Leeds BusinessObjects Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO) 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 job ads that have cited BusinessObjects over the 3 months to 4 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 Coventry 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 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	60	53
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	19	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	6.960 %	6.818 %
Daily rates quoted	8	3
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£383
Average daily rate	£331	£408
% change on same period last year	-19.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£337	£433
UK excluding London average daily rate	£374	£347
% change on same period last year	+7.79 %
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	£23.76	£30.37
% change on same period last year	-21.74 %
Database & Business Intelligence Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	273	220
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.360 %	0.233 %
Daily rates quoted	56	30
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£320
Average daily rate	£314	£339
% change on same period last year	-7.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£327	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.38	£25.50
Average hourly rate	£31.19	£27.16
% change on same period last year	+14.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.00	£28.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.43	£30.86
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
BusinessObjects 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BusinessObjects across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 4 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 BusinessObjects across the Leeds region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 43 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 17 (39.53 %) SQL 3 13 (30.23 %) Oracle 4 9 (20.93 %) BusinessObjects XI 4 9 (20.93 %) VB 5 7 (16.28 %) SQL Server 5 7 (16.28 %) Business Intelligence 5 7 (16.28 %) NHS 6 6 (13.95 %) Datawarehouse 7 5 (11.63 %) Unix 7 5 (11.63 %) Health 8 4 (9.302 %) Finance 8 4 (9.302 %) MS Excel 8 4 (9.302 %) PL/SQL 8 4 (9.302 %) System Testing

8 4 (9.302 %) Data Analysis 8 4 (9.302 %) Business Analysis 9 3 (6.977 %) Insurance 9 3 (6.977 %) Banking 9 3 (6.977 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 3 (6.977 %) TOAD 9 3 (6.977 %) MS Visio 9 3 (6.977 %) Oracle Forms 9 3 (6.977 %) MS Access 9 3 (6.977 %) OLAP 9 3 (6.977 %) Crystal Reports 10 2 (4.651 %) SPSS 10 2 (4.651 %) SQL Server 2000 10 2 (4.651 %) Shell Script 10 2 (4.651 %) MS Office

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 Platforms 1 2 (4.651 %) SAS 2 1 (2.326 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 4 (9.302 %) MS Excel 2 3 (6.977 %) MS Visio 3 2 (4.651 %) SPSS 3 2 (4.651 %) MS Office 4 1 (2.326 %) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.651 %) SSH 2 1 (2.326 %) Broadband	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (20.93 %) BusinessObjects XI 2 7 (16.28 %) SQL Server 3 6 (13.95 %) Datawarehouse 4 3 (6.977 %) MS Access 4 3 (6.977 %) OLAP 4 3 (6.977 %) Crystal Reports 4 3 (6.977 %) TOAD 5 2 (4.651 %) Oracle 10g 5 2 (4.651 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (4.651 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 2 (4.651 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 6 1 (2.326 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (2.326 %) Cognos Powerplay 6 1 (2.326 %) ETL 6 1 (2.326 %) SQLPlus 6 1 (2.326 %) Oracle OWB 6 1 (2.326 %) SQL Server 2005 6 1 (2.326 %) SQL Server 7 6 1 (2.326 %) SQL Navigator 6 1 (2.326 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 3 (6.977 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 5 (11.63 %) Health 2 4 (9.302 %) Finance 3 3 (6.977 %) Banking 3 3 (6.977 %) Insurance 4 2 (4.651 %) Telecoms 5 1 (2.326 %) Local Government 5 1 (2.326 %) International Banking 5 1 (2.326 %) Billing 5 1 (2.326 %) Government
Job Titles 1 19 (44.19 %) Analyst 2 17 (39.53 %) Developer 3 11 (25.58 %) Business Developer 4 10 (23.26 %) Business Objects Developer 5 7 (16.28 %) Business Analyst 6 5 (11.63 %) Applications Support 7 4 (9.302 %) Support Analyst 8 3 (6.977 %) Business Objects Analyst 8 3 (6.977 %) Report Analyst 8 3 (6.977 %) Oracle Developer 9 2 (4.651 %) Architect 9 2 (4.651 %) Consultant 9 2 (4.651 %) Technical Architect 9 2 (4.651 %) Information Analyst 9 2 (4.651 %) Support Manager 10 1 (2.326 %) Applications Support Manager 10 1 (2.326 %) ETL Developer 10 1 (2.326 %) Oracle Forms Developer 10 1 (2.326 %) SQL Developer 10 1 (2.326 %) Business Objects Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 7 (16.28 %) NHS 2 2 (4.651 %) Statistics 3 1 (2.326 %) NPfIT 3 1 (2.326 %) Asset Management
Operating Systems 1 5 (11.63 %) Unix 2 1 (2.326 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (16.28 %) Business Intelligence 2 4 (9.302 %) Data Analysis 2 4 (9.302 %) Business Analysis 2 4 (9.302 %) System Testing 3 3 (6.977 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 2 (4.651 %) Statistical Analysis 4 2 (4.651 %) ITIL 5 1 (2.326 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (2.326 %) Migration 5 1 (2.326 %) Data Management 5 1 (2.326 %) Incident Management 5 1 (2.326 %) Unit Testing
Programming Languages 1 17 (39.53 %) SQL 2 9 (20.93 %) VB 3 4 (9.302 %) PL/SQL 4 2 (4.651 %) Shell Script 5 1 (2.326 %) VB6 5 1 (2.326 %) VBA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.326 %) SLA
Systems Management 1 1 (2.326 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 43 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 13 (30.23 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.326 %) Cognos 3 1 (2.326 %) Microsoft 3 1 (2.326 %) HP 3 1 (2.326 %) Lotus 3 1 (2.326 %) Lawson