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 Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke 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 - - 27
Contract jobs citing Business Objects 0 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke - - 2.049%
As % of the Vendors category - - 4.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £13.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.89 £17.50 £21.75
% change year-on-year
+76.51% -19.54%
All Vendors
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
123 90 123
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 57.48% 48.91% 50.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 28 41
Average daily rate £400 £420 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £350 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £500 £439
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 15
Average hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £13.54
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+114.28% +3.39%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.44 £13.40 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £31.70 £34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Business Objects
Hampshire

Business Objects
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Business Objects Daily Rate Trend

Business Objects
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Business Objects across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Business Objects Hourly Rate Trend

Business Objects
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 4 (66.67%) ETL
1 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
1 4 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 2 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (16.67%) OOP
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) Adobe
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) ABAP
3 1 (16.67%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Smart Forms
3 1 (16.67%) BAPI
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Basis

Business Objects
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 1 (16.67%) Web Dynpro
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Smart Forms
1 1 (16.67%) BAPI
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Basis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
General
1 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Developer
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Business Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Business Objects Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Business Objects Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ETL
1 4 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 1 (16.67%) OOP
2 1 (16.67%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
1 1 (16.67%) ABAP
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe