Cognizant Job Trends in England

Cognizant
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Cognizant products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cognizant over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Cognizant Technology Solutions.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 652 - 814
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Permanent jobs citing Cognizant 38 0 26
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.046% - 0.030%
As % of the Vendors category 0.18% - 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £64,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 - -
75th Percentile £78,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £71,500 - -

All Vendors
England

Cognizant falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 20,917 15,999 31,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.22% 42.14% 35.90%
Number of salaries quoted 12,144 8,993 22,580
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,183 £35,924
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,400 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £77,424 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +10.00% -13.04%

Cognizant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cognizant relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Cognizant job vacancy trend in England

Cognizant
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cognizant.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cognizant

Cognizant
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cognizant within the England region over the 6 months to 27 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 38 £71,500 - 7
Cognizant
UK

Cognizant
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Maximo
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.63%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 7 (18.42%) Power Automate
3 6 (15.79%) AWS
4 4 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (10.53%) Datadog
4 4 (10.53%) GCP
5 3 (7.89%) SaaS
6 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.63%) AWS IoT
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.63%) GitHub
7 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.63%) IaaS
7 1 (2.63%) PaaS
7 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.63%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) DHCP
1 2 (5.26%) DNS
1 2 (5.26%) Firewall
1 2 (5.26%) MQTT
1 2 (5.26%) Network Security
2 1 (2.63%) AMQP
2 1 (2.63%) Internet
2 1 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.63%) Modbus
2 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.63%) VPN
2 1 (2.63%) VXLAN
2 1 (2.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) GIS
2 1 (2.63%) Big Data
2 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (44.74%) Social Skills
2 14 (36.84%) Finance
3 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.16%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (13.16%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.53%) Games
5 4 (10.53%) Manufacturing
5 4 (10.53%) Marketing
5 4 (10.53%) Retail
6 3 (7.89%) Public Speaking
7 1 (2.63%) Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.63%) Front Office
7 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Consulting Manager
2 6 (15.79%) Senior
3 5 (13.16%) Architect
3 5 (13.16%) Consultant
4 4 (10.53%) Capacity Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Network Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Technology Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Associate Director
6 2 (5.26%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Finance Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Lead
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Transformation Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Associate Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Presales Solution Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) OpenID
1 2 (5.26%) SAML
2 1 (2.63%) .NET
2 1 (2.63%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.63%) CSS
2 1 (2.63%) HTML
2 1 (2.63%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (2.63%) J2EE
2 1 (2.63%) LDAP
2 1 (2.63%) NumPy
2 1 (2.63%) OAuth
2 1 (2.63%) Pandas
2 1 (2.63%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.63%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.63%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Cloud Native
1 5 (13.16%) IoT
1 5 (13.16%) Operational Technology
1 5 (13.16%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.26%) Life Science
3 2 (5.26%) SCADA
4 1 (2.63%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) PMI
4 1 (2.63%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Agile
2 10 (26.32%) Roadmaps
3 9 (23.68%) Workshop Facilitation
4 8 (21.05%) Scrum
5 7 (18.42%) AI
5 7 (18.42%) Business Development
5 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
5 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (18.42%) Technology Transformation
5 7 (18.42%) Thought Leadership
6 6 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
6 6 (15.79%) Cost Optimisation
6 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (15.79%) Technology Strategy
7 5 (13.16%) Analytics
7 5 (13.16%) Budgeting
7 5 (13.16%) Business Case
7 5 (13.16%) FinOps
7 5 (13.16%) Presales
7 5 (13.16%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) Python
2 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
3 4 (10.53%) Bash
4 3 (7.89%) Java
5 2 (5.26%) C
5 2 (5.26%) SQL
6 1 (2.63%) C#
6 1 (2.63%) Groovy
6 1 (2.63%) R
6 1 (2.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) Degree
2 6 (15.79%) Master's Degree
3 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.26%) MBA
5 2 (5.26%) PMI Certification
5 2 (5.26%) PMP
6 1 (2.63%) APMP
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.63%) CBAP
6 1 (2.63%) CCNA
6 1 (2.63%) CCNP
6 1 (2.63%) CISA
6 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.63%) CISM
6 1 (2.63%) CISSP
6 1 (2.63%) IIBA
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.63%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) PMO
2 2 (5.26%) SLA
3 1 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) NIST
3 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
1 1 (2.63%) Firmware
1 1 (2.63%) OpenAM
1 1 (2.63%) OpenDJ
1 1 (2.63%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Terraform
2 4 (10.53%) Ansible
2 4 (10.53%) Rundeck
3 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.63%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.42%) SAP
2 7 (18.42%) ServiceNow
3 4 (10.53%) Dynatrace
3 4 (10.53%) Splunk
4 3 (7.89%) Automation Anywhere
4 3 (7.89%) Cisco
4 3 (7.89%) Google
4 3 (7.89%) Oracle
4 3 (7.89%) Salesforce
4 3 (7.89%) UiPath
5 2 (5.26%) Workday
6 1 (2.63%) Commvault
6 1 (2.63%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.63%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.63%) Meraki
6 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.63%) Ping Identity
6 1 (2.63%) Veritas
6 1 (2.63%) Zscaler