Cambridge Business Objects Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Business Objects products and/or services in IT contracts within the Cambridge 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Ipswich Johnstone Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Preston Queensferry Reading Renfrewshire Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	56
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	2	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	1.626 %	1.863 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£366	£348
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
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	£25.83	£33.43
% change on same period last year	-22.74 %
Vendors Cambridge
Matching contract IT job ads	123	161
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.164 %	0.161 %
Daily rates quoted	27	41
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£330
Average daily rate	£312	£341
% change on same period last year	-8.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£359
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.52	£30.57
Average hourly rate	£28.43	£32.57
% change on same period last year	-12.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.34	£34.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.10	£24.81
% change on same period last year	-2.85 %
Business Objects Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

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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 Cambridge region.

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Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 11 (100.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 9 (81.82 %) SQL Server 2000 2 9 (81.82 %) Business Intelligence 2 9 (81.82 %) VB.NET 2 9 (81.82 %) VBA 2 9 (81.82 %) .NET 2 9 (81.82 %) SQL Server 2 9 (81.82 %) OLAP 2 9 (81.82 %) XML 2 9 (81.82 %) Cognos 2 9 (81.82 %) Datawarehouse 2 9 (81.82 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 2 9 (81.82 %) SQL Server 2005 2 9 (81.82 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 4 (36.36 %) ETL

4 3 (27.27 %) Telecoms 4 3 (27.27 %) Finance 4 3 (27.27 %) Banking 4 3 (27.27 %) Retail 5 2 (18.18 %) BODI 5 2 (18.18 %) Government 5 2 (18.18 %) Health 6 1 (9.091 %) C

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 9 (81.82 %) .NET 1 9 (81.82 %) XML	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (100.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 9 (81.82 %) SQL Server 2000 2 9 (81.82 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 2 9 (81.82 %) SQL Server 2 9 (81.82 %) OLAP 2 9 (81.82 %) Datawarehouse 2 9 (81.82 %) SQL Server 2005 2 9 (81.82 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 4 (36.36 %) ETL 4 2 (18.18 %) BODI
General 1 3 (27.27 %) Telecoms 1 3 (27.27 %) Finance 1 3 (27.27 %) Banking 1 3 (27.27 %) Retail 2 2 (18.18 %) Government 2 2 (18.18 %) Health	Job Titles 1 11 (100.00 %) Developer 2 9 (81.82 %) Datawarehouse Developer 3 6 (54.55 %) Business Intelligence Developer 3 6 (54.55 %) Business Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (81.82 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 9 (81.82 %) VB.NET 1 9 (81.82 %) VBA 2 1 (9.091 %) C
Vendors 1 9 (81.82 %) Cognos