Cognos
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 12 June 2024, 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 830 840 1015
Rank change year-on-year +10 +175 -175
Permanent jobs citing Cognos 74 79 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.085% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.20% 0.21% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 44 61 135
10th Percentile - £35,427 £41,150
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £57,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +3.60% +16.23%
75th Percentile £60,313 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,125 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +15.79%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 37,766 38,407 67,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.37% 41.53% 39.06%
Number of salaries quoted 25,159 23,166 33,271
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +3.26%

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 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cognos in the UK

Cognos
Top 15 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 12 June 2024. 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 +28 62 £50,500 -12.17% 23
UK excluding London -32 61 £50,000 - 14
Work from Home +24 31 £50,000 -13.04% 10
East of England +11 22 £50,000 -7.41% 2
London +74 12 £75,000 +20.97% 7
Scotland -60 11 £55,000 +30.18% 1
North of England +10 8 £57,500 +43.75% 6
South West - 8 - - 1
South East -37 7 £50,000 -31.03% 1
North West -22 5 £57,500 -22.03% 4
Midlands -39 4 £85,000 +70.00% 4
Yorkshire +67 3 - - 2
West Midlands -11 2 £120,000 +144.90% 1
East Midlands -30 2 £50,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £54,408 -

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 12 (16.22%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.70%) Apache
3 1 (1.35%) CMS
3 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (17.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (5.41%) SPSS
3 2 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (8.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 4 (5.41%) Lawson
3 3 (4.05%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (2.70%) Cognos Controller
4 2 (2.70%) SAP WM
5 1 (1.35%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.35%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 34 (45.95%) Power Platform
2 14 (18.92%) AWS
3 6 (8.11%) Azure
4 4 (5.41%) Smartsheet
5 2 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.70%) GitHub
6 1 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.86%) Internet
2 10 (13.51%) DSL
3 2 (2.70%) DNS
3 2 (2.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (45.95%) Power BI
2 21 (28.38%) BusinessObjects
3 15 (20.27%) QlikView
3 15 (20.27%) Relational Database
4 14 (18.92%) Data Lake
4 14 (18.92%) Tableau
5 13 (17.57%) SQL Server
6 12 (16.22%) Big Data
7 10 (13.51%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (13.51%) DB2
7 10 (13.51%) MongoDB
8 7 (9.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (8.11%) OLAP
9 6 (8.11%) OLAP Cube
10 5 (6.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (5.41%) ActiveReports
11 4 (5.41%) Cognos Framework Manager
11 4 (5.41%) Data Mining
11 4 (5.41%) MS Access
11 4 (5.41%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) JIRA
General
1 35 (47.30%) Finance
2 19 (25.68%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (21.62%) Law
4 12 (16.22%) Banking
4 12 (16.22%) Investment Banking
5 11 (14.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (13.51%) Financial Institution
6 10 (13.51%) Marketing
6 10 (13.51%) Retail
7 5 (6.76%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (6.76%) Social Skills
8 3 (4.05%) Billing
8 3 (4.05%) General Ledger
8 3 (4.05%) Legal
9 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.35%) Back Office
9 1 (1.35%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 15 (20.27%) Analyst
2 13 (17.57%) Support Specialist
3 12 (16.22%) Developer
4 10 (13.51%) Data Engineer
4 10 (13.51%) Financial Analyst
4 10 (13.51%) Software Engineering Director
5 8 (10.81%) Consultant
5 8 (10.81%) Lead
6 7 (9.46%) Senior
7 6 (8.11%) Business Intelligence Specialist
7 6 (8.11%) Finance Systems Analyst
7 6 (8.11%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (8.11%) Systems Analyst
8 5 (6.76%) Analyst Developer
9 4 (5.41%) Applications Support Specialist
9 4 (5.41%) Business Consultant
9 4 (5.41%) Coordinator
9 4 (5.41%) Performance Manager
9 4 (5.41%) Project Coordinator
9 4 (5.41%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.86%) HTML
2 10 (13.51%) Kafka
3 2 (2.70%) .NET
3 2 (2.70%) MDX
3 2 (2.70%) REST
3 2 (2.70%) SOAP
3 2 (2.70%) Web Services
4 1 (1.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.62%) Management Information System
2 10 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 10 (13.51%) Product Ownership
2 10 (13.51%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.41%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.41%) PMI
3 4 (5.41%) Tandem
4 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.70%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (25.68%) Windows
2 15 (20.27%) Linux
3 4 (5.41%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (66.22%) Business Intelligence
2 27 (36.49%) Analytics
3 20 (27.03%) Data Modelling
4 17 (22.97%) Agile
5 16 (21.62%) Data Analysis
6 15 (20.27%) Presales
7 14 (18.92%) Decision-Making
8 12 (16.22%) Asset Management
8 12 (16.22%) CI/CD
8 12 (16.22%) Performance Tuning
8 12 (16.22%) Test Automation
9 11 (14.86%) Continuous Delivery
9 11 (14.86%) Data Analytics
9 11 (14.86%) ERP
9 11 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (14.86%) Product Management
9 11 (14.86%) Project Management
10 10 (13.51%) Business Analytics
10 10 (13.51%) Data Reconciliation
10 10 (13.51%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 43 (58.11%) SQL
2 12 (16.22%) Python
3 10 (13.51%) Java
3 10 (13.51%) PL/SQL
3 10 (13.51%) Scala
4 7 (9.46%) VBA
5 2 (2.70%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.70%) R
5 2 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (27.03%) Degree
2 4 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (5.41%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.35%) ACCA
4 1 (1.35%) CIMA
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.35%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.86%) SLA
2 6 (8.11%) QA
3 4 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.41%) ISO 9001
3 4 (5.41%) PMO
4 2 (2.70%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 10 (13.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (29.73%) Oracle
2 17 (22.97%) SAP
3 16 (21.62%) IBM
4 15 (20.27%) Microsoft
5 12 (16.22%) Alteryx
6 10 (13.51%) Databricks
6 10 (13.51%) Sybase
7 4 (5.41%) Avaya
7 4 (5.41%) Concur
7 4 (5.41%) JD Edwards
8 3 (4.05%) Aderant
8 3 (4.05%) Intapp
8 3 (4.05%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.70%) Cyberscience
9 2 (2.70%) Infor
9 2 (2.70%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (1.35%) Workday