Cognos Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cognos
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Cognos products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cognos over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 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 IBM Cognos.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 501 692
Rank change year-on-year -67 +191 -31
Permanent jobs citing Cognos 37 22 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.074% 0.078%
As % of the Vendors category 0.23% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 31 15 36
10th Percentile £41,250 £51,900 -
25th Percentile £44,550 £57,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £71,250 - £58,563
90th Percentile - £62,250 £67,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £56,250 £51,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +10.29% -11.30%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Cognos 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 16,197 12,723 25,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.23% 42.90% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9,146 6,674 17,469
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £34,828 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.26% -8.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% +10.00% -13.04%

Cognos
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cognos relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Cognos job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cognos
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cognos.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cognos

Cognos
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cognos in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Cognos in the UK excluding London

Cognos
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cognos within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
North of England -34 16 £50,000 -16.67% 2
Midlands -11 13 £67,500 +8.00% 2
North West -3 12 £50,000 -16.67% 1
East Midlands -17 10 £67,500 -3.57% 1
South West -46 6 £43,750 -27.08% 1
Yorkshire -45 4 - - 1
West Midlands -17 3 £96,250 +75.00% 1
South East -30 2 £46,300 -22.83% 2
Cognos
UK

Cognos
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (5.41%) JBoss
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 22 (59.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (5.41%) Infor LN
3 1 (2.70%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 1 (2.70%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) Power Platform
2 6 (16.22%) AWS
2 6 (16.22%) Azure
3 1 (2.70%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (37.84%) Power BI
2 11 (29.73%) Tableau
3 6 (16.22%) Data Lake
3 6 (16.22%) Data Vault
3 6 (16.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.41%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (5.41%) OLAP
5 2 (5.41%) SAP HANA
5 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.70%) Metadata
6 1 (2.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 21 (56.76%) Finance
2 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 8 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (67.57%) Developer
2 16 (43.24%) TM1 Developer
3 15 (40.54%) Analyst
4 12 (32.43%) Analytics Developer
5 9 (24.32%) Analyst Developer
5 9 (24.32%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 9 (24.32%) Financial Analyst
5 9 (24.32%) Systems Analyst
5 9 (24.32%) Systems Developer
5 9 (24.32%) TM1 Analyst
6 6 (16.22%) Power BI Developer
7 5 (13.51%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 5 (13.51%) Power BI Analyst
7 5 (13.51%) Report Analyst
7 5 (13.51%) Senior
7 5 (13.51%) SQL Analyst
7 5 (13.51%) SQL Reporting Analyst
7 5 (13.51%) SSRS Analyst
8 4 (10.81%) Senior Developer
9 3 (8.11%) Senior TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 12 (32.43%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (67.57%) Analytics
2 18 (48.65%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (45.95%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (37.84%) Decision-Making
5 12 (32.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (24.32%) Data Cleansing
6 9 (24.32%) Financial Analysis
7 8 (21.62%) Visualisation
8 7 (18.92%) Data Engineering
9 6 (16.22%) Data Architecture
9 6 (16.22%) Information Management
9 6 (16.22%) Kimball Methodology
9 6 (16.22%) Storytelling
10 3 (8.11%) Agile
10 3 (8.11%) Business Strategy
10 3 (8.11%) Mentoring
10 3 (8.11%) Translating Business Requirements
11 2 (5.41%) Budgeting
11 2 (5.41%) Data Virtualisation
11 2 (5.41%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 18 (48.65%) SQL
2 7 (18.92%) Python
3 6 (16.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (16.22%) R
4 2 (5.41%) Java
5 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) ACCA
1 6 (16.22%) CIMA
2 5 (13.51%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.41%) HND
4 1 (2.70%) AAT
4 1 (2.70%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) GAAP
2 1 (2.70%) IFRS
Vendors
1 18 (48.65%) IBM
2 9 (24.32%) Workday
3 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
4 7 (18.92%) SAP
5 6 (16.22%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (5.41%) Infor
6 2 (5.41%) Oracle
7 1 (2.70%) Concur
7 1 (2.70%) JD Edwards
7 1 (2.70%) VMware