Cognizant Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Cognizant
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring knowledge or experience of Cognizant products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cognizant over the 6 months leading up to 23 April 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 Cognizant Technology Solutions.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 - 74
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cognizant 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.27% - 0.099%
As % of the Vendors category 0.70% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £370 - -
25th Percentile £382 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £432
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 - £432

All Vendors
West Yorkshire

Cognizant 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 428 255 440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 38.63% 46.28% 43.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 164 268
10th Percentile £307 £245 £284
25th Percentile £411 £350 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 23
10th Percentile - £30.43 £12.53
25th Percentile £14.25 £31.76 £13.87
Median hourly rate £16.69 £41.00 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year -59.30% +180.34% -55.00%
75th Percentile £27.39 £98.56 £15.19
90th Percentile £46.25 £102.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £42.50 £27.50 £14.63
% change year-on-year +54.55% +88.03% -32.76%

Cognizant
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Cognizant job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Cognizant
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cognizant.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cognizant

Cognizant
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cognizant within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Leeds - 3 £400 -
Cognizant
Yorkshire

Cognizant
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (66.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Product Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Workday Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Workday Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Workday Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) ERP
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Workday