The first table below looks at the demand for BusinessObjects XI skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BusinessObjects XI over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Reading region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAP BusinessObjects XI (BOXI)
Rank 68 80 83
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +3
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects XI 2 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.240% 0.359% 0.192%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.370% 3.419% 0.901%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £381
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £314 £363
% change year-on-year
+13.94% -13.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £18.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -57.64%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
146 117 222
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 17.49% 10.49% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 33 115
Average daily rate £375 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £223 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £513 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 8
Average hourly rate £32.50 £11.50 £34.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+182.60% -66.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
BusinessObjects XI
Berkshire

BusinessObjects XI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading BusinessObjects XI Jobs Demand Trend

BusinessObjects XI
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading BusinessObjects XI Daily Rate Trend

BusinessObjects XI
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Business Objects
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Greenplum
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (33.33%) Informatica
3 1 (33.33%) ERwin

BusinessObjects XI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) ERwin
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Informatica ETL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Database Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Informatica Developer
2 1 (33.33%) ETL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (33.33%) Use Case
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Business Objects
2 2 (66.67%) Greenplum
3 1 (33.33%) Informatica