Cognos
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Cognos products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cognos over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within IBM Cognos.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 711 956 927
Rank change year-on-year +245 -29 -262
Permanent jobs citing Cognos 33 129 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.15% 0.25% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 27 67 119
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,500 £34,794
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,125 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +4.48%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,750 £89,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% +5.26% -13.64%

All Vendors
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,490 51,386 50,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 41.89% 41.02% 39.15%
Number of salaries quoted 16,488 30,144 33,490
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £87,600
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,502 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +4.40%

Cognos
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cognos as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cognos in the UK

Cognos
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cognos.

Salary trend for Cognos in the UK

Cognos
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cognos over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Cognos in the UK

Cognos
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cognos within the UK over the 6 months to 1 December 2023. 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
England +220 31 £60,000 - 29
UK excluding London +206 26 £60,000 +20.00% 16
Work from Home +226 17 £55,000 +3.77% 12
South East +125 9 £67,500 +27.36% 7
East of England +122 8 £50,000 -9.09% 2
North of England +140 7 £55,000 +22.22% 1
North West +115 7 £55,000 +22.22% 1
London +222 6 £61,250 -12.50% 15
Scotland +29 2 - -

Cognos
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Windchill
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (6.06%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (30.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 4 (12.12%) Infor SunSystems
3 3 (9.09%) Cognos Controller
4 2 (6.06%) Cognos Planning
5 1 (3.03%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) Power Platform
2 5 (15.15%) AWS
2 5 (15.15%) Azure
3 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (12.12%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) SAN
2 1 (3.03%) DSL
2 1 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) Power BI
2 8 (24.24%) Tableau
3 7 (21.21%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
5 5 (15.15%) Data Lake
6 4 (12.12%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (12.12%) OLAP
7 3 (9.09%) OLAP Cube
8 2 (6.06%) Data Mining
8 2 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (3.03%) Big Data
9 1 (3.03%) DB2
9 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
9 1 (3.03%) OLTP
9 1 (3.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (3.03%) Oracle OLAP
General
1 13 (39.39%) Finance
2 12 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
4 9 (27.27%) Manufacturing
5 3 (9.09%) Law
6 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Retail
7 1 (3.03%) Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) Applications Support
3 5 (15.15%) Applications Support Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) Support Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Report Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Lead
7 1 (3.03%) Analytics Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Applications Manager
7 1 (3.03%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Data Visualisation Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Finance Systems Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Head of Applications
7 1 (3.03%) Power BI Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Software Engineering Director
7 1 (3.03%) SQL BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) .NET
2 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.03%) EDI
2 1 (3.03%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Industry 4.0
2 3 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
1 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (27.27%) Analytics
2 9 (27.27%) Visualisation
3 8 (24.24%) Agile
4 7 (21.21%) Data Analysis
4 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (21.21%) Requirements Gathering
5 6 (18.18%) Coaching
6 5 (15.15%) Data Management
6 5 (15.15%) Data Strategy
6 5 (15.15%) Technical Debt
6 5 (15.15%) Use Case
7 4 (12.12%) Budgeting
7 4 (12.12%) Business Analysis
7 4 (12.12%) Change Management
7 4 (12.12%) Customer-Centricity
7 4 (12.12%) DevOps
7 4 (12.12%) Risk Management
7 4 (12.12%) Roadmaps
7 4 (12.12%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (15.15%) T-SQL
3 2 (6.06%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.03%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) Python
4 1 (3.03%) Scala
4 1 (3.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) ACCA
2 4 (12.12%) IBM Certification
3 2 (6.06%) CIMA
3 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.03%) GDPR
1 1 (3.03%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.21%) IBM
3 6 (18.18%) SAP
4 5 (15.15%) Oracle
5 4 (12.12%) ServiceNow
5 4 (12.12%) Sun
6 2 (6.06%) OpenText
7 1 (3.03%) Alteryx
7 1 (3.03%) Databricks
7 1 (3.03%) NetApp
7 1 (3.03%) Sybase
7 1 (3.03%) VMware