Middlesex BusinessObjects Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO) skills within the Middlesex 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 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO)
Location Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford 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 Farnborough Feltham Folkestone Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hull Inverness Ipswich Johnstone Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead 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 Rotherham Rugby Sandwich 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 Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	44
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching contract IT job ads	34	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	32.69 %	5.556 %
Daily rates quoted	8	1
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£250
Average daily rate	£355	£275
% change on same period last year	+28.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£352
% change on same period last year	+5.16 %
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	£23.94	£33.14
% change on same period last year	-27.75 %
Database & Business Intelligence Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	104	90
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.139 %	0.091 %
Daily rates quoted	26	27
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£271
Average daily rate	£355	£291
% change on same period last year	+22.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£311
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£43.83	£24.70
Average hourly rate	£44.67	£28.85
% change on same period last year	+54.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.50	£33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
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.

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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 Middlesex 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 Middlesex 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 Middlesex region over the 3 months to 25 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 Middlesex region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 55 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 43 (78.18 %) Oracle 3 35 (63.64 %) Security Cleared 4 32 (58.18 %) Oracle 10g 5 30 (54.55 %) SC Cleared 6 29 (52.73 %) Crystal Reports 7 28 (50.91 %) Government 8 26 (47.27 %) SQL 9 24 (43.64 %) Oracle 9i 10 21 (38.18 %) PL/SQL 11 16 (29.09 %) Remedy 12 15 (27.27 %) Oracle Reports 13 13 (23.64 %) BMC 13 13 (23.64 %) Remedy ITSM 13 13 (23.64 %) ITSM

14 12 (21.82 %) Data Mining 15 11 (20.00 %) ETL 16 10 (18.18 %) Datawarehouse 16 10 (18.18 %) ITIL 16 10 (18.18 %) Business Intelligence 17 8 (14.55 %) Service Management 18 7 (12.73 %) SQL Server 18 7 (12.73 %) Linux 19 6 (10.91 %) Windows 20 5 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 20 5 (9.091 %) UNIX 21 4 (7.273 %) Solaris 21 4 (7.273 %) ODBC 21 4 (7.273 %) DataStage 21 4 (7.273 %) BusinessObjects XI

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 4 (7.273 %) ODBC 2 2 (3.636 %) J2EE 2 2 (3.636 %) WebServices 3 1 (1.818 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 3 (5.455 %) SAS 2 1 (1.818 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 3 (5.455 %) MS Excel 1 3 (5.455 %) MS Visio 1 3 (5.455 %) MS PowerPoint 1 3 (5.455 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 13 (23.64 %) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.818 %) LAN 1 1 (1.818 %) WAN 1 1 (1.818 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 32 (58.18 %) Oracle 10g 2 29 (52.73 %) Crystal Reports 3 24 (43.64 %) Oracle 9i 4 15 (27.27 %) Oracle Reports 5 12 (21.82 %) Data Mining 6 11 (20.00 %) ETL 7 10 (18.18 %) Datawarehouse 8 7 (12.73 %) SQL Server 9 5 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 10 4 (7.273 %) DataStage 10 4 (7.273 %) BusinessObjects XI 11 2 (3.636 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 11 2 (3.636 %) Data Mart 11 2 (3.636 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 1 (1.818 %) LoadRunner	General 1 28 (50.91 %) Government 2 2 (3.636 %) Telecoms 3 1 (1.818 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 25 (45.45 %) Developer 2 10 (18.18 %) Business Developer 2 10 (18.18 %) Business Objects Developer 3 8 (14.55 %) Crystal Reports Developer 3 8 (14.55 %) Report Developer 3 8 (14.55 %) Business Objects Specialist 4 6 (10.91 %) Consultant 4 6 (10.91 %) Project Manager 5 4 (7.273 %) Oracle Developer 5 4 (7.273 %) Data Mining Consultant 5 4 (7.273 %) Data Consultant 6 3 (5.455 %) Crystal Reports Writer 6 3 (5.455 %) Analyst 7 2 (3.636 %) Software Developer 7 2 (3.636 %) DataStage Developer 8 1 (1.818 %) BI Manager 8 1 (1.818 %) Author 8 1 (1.818 %) Technical Author 8 1 (1.818 %) Analyst Programmer 8 1 (1.818 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.455 %) Management Information System 2 2 (3.636 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 7 (12.73 %) Linux 2 6 (10.91 %) Windows 3 5 (9.091 %) UNIX 4 4 (7.273 %) Solaris 5 1 (1.818 %) AIX 5 1 (1.818 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 35 (63.64 %) Security Cleared 2 30 (54.55 %) SC Cleared 3 13 (23.64 %) ITSM 4 10 (18.18 %) ITIL 4 10 (18.18 %) Business Intelligence 5 8 (14.55 %) Service Management 6 2 (3.636 %) Project Management 6 2 (3.636 %) Incident Management 6 2 (3.636 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (1.818 %) RAD 7 1 (1.818 %) BCP 7 1 (1.818 %) Migration 7 1 (1.818 %) Business Continuity 7 1 (1.818 %) Supplier Management 7 1 (1.818 %) Software Testing 7 1 (1.818 %) Problem Management 7 1 (1.818 %) Performance Testing 7 1 (1.818 %) QMS 7 1 (1.818 %) Quality Management 7 1 (1.818 %) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages 1 26 (47.27 %) SQL 2 21 (38.18 %) PL/SQL 3 3 (5.455 %) Java 4 2 (3.636 %) C++	Qualifications 1 3 (5.455 %) ITIL Certification 2 2 (3.636 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (5.455 %) QA 2 1 (1.818 %) GLP 2 1 (1.818 %) GxP 2 1 (1.818 %) BS15000	Vendors 1 55 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 43 (78.18 %) Oracle 3 16 (29.09 %) Remedy 4 13 (23.64 %) BMC 5 3 (5.455 %) Microsoft 5 3 (5.455 %) Sun 6 1 (1.818 %) IBM