Kent 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 Kent region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Business Objects over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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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 Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent 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 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	48
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	14	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	6.140 %	2.190 %
Daily rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£316
Average daily rate	£563	£326
% change on same period last year	+72.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£675	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£347
% change on same period last year	+9.29 %
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	£23.80	£30.56
% change on same period last year	-22.10 %
Vendors Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	228	274
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.301 %	0.287 %
Daily rates quoted	54	49
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£272
Average daily rate	£310	£282
% change on same period last year	+9.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£292
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£357
% change on same period last year	+1.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.05	£20.74
Average hourly rate	£24.27	£22.67
% change on same period last year	+7.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.50	£24.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.01	£25.11
% change on same period last year	-8.37 %
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 Kent 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 Kent region.

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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 Kent 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 job ads citing Business Objects within the Kent region over the 3 months to 8 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
Chatham	-	4	-	-
Maidstone	-	1	-	-
Folkestone	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 23 (100.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 8 (34.78 %) Oracle 2 8 (34.78 %) Datawarehouse 3 6 (26.09 %) Oracle Reports 3 6 (26.09 %) Client/Server 3 6 (26.09 %) PRINCE2 4 5 (21.74 %) Finance 4 5 (21.74 %) Insurance 4 5 (21.74 %) Degree 5 4 (17.39 %) Mainframe 5 4 (17.39 %) Microsoft 5 4 (17.39 %) SQL 6 3 (13.04 %) SQL Server 6 3 (13.04 %) Crystal Reports 6 3 (13.04 %) MS Excel

6 3 (13.04 %) DTS 6 3 (13.04 %) Business Intelligence 6 3 (13.04 %) Pharmaceutical 6 3 (13.04 %) Project Management 7 2 (8.696 %) Brio 7 2 (8.696 %) Banking 7 2 (8.696 %) Orchard 7 2 (8.696 %) SQL Server 2005 7 2 (8.696 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 2 (8.696 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 2 (8.696 %) SAN 7 2 (8.696 %) Ariba 7 2 (8.696 %) SQL Server 2000 7 2 (8.696 %) MS Visio 7 2 (8.696 %) Documentum

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 Platforms 1 2 (8.696 %) Documentum 1 2 (8.696 %) SAS	Applications 1 3 (13.04 %) MS Excel 2 2 (8.696 %) MS Visio 2 2 (8.696 %) MS Office 3 1 (4.348 %) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking 1 2 (8.696 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 23 (100.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 8 (34.78 %) Datawarehouse 3 6 (26.09 %) Oracle Reports 4 3 (13.04 %) SQL Server 4 3 (13.04 %) Crystal Reports 4 3 (13.04 %) DTS 5 2 (8.696 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (8.696 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 2 (8.696 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (8.696 %) ETL 6 1 (4.348 %) MS Access 6 1 (4.348 %) SAP BI 6 1 (4.348 %) OLTP 6 1 (4.348 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (4.348 %) BODI 6 1 (4.348 %) Data Mart 6 1 (4.348 %) Hyperion Essbase 6 1 (4.348 %) BusinessObjects XI
General 1 5 (21.74 %) Finance 1 5 (21.74 %) Insurance 2 3 (13.04 %) Pharmaceutical 3 2 (8.696 %) Banking 4 1 (4.348 %) Government 4 1 (4.348 %) Health 4 1 (4.348 %) Legal	Job Titles 1 8 (34.78 %) Developer 2 6 (26.09 %) Business Objects Developer 2 6 (26.09 %) Business Developer 3 3 (13.04 %) Implementation Manager 3 3 (13.04 %) Applications Support 3 3 (13.04 %) Administrator 4 2 (8.696 %) Database Developer 4 2 (8.696 %) SQL Developer 4 2 (8.696 %) SQL Server Developer 4 2 (8.696 %) Analyst 4 2 (8.696 %) Data Manager 4 2 (8.696 %) Information Manager 4 2 (8.696 %) Project Manager 4 2 (8.696 %) Systems Administrator 5 1 (4.348 %) Delivery Project Manager 5 1 (4.348 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (4.348 %) Report Developer 5 1 (4.348 %) SAP Support 5 1 (4.348 %) SAP Support Analyst 5 1 (4.348 %) Business Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 6 (26.09 %) Client/Server 2 4 (17.39 %) Mainframe 3 1 (4.348 %) Management Information System 3 1 (4.348 %) Data Integration	Operating Systems 1 2 (8.696 %) Unix 2 1 (4.348 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (26.09 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (13.04 %) Business Intelligence 2 3 (13.04 %) Project Management 3 1 (4.348 %) ITIL 3 1 (4.348 %) Change Management 3 1 (4.348 %) Migration 3 1 (4.348 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 4 (17.39 %) SQL 2 2 (8.696 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 5 (21.74 %) Degree 2 2 (8.696 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (4.348 %) ITIL Certification	Vendors 1 8 (34.78 %) Oracle 2 4 (17.39 %) Microsoft 3 2 (8.696 %) Brio 3 2 (8.696 %) Orchard 3 2 (8.696 %) Ariba 3 2 (8.696 %) SAP