Highlands 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 Highlands 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Ayr Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford 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 Highlands 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 Poole Preston Queensferry Reading Renfrewshire 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 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£343
% change on same period last year	-2.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.72	£34.14
% change on same period last year	-27.58 %
Vendors Highlands
Matching contract IT job ads	7	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.022 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£350
Average daily rate	-	£350
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£14.00
Average hourly rate	£40.25	£14.25
% change on same period last year	+182.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.50	£14.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.41	£24.34
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
Business Objects Scotland

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 Highlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Highlands 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 2 (100.00 %) JavaScript 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL 1 2 (100.00 %) VB 1 2 (100.00 %) .NET 1 2 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 2 (100.00 %) WebServices 1 2 (100.00 %) XML 1 2 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 2 (100.00 %) Oracle Reports 1 2 (100.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (50.00 %) CMS 2 1 (50.00 %) Northgate 2 1 (50.00 %) Capita 2 1 (50.00 %) Content Management Server

2 1 (50.00 %) Internet 2 1 (50.00 %) Extranet 2 1 (50.00 %) CRM 2 1 (50.00 %) Microsoft

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Highlands 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 2 (100.00 %) .NET 1 2 (100.00 %) WebServices 1 2 (100.00 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 1 (50.00 %) Content Management Server 1 1 (50.00 %) CMS
Communications & Networking 1 1 (50.00 %) Internet 1 1 (50.00 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 2 (100.00 %) Oracle Reports 1 2 (100.00 %) BusinessObjects
Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Software Developer 1 2 (100.00 %) Developer	Operating Systems 1 2 (100.00 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (50.00 %) CRM	Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) JavaScript 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL 1 2 (100.00 %) VB
Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 1 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (50.00 %) Northgate 2 1 (50.00 %) Capita