Northamptonshire BusinessObjects Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO) skills within the Northamptonshire 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 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clydebank County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dumfries and Galloway East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Horley Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Paddington Poole Preston Reading Runcorn Salford Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	20	32
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	6	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	28.57 %	11.43 %
Daily rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£250
Average daily rate	£323	£290
% change on same period last year	+11.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£327	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£350
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.00	-
Average hourly rate	£27.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.84	£23.85
% change on same period last year	+16.75 %
Database & Business Intelligence Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	21	70
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.088 %
Daily rates quoted	6	25
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£374
Average daily rate	£320	£382
% change on same period last year	-16.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£351
% change on same period last year	-4.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.60	£21.50
Average hourly rate	£27.30	£23.55
% change on same period last year	+15.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£25.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.93	£31.34
% change on same period last year	-17.26 %
BusinessObjects East Midlands

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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009.

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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 Northamptonshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BusinessObjects across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessObjects within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Northampton	+8	5	£335	+15.51 %

BusinessObjects East Midlands

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 6 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 5 (83.33 %) Oracle 3 3 (50.00 %) Crystal Reports 3 3 (50.00 %) Oracle Reports 3 3 (50.00 %) Actuate 4 2 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects XI 4 2 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4 2 (33.33 %) Capita 4 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server 5 1 (16.67 %) Summit 5 1 (16.67 %) Retail 5 1 (16.67 %) Local Government 5 1 (16.67 %) Government

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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.

Business Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) Summit	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (50.00 %) Crystal Reports 1 3 (50.00 %) Oracle Reports 2 2 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects XI 2 2 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 2 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server
General 1 1 (16.67 %) Government 1 1 (16.67 %) Retail 1 1 (16.67 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 5 (83.33 %) Developer 2 3 (50.00 %) Report Developer 3 2 (33.33 %) Crystal Reports Developer 4 1 (16.67 %) Trainer 4 1 (16.67 %) Business Developer 4 1 (16.67 %) Business Objects Developer
Vendors 1 6 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 5 (83.33 %) Oracle 3 3 (50.00 %) Actuate 4 2 (33.33 %) Capita