Hampshire BusinessObjects Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO) skills within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited BusinessObjects over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO)
Location Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford 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 Fareham Feltham Folkestone Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hull Inverness Johnstone Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone 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 Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	67	99
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	35	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.046 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	9.749 %	4.729 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£310	-
Average daily rate	£344	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£378	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£346
% change on same period last year	+8.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£21.00
Average hourly rate	-	£21.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£29.97
% change on same period last year	-20.69 %
Database & Business Intelligence Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	359	571
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.473 %	0.605 %
Daily rates quoted	53	124
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£317
Average daily rate	£356	£337
% change on same period last year	+5.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£354
% change on same period last year	-0.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	71	103
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.89	£29.09
Average hourly rate	£34.72	£31.13
% change on same period last year	+11.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.55	£33.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.54	£30.93
% change on same period last year	+5.19 %
BusinessObjects 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.

BusinessObjects
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing BusinessObjects across the Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

BusinessObjects
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BusinessObjects across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

BusinessObjects
Hourly Rate Trend

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

BusinessObjects
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing BusinessObjects within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 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	-	-
Fareham	-	2	-	-
Winchester	-	2	£344	-
Eastleigh	-	1	-	-
Basingstoke	+13	1	-	-

BusinessObjects South East

BusinessObjects
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 51 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 28 (54.90 %) WebServices 3 26 (50.98 %) Java 4 24 (47.06 %) JDBC 4 24 (47.06 %) SAP 4 24 (47.06 %) Unix 4 24 (47.06 %) WebSphere 5 15 (29.41 %) J2EE 6 10 (19.61 %) Datawarehouse 7 9 (17.65 %) IBM 7 9 (17.65 %) WebSphere MQ 7 9 (17.65 %) Crystal Reports 8 7 (13.73 %) OLAP 8 7 (13.73 %) XML 9 6 (11.76 %) Business Intelligence

9 6 (11.76 %) ETL 9 6 (11.76 %) SAS 9 6 (11.76 %) Base SAS 10 5 (9.804 %) Windows 11 4 (7.843 %) Visual Studio 11 4 (7.843 %) CSS 11 4 (7.843 %) Photoshop 11 4 (7.843 %) Oracle 11 4 (7.843 %) SQL Server 11 4 (7.843 %) IIS 11 4 (7.843 %) VB 11 4 (7.843 %) .NET 11 4 (7.843 %) BizTalk Server 11 4 (7.843 %) Intranet 11 4 (7.843 %) Internet

BusinessObjects
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 28 (54.90 %) WebServices 2 24 (47.06 %) JDBC 2 24 (47.06 %) WebSphere 3 15 (29.41 %) J2EE 4 7 (13.73 %) XML 5 4 (7.843 %) .NET 5 4 (7.843 %) .NET Framework 5 4 (7.843 %) CSS 5 4 (7.843 %) XHTML 6 3 (5.882 %) HTML 7 2 (3.922 %) XSD 7 2 (3.922 %) XML Schema 8 1 (1.961 %) JSP 8 1 (1.961 %) ActiveX 8 1 (1.961 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 9 (17.65 %) WebSphere MQ 2 6 (11.76 %) SAS 3 4 (7.843 %) BizTalk Server 3 4 (7.843 %) IIS 3 4 (7.843 %) CMS 4 1 (1.961 %) Apache 4 1 (1.961 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 4 (7.843 %) Photoshop 2 2 (3.922 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.961 %) MS Visio 3 1 (1.961 %) Acrobat 3 1 (1.961 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (1.961 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 4 (7.843 %) Intranet 1 4 (7.843 %) Internet 2 1 (1.961 %) 3G 2 1 (1.961 %) 2G 2 1 (1.961 %) RNC	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (19.61 %) Datawarehouse 2 9 (17.65 %) Crystal Reports 3 7 (13.73 %) OLAP 4 6 (11.76 %) ETL 4 6 (11.76 %) Base SAS 5 4 (7.843 %) BODI 5 4 (7.843 %) SQL Server 6 3 (5.882 %) SQL Server 2005 6 3 (5.882 %) BusinessObjects XI 7 2 (3.922 %) Oracle Reports 7 2 (3.922 %) Oracle 10g 8 1 (1.961 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 4 (7.843 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (3.922 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 3 (5.882 %) Retail 2 2 (3.922 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 38 (74.51 %) Developer 2 24 (47.06 %) WebSphere Developer 3 6 (11.76 %) SAS Developer 4 5 (9.804 %) Project Manager 5 4 (7.843 %) Business Developer 5 4 (7.843 %) Business Objects Developer 5 4 (7.843 %) ETL Developer 6 3 (5.882 %) Analyst 7 2 (3.922 %) Information Analyst 7 2 (3.922 %) Oracle Developer 7 2 (3.922 %) Business Project Manager 7 2 (3.922 %) Business Manager 8 1 (1.961 %) Business Objects Consultant 8 1 (1.961 %) Performance Engineer 8 1 (1.961 %) Systems Analyst 8 1 (1.961 %) Business Analyst 8 1 (1.961 %) Systems Developer 8 1 (1.961 %) Business Consultant 8 1 (1.961 %) Consultant 8 1 (1.961 %) Network Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (7.843 %) Data Integration 2 1 (1.961 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 24 (47.06 %) Unix 2 5 (9.804 %) Windows 3 1 (1.961 %) AIX 3 1 (1.961 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (11.76 %) Business Intelligence 2 3 (5.882 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (5.882 %) Content Management 3 1 (1.961 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (1.961 %) Systems Analysis 3 1 (1.961 %) Supplier Management 3 1 (1.961 %) SSADM 3 1 (1.961 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (1.961 %) ERP 3 1 (1.961 %) Project Management 3 1 (1.961 %) Regression Testing 3 1 (1.961 %) Validation
Programming Languages 1 26 (50.98 %) Java 2 4 (7.843 %) VB 3 3 (5.882 %) SQL 4 2 (3.922 %) C# 4 2 (3.922 %) C++ 5 1 (1.961 %) Perl 5 1 (1.961 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 1 (1.961 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 1 (1.961 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.961 %) SLA	Vendors 1 51 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 24 (47.06 %) SAP 3 9 (17.65 %) IBM 4 4 (7.843 %) Oracle 5 3 (5.882 %) Microsoft 6 1 (1.961 %) Adobe 6 1 (1.961 %) Citrix 6 1 (1.961 %) Tridion 6 1 (1.961 %) Remedy 6 1 (1.961 %) Google