Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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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	73	99
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	33	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	3.789 %	2.417 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£300
Average daily rate	£344	£325
% change on same period last year	+5.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£352
% change on same period last year	+5.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.83
Average hourly rate	-	£21.67
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.94	£33.14
% change on same period last year	-27.75 %
Vendors Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	871	1117
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.161 %	1.130 %
Daily rates quoted	172	268
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£348
Average daily rate	£356	£367
% change on same period last year	-2.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	176	204
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.60	£24.10
Average hourly rate	£25.24	£26.16
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.88	£28.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
Business Objects South East

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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Hampshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Objects within the Hampshire 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
Southampton	-	7	-	-
Winchester	-	2	£344	-
Basingstoke	+16	1	-	-
Farnborough	-	1	-	-
Eastleigh	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 53 (100.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 29 (54.72 %) WebServices 3 27 (50.94 %) Java 3 27 (50.94 %) WebSphere 4 25 (47.17 %) JDBC 4 25 (47.17 %) UNIX 5 24 (45.28 %) SAP 6 15 (28.30 %) J2EE 7 11 (20.75 %) IBM 8 10 (18.87 %) Datawarehouse 9 9 (16.98 %) WebSphere MQ 9 9 (16.98 %) Crystal Reports 9 9 (16.98 %) XML 10 7 (13.21 %) OLAP 11 6 (11.32 %) Windows

11 6 (11.32 %) ETL 11 6 (11.32 %) SAS 11 6 (11.32 %) Business Intelligence 11 6 (11.32 %) Base SAS 12 5 (9.434 %) .NET Framework 12 5 (9.434 %) .NET 12 5 (9.434 %) Oracle 13 4 (7.547 %) SQL Server 13 4 (7.547 %) Photoshop 13 4 (7.547 %) IIS 13 4 (7.547 %) Visual Studio 13 4 (7.547 %) HTML 13 4 (7.547 %) VB 13 4 (7.547 %) CSS 13 4 (7.547 %) AIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 29 (54.72 %) WebServices 2 27 (50.94 %) WebSphere 3 25 (47.17 %) JDBC 4 15 (28.30 %) J2EE 5 9 (16.98 %) XML 6 5 (9.434 %) .NET 6 5 (9.434 %) .NET Framework 7 4 (7.547 %) CSS 7 4 (7.547 %) XHTML 7 4 (7.547 %) HTML 8 2 (3.774 %) XSD 8 2 (3.774 %) XML Schema 8 2 (3.774 %) JSP 9 1 (1.887 %) AJAX 9 1 (1.887 %) WSE 9 1 (1.887 %) ActiveX 9 1 (1.887 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 9 (16.98 %) WebSphere MQ 2 6 (11.32 %) SAS 3 4 (7.547 %) BizTalk Server 3 4 (7.547 %) IIS 3 4 (7.547 %) CMS 4 2 (3.774 %) WPS 5 1 (1.887 %) ESB 5 1 (1.887 %) WebSphere Message Broker 5 1 (1.887 %) Apache 5 1 (1.887 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 4 (7.547 %) Photoshop 2 2 (3.774 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.887 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 1 (1.887 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 4 (7.547 %) Intranet 1 4 (7.547 %) Internet 2 1 (1.887 %) 3G 2 1 (1.887 %) 2G 2 1 (1.887 %) RNC	Database & Business Intelligence 1 53 (100.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 10 (18.87 %) Datawarehouse 3 9 (16.98 %) Crystal Reports 4 7 (13.21 %) OLAP 5 6 (11.32 %) ETL 5 6 (11.32 %) Base SAS 6 4 (7.547 %) BODI 6 4 (7.547 %) SQL Server 7 3 (5.660 %) SQL Server 2005 7 3 (5.660 %) BusinessObjects XI 8 2 (3.774 %) Oracle Reports 8 2 (3.774 %) Oracle 10g 9 1 (1.887 %) DataStage 9 1 (1.887 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 4 (7.547 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (3.774 %) Oracle Forms 3 1 (1.887 %) Eclipse	General 1 3 (5.660 %) Retail 2 2 (3.774 %) Insurance 2 2 (3.774 %) Telecoms 3 1 (1.887 %) Finance 3 1 (1.887 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 41 (77.36 %) Developer 2 26 (49.06 %) WebSphere Developer 3 6 (11.32 %) SAS Developer 4 5 (9.434 %) Project Manager 5 4 (7.547 %) Business Developer 5 4 (7.547 %) ETL Developer 5 4 (7.547 %) Business Objects Developer 6 2 (3.774 %) Information Analyst 6 2 (3.774 %) Business Project Manager 6 2 (3.774 %) Business Manager 6 2 (3.774 %) Oracle Developer 6 2 (3.774 %) Analyst 6 2 (3.774 %) Business Objects Specialist 7 1 (1.887 %) Business Analyst 7 1 (1.887 %) .NET Developer 7 1 (1.887 %) Consultant 7 1 (1.887 %) Network Engineer 7 1 (1.887 %) Performance Engineer 7 1 (1.887 %) Business Objects Consultant 7 1 (1.887 %) Systems Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (7.547 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 25 (47.17 %) UNIX 2 6 (11.32 %) Windows 3 4 (7.547 %) AIX 4 1 (1.887 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (11.32 %) Business Intelligence 2 3 (5.660 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (5.660 %) Content Management 3 2 (3.774 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 2 (3.774 %) EAI 3 2 (3.774 %) SOA 4 1 (1.887 %) Unit Testing 4 1 (1.887 %) Data Mapping 4 1 (1.887 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (1.887 %) BPEL 4 1 (1.887 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (1.887 %) Supplier Management 4 1 (1.887 %) SSADM 4 1 (1.887 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (1.887 %) ERP 4 1 (1.887 %) Project Management 4 1 (1.887 %) CMMI 4 1 (1.887 %) Regression Testing 4 1 (1.887 %) Validation
Programming Languages 1 27 (50.94 %) Java 2 4 (7.547 %) VB 3 3 (5.660 %) SQL 4 2 (3.774 %) C# 4 2 (3.774 %) C++ 5 1 (1.887 %) JavaScript 5 1 (1.887 %) Perl 5 1 (1.887 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 1 (1.887 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 1 (1.887 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.887 %) SLA	Vendors 1 24 (45.28 %) SAP 2 11 (20.75 %) IBM 3 5 (9.434 %) Oracle 4 3 (5.660 %) Microsoft 5 2 (3.774 %) Siebel 6 1 (1.887 %) Adobe 6 1 (1.887 %) Citrix 6 1 (1.887 %) Tridion 6 1 (1.887 %) Remedy 6 1 (1.887 %) Google