Shropshire Business Objects Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Business Objects products and/or services in IT contracts within the Shropshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Objects over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Ayr Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clydebank County Antrim Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dumfries and Galloway East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guernsey Hampshire Hertfordshire Horley Hove Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Poole Preston Reading Romford Runcorn Salford Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	22
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	7	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	7.368 %	12.09 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£225
Average daily rate	£388	£240
% change on same period last year	+61.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£255
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£339
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
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	£20.20	£31.93
% change on same period last year	-36.74 %
Vendors Shropshire
Matching contract IT job ads	95	91
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.151 %	0.097 %
Daily rates quoted	28	39
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£286
Average daily rate	£370	£297
% change on same period last year	+24.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.48	£28.37
Average hourly rate	£18.81	£30.87
% change on same period last year	-39.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.15	£33.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.86	£24.15
% change on same period last year	-1.20 %
Business Objects West 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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Business Objects SA.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Objects across the Shropshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors 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 Business Objects across the Shropshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Business Objects across the Shropshire region.

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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 Business Objects within the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 1 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Telford	-3	6	£388	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire region citing Business Objects 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 Business Objects.

1 13 (100.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 5 (38.46 %) Finance 3 4 (30.77 %) CA Clarity 4 3 (23.08 %) Government 4 3 (23.08 %) Risk Management 5 2 (15.38 %) Shell Script 5 2 (15.38 %) Project Management 5 2 (15.38 %) SQL 5 2 (15.38 %) Oracle 5 2 (15.38 %) MS Office 5 2 (15.38 %) UNIX 5 2 (15.38 %) ClearCase 5 2 (15.38 %) Data Modelling 5 2 (15.38 %) Rational Rose 5 2 (15.38 %) RUP

5 2 (15.38 %) MS Excel 5 2 (15.38 %) HP 5 2 (15.38 %) Systems Analysis 5 2 (15.38 %) Open Workbench 6 1 (7.692 %) COOL:Gen 6 1 (7.692 %) ServiceCenter 6 1 (7.692 %) Java 6 1 (7.692 %) MS Access 6 1 (7.692 %) ISO9001 6 1 (7.692 %) Windows 6 1 (7.692 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (7.692 %) UML 6 1 (7.692 %) ITIL 6 1 (7.692 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (7.692 %) PRINCE2 Certification

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Shropshire region citing Business Objects 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 Business Objects. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 4 (30.77 %) CA Clarity 2 2 (15.38 %) MS Office 2 2 (15.38 %) MS Excel 2 2 (15.38 %) Open Workbench	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (100.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (7.692 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 2 (15.38 %) ClearCase 1 2 (15.38 %) Rational Rose 2 1 (7.692 %) COOL:Gen	General 1 5 (38.46 %) Finance 2 3 (23.08 %) Government 3 1 (7.692 %) Legal 3 1 (7.692 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 7 (53.85 %) Analyst 2 3 (23.08 %) PMO Analyst 3 2 (15.38 %) Software Engineer 3 2 (15.38 %) Requirements Analyst 3 2 (15.38 %) Consultant 3 2 (15.38 %) Project Manager 3 2 (15.38 %) Senior Analyst 4 1 (7.692 %) Business Consultant 4 1 (7.692 %) Project Analyst 4 1 (7.692 %) Business Objects Consultant 4 1 (7.692 %) Operations Analyst 4 1 (7.692 %) Business Analyst 4 1 (7.692 %) Technical Consultant 4 1 (7.692 %) Telecoms Business Analyst	Operating Systems 1 2 (15.38 %) UNIX 2 1 (7.692 %) Windows 2 1 (7.692 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (23.08 %) Risk Management 2 2 (15.38 %) Systems Analysis 2 2 (15.38 %) RUP 2 2 (15.38 %) Data Modelling 2 2 (15.38 %) Project Management 3 1 (7.692 %) ITIL 3 1 (7.692 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (7.692 %) UML	Programming Languages 1 2 (15.38 %) SQL 1 2 (15.38 %) Shell Script 2 1 (7.692 %) Java
Qualifications 1 1 (7.692 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.692 %) ISO9001
Systems Management 1 1 (7.692 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 2 (15.38 %) Oracle 1 2 (15.38 %) HP 2 1 (7.692 %) CheckPoint