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 30 July 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
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 639 522 559
Rank change year-on-year -117 +37 +42
Contract jobs citing Cognos 17 22 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.067% 0.038%
As % of the Vendors category 0.078% 0.14% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 9
10th Percentile £403 £356 £304
25th Percentile £427 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £483 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% -12.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £538 £638
90th Percentile £697 £550 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £425 £329
% change year-on-year +44.12% +29.28% -40.23%

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 21,889 15,498 17,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.32% 47.23% 43.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,607 9,498 10,855
10th Percentile £313 £280 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £706 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £476 £500
% change year-on-year +4.99% -4.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,101 774 891
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.66 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.02 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -8.55% -34.21%
75th Percentile £65.25 £50.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.32 £25.30
% change year-on-year +52.32% -11.80% -27.19%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -123 12 £556 +15.28% 7
Work from Home -55 7 £413 -19.51% 4
UK excluding London -97 7 £613 +44.12% 7
Midlands -58 5 £625 +26.58% 2
London -73 4 £413 -21.43%
East Midlands -9 3 - - 1
West Midlands -66 2 £625 +19.05% 1
South East -69 2 £613 +68.97% 5

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 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Cognos Controller
2 4 (23.53%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (11.76%) MS Access
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) DataStage
2 1 (5.88%) Metadata
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.88%) SAP Data Services
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Retail
5 1 (5.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Analyst
1 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Report Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Cognos Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Cognos Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Integration Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Product Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Manager
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Data Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Reporting Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) TM1 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Analytics
2 5 (29.41%) Migration
3 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.76%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (11.76%) Data Analytics
5 2 (11.76%) Data Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Data Extraction
5 2 (11.76%) Data Integration
5 2 (11.76%) Data Migration
5 2 (11.76%) Deadline-Driven
5 2 (11.76%) ERP
5 2 (11.76%) ETL
5 2 (11.76%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.88%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (5.88%) Architecture Roadmap
6 1 (5.88%) DataOps
6 1 (5.88%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (5.88%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GAAP
1 2 (11.76%) IFRS
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) IBM
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Concur
4 1 (5.88%) Netezza
4 1 (5.88%) SAP