.25% 3
West Midlands -58 4 £324 -39.81%
East Midlands -25 3 - - 1
London -75 3 £463 -11.90% 1
South East -55 2 £419 +15.52%

Cognos
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Cognos Controller
1 1 (7.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 5 (35.71%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) dbt
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (14.29%) IBM Watson
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Power BI
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (21.43%) Tableau
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (14.29%) Star Schema
4 1 (7.14%) Cognos Query Studio
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) Metadata
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Data Services
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Data Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Scientist
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Matplotlib
1 2 (14.29%) NumPy
1 2 (14.29%) Pandas
1 2 (14.29%) scikit-learn
1 2 (14.29%) Seaborn
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (42.86%) Analytics
2 6 (42.86%) ETL
2 6 (42.86%) Migration
2 6 (42.86%) Visualisation
3 5 (35.71%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (28.57%) Data Analysis
4 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (21.43%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Data Validation
5 3 (21.43%) Validation
6 2 (14.29%) Data Extraction
6 2 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 2 (14.29%) Deep Learning
6 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
6 2 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
6 2 (14.29%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) R
3 1 (7.14%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) IBM
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Databricks
3 2 (14.29%) Google
3 2 (14.29%) Sage
4 1 (7.14%) Alteryx
4 1 (7.14%) Informatica
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) SAP