The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Business Objects products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Objects over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Aberdeen region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within SAP Business Objects.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Objects
Rank 22 23 24
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +1
Contract jobs citing Business Objects 4 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 2.516% 2.094% 2.116%
As % of the Vendors category 5.000% 4.444% 3.448%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.89 £17.50 £21.75
% change year-on-year
+76.51% -19.54%
All Vendors
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
80 90 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 50.31% 47.12% 61.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 44 45
Average daily rate £350 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £234 £116 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £424 £500 £393
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 11
Average hourly rate £15.77 £14.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.75% -14.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £14.50 £13.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.80 £14.50 £31.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Business Objects
Scotland

Business Objects
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Business Objects across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Aberdeen Business Objects Jobs Demand Trend

Business Objects
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Business Objects across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen Business Objects Daily Rate Trend

Business Objects
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Business Objects also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Business Objects.

1 3 (50.00%) Change Control
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
1 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (50.00%) SAP BI
1 3 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) Document Management
2 2 (33.33%) Process Management
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (33.33%) SmartPlant
2 2 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
2 2 (33.33%) SAP PI
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Xcelsius
3 1 (16.67%) SAP GTS
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (16.67%) Back Office
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
3 1 (16.67%) SAP CO
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Crystal Reports

Business Objects
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Business Objects also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Business Objects. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) SAP PI
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) SmartPlant
2 1 (16.67%) SAP GTS
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (16.67%) SAP CO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (50.00%) SAP BI
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Xcelsius
3 1 (16.67%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (16.67%) MS Access
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
3 1 (16.67%) SAP BW
3 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
General
1 1 (16.67%) Back Office
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
1 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) SAP BI Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Report Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Change Control
1 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Document Management
2 2 (33.33%) Process Management
2 2 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
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