Devon 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 Devon 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 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clydebank County Antrim 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 Glasgow Gloucestershire Guernsey Hampshire Hertfordshire Horley Hove Hull Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Poole Preston Reading Runcorn Salford Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset 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 Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	28
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	8	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	9.091 %	9.821 %
Daily rates quoted	2	8
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£245
Average daily rate	£275	£250
% change on same period last year	+9.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£256
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£342
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£9.00	-
Average hourly rate	£9.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.24	£31.78
% change on same period last year	-42.59 %
Vendors Devon
Matching contract IT job ads	88	112
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.144 %	0.123 %
Daily rates quoted	30	23
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£267
Average daily rate	£332	£275
% change on same period last year	+21.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£282
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.75	£18.13
Average hourly rate	£17.96	£18.79
% change on same period last year	-4.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.18	£19.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.95	£23.82
% change on same period last year	+0.54 %
Business Objects South 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.

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 Devon 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 Devon 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 Devon region over the 3 months to 5 December 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 Devon region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Objects within the Devon region over the 3 months to 5 December 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
Exeter	+1	5	£275	+9.06 %

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 4 (36.36 %) SQL 3 3 (27.27 %) BusinessObjects XI 4 1 (9.091 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (9.091 %) XML 4 1 (9.091 %) Government 4 1 (9.091 %) Data Extraction 4 1 (9.091 %) BODI

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 (9.091 %) XML	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (100.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 3 (27.27 %) BusinessObjects XI 3 1 (9.091 %) Crystal Reports 3 1 (9.091 %) BODI
General 1 1 (9.091 %) Government	Job Titles 1 6 (54.55 %) Business Developer 1 6 (54.55 %) Developer 1 6 (54.55 %) Business Objects Developer 2 3 (27.27 %) Business Consultant 2 3 (27.27 %) Business Objects Consultant 2 3 (27.27 %) Consultant 3 2 (18.18 %) Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Business Objects Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) SQL Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) DBA 4 1 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Administrator 4 1 (9.091 %) Report Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Helpdesk Support 4 1 (9.091 %) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) Data Extraction	Programming Languages 1 4 (36.36 %) SQL