Cognizant Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cognizant
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for knowledge and experience of Cognizant products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cognizant over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 467 612
Rank change year-on-year +126 +145 -152
Contract jobs citing Cognizant 5 5 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.019% 0.025%
As % of the Vendors category 0.077% 0.045% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 9
10th Percentile £410 - £500
25th Percentile £424 - £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £511 £618
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -17.25% +14.35%
75th Percentile £495 £618 £688
90th Percentile - £682 £710
UK median daily rate £473 £511 £600
% change year-on-year -7.53% -14.83% +11.11%

All Vendors
Work from Home

Cognizant is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,501 11,159 17,409
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.55% 43.15% 39.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,020 7,514 11,847
10th Percentile £325 £330 £345
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 259 258
10th Percentile £13.85 £17.92 £13.32
25th Percentile £16.85 £32.13 £18.75
Median hourly rate £29.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.27% +57.14% +2.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £52.44
90th Percentile £70.50 £80.25 £66.23
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%

Cognizant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cognizant as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cognizant trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cognizant.

Cognizant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Apigee
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) gulp
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Pega Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) CRM Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) CRM Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Backlog Management
2 2 (40.00%) Business Process Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) API Design
3 1 (20.00%) API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Activity Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Business Case
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Key Management
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Pega
3 1 (20.00%) Google