Birmingham Business Objects Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Business Objects products and/or services in IT contracts within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Objects over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Ayr Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clydebank County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dumfries and Galloway East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guernsey Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Horley Hove Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Preston Reading Romford Runcorn Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	51
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	3	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	1.017 %	3.411 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£333
Average daily rate	£406	£379
% change on same period last year	+7.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£338
% change on same period last year	+1.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.92	£33.09
% change on same period last year	-36.77 %
Vendors Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	295	557
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.465 %	0.597 %
Daily rates quoted	90	122
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£389
Average daily rate	£360	£423
% change on same period last year	-14.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£457
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	45	121
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.51	£17.28
Average hourly rate	£25.85	£18.28
% change on same period last year	+41.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.20	£19.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.26	£24.41
% change on same period last year	-0.60 %
Business Objects West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Business Objects SA.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Objects across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Objects across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 21 (100.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 8 (38.10 %) SQL Server 2 8 (38.10 %) Datawarehouse 3 7 (33.33 %) Crystal Reports 4 6 (28.57 %) Cognos 5 5 (23.81 %) PRINCE 5 5 (23.81 %) Oracle 6 4 (19.05 %) SQL 6 4 (19.05 %) ETL 6 4 (19.05 %) SAP 6 4 (19.05 %) Hyperion 6 4 (19.05 %) Migration 6 4 (19.05 %) Finance 6 4 (19.05 %) Performance Management 6 4 (19.05 %) Data Migration

7 3 (14.29 %) Data Mapping 7 3 (14.29 %) Data Integration 7 3 (14.29 %) QA 7 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 7 3 (14.29 %) ERwin 7 3 (14.29 %) CA 7 3 (14.29 %) Microsoft 8 2 (9.524 %) Oracle 10g 8 2 (9.524 %) SQL Server 2000 8 2 (9.524 %) ITIL 8 2 (9.524 %) Oracle Reports 8 2 (9.524 %) MS Excel 8 2 (9.524 %) MS Access 8 2 (9.524 %) VB 8 2 (9.524 %) Banking

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 Platforms 1 1 (4.762 %) WebLogic 1 1 (4.762 %) SAS	Applications 1 2 (9.524 %) MS Excel 2 1 (4.762 %) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (100.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 8 (38.10 %) SQL Server 2 8 (38.10 %) Datawarehouse 3 7 (33.33 %) Crystal Reports 4 4 (19.05 %) ETL 5 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 6 2 (9.524 %) Oracle 10g 6 2 (9.524 %) Oracle Reports 6 2 (9.524 %) MS Access 6 2 (9.524 %) SQL Server 2000 6 2 (9.524 %) Oracle OWB 6 2 (9.524 %) BODI 7 1 (4.762 %) OLAP 7 1 (4.762 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 1 (4.762 %) Oracle 11g	Development Applications 1 3 (14.29 %) ERwin
General 1 4 (19.05 %) Finance 2 2 (9.524 %) Government 2 2 (9.524 %) Health 2 2 (9.524 %) Banking 3 1 (4.762 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 7 (33.33 %) Developer 2 6 (28.57 %) Consultant 3 4 (19.05 %) Analyst 3 4 (19.05 %) Management Consultant 4 2 (9.524 %) Business Consultant 4 2 (9.524 %) Datawarehouse Developer 4 2 (9.524 %) Report Developer 4 2 (9.524 %) Business Analyst 4 2 (9.524 %) SQL Developer 4 2 (9.524 %) Crystal Reports Developer 4 2 (9.524 %) Business Objects Consultant 4 2 (9.524 %) SQL Server Developer 5 1 (4.762 %) Datawarehouse Specialist 5 1 (4.762 %) Data Migration Specialist 5 1 (4.762 %) Developer Analyst 5 1 (4.762 %) Senior Datawarehouse Developer 5 1 (4.762 %) Architect 5 1 (4.762 %) Technical Architect 5 1 (4.762 %) Senior Developer 5 1 (4.762 %) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 3 (14.29 %) Data Integration 2 1 (4.762 %) NHS 2 1 (4.762 %) Management Information System	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (23.81 %) PRINCE 2 4 (19.05 %) Migration 2 4 (19.05 %) Performance Management 2 4 (19.05 %) Data Migration 3 3 (14.29 %) Data Mapping 4 2 (9.524 %) Service Management 4 2 (9.524 %) ITIL 5 1 (4.762 %) CRM 5 1 (4.762 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (4.762 %) Project Management 5 1 (4.762 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (4.762 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (4.762 %) Business Performance Management 5 1 (4.762 %) Integration Testing 5 1 (4.762 %) ITSM 5 1 (4.762 %) Balanced Scorecard 5 1 (4.762 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 4 (19.05 %) SQL 2 2 (9.524 %) VB 3 1 (4.762 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (4.762 %) Java 3 1 (4.762 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 1 (4.762 %) CIPFA 1 1 (4.762 %) CIMA 1 1 (4.762 %) MBA 1 1 (4.762 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (14.29 %) QA	Vendors 1 6 (28.57 %) Cognos 2 5 (23.81 %) Oracle 3 4 (19.05 %) SAP 3 4 (19.05 %) Hyperion 4 3 (14.29 %) Microsoft 4 3 (14.29 %) CA 5 1 (4.762 %) BEA 5 1 (4.762 %) BMC 5 1 (4.762 %) Remedy 5 1 (4.762 %) Frango