Cheshire BusinessObjects Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO) skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited BusinessObjects over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO)
Location Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Folkestone Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hull Inverness Ipswich Johnstone Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	44
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	17	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	10.97 %	7.944 %
Daily rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum daily rate	-	£358
Average daily rate	-	£373
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£352
% change on same period last year	+5.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.67	-
Average hourly rate	£25.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.33	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.94	£33.14
% change on same period last year	-27.75 %
Database & Business Intelligence Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	155	214
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.207 %	0.217 %
Daily rates quoted	34	51
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£380
Average daily rate	£318	£393
% change on same period last year	-19.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£339	£407
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.64	£26.86
Average hourly rate	£33.52	£29.14
% change on same period last year	+15.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.39	£31.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
BusinessObjects North West

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.

BusinessObjects
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing BusinessObjects across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

BusinessObjects
Daily Rate Trend

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

BusinessObjects
Hourly Rate Trend

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

BusinessObjects
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessObjects within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Warrington	+4	9	-	-
Chester	-3	3	-	-
Macclesfield	0	2	-	-

BusinessObjects North West

BusinessObjects
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing BusinessObjects 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 BusinessObjects.

1 30 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 15 (50.00 %) SQL 3 14 (46.67 %) BusinessObjects XI 4 11 (36.67 %) ETL 5 9 (30.00 %) Business Intelligence 5 9 (30.00 %) Informatica 6 8 (26.67 %) SQL Server 6 8 (26.67 %) Finance 7 7 (23.33 %) Government 7 7 (23.33 %) Crystal Reports 8 5 (16.67 %) Oracle 8 5 (16.67 %) Datawarehouse 8 5 (16.67 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 9 4 (13.33 %) Dimensional Modelling 9 4 (13.33 %) Hyperion Planning

9 4 (13.33 %) Marketing 9 4 (13.33 %) Data Management 9 4 (13.33 %) Hyperion Enterprise 9 4 (13.33 %) Business Analysis 9 4 (13.33 %) Local Government 9 4 (13.33 %) Data Modelling 9 4 (13.33 %) Hyperion 9 4 (13.33 %) Pharmaceutical 9 4 (13.33 %) DataStage 9 4 (13.33 %) Microsoft 10 3 (10.00 %) DTS 10 3 (10.00 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 2 (6.667 %) HPUX 11 2 (6.667 %) PL/SQL 11 2 (6.667 %) Oracle 9i

BusinessObjects
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing BusinessObjects 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 BusinessObjects. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (3.333 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 4 (13.33 %) Hyperion Enterprise 1 4 (13.33 %) Hyperion Planning
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (46.67 %) BusinessObjects XI 2 11 (36.67 %) ETL 3 8 (26.67 %) SQL Server 4 7 (23.33 %) Crystal Reports 5 5 (16.67 %) Datawarehouse 5 5 (16.67 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 6 4 (13.33 %) DataStage 7 3 (10.00 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 3 (10.00 %) DTS 8 2 (6.667 %) Oracle 9i 8 2 (6.667 %) PowerCenter 9 1 (3.333 %) TOAD 9 1 (3.333 %) Data Mining 9 1 (3.333 %) Oracle Reports 9 1 (3.333 %) SQL Server 2000 9 1 (3.333 %) Data Mart 9 1 (3.333 %) BODI 9 1 (3.333 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 1 (3.333 %) ERwin
General 1 8 (26.67 %) Finance 2 7 (23.33 %) Government 3 4 (13.33 %) Local Government 3 4 (13.33 %) Marketing 3 4 (13.33 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (3.333 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 10 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 9 (30.00 %) Developer 3 5 (16.67 %) Architect 3 5 (16.67 %) Solutions Architect 3 5 (16.67 %) Solutions Designer 3 5 (16.67 %) Business Architect 4 4 (13.33 %) Data Analyst 4 4 (13.33 %) Business Analyst 5 3 (10.00 %) DBA 5 3 (10.00 %) Business Systems Analyst 5 3 (10.00 %) Systems Analyst 5 3 (10.00 %) SQL DBA 6 2 (6.667 %) ETL Developer 6 2 (6.667 %) Business Developer 6 2 (6.667 %) Business Objects Developer 7 1 (3.333 %) Service Desk Analyst 7 1 (3.333 %) Informatica Developer 7 1 (3.333 %) Administrator 7 1 (3.333 %) Report Analyst 7 1 (3.333 %) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.333 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 2 (6.667 %) UNIX 1 2 (6.667 %) HPUX 2 1 (3.333 %) Windows 2 1 (3.333 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (30.00 %) Business Intelligence 2 4 (13.33 %) Data Modelling 2 4 (13.33 %) Data Management 2 4 (13.33 %) Business Analysis 2 4 (13.33 %) Dimensional Modelling 3 2 (6.667 %) ITIL 4 1 (3.333 %) CMMI 4 1 (3.333 %) Change Management 4 1 (3.333 %) Data Analysis	Programming Languages 1 15 (50.00 %) SQL 2 2 (6.667 %) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.333 %) ISO9000 1 1 (3.333 %) SLA 1 1 (3.333 %) BS7799	Systems Management 1 1 (3.333 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors 1 30 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 9 (30.00 %) Informatica 3 5 (16.67 %) Oracle 4 4 (13.33 %) Hyperion 4 4 (13.33 %) Microsoft 5 2 (6.667 %) HP 6 1 (3.333 %) Dell 6 1 (3.333 %) Citrix