Midlands BusinessObjects Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO) skills within the Midlands 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	45	56
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	31	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	10.40 %	7.572 %
Daily rates quoted	6	7
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£288
Average daily rate	£349	£323
% change on same period last year	+8.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£352
% change on same period last year	+5.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£21.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.94	£33.14
% change on same period last year	-27.75 %
Database & Business Intelligence Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	298	383
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.397 %	0.387 %
Daily rates quoted	44	54
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£374
Average daily rate	£352	£393
% change on same period last year	-10.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£412
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.65	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£30.62	£30.60
% change on same period last year	+0.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.59	£31.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
BusinessObjects England

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 Midlands 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 Midlands 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 Midlands 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 Midlands region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 88 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 34 (38.64 %) Datawarehouse 3 33 (37.50 %) BusinessObjects XI 4 32 (36.36 %) SQL Server 5 25 (28.41 %) ETL 6 24 (27.27 %) Oracle 7 22 (25.00 %) BODI 8 20 (22.73 %) Migration 9 19 (21.59 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 10 17 (19.32 %) SQL 11 12 (13.64 %) NHS 12 10 (11.36 %) SQL Server 2000 13 9 (10.23 %) Business Intelligence 14 8 (9.091 %) Performance Management 15 7 (7.955 %) Transact-SQL

16 6 (6.818 %) Crystal Reports 17 5 (5.682 %) Finance 17 5 (5.682 %) SQL Server 2005 17 5 (5.682 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 18 4 (4.545 %) Government 18 4 (4.545 %) VB 18 4 (4.545 %) SAP 18 4 (4.545 %) DTS 19 3 (3.409 %) Java 19 3 (3.409 %) .NET 19 3 (3.409 %) Cognos 19 3 (3.409 %) Microsoft 19 3 (3.409 %) Data Extraction 19 3 (3.409 %) Security Cleared 19 3 (3.409 %) Data Migration

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 3 (3.409 %) .NET 2 1 (1.136 %) J2EE 2 1 (1.136 %) ASP 2 1 (1.136 %) WebServices 2 1 (1.136 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.273 %) SAS 2 1 (1.136 %) IIS 2 1 (1.136 %) Apache 2 1 (1.136 %) Tomcat
Business Applications 1 2 (2.273 %) SAP R/3 1 2 (2.273 %) SAP IS-U	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.136 %) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 34 (38.64 %) Datawarehouse 2 33 (37.50 %) BusinessObjects XI 3 32 (36.36 %) SQL Server 4 25 (28.41 %) ETL 5 22 (25.00 %) BODI 6 19 (21.59 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 7 10 (11.36 %) SQL Server 2000 8 6 (6.818 %) Crystal Reports 9 5 (5.682 %) SQL Server 2005 9 5 (5.682 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 4 (4.545 %) DTS 11 2 (2.273 %) Data Mining 11 2 (2.273 %) TOAD 12 1 (1.136 %) RDBMS 12 1 (1.136 %) DataStage 12 1 (1.136 %) SQL Server 7 12 1 (1.136 %) Oracle 9i 12 1 (1.136 %) DB2 12 1 (1.136 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 12 1 (1.136 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 1 (1.136 %) ClearCase 1 1 (1.136 %) Dreamweaver 1 1 (1.136 %) ClearQuest
General 1 5 (5.682 %) Finance 2 4 (4.545 %) Government 3 2 (2.273 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.136 %) Health 4 1 (1.136 %) Local Government 4 1 (1.136 %) Marketing 4 1 (1.136 %) Automotive 4 1 (1.136 %) Construction 4 1 (1.136 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (1.136 %) Front Office	Job Titles 1 40 (45.45 %) Developer 2 29 (32.95 %) Business Developer 2 29 (32.95 %) Business Objects Developer 3 18 (20.45 %) Analyst 4 15 (17.05 %) Consultant 5 13 (14.77 %) Business Consultant 5 13 (14.77 %) Business Objects Consultant 6 9 (10.23 %) Information Analyst 7 4 (4.545 %) Data Analyst 7 4 (4.545 %) NHS Information Analyst 8 3 (3.409 %) Business Objects Specialist 8 3 (3.409 %) Test Analyst 8 3 (3.409 %) Project Manager 8 3 (3.409 %) Business Analyst 9 2 (2.273 %) Report Analyst 9 2 (2.273 %) SQL Developer 9 2 (2.273 %) Implementation Manager 9 2 (2.273 %) SQL Server Developer 9 2 (2.273 %) Business Objects Analyst 10 1 (1.136 %) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 12 (13.64 %) NHS 2 3 (3.409 %) Data Extraction	Operating Systems 1 2 (2.273 %) UNIX 2 1 (1.136 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (22.73 %) Migration 2 9 (10.23 %) Business Intelligence 3 8 (9.091 %) Performance Management 4 3 (3.409 %) Data Migration 4 3 (3.409 %) Security Cleared 5 2 (2.273 %) SC Cleared 5 2 (2.273 %) PRINCE 5 2 (2.273 %) Project Management 5 2 (2.273 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (1.136 %) UML 6 1 (1.136 %) Data Modelling 6 1 (1.136 %) SOA 6 1 (1.136 %) Validation 6 1 (1.136 %) ITIL 6 1 (1.136 %) Data Protection 6 1 (1.136 %) Stakeholder Management 6 1 (1.136 %) Scrum 6 1 (1.136 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (1.136 %) eTOM 6 1 (1.136 %) Integration Testing	Programming Languages 1 17 (19.32 %) SQL 2 7 (7.955 %) Transact-SQL 3 4 (4.545 %) VB 4 3 (3.409 %) Java 5 2 (2.273 %) VBA 5 2 (2.273 %) VB6 6 1 (1.136 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 2 (2.273 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (1.136 %) ISEB	Systems Management 1 1 (1.136 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 88 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 24 (27.27 %) Oracle 3 4 (4.545 %) SAP 4 3 (3.409 %) Cognos 4 3 (3.409 %) Microsoft 5 2 (2.273 %) Remedy 5 2 (2.273 %) ATG 6 1 (1.136 %) Cramer 6 1 (1.136 %) Teradata 6 1 (1.136 %) Kalido 6 1 (1.136 %) Alterian 6 1 (1.136 %) HP 6 1 (1.136 %) Hyperion