Cognos Contracts

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 6 July 2025, 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 575 628
Rank change year-on-year +52 +53 +189
Contract jobs citing Cognos 25 10 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.078% 0.023% 0.097%
As % of the Vendors category 0.16% 0.054% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 39
10th Percentile £356 £304 £381
25th Percentile £413 £342 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £569
90th Percentile £550 £602 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £444 £308 £425
% change year-on-year +44.31% -27.65% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £45.00

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 15,164 18,621 24,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.61% 43.00% 43.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,266 11,565 16,451
10th Percentile £281 £270 £270
25th Percentile £400 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £732 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 728 1,161 665
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.49 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.00 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.65 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% -38.38% +83.65%
75th Percentile £52.75 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £24.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year -5.71% -18.09% +50.26%

Cognos
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cognos as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cognos in the UK

Cognos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cognos in the UK

Cognos
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cognos over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cognos in the UK

Cognos
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cognos in the UK

Cognos
Top 12 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 6 months to 6 July 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 +71 24 £483 +25.32% 55
UK excluding London +56 12 £444 +44.31% 21
London +45 11 £513 +7.89% 36
Work from Home +34 7 £500 +2.56% 24
Midlands - 6 £500 - 4
West Midlands - 4 £525 - 1
South East - 3 £363 - 9
North of England +3 2 £355 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £481 - 3
Yorkshire +4 1 - -
North West - 1 £355 - 1
East of England - 1 £500 - 2

Cognos
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (24.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 4 (16.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 4 (16.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (4.00%) SAP CO
3 1 (4.00%) SAP FI
3 1 (4.00%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (4.00%) UltiPro
3 1 (4.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (12.00%) Azure
3 2 (8.00%) AWS
4 1 (4.00%) Boomi
4 1 (4.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (32.00%) Power BI
3 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (16.00%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (12.00%) Tableau
5 2 (8.00%) Cognos Query Studio
5 2 (8.00%) Data Mining
5 2 (8.00%) DB2
5 2 (8.00%) Power Query
6 1 (4.00%) Apache Hive
6 1 (4.00%) Big Data
6 1 (4.00%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (4.00%) Impala
6 1 (4.00%) MySQL
6 1 (4.00%) OLAP
6 1 (4.00%) SAP BW
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (4.00%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) LSMW
General
1 14 (56.00%) Finance
2 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Automotive
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) General Ledger
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) Cognos Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) SAP Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) TM1 Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Cognos Support
4 2 (8.00%) Developer Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Platform Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) SAP Data Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) SAP Financial Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) XML
2 2 (8.00%) MDX
3 1 (4.00%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (36.00%) Analytics
2 9 (36.00%) Migration
2 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 5 (20.00%) ETL
4 5 (20.00%) Project Management
5 4 (16.00%) Agile
6 3 (12.00%) Dashboard Development
6 3 (12.00%) Data Governance
6 3 (12.00%) Data Management
6 3 (12.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (12.00%) ERP
7 2 (8.00%) Accounts Payable
7 2 (8.00%) Accounts Receivable
7 2 (8.00%) Agile Project Management
7 2 (8.00%) Budgeting
7 2 (8.00%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (8.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.00%) PL/SQL
2 4 (16.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (12.00%) VBA
4 2 (8.00%) R
5 1 (4.00%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) GAAP
2 1 (4.00%) GRC
2 1 (4.00%) IFRS
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Oracle
2 7 (28.00%) IBM
3 6 (24.00%) SAP
4 4 (16.00%) CODA
4 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.00%) Alteryx
5 2 (8.00%) Ariba
5 2 (8.00%) Informatica
6 1 (4.00%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (4.00%) Dell
6 1 (4.00%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (4.00%) Workday