The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Business Objects products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Objects over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors for the Tyne and Wear 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within SAP Business Objects.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Objects
Rank 24 35 26
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -9
Contract jobs citing Business Objects 5 6 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 2.646% 1.791% 3.704%
As % of the Vendors category 5.618% 3.529% 6.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 10
Average daily rate £260 £250 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -21.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.70 £18.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+41.76% -19.44%
All Vendors
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
89 170 150
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 47.09% 50.75% 55.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 83 68
Average daily rate £270 £325 £322
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.92% +1.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £243 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £507 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 5
Average hourly rate £10.50 £20.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.50% +66.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.92 £10.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £50.00 £17.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Business Objects
North East

Business Objects
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Business Objects across the Tyne and Wear region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Tyne and Wear Business Objects Jobs Demand Trend

Business Objects
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Business Objects across the Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear Business Objects Daily Rate Trend

Business Objects
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Business Objects across the Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear Business Objects Hourly Rate Trend

Business Objects
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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
Newcastle upon Tyne +3 4 £260 +4.00%
Sunderland - 1 - -
Business Objects
North East

Business Objects
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 7 (77.78%) UNIX
2 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) Informatica
3 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 6 (66.67%) SSL
3 6 (66.67%) IBM
3 6 (66.67%) Sun
3 6 (66.67%) FileNet
3 6 (66.67%) Workflow
3 6 (66.67%) AIX
3 6 (66.67%) LDAP
3 6 (66.67%) Perl
3 6 (66.67%) Configuration Management
3 6 (66.67%) WebSphere
3 6 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (66.67%) Change Control
4 4 (44.44%) Solaris
5 3 (33.33%) Siebel
5 3 (33.33%) SAP
5 3 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
6 2 (22.22%) Dimensional Modelling
6 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
6 2 (22.22%) ETL
6 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (22.22%) JBoss
6 2 (22.22%) Oracle
6 2 (22.22%) Java

Business Objects
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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.

Application Development
1 6 (66.67%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 6 (66.67%) FileNet
2 2 (22.22%) WebLogic
3 1 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) SSL
1 6 (66.67%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (11.11%) Star Schema
3 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects XI
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Build Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Administrator
1 2 (22.22%) UNIX Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Business Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) UNIX Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Business Objects Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) UNIX
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) AIX
2 6 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (44.44%) Solaris
4 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Workflow
1 6 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 6 (66.67%) Change Control
2 2 (22.22%) Dimensional Modelling
2 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
2 2 (22.22%) ETL
2 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Logistics
3 1 (11.11%) Service Management
3 1 (11.11%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Perl
3 2 (22.22%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Informatica
2 6 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 6 (66.67%) IBM
2 6 (66.67%) Sun
3 3 (33.33%) Siebel
3 3 (33.33%) SAP
4 2 (22.22%) JBoss
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle
5 1 (11.11%) HP
5 1 (11.11%) VMware
5 1 (11.11%) Axway