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 23 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
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 538 568
Rank change year-on-year -103 +30 +49
Contract jobs citing Cognos 17 23 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.070% 0.029%
As % of the Vendors category 0.078% 0.15% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 7
10th Percentile £314 £356 £304
25th Percentile £323 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £539 £633
90th Percentile £697 £605 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £425 £308
% change year-on-year -23.53% +38.21% -44.09%

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 21,778 15,500 17,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.30% 47.45% 43.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,534 9,482 11,204
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.72% -2.10%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 764 967
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £13.13
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -3.38% -36.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +51.07% -10.00% -22.24%

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 23 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 23 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 -127 12 £469 -6.25% 4
UK excluding London -98 9 £325 -23.53% 5
Midlands -53 7 £324 -34.48% 3
Work from Home -60 5 £613 +19.51% 2
West Midlands -60 4 £324 -38.38% 1
East Midlands -10 3 - - 2
South East -69 2 £613 +68.97% 1
London -73 2 £613 +15.57%

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:

Business Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Cognos Controller
2 4 (23.53%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
2 3 (17.65%) dbt
3 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) Metadata
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.88%) SAP Data Services
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Retail
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Consultant
3 3 (17.65%) Data Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Cognos Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Cognos Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Integration Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
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%) Report Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Manager
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) TM1 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Analytics
1 7 (41.18%) Migration
2 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (23.53%) ETL
3 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Visualisation
4 3 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (17.65%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (17.65%) Data Validation
4 3 (17.65%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (17.65%) Validation
5 2 (11.76%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (11.76%) Data Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
5 2 (11.76%) Deadline-Driven
5 2 (11.76%) ERP
5 2 (11.76%) Integration Patterns
6 1 (5.88%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (5.88%) Event-Driven
6 1 (5.88%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) GAAP
2 2 (11.76%) IFRS
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) IBM
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Concur
3 1 (5.88%) SAP