East Midlands BusinessObjects Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO) skills within the East Midlands 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 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO)
Location Aberdeen Andover Ayr Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Preston Queensferry Reading Romford Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	84
Rank change on same period last year	+31
Matching contract IT job ads	41	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	10.62 %	3.125 %
Daily rates quoted	17	2
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£375
Average daily rate	£358	£375
% change on same period last year	-4.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£341
% change on same period last year	-0.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.58	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£29.25	£11.50
% change on same period last year	+154.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.92	£13.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.72	£34.02
% change on same period last year	-27.31 %
Database & Business Intelligence East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	386	352
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.550 %	0.364 %
Daily rates quoted	93	42
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£350
Average daily rate	£357	£356
% change on same period last year	+0.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£351
% change on same period last year	-2.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	39	51
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.92	£23.36
Average hourly rate	£28.92	£25.37
% change on same period last year	+13.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.91	£27.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.61	£31.85
% change on same period last year	-7.02 %
BusinessObjects England

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BusinessObjects across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 15 October 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 BusinessObjects across the East Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BusinessObjects across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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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 BusinessObjects within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 15 October 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
Derbyshire	+9	17	£351	+0.30 %
Leicestershire	-	9	£320	-
Lincolnshire	-	6	£450	-
Nottinghamshire	0	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 59 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 19 (32.20 %) ETL 3 17 (28.81 %) Oracle 4 16 (27.12 %) Data Modelling 5 15 (25.42 %) DataStage 5 15 (25.42 %) BODI 6 14 (23.73 %) Kalido 7 13 (22.03 %) Datawarehouse 7 13 (22.03 %) BusinessObjects XI 8 12 (20.34 %) Data Management 8 12 (20.34 %) IBM 9 11 (18.64 %) SQL Server 10 10 (16.95 %) NHS 11 8 (13.56 %) SQL 12 7 (11.86 %) Oracle 10g

12 7 (11.86 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 13 6 (10.17 %) SQL Server 2005 13 6 (10.17 %) UNIX 13 6 (10.17 %) RAD 14 5 (8.475 %) CRM 14 5 (8.475 %) Windows 14 5 (8.475 %) SQL Server 2000 14 5 (8.475 %) Government 14 5 (8.475 %) Data Cleansing 15 4 (6.780 %) Performance Management 15 4 (6.780 %) Business Analysis 15 4 (6.780 %) Health 15 4 (6.780 %) Migration 15 4 (6.780 %) SQL Server Integration Services 15 4 (6.780 %) Marketing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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.

Application Development 1 2 (3.390 %) Oracle Coherence 2 1 (1.695 %) .NET 2 1 (1.695 %) XML 2 1 (1.695 %) XSD 2 1 (1.695 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 3 (5.085 %) SAS 2 2 (3.390 %) IIS 3 1 (1.695 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 2 (3.390 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.695 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.695 %) Oracle EBS 1 1 (1.695 %) Academy Housing 1 1 (1.695 %) arcHouse
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.695 %) Firewall 1 1 (1.695 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (32.20 %) ETL 2 15 (25.42 %) DataStage 2 15 (25.42 %) BODI 3 13 (22.03 %) BusinessObjects XI 3 13 (22.03 %) Datawarehouse 4 11 (18.64 %) SQL Server 5 7 (11.86 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 5 7 (11.86 %) Oracle 10g 6 6 (10.17 %) SQL Server 2005 7 5 (8.475 %) Data Cleansing 7 5 (8.475 %) SQL Server 2000 8 4 (6.780 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 3 (5.085 %) Oracle Reports 10 2 (3.390 %) MS Access 10 2 (3.390 %) Crystal Reports 11 1 (1.695 %) TOAD 11 1 (1.695 %) Cognos Impromptu 11 1 (1.695 %) OLAP 11 1 (1.695 %) Hyperion Essbase 11 1 (1.695 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 2 (3.390 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (1.695 %) ClearCase 2 1 (1.695 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 5 (8.475 %) Government 2 4 (6.780 %) Health 2 4 (6.780 %) Marketing 3 3 (5.085 %) Local Government 4 2 (3.390 %) Telecoms 4 2 (3.390 %) Construction 5 1 (1.695 %) Law
Job Titles 1 27 (45.76 %) Developer 2 19 (32.20 %) Business Objects Developer 3 14 (23.73 %) Analyst 4 13 (22.03 %) ETL Developer 5 8 (13.56 %) Business Developer 6 6 (10.17 %) Information Analyst 7 5 (8.475 %) Data Architect 7 5 (8.475 %) Architect 7 5 (8.475 %) Business Analyst 8 4 (6.780 %) Consultant 8 4 (6.780 %) Programmer 8 4 (6.780 %) Analyst Programmer 8 4 (6.780 %) Business Consultant 8 4 (6.780 %) Business Objects Analyst 8 4 (6.780 %) DataStage Developer 8 4 (6.780 %) Business Objects Consultant 9 3 (5.085 %) CRM Manager 10 2 (3.390 %) NHS Information Analyst 10 2 (3.390 %) Business Objects Specialist 10 2 (3.390 %) Oracle Developer	Miscellaneous 1 10 (16.95 %) NHS 2 1 (1.695 %) Mainframe 2 1 (1.695 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 6 (10.17 %) UNIX 2 5 (8.475 %) Windows 3 2 (3.390 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (27.12 %) Data Modelling 2 12 (20.34 %) Data Management 3 6 (10.17 %) RAD 4 5 (8.475 %) CRM 5 4 (6.780 %) Migration 5 4 (6.780 %) Business Analysis 5 4 (6.780 %) Performance Management 6 3 (5.085 %) Data Protection 6 3 (5.085 %) SC Cleared 6 3 (5.085 %) Predictive Analytics 6 3 (5.085 %) B2B 6 3 (5.085 %) Security Cleared 7 2 (3.390 %) E-business 7 2 (3.390 %) Business Intelligence 7 2 (3.390 %) Data Analysis 7 2 (3.390 %) DV Cleared 8 1 (1.695 %) Data Migration 8 1 (1.695 %) Software Engineering 8 1 (1.695 %) Test Management 8 1 (1.695 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 8 (13.56 %) SQL 2 4 (6.780 %) VBA 3 2 (3.390 %) C# 3 2 (3.390 %) C++ 3 2 (3.390 %) Java 4 1 (1.695 %) SAS Macro 4 1 (1.695 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (1.695 %) VBScript 4 1 (1.695 %) VB	Vendors 1 59 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 17 (28.81 %) Oracle 3 14 (23.73 %) Kalido 4 12 (20.34 %) IBM 5 4 (6.780 %) Microsoft 6 2 (3.390 %) Hyperion 6 2 (3.390 %) Cognos 6 2 (3.390 %) Anite 7 1 (1.695 %) Teradata 7 1 (1.695 %) Cisco 7 1 (1.695 %) MicroStrategy 7 1 (1.695 %) JD Edwards 7 1 (1.695 %) CheckPoint 7 1 (1.695 %) McAfee Security 7 1 (1.695 %) Alterian 7 1 (1.695 %) Northgate 7 1 (1.695 %) Capita 7 1 (1.695 %) Orchard