Cognos Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cognos
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 340 457
Rank change year-on-year +42 +117 +139
Contract jobs citing Cognos 6 5 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.033% 0.077%
As % of the Vendors category 0.13% 0.077% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 15
10th Percentile - - £363
25th Percentile £356 £304 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £398 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.79% -20.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £495 £540
90th Percentile £523 £498 £606
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,540 6,506 11,129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.84% 42.40% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,024 7,488
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 220 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.92 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.56 £16.93 £31.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £32.31 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -40.72% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Cognos
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cognos as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cognos trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cognos
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cognos.

Cognos daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cognos
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cognos over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Cognos daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cognos
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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (16.67%) UltiPro
2 1 (16.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Boomi
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) General Ledger
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Cognos Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) Developer Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) TM1 Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) Process Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) SAP Financial Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Support Consultant
4 1 (16.67%) TM1 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) MDX
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Accounts Payable
3 1 (16.67%) Accounts Receivable
3 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
3 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GAAP
1 1 (16.67%) IFRS
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Dell
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Workday