Cognos Contracts

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Cognos products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cognos over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within IBM Cognos.

Cognos UK
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	471	467	349
Rank change year-on-year	-4	-118
Contract jobs citing Cognos	136	184	329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.29%	0.35%	0.59%
As % of the Vendors category	0.66%	0.77%	1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted	80	119	212
Median daily rate	£436	£425	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.64%	-5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£325	£303
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£425	£400
% change year-on-year	-	+6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	6	5
Median hourly rate	£16.06	£20.00	£22.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-19.70%	-11.11%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£16.06	£20.50	£27.25
% change year-on-year	-21.65%	-24.77%

Cognos is in the vendor products and services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all vendor product and service related skills in contract job vacancies.

Contract Vendor Product & Service Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for skills associated with vendor products and/or services	20598	23854	24877
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	43.81%	44.94%	44.48%
Number of daily rates quoted	12496	14691	14551
Median daily rate	£425	£400	£388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.25%	+3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£250	£225
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£588	£572	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£363
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted	715	814	1114
Median hourly rate	£18.70	£20.00	£18.88
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-6.50%	+5.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.25	£11.50	£11.17
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£42.50	£42.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£20.50	£18.07
% change year-on-year	-14.63%	+13.44%

Cognos
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Cognos as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Vendors category.

Cognos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Cognos.

Contractor daily rate trend for Cognos in the UK

Cognos
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Cognos over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Cognos in the UK

Cognos
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cognos.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Cognos in the UK

Cognos
Top 30 Contract 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 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-7	126	£425	-0.58%	49
London	-15	56	£450	+1.12%	20
South East	+11	21	£425	-	6
West Midlands	+26	13	£378	-12.20%	10
Yorkshire	+25	11	£350	-27.31%	3
Scotland	+35	10	£520	+73.33%	2
Leeds	+27	8	£350	-27.46%	2
West Sussex	+21	8	£440	+17.33%	2
West Yorkshire	+20	8	£350	-27.46%	3
Edinburgh	+20	8	£500	+66.66%	1
City of London	+1	8	£488	+14.70%	10
Birmingham	+23	6	£378	-11.17%	3
South West	+8	6	£500	+44.92%	2
Surrey	-5	6	£381	-19.73%	1
East of England	-16	6	£475	+5.55%	1
North West	+19	4	£400	-	4
Crawley	+1	4	£440	+17.33%	1
East Sussex	-	4	-	-
Hove	-	4	-	-
Bristol	-3	3	£468	+35.50%	1
Bedfordshire	-4	3	£475	-
Coventry	-	3	£375	-	3
Cheshire	-	3	£375	-	1
Berkshire	+15	2	£365	+8.14%	1
Glasgow	+8	2	£523	+74.16%	1
East Midlands	-13	2	£425	+6.25%
Essex	-16	2	£394	-5.68%
Gloucestershire	-	2	£525	-
Epsom	-	2	-	-
Warrington	-	2	£375	-	1

Cognos
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Cognos also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Cognos.

1	156 (52.00%)	Business Intelligence
2	138 (46.00%)	Finance
3	106 (35.33%)	SQL
4	84 (28.00%)	Data Warehouse
5	66 (22.00%)	Analytics
6	65 (21.67%)	Tableau
7	62 (20.67%)	IBM
8	61 (20.33%)	Oracle
9	58 (19.33%)	SQL Server
10	54 (18.00%)	BusinessObjects
10	54 (18.00%)	Data Modelling
11	51 (17.00%)	ETL
12	47 (15.67%)	SQL Server Integration Services
12	47 (15.67%)	Microsoft Excel
13	46 (15.33%)	Microsoft

13	46 (15.33%)	Analytical Skills
14	42 (14.00%)	Cognos TM1
15	37 (12.33%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
16	35 (11.67%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
16	35 (11.67%)	QlikView
17	29 (9.67%)	Data Analysis
17	29 (9.67%)	Informatica
18	28 (9.33%)	Banking
18	28 (9.33%)	Power BI
19	27 (9.00%)	SAP
20	26 (8.67%)	Project Management
20	26 (8.67%)	Business Analysis
21	25 (8.33%)	Stakeholder Management
22	23 (7.67%)	Migration
22	23 (7.67%)	Microsoft Office

Cognos
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	20 (6.67%)	SAS
2	12 (4.00%)	Apache Pig
3	11 (3.67%)	Apache Spark
4	10 (3.33%)	SharePoint
5	4 (1.33%)	Adobe Experience Manager
5	4 (1.33%)	SharePoint 2010
6	3 (1.00%)	FileNet
6	3 (1.00%)	Oracle Coherence
7	2 (0.67%)	Apache
7	2 (0.67%)	BizTalk Server
7	2 (0.67%)	IIS
7	2 (0.67%)	iPlanet
7	2 (0.67%)	MQSeries
7	2 (0.67%)	SharePoint 2013
7	2 (0.67%)	WebLogic
7	2 (0.67%)	WebLogic Portal
8	1 (0.33%)	JBoss
8	1 (0.33%)	OpenStack
8	1 (0.33%)	Oracle Application Server
8	1 (0.33%)	Tomcat

Applications
1	47 (15.67%)	Microsoft Excel
2	23 (7.67%)	Microsoft Office
3	10 (3.33%)	SPSS
4	6 (2.00%)	MS Visio
5	4 (1.33%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	3 (1.00%)	Microsoft Project
7	2 (0.67%)	Spreadsheet
7	2 (0.67%)	Weka

Business Applications
1	42 (14.00%)	Cognos TM1
2	35 (11.67%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
3	16 (5.33%)	Cognos Controller
4	9 (3.00%)	Maximo
5	8 (2.67%)	Cognos Planning
6	6 (2.00%)	Dynamics CRM
6	6 (2.00%)	Oracle EBS
7	5 (1.67%)	Adobe Campaign
7	5 (1.67%)	WebTrends
8	4 (1.33%)	Unit4 Business World
9	3 (1.00%)	JDE EnterpriseOne
9	3 (1.00%)	Oracle Assets
9	3 (1.00%)	Oracle Cash Management
9	3 (1.00%)	Oracle ERP
9	3 (1.00%)	Oracle Financials
9	3 (1.00%)	Oracle iProcurement
9	3 (1.00%)	Oracle Payables
9	3 (1.00%)	Oracle Receivables
9	3 (1.00%)	Primavera
9	3 (1.00%)	SAP Payroll

Cloud Services
1	13 (4.33%)	Adobe Analytics
2	4 (1.33%)	Google Analytics
2	4 (1.33%)	SaaS
3	3 (1.00%)	SuccessFactors
4	2 (0.67%)	Amazon AWS
4	2 (0.67%)	Microsoft Azure
5	1 (0.33%)	Amazon EC2
5	1 (0.33%)	Amazon EMR
5	1 (0.33%)	Cloud Computing
5	1 (0.33%)	Dynamics 365
5	1 (0.33%)	Google Tag Manager
5	1 (0.33%)	Office 365

Communications & Networking
1	3 (1.00%)	Internet
2	2 (0.67%)	Firewall
2	2 (0.67%)	HTTP
2	2 (0.67%)	LDAP
2	2 (0.67%)	NAS
2	2 (0.67%)	Network Security
2	2 (0.67%)	SAN
3	1 (0.33%)	BIG-IP
3	1 (0.33%)	DNS
3	1 (0.33%)	FCoE
3	1 (0.33%)	FTP
3	1 (0.33%)	Intranet
3	1 (0.33%)	iSCSI
3	1 (0.33%)	SSH
3	1 (0.33%)	TCP/IP
3	1 (0.33%)	VLAN
3	1 (0.33%)	WAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	84 (28.00%)	Data Warehouse
2	58 (19.33%)	SQL Server
3	54 (18.00%)	BusinessObjects
4	47 (15.67%)	SQL Server Integration Services
5	37 (12.33%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
6	35 (11.67%)	QlikView
7	28 (9.33%)	Power BI
8	23 (7.67%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
9	21 (7.00%)	Oracle Database
10	20 (6.67%)	Relational Database
11	16 (5.33%)	Hadoop
12	15 (5.00%)	Big Data
13	14 (4.67%)	Cognos Framework Manager
13	14 (4.67%)	Oracle Database 11g
14	13 (4.33%)	Cognos Report Studio
14	13 (4.33%)	Oracle Reports
14	13 (4.33%)	RDBMS
14	13 (4.33%)	Spotfire
14	13 (4.33%)	Star Schema
15	12 (4.00%)	SQL Server 2012

Development Applications
1	9 (3.00%)	Team Foundation Server
2	8 (2.67%)	Eclipse
3	5 (1.67%)	Talend Open Studio
4	3 (1.00%)	ERwin
4	3 (1.00%)	Git (software)
4	3 (1.00%)	JIRA
4	3 (1.00%)	Visual Studio
5	1 (0.33%)	Vagrant

General
1	138 (46.00%)	Finance
2	28 (9.33%)	Banking
3	13 (4.33%)	Retail
4	12 (4.00%)	Marketing
5	7 (2.33%)	Investment Banking
6	5 (1.67%)	Legal
7	4 (1.33%)	General Ledger
7	4 (1.33%)	Law
8	3 (1.00%)	Advertising
8	3 (1.00%)	Front Office
8	3 (1.00%)	Manufacturing
8	3 (1.00%)	Telecoms
9	2 (0.67%)	Financial Institution
9	2 (0.67%)	Games
10	1 (0.33%)	Aerospace
10	1 (0.33%)	Billing
10	1 (0.33%)	Electronics
10	1 (0.33%)	Pharmaceutical
10	1 (0.33%)	Publishing

Job Titles
1	108 (36.00%)	Developer
2	58 (19.33%)	Analyst
3	50 (16.67%)	Cognos Developer
4	47 (15.67%)	Consultant
5	32 (10.67%)	Cognos Consultant
6	30 (10.00%)	Business Intelligence Developer
7	23 (7.67%)	Architect
8	15 (5.00%)	Business Analyst
8	15 (5.00%)	Report Developer
8	15 (5.00%)	SQL Developer
9	14 (4.67%)	Cognos BI Developer
9	14 (4.67%)	Cognos Support
9	14 (4.67%)	Support Consultant
9	14 (4.67%)	Systems Support
10	13 (4.33%)	Data Analyst
10	13 (4.33%)	TM1 Developer
11	12 (4.00%)	Data Architect
11	12 (4.00%)	Project Manager
11	12 (4.00%)	Report Specialist
12	11 (3.67%)	ETL Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	11 (3.67%)	.NET
2	9 (3.00%)	HTML
3	5 (1.67%)	Web Services
4	4 (1.33%)	CSS
4	4 (1.33%)	XML
5	3 (1.00%)	J2EE
5	3 (1.00%)	REST
5	3 (1.00%)	SOAP
5	3 (1.00%)	WSDL
5	3 (1.00%)	XML Messaging
5	3 (1.00%)	XSD
6	2 (0.67%)	.NET Framework
6	2 (0.67%)	D3.js
6	2 (0.67%)	JSON
6	2 (0.67%)	MDX
6	2 (0.67%)	Node.js
7	1 (0.33%)	AngularJS
7	1 (0.33%)	jQuery
7	1 (0.33%)	Kafka
7	1 (0.33%)	Regular Expression

Miscellaneous
1	46 (15.33%)	Analytical Skills
2	10 (3.33%)	Management Information System
3	9 (3.00%)	Data Structures
4	6 (2.00%)	User Experience
5	4 (1.33%)	Computer Science
6	3 (1.00%)	Client/Server
6	3 (1.00%)	Clustering
6	3 (1.00%)	Enterprise Software
6	3 (1.00%)	Replication
6	3 (1.00%)	Virtual Team
7	2 (0.67%)	Algorithms
7	2 (0.67%)	Data Centre
7	2 (0.67%)	Fintech
7	2 (0.67%)	Greenfield Project
7	2 (0.67%)	Grid Computing
7	2 (0.67%)	Life Science
7	2 (0.67%)	Mainframe
7	2 (0.67%)	Reinsurance
8	1 (0.33%)	Data Protection Act
8	1 (0.33%)	SCADA

Operating Systems
1	11 (3.67%)	Solaris
2	8 (2.67%)	Linux
2	8 (2.67%)	Windows
3	4 (1.33%)	Windows Server 2008
4	2 (0.67%)	AIX
4	2 (0.67%)	Unix
4	2 (0.67%)	Windows 2000 Server
4	2 (0.67%)	Windows Server
4	2 (0.67%)	Windows Server 2003
5	1 (0.33%)	HPUX
5	1 (0.33%)	SUSE
5	1 (0.33%)	Windows Server 2012

Processes & Methodologies
1	156 (52.00%)	Business Intelligence
2	66 (22.00%)	Analytics
3	54 (18.00%)	Data Modelling
4	51 (17.00%)	ETL
5	29 (9.67%)	Data Analysis
6	26 (8.67%)	Business Analysis
6	26 (8.67%)	Project Management
7	25 (8.33%)	Stakeholder Management
8	23 (7.67%)	Migration
9	21 (7.00%)	Visualisation
10	20 (6.67%)	Agile Software Development
11	19 (6.33%)	Budgeting and Forecasting
11	19 (6.33%)	ERP
12	18 (6.00%)	Data Management
13	16 (5.33%)	Translating Business Requirements
14	14 (4.67%)	CRM
15	13 (4.33%)	Data Migration
15	13 (4.33%)	E-Commerce
15	13 (4.33%)	User Acceptance Testing
15	13 (4.33%)	Web Analytics

Programming Languages
1	106 (35.33%)	SQL
2	19 (6.33%)	R
3	17 (5.67%)	Python
4	15 (5.00%)	PL/SQL
5	13 (4.33%)	Java
6	11 (3.67%)	C#
7	10 (3.33%)	Korn
7	10 (3.33%)	T-SQL
7	10 (3.33%)	VBA
8	6 (2.00%)	C
8	6 (2.00%)	Scala
9	5 (1.67%)	JavaScript
10	4 (1.33%)	PowerShell
11	3 (1.00%)	ABAP
11	3 (1.00%)	Perl
12	2 (0.67%)	PHP
13	1 (0.33%)	C++
13	1 (0.33%)	C-shell
13	1 (0.33%)	JCL
13	1 (0.33%)	Shell Script

Qualifications
1	23 (7.67%)	Degree
2	10 (3.33%)	Security Cleared
3	8 (2.67%)	Computer Science Degree
4	5 (1.67%)	Numerate Degree
4	5 (1.67%)	SC Cleared
5	4 (1.33%)	ACCA
5	4 (1.33%)	CIMA
6	3 (1.00%)	BPSS Clearance
7	2 (0.67%)	CBAP
7	2 (0.67%)	IIBA
7	2 (0.67%)	ISEB
7	2 (0.67%)	PRINCE2 Certification
8	1 (0.33%)	CTC Cleared
8	1 (0.33%)	PMI Certification
8	1 (0.33%)	PMP
8	1 (0.33%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	19 (6.33%)	Data Quality
2	9 (3.00%)	QA
3	8 (2.67%)	PMO
4	3 (1.00%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
4	3 (1.00%)	SLA
5	2 (0.67%)	Basel II
6	1 (0.33%)	JSP 440
6	1 (0.33%)	Solvency II

System Software
1	8 (2.67%)	Apache Flume
2	2 (0.67%)	Active Directory
2	2 (0.67%)	Oracle RAC
2	2 (0.67%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	1 (0.33%)	HDFS
3	1 (0.33%)	Hyper-V
3	1 (0.33%)	KVM
3	1 (0.33%)	Samba
3	1 (0.33%)	Veritas Volume Manager

Systems Management
1	4 (1.33%)	Oozie
2	2 (0.67%)	OpenView
2	2 (0.67%)	Opscode Chef
3	1 (0.33%)	Ansible
3	1 (0.33%)	BMC PATROL
3	1 (0.33%)	EMC NetWorker
3	1 (0.33%)	Hadoop YARN
3	1 (0.33%)	HP Data Protector
3	1 (0.33%)	NetBackup
3	1 (0.33%)	Tivoli Storage Manager

Vendors
1	65 (21.67%)	Tableau
2	62 (20.67%)	IBM
3	61 (20.33%)	Oracle
4	46 (15.33%)	Microsoft
5	29 (9.67%)	Informatica
6	27 (9.00%)	SAP
7	19 (6.33%)	MicroStrategy
8	12 (4.00%)	Teradata
9	8 (2.67%)	Netezza
10	7 (2.33%)	Omniture
11	6 (2.00%)	Adobe
11	6 (2.00%)	Brio
11	6 (2.00%)	Cisco
12	5 (1.67%)	CODA
12	5 (1.67%)	Coremetrics
12	5 (1.67%)	HP
12	5 (1.67%)	Hyperion
12	5 (1.67%)	Talend
12	5 (1.67%)	TIBCO
12	5 (1.67%)	Vertica