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 15 May 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 576 654
Rank change year-on-year +75 +78 +117
Contract jobs citing Cognos 21 11 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.026% 0.090%
As % of the Vendors category 0.15% 0.061% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 38
10th Percentile £362 - £376
25th Percentile £465 £304 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £650
90th Percentile £550 £498 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £308 £400
% change year-on-year +62.60% -23.13% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £27.50

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 13,882 18,070 24,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.67% 42.35% 42.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,652 11,208 16,527
10th Percentile £280 £263 £270
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £615 £630 £644
90th Percentile £713 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 1,111 680
10th Percentile £14.66 £12.13 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.48 £18.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £22.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -48.24% +97.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.88 £70.00 £75.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £21.46 £37.50
% change year-on-year +7.18% -42.77% +97.37%

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 15 May 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 11 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 15 May 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 +76 19 £500 +8.11% 35
London +51 10 £525 +10.53% 10
UK excluding London +48 8 £500 +62.60% 26
Work from Home +48 7 £500 +25.79% 16
Midlands +21 3 £525 +5.00% 9
South East - 3 £363 - 7
West Midlands +16 2 £538 +7.50% 5
East of England - 1 £500 -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 4
North of England - 1 - - 6

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 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 4 (19.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.76%) SAP CO
2 1 (4.76%) SAP FI
2 1 (4.76%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (4.76%) UltiPro
2 1 (4.76%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.76%) Boomi
2 1 (4.76%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Power BI
2 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
3 4 (19.05%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (14.29%) Tableau
5 2 (9.52%) Cognos Query Studio
5 2 (9.52%) Data Mining
6 1 (4.76%) Apache Hive
6 1 (4.76%) Big Data
6 1 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.76%) Impala
6 1 (4.76%) MySQL
6 1 (4.76%) OLAP
6 1 (4.76%) Power Query
6 1 (4.76%) QlikView
6 1 (4.76%) SAP BW
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (4.76%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) LSMW
2 1 (4.76%) PROIV
General
1 12 (57.14%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Automotive
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) General Ledger
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Analyst
3 6 (28.57%) Cognos Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Consultant
4 3 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) SAP Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) TM1 Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Developer Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.52%) SAP Data Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Data Migration Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Excel Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Oracle Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) MDX
2 1 (4.76%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (42.86%) Migration
3 6 (28.57%) Analytics
3 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (23.81%) Data Migration
4 5 (23.81%) Project Management
5 4 (19.05%) Agile
5 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) Data Management
6 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 3 (14.29%) ERP
7 2 (9.52%) Accounts Payable
7 2 (9.52%) Accounts Receivable
7 2 (9.52%) Agile Project Management
7 2 (9.52%) Data Analysis
7 2 (9.52%) Data Cleansing
7 2 (9.52%) Data Governance
7 2 (9.52%) Process Improvement
7 2 (9.52%) User Stories
7 2 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) PL/SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Python
4 2 (9.52%) R
4 2 (9.52%) VBA
5 1 (4.76%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) GAAP
2 1 (4.76%) GRC
2 1 (4.76%) IFRS
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Oracle
2 6 (28.57%) SAP
3 4 (19.05%) CODA
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
4 3 (14.29%) IBM
5 2 (9.52%) Alteryx
5 2 (9.52%) Ariba
5 2 (9.52%) Informatica
6 1 (4.76%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (4.76%) Dell
6 1 (4.76%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 1 (4.76%) Workday