The first table below looks at the demand for BusinessObjects XI skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BusinessObjects XI over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP BusinessObjects XI (BOXI)
Rank 373 423 438
Rank change year-on-year
+50 +15
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects XI 140 136 117
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.331% 0.254% 0.211%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.592% 1.330% 1.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 87 73
Average daily rate £450 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £505 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £341 £333 £350
% change year-on-year
+2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £30.75 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -27.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -27.64%
All Database & Business Intelligence
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
8794 10222 11309
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 20.79% 19.10% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5380 6026 6414
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £529 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 235 369
Average hourly rate £25.00 £26.89 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.02% -15.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.31 £13.10 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
BusinessObjects XI
UK

BusinessObjects XI
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing BusinessObjects XI across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

England BusinessObjects XI Jobs Demand Trend

BusinessObjects XI
Daily Rate Trend

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

England BusinessObjects XI Daily Rate Trend

BusinessObjects XI
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BusinessObjects XI across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England BusinessObjects XI Daily Rate Histogram

BusinessObjects XI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England BusinessObjects XI Hourly Rate Trend

BusinessObjects XI
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessObjects XI within the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +30 93 £475 +15.15%
West Midlands +30 20 £325 -3.70%
South East +12 16 £201 -43.91%
North West +19 5 - -
East of England +12 4 - -
South West +23 1 - -
East Midlands -2 1 - -
BusinessObjects XI
UK

BusinessObjects XI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing BusinessObjects XI 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 XI.

1 253 (92.00%) Business Objects
2 157 (57.09%) SQL
3 127 (46.18%) Oracle
4 100 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
4 100 (36.36%) Finance
5 92 (33.45%) Data Warehouse
6 80 (29.09%) SQL Server
7 77 (28.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
8 69 (25.09%) SAP
9 65 (23.64%) BusinessObjects
10 59 (21.45%) PL/SQL
10 59 (21.45%) Banking
11 56 (20.36%) ETL
12 50 (18.18%) Data Modelling
13 40 (14.55%) SAP XI
14 38 (13.82%) T-SQL
15 36 (13.09%) Oracle Reports
16 31 (11.27%) Investment Banking
17 30 (10.91%) MS Excel
17 30 (10.91%) Sybase
18 29 (10.55%) SAP BW
19 28 (10.18%) Java
19 28 (10.18%) BODI
20 27 (9.818%) SQL Server Integration Services
21 26 (9.455%) Degree
21 26 (9.455%) Retail
21 26 (9.455%) Xcelsius
22 25 (9.091%) Windows
22 25 (9.091%) SharePoint
22 25 (9.091%) Oracle 10g

BusinessObjects XI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing BusinessObjects XI 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 XI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 40 (14.55%) SAP XI
2 7 (2.545%) .NET
3 5 (1.818%) J2EE
4 2 (0.727%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.727%) Spring
4 2 (0.727%) Hibernate
4 2 (0.727%) SOAP
4 2 (0.727%) EJB
4 2 (0.727%) XML
4 2 (0.727%) XML Schema
4 2 (0.727%) REST
4 2 (0.727%) soapUI
4 2 (0.727%) EJB 3.0
5 1 (0.364%) Middleware
5 1 (0.364%) JSP
5 1 (0.364%) Servlets
5 1 (0.364%) Web Services
5 1 (0.364%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 25 (9.091%) SharePoint
2 17 (6.182%) IIS
2 17 (6.182%) Apache
2 17 (6.182%) Tomcat
3 15 (5.455%) WebLogic
4 6 (2.182%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.091%) CMS
5 3 (1.091%) SAS
6 2 (0.727%) WebSphere Process Server
6 2 (0.727%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.364%) Confluence
7 1 (0.364%) SAP EP
7 1 (0.364%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 30 (10.91%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.091%) MS Office
3 1 (0.364%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.364%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (4.000%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (2.909%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.091%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (1.091%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 3 (1.091%) assyst
4 2 (0.727%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.364%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.364%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.364%) Maximo
5 1 (0.364%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.091%) HTTP
2 1 (0.364%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (33.45%) Data Warehouse
2 80 (29.09%) SQL Server
3 77 (28.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 65 (23.64%) BusinessObjects
5 36 (13.09%) Oracle Reports
6 29 (10.55%) SAP BW
7 28 (10.18%) BODI
8 27 (9.818%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 26 (9.455%) Xcelsius
10 25 (9.091%) Oracle 10g
11 23 (8.364%) Star Schema
12 19 (6.909%) Crystal Reports
13 17 (6.182%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 17 (6.182%) SAP Data Services
14 16 (5.818%) ReportNet
14 16 (5.818%) OLAP
15 14 (5.091%) SQL Server 2008
16 13 (4.727%) MS Access
17 12 (4.364%) Oracle 11g
18 11 (4.000%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 17 (6.182%) JIRA
2 7 (2.545%) JUnit
3 4 (1.455%) Rational Rose
3 4 (1.455%) ERwin
4 3 (1.091%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.727%) FitNesse
5 2 (0.727%) HttpUnit
5 2 (0.727%) TestNG
6 1 (0.364%) Subversion
General
1 100 (36.36%) Finance
2 59 (21.45%) Banking
3 31 (11.27%) Investment Banking
4 26 (9.455%) Retail
5 17 (6.182%) Retail Banking
6 14 (5.091%) Financial Institution
7 11 (4.000%) Front Office
8 5 (1.818%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.455%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.091%) Marketing
11 2 (0.727%) Legal
12 1 (0.364%) Automotive
12 1 (0.364%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.364%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 180 (65.45%) Developer
2 131 (47.64%) Business Developer
3 129 (46.91%) Business Objects Developer
4 42 (15.27%) Analyst
5 23 (8.364%) Business Analyst
6 21 (7.636%) Business Objects Analyst
7 19 (6.909%) Architect
8 16 (5.818%) MI Developer
8 16 (5.818%) Consultant
9 15 (5.455%) Report Developer
10 14 (5.091%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 13 (4.727%) Analyst Developer
12 11 (4.000%) Business Consultant
12 11 (4.000%) Business Objects Consultant
13 10 (3.636%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (3.636%) Oracle Developer
14 8 (2.909%) Senior Developer
15 7 (2.545%) Data Warehouse Developer
15 7 (2.545%) Java Developer
15 7 (2.545%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.182%) Computer Science
2 16 (5.818%) Visualisation
3 11 (4.000%) Derivative
3 11 (4.000%) Data Integration
4 9 (3.273%) Fixed Income
4 9 (3.273%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (2.909%) NHS
6 7 (2.545%) Credit Risk
7 6 (2.182%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.455%) Data Extraction
9 3 (1.091%) Mobile Computing
9 3 (1.091%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.727%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 2 (0.727%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.364%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.364%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.091%) Windows
2 13 (4.727%) UNIX
3 8 (2.909%) Linux
4 1 (0.364%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.364%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
2 56 (20.36%) ETL
3 50 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 20 (7.273%) GAP Analysis
5 19 (6.909%) Time Management
6 17 (6.182%) Software Engineering
6 17 (6.182%) Dimensional Modelling
7 16 (5.818%) Unit Testing
7 16 (5.818%) Data Analysis
8 15 (5.455%) Project Management
9 14 (5.091%) Change Management
9 14 (5.091%) Risk Management
9 14 (5.091%) Migration
10 13 (4.727%) Kimball Methodology
11 11 (4.000%) Asset Management
12 10 (3.636%) Data Mapping
13 9 (3.273%) Workflow
14 8 (2.909%) Stakeholder Management
15 7 (2.545%) Business Analysis
15 7 (2.545%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 157 (57.09%) SQL
2 59 (21.45%) PL/SQL
3 38 (13.82%) T-SQL
4 28 (10.18%) Java
5 18 (6.545%) R
5 18 (6.545%) VBA
6 11 (4.000%) Shell Script
7 8 (2.909%) C
8 3 (1.091%) Perl
9 2 (0.727%) Korn
9 2 (0.727%) ABAP
9 2 (0.727%) C#
10 1 (0.364%) Python
10 1 (0.364%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.364%) VBScript
10 1 (0.364%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (9.455%) Degree
2 4 (1.455%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (0.364%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.727%) QA
System Software
1 2 (0.727%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.273%) HP Quality Center
2 6 (2.182%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (1.091%) Control-M
Vendors
1 253 (92.00%) Business Objects
2 127 (46.18%) Oracle
3 69 (25.09%) SAP
4 30 (10.91%) Sybase
5 23 (8.364%) Cognos
6 17 (6.182%) Informatica
7 11 (4.000%) Microsoft
8 9 (3.273%) Remedy
9 8 (2.909%) IBM
10 5 (1.818%) Teradata
10 5 (1.818%) Lagan
11 3 (1.091%) Greenplum
12 2 (0.727%) Northgate
12 2 (0.727%) Intel
12 2 (0.727%) Baan
12 2 (0.727%) RedPrairie
13 1 (0.364%) Trayport
13 1 (0.364%) Sun
13 1 (0.364%) Mincom
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Rate: to £400 per day
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Rate: £400 - £450 per day
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Posted: 3 May 2013
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