Suffolk BusinessObjects Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO) skills within the Suffolk 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO)
Location Aberdeen Ayr Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Preston Queensferry Reading Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	32
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	9	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	27.27 %	5.000 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£300	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£346
% change on same period last year	-0.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.93	£33.44
% change on same period last year	-25.43 %
Database & Business Intelligence Suffolk
Matching contract IT job ads	33	40
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.046 %	0.040 %
Daily rates quoted	5	12
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£285
Average daily rate	£296	£293
% change on same period last year	+1.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£298	£301
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£350
% change on same period last year	-1.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.78	£23.00
Average hourly rate	£26.78	£25.25
% change on same period last year	+6.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.78	£27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.29	£31.81
% change on same period last year	-4.77 %
BusinessObjects East of 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
Demand Trend

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

BusinessObjects
Daily Rate Trend

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

BusinessObjects
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BusinessObjects across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

BusinessObjects
Hourly Rate Trend

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

BusinessObjects
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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 6 October 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
Ipswich	-	8	£300	-

BusinessObjects East of England

BusinessObjects
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 9 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 4 (44.44 %) Insurance 2 4 (44.44 %) BusinessObjects XI 3 3 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 3 3 (33.33 %) Pensions 4 2 (22.22 %) Project Management 4 2 (22.22 %) SQL 4 2 (22.22 %) MS Access 4 2 (22.22 %) MS PowerPoint 4 2 (22.22 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (11.11 %) Degree 5 1 (11.11 %) Finance 5 1 (11.11 %) SharePoint 5 1 (11.11 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (11.11 %) ERP

5 1 (11.11 %) SAP BW 5 1 (11.11 %) Internet 5 1 (11.11 %) Oracle 5 1 (11.11 %) Crystal Reports 5 1 (11.11 %) SAP 5 1 (11.11 %) Windows 5 1 (11.11 %) Kalido

BusinessObjects
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 Platforms 1 1 (11.11 %) SharePoint	Applications 1 2 (22.22 %) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking 1 1 (11.11 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (44.44 %) BusinessObjects XI 2 3 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 3 2 (22.22 %) MS Access 4 1 (11.11 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (11.11 %) SAP BW 4 1 (11.11 %) Crystal Reports
General 1 4 (44.44 %) Insurance 2 3 (33.33 %) Pensions 3 1 (11.11 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 5 (55.56 %) Developer 2 4 (44.44 %) Business Developer 2 4 (44.44 %) Business Objects Developer 3 3 (33.33 %) Analyst 3 3 (33.33 %) Business Analyst 4 1 (11.11 %) IT Manager 4 1 (11.11 %) Information Analyst 4 1 (11.11 %) Crystal Reports Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) Management Information Analyst 4 1 (11.11 %) MI Analyst 4 1 (11.11 %) Report Developer
Operating Systems 1 1 (11.11 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (22.22 %) Project Management 1 2 (22.22 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (11.11 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 2 (22.22 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (11.11 %) Degree
Vendors 1 9 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 1 (11.11 %) SAP 2 1 (11.11 %) Kalido 2 1 (11.11 %) Oracle