South West BusinessObjects XI Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Business Objects BusinessObjects XI (BO XI) skills within the South West 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 XI over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Objects BusinessObjects XI (BO XI)
Location Aberdeen Ayr Berkshire Bradford Bristol Canary Wharf Chesterfield City of London Coventry Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dumfries and Galloway East Midlands East of England England Essex Hertfordshire Ipswich Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Scotland Slough South Ayrshire South East South West Suffolk Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wirral Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	125	147
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	10	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	1.101 %	1.331 %
Daily rates quoted	3	7
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£357
Average daily rate	£355	£371
% change on same period last year	-4.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£346
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
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	-	£42.40
% change on same period last year	-
Database & Business Intelligence South West
Matching contract IT job ads	908	1202
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.430 %	1.288 %
Daily rates quoted	260	259
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£322
Average daily rate	£368	£338
% change on same period last year	+8.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£346
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	89	135
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.00	£32.23
Average hourly rate	£25.97	£35.20
% change on same period last year	-26.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.93	£38.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.32	£31.87
% change on same period last year	-14.27 %
BusinessObjects XI 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.

BusinessObjects XI
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing BusinessObjects XI across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

BusinessObjects XI
Daily Rate Trend

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

BusinessObjects XI
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BusinessObjects XI across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

BusinessObjects XI
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessObjects XI within the South West region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Devon	-	2	-	-
Dorset	+21	2	£340	-10.52 %
Bristol	-	1	£325	-

BusinessObjects XI England

BusinessObjects XI
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 15 (93.75 %) Business Objects 1 15 (93.75 %) BusinessObjects 2 7 (43.75 %) SQL 2 7 (43.75 %) Oracle 3 4 (25.00 %) SQL Server 3 4 (25.00 %) Datawarehouse 3 4 (25.00 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4 3 (18.75 %) Business Intelligence 4 3 (18.75 %) Technical Architecture 4 3 (18.75 %) Oracle Reports 5 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 5 2 (12.50 %) Linux 5 2 (12.50 %) VBA 5 2 (12.50 %) Data Modelling 5 2 (12.50 %) ETL

5 2 (12.50 %) Finance 6 1 (6.250 %) Insurance 6 1 (6.250 %) Pensions 6 1 (6.250 %) Teradata 6 1 (6.250 %) Informatica 6 1 (6.250 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 9i

BusinessObjects XI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 15 (93.75 %) BusinessObjects 2 4 (25.00 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 2 4 (25.00 %) Datawarehouse 2 4 (25.00 %) SQL Server 3 3 (18.75 %) Oracle Reports 4 2 (12.50 %) ETL 5 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 9i 5 1 (6.250 %) Crystal Reports	General 1 2 (12.50 %) Finance 2 1 (6.250 %) Insurance 2 1 (6.250 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 13 (81.25 %) Developer 2 11 (68.75 %) Business Developer 3 10 (62.50 %) Business Objects Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) Business Consultant 4 2 (12.50 %) Business Objects Consultant 4 2 (12.50 %) ETL Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) Consultant 5 1 (6.250 %) Report Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Report Writer	Operating Systems 1 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 1 2 (12.50 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) Business Intelligence 1 3 (18.75 %) Technical Architecture 2 2 (12.50 %) Data Modelling	Programming Languages 1 7 (43.75 %) SQL 2 2 (12.50 %) VBA
Vendors 1 15 (93.75 %) Business Objects 2 7 (43.75 %) Oracle 3 1 (6.250 %) Informatica 3 1 (6.250 %) Teradata