Cognos Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cognos
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 February 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
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 - 113
Rank change year-on-year - - +43
Contract jobs citing Cognos 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.12% - 0.053%
As % of the Vendors category 0.24% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £309 - -
25th Percentile £314 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £322 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £324 - -
90th Percentile £324 - -
England median daily rate £436 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -12.80% +1.01% -8.25%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,239 754 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 49.36% 49.77% 45.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 491 520
10th Percentile £263 £200 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £512 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% +7.79% -2.06%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 24 48
10th Percentile £14.90 £13.09 £11.11
25th Percentile £17.74 £18.13 £14.71
Median hourly rate £25.00 £24.86 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% +10.50% +26.98%
75th Percentile £27.21 £32.57 £26.62
90th Percentile £52.50 £39.88 £41.98
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.41 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.89% +1.35% -6.12%

Cognos
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cognos relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Cognos job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Cognos
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Cognos.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Cognos

Cognos
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Cognos.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Cognos

Cognos
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cognos within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 February 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
Birmingham - 3 £322 -
Cognos
England

Cognos
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 3 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft