Tyne and Wear BusinessObjects Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO) skills within the Tyne and Wear 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO)
Location Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Folkestone Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hull Inverness Ipswich Johnstone Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	15
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching contract IT job ads	10	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.042 %
As % of the category below	11.76 %	28.97 %
Daily rates quoted	2	16
Average minimum daily rate	£405	£342
Average daily rate	£405	£355
% change on same period last year	+14.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£405	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£352
% change on same period last year	+5.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.94	£33.14
% change on same period last year	-27.75 %
Database & Business Intelligence Tyne and Wear
Matching contract IT job ads	85	145
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.113 %	0.147 %
Daily rates quoted	10	32
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£380
Average daily rate	£356	£391
% change on same period last year	-8.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£401
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.50	£26.63
Average hourly rate	£38.13	£27.13
% change on same period last year	+40.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.77	£27.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
BusinessObjects North East

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 Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

BusinessObjects
Hourly Rate Trend

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

BusinessObjects
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessObjects within the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Newcastle Upon Tyne	-3	5	-	-
Newcastle	-14	4	£405	+10.18 %

BusinessObjects North East

BusinessObjects
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 28 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 20 (71.43 %) Oracle 3 19 (67.86 %) ETL 3 19 (67.86 %) BusinessObjects XI 3 19 (67.86 %) Dimensional Modelling 4 16 (57.14 %) Datawarehouse 5 14 (50.00 %) SQL 6 11 (39.29 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 7 9 (32.14 %) Data Management 8 7 (25.00 %) Government 8 7 (25.00 %) SQL Server 8 7 (25.00 %) Business Intelligence 8 7 (25.00 %) Business Analysis 9 6 (21.43 %) Crystal Reports 9 6 (21.43 %) Service Management

10 5 (17.86 %) RDBMS 10 5 (17.86 %) Data Analysis 11 3 (10.71 %) BODI 11 3 (10.71 %) Service Delivery 12 2 (7.143 %) Migration 12 2 (7.143 %) PL/SQL 12 2 (7.143 %) Project Management 12 2 (7.143 %) Oracle Reports 12 2 (7.143 %) Data Mart 12 2 (7.143 %) Security Cleared 12 2 (7.143 %) Telecoms 13 1 (3.571 %) Network Design 13 1 (3.571 %) Pensions 13 1 (3.571 %) Technical Architecture 13 1 (3.571 %) User Acceptance Testing

BusinessObjects
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 Development 1 1 (3.571 %) .NET 1 1 (3.571 %) ASP	Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) MS Office 1 1 (3.571 %) MS Excel 1 1 (3.571 %) MS Visio
Business Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) Oracle 11i 1 1 (3.571 %) Oracle EBS 1 1 (3.571 %) Oracle CRM 1 1 (3.571 %) Oracle Applications	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.571 %) IPCC 1 1 (3.571 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (67.86 %) ETL 1 19 (67.86 %) BusinessObjects XI 2 16 (57.14 %) Datawarehouse 3 11 (39.29 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4 7 (25.00 %) SQL Server 5 6 (21.43 %) Crystal Reports 6 5 (17.86 %) RDBMS 7 3 (10.71 %) BODI 8 2 (7.143 %) Data Mart 8 2 (7.143 %) Oracle Reports 9 1 (3.571 %) Oracle 8/8i	Development Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 7 (25.00 %) Government 2 2 (7.143 %) Telecoms 3 1 (3.571 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 10 (35.71 %) Developer 2 9 (32.14 %) Consultant 3 8 (28.57 %) Business Developer 3 8 (28.57 %) Business Objects Developer 3 8 (28.57 %) Business Consultant 3 8 (28.57 %) Business Objects Consultant 4 5 (17.86 %) Lead Developer 5 1 (3.571 %) Datawarehouse Consultant 5 1 (3.571 %) Oracle Developer 5 1 (3.571 %) Solutions Designer 5 1 (3.571 %) Analyst 5 1 (3.571 %) Datawarehouse Specialist 5 1 (3.571 %) Datawarehouse Analyst 5 1 (3.571 %) Security Designer 5 1 (3.571 %) Business Intelligence Specialist 5 1 (3.571 %) Business Objects Specialist
Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (67.86 %) Dimensional Modelling 2 9 (32.14 %) Data Management 3 7 (25.00 %) Business Intelligence 3 7 (25.00 %) Business Analysis 4 6 (21.43 %) Service Management 5 5 (17.86 %) Data Analysis 6 3 (10.71 %) Service Delivery 7 2 (7.143 %) Migration 7 2 (7.143 %) Project Management 7 2 (7.143 %) Security Cleared 8 1 (3.571 %) Technical Architecture 8 1 (3.571 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 1 (3.571 %) ERD 8 1 (3.571 %) SC Cleared 8 1 (3.571 %) CRM 8 1 (3.571 %) Network Design	Programming Languages 1 14 (50.00 %) SQL 2 2 (7.143 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (3.571 %) VB
Vendors 1 28 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 20 (71.43 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.571 %) Microsoft