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 10 September 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
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 652 525 541
Rank change year-on-year -127 +16 +16
Contract jobs citing Cognos 20 25 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.037% 0.076% 0.057%
As % of the Vendors category 0.088% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 11
10th Percentile £414 £356 £304
25th Percentile £488 £413 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £605 £550 £633
90th Percentile £619 £555 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £350
% change year-on-year -4.76% +50.00% -34.88%

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 22,804 15,574 16,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.85% 47.21% 44.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,992 9,525 10,215
10th Percentile £313 £275 £289
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £626
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,252 784 693
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £14.18
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.36 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.34 £25.15 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.71% -18.87% -27.06%
75th Percentile £63.26 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £21.28 £30.00
% change year-on-year +22.84% -29.07% -25.00%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -130 14 £500 -4.76% 8
Work from Home -60 10 £550 +2.80% 3
UK excluding London -124 8 £500 -4.76% 5
Midlands -53 6 £500 +1.27% 2
West Midlands -42 5 £500 -4.76% 1
London -80 5 £456 -15.90% 4
South East -67 2 £613 +68.97% 1
East Midlands -17 1 - - 1

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 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Cognos Controller
2 6 (30.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
1 5 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (20.00%) DataStage
3 2 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (10.00%) MS Access
3 2 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (5.00%) Power Query
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Data Services
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Architect
1 4 (20.00%) Consultant
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (15.00%) TM1 Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Analytics Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Cognos Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Finance Modeller
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Product Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Data Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Reporting Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Analytics
2 7 (35.00%) Migration
3 5 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 5 (25.00%) ETL
4 4 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 4 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 4 (20.00%) ETL Development
5 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (10.00%) Architecture Governance
6 2 (10.00%) Budgeting
6 2 (10.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 2 (10.00%) Commercial Awareness
6 2 (10.00%) Data Analytics
6 2 (10.00%) Data Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) Data Extraction
6 2 (10.00%) Deadline-Driven
6 2 (10.00%) ERP
6 2 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
7 1 (5.00%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) ACCA
1 2 (10.00%) CIMA
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GAAP
1 2 (10.00%) IFRS
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) IBM
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Netezza
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Concur
4 1 (5.00%) SAP