Leeds BusinessObjects XI Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Objects BusinessObjects XI (BO XI) skills within the Leeds region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited BusinessObjects XI over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Objects BusinessObjects XI (BO XI)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Johnstone Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Norwich Poole Reading Renfrewshire Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	72	66
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	6	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	2.034 %	2.193 %
Daily rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum daily rate	£375	-
Average daily rate	£380	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£385	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	£351
% change on same period last year	+3.29 %
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	£30.88	£43.50
% change on same period last year	-29.02 %
Database & Business Intelligence Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	295	228
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.393 %	0.231 %
Daily rates quoted	76	31
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£337
Average daily rate	£301	£361
% change on same period last year	-16.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£316	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.52	£24.28
Average hourly rate	£32.93	£25.47
% change on same period last year	+29.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.33	£26.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
BusinessObjects XI West Yorkshire

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 XI
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing BusinessObjects XI across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

BusinessObjects XI
Daily Rate Trend

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

BusinessObjects XI
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BusinessObjects XI across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

BusinessObjects XI
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 8 (100.00 %) Business Objects 1 8 (100.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 4 (50.00 %) Oracle 3 3 (37.50 %) SQL 4 2 (25.00 %) Insurance 5 1 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (12.50 %) System Testing 5 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 5 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (12.50 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (12.50 %) ETL 5 1 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (12.50 %) Banking 5 1 (12.50 %) Finance

5 1 (12.50 %) Health 5 1 (12.50 %) Validation 5 1 (12.50 %) Migration 5 1 (12.50 %) Oracle OWB

BusinessObjects XI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (100.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 7 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle OWB 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2 1 (12.50 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (12.50 %) ETL 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 10g	General 1 2 (25.00 %) Insurance 2 1 (12.50 %) Finance 2 1 (12.50 %) Health 2 1 (12.50 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 7 (87.50 %) Developer 1 7 (87.50 %) Business Developer 1 7 (87.50 %) Business Objects Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Business Consultant 2 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects Consultant 2 1 (12.50 %) ETL Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Consultant 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Architect 2 1 (12.50 %) Architect	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) Validation 1 1 (12.50 %) Migration 1 1 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 1 (12.50 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) SQL	Vendors 1 8 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 4 (50.00 %) Oracle