England BusinessObjects Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO) skills within the England region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BusinessObjects over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crewe Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Exmouth Farnborough Fife Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenock Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Inverclyde Kent Kettering Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Market Harborough Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Powys Preston Reading Rotherham Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shepton Mallet Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Woodstock Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	149	125
Rank change on same period last year	-24
Matching permanent IT job ads	2444	3671
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.287 %	1.506 %
As % of the category below	5.159 %	6.631 %
Salaries quoted	2013	3007
Average minimum salary	£40,463	£42,345
Average salary	£44,604	£46,541
% change on same period last year	-4.16 %
Average maximum salary	£48,745	£50,738
UK excluding London average salary	£41,750	£44,483
% change on same period last year	-6.14 %
Database & Business Intelligence England
Matching permanent IT job ads	47374	55363
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	24.95 %	22.71 %
Salaries quoted	40811	45946
Average minimum salary	£38,097	£38,892
Average salary	£41,467	£42,382
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
Average maximum salary	£44,837	£45,872
UK excluding London average salary	£37,130	£38,079
% change on same period last year	-2.49 %
BusinessObjects UK

BusinessObjects
Demand Trend

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

BusinessObjects
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing BusinessObjects across the England region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BusinessObjects across the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessObjects within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	-38	1063	£48,777	-3.67 %
South East	+4	624	£44,849	-1.74 %
South West	+27	195	£36,603	-1.85 %
North West	-29	169	£36,386	-18.21 %
West Midlands	-6	155	£37,882	+1.97 %
East of England	-19	90	£41,353	+4.80 %
Yorkshire	-18	58	£38,759	-1.28 %
East Midlands	-53	46	£37,038	+9.10 %
Midlands	-9	35	£59,250	+33.80 %
North East	+15	23	£33,174	-3.06 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited BusinessObjects.

1 5278 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 2263 (42.88 %) Business Intelligence 3 2062 (39.07 %) SQL 4 1918 (36.34 %) Oracle 5 1773 (33.59 %) Datawarehouse 6 1671 (31.66 %) SQL Server 7 1437 (27.23 %) Finance 8 1289 (24.42 %) Cognos 9 912 (17.28 %) ETL 10 691 (13.09 %) Crystal Reports 11 660 (12.50 %) Microsoft 12 622 (11.78 %) SAS 13 526 (9.966 %) Degree 14 520 (9.852 %) Hyperion 15 506 (9.587 %) .NET

16 497 (9.416 %) MS Excel 17 471 (8.924 %) Informatica 18 467 (8.848 %) PL/SQL 19 463 (8.772 %) SQL Server 2005 20 441 (8.355 %) UNIX 21 436 (8.261 %) Marketing 22 433 (8.204 %) BusinessObjects XI 23 404 (7.654 %) Project Management 24 400 (7.579 %) SAP 25 387 (7.332 %) OLAP 26 380 (7.200 %) Data Modelling 27 343 (6.499 %) Windows 28 339 (6.423 %) Business Analysis 29 334 (6.328 %) Retail 30 332 (6.290 %) Oracle Reports

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited BusinessObjects. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 506 (9.587 %) .NET 2 206 (3.903 %) XML 3 188 (3.562 %) WebServices 3 188 (3.562 %) ASP 4 173 (3.278 %) ASP.NET 5 165 (3.126 %) J2EE 6 127 (2.406 %) WebSphere 7 114 (2.160 %) HTML 8 58 (1.099 %) CSS 9 48 (0.909 %) Middleware 10 42 (0.796 %) .NET Framework 11 30 (0.568 %) MDX 12 28 (0.531 %) WinForms 13 24 (0.455 %) AJAX 14 21 (0.398 %) SOAP 15 19 (0.360 %) ADO.NET 16 18 (0.341 %) Hibernate 17 17 (0.322 %) XSLT 17 17 (0.322 %) ASP.NET 2.0 18 15 (0.284 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 622 (11.78 %) SAS 2 103 (1.951 %) IIS 3 102 (1.933 %) WebLogic 4 90 (1.705 %) Apache 5 62 (1.175 %) SharePoint 6 60 (1.137 %) Tomcat 7 49 (0.928 %) Oracle Application Server 8 37 (0.701 %) WebSphere Application Server 9 27 (0.512 %) MS Exchange 10 25 (0.474 %) Oracle Workflow 11 23 (0.436 %) BizTalk Server 12 20 (0.379 %) CMS 13 17 (0.322 %) Lotus Notes 14 15 (0.284 %) Documentum 14 15 (0.284 %) NetWeaver 15 13 (0.246 %) Lotus Domino 16 12 (0.227 %) Exchange Server 2003 17 10 (0.189 %) ColdFusion 18 8 (0.152 %) JBoss 19 7 (0.133 %) MQSeries
Applications 1 497 (9.416 %) MS Excel 2 219 (4.149 %) MS Office 3 128 (2.425 %) SPSS 4 119 (2.255 %) MS Visio 5 48 (0.909 %) MS PowerPoint 6 40 (0.758 %) MS Project 7 35 (0.663 %) Spreadsheet 8 11 (0.208 %) CA Clarity 9 7 (0.133 %) MATLAB 10 6 (0.114 %) Fireworks 10 6 (0.114 %) Photoshop 11 4 (0.076 %) InfoPath 12 3 (0.057 %) FreeHand 13 2 (0.038 %) Acrobat 14 1 (0.019 %) S-PLUS	Business Applications 1 77 (1.459 %) Oracle EBS 2 74 (1.402 %) HFM 3 50 (0.947 %) Oracle Applications 4 49 (0.928 %) Hyperion Enterprise 5 41 (0.777 %) Cognos Planning 6 37 (0.701 %) Hyperion Planning 7 31 (0.587 %) Oracle Financials 8 28 (0.531 %) Cognos Controller 9 25 (0.474 %) Dynamics CRM 9 25 (0.474 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 10 22 (0.417 %) GoldMine 11 20 (0.379 %) Siebel Analytics 11 20 (0.379 %) Oracle 11i 12 18 (0.341 %) Endur 13 17 (0.322 %) Khalix 13 17 (0.322 %) Remedy ITSM 14 15 (0.284 %) Line 500 14 15 (0.284 %) Microsoft CRM 15 12 (0.227 %) Great Plains 16 11 (0.208 %) Oracle HRMS
Communications & Networking 1 163 (3.088 %) Internet 2 59 (1.118 %) 3G 3 57 (1.080 %) HTTP 4 46 (0.872 %) Intranet 5 35 (0.663 %) TCP/IP 6 29 (0.549 %) DNS 6 29 (0.549 %) DHCP 7 26 (0.493 %) SAN 8 20 (0.379 %) Wireless 8 20 (0.379 %) GPRS 9 15 (0.284 %) LAN 9 15 (0.284 %) WAN 10 14 (0.265 %) GSM 11 9 (0.171 %) 2G 11 9 (0.171 %) TETRA 12 7 (0.133 %) Firewall 12 7 (0.133 %) Wi-Fi 12 7 (0.133 %) SSL 13 5 (0.095 %) LDAP 14 4 (0.076 %) Broadband	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1773 (33.59 %) Datawarehouse 2 1671 (31.66 %) SQL Server 3 912 (17.28 %) ETL 4 691 (13.09 %) Crystal Reports 5 463 (8.772 %) SQL Server 2005 6 433 (8.204 %) BusinessObjects XI 7 387 (7.332 %) OLAP 8 332 (6.290 %) Oracle Reports 9 325 (6.158 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 304 (5.760 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 11 282 (5.343 %) SQL Server 2000 12 220 (4.168 %) DTS 13 203 (3.846 %) DB2 14 198 (3.751 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 15 197 (3.732 %) Oracle 10g 16 196 (3.714 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 17 192 (3.638 %) RDBMS 18 182 (3.448 %) Oracle 8/8i 19 177 (3.354 %) BODI 20 169 (3.202 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 152 (2.880 %) Oracle Forms 2 68 (1.288 %) ERwin 3 45 (0.853 %) Dreamweaver 4 29 (0.549 %) Visual Studio 5 27 (0.512 %) Rational Rose 6 21 (0.398 %) PowerBuilder 7 19 (0.360 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 18 (0.341 %) Oracle APEX 9 13 (0.246 %) Flash 9 13 (0.246 %) TestDirector 10 12 (0.227 %) Oracle Developer 2000 11 10 (0.189 %) NUnit 12 9 (0.171 %) Oracle Designer/2000 13 8 (0.152 %) LoadRunner 13 8 (0.152 %) WinRunner 14 6 (0.114 %) ClearQuest 15 5 (0.095 %) ClearCase 16 3 (0.057 %) Ant 16 3 (0.057 %) JIRA 17 2 (0.038 %) Visual Studio Team System	General 1 1437 (27.23 %) Finance 2 436 (8.261 %) Marketing 3 334 (6.328 %) Retail 4 312 (5.911 %) Telecoms 5 287 (5.438 %) Insurance 6 271 (5.135 %) Health 7 257 (4.869 %) Pensions 8 250 (4.737 %) Banking 9 221 (4.187 %) Education 10 128 (2.425 %) Government 11 97 (1.838 %) Front Office 12 94 (1.781 %) Investment Banking 13 61 (1.156 %) Pharmaceutical 14 54 (1.023 %) Back Office 15 53 (1.004 %) Financial Institution 16 45 (0.853 %) Billing 17 41 (0.777 %) Manufacturing 18 40 (0.758 %) Legal 19 39 (0.739 %) Law 20 31 (0.587 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 1792 (33.95 %) Analyst 2 1226 (23.23 %) Developer 3 1068 (20.23 %) Consultant 4 634 (12.01 %) Business Analyst 5 463 (8.772 %) Business Developer 6 446 (8.450 %) Business Consultant 7 418 (7.920 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 8 373 (7.067 %) Business Objects Developer 9 244 (4.623 %) Data Analyst 9 244 (4.623 %) Architect 10 202 (3.827 %) Business Intelligence Analyst 11 190 (3.600 %) Report Analyst 12 170 (3.221 %) Business Objects Consultant 13 145 (2.747 %) Senior Consultant 14 141 (2.671 %) Support Analyst 15 139 (2.634 %) Senior Analyst 16 137 (2.596 %) Programmer 17 134 (2.539 %) Business Intelligence Developer 18 132 (2.501 %) Systems Analyst 19 129 (2.444 %) Oracle Developer	Miscellaneous 1 219 (4.149 %) Management Information System 2 75 (1.421 %) Credit Risk 3 64 (1.213 %) Statistics 4 57 (1.080 %) Mainframe 5 55 (1.042 %) Data Extraction 6 46 (0.872 %) N-Tier 7 38 (0.720 %) Computer Science 8 33 (0.625 %) Data Integration 9 31 (0.587 %) Mathematics 9 31 (0.587 %) NHS 10 30 (0.568 %) French Language 11 29 (0.549 %) Derivative 12 26 (0.493 %) AS400 13 25 (0.474 %) Equities 14 24 (0.455 %) German Language 15 22 (0.417 %) Client/Server 16 20 (0.379 %) Informatics 17 16 (0.303 %) Tandem 17 16 (0.303 %) Clustering 18 15 (0.284 %) Fixed Income
Operating Systems 1 441 (8.355 %) UNIX 2 343 (6.499 %) Windows 3 78 (1.478 %) Solaris 4 68 (1.288 %) Windows NT 5 52 (0.985 %) Linux 6 50 (0.947 %) Windows XP 7 42 (0.796 %) AIX 8 31 (0.587 %) Windows 2000 9 26 (0.493 %) Windows Server 2003 10 13 (0.246 %) Windows Mobile 10 13 (0.246 %) HPUX 11 9 (0.171 %) zOS 12 4 (0.076 %) MVS 12 4 (0.076 %) Mac OS X 13 1 (0.019 %) VMS 13 1 (0.019 %) OpenVMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 2263 (42.88 %) Business Intelligence 2 404 (7.654 %) Project Management 3 380 (7.200 %) Data Modelling 4 339 (6.423 %) Business Analysis 5 287 (5.438 %) Data Analysis 6 272 (5.153 %) CRM 7 229 (4.339 %) Data Management 8 190 (3.600 %) ITIL 9 182 (3.448 %) Migration 10 171 (3.240 %) Performance Management 11 159 (3.013 %) SOA 12 133 (2.520 %) ERP 13 110 (2.084 %) Systems Analysis 14 109 (2.065 %) UML 15 107 (2.027 %) Security Cleared 16 101 (1.914 %) Asset Management 17 100 (1.895 %) Data Migration 18 96 (1.819 %) Technical Architecture 19 95 (1.800 %) Service Management 20 91 (1.724 %) Risk Management
Programming Languages 1 2062 (39.07 %) SQL 2 467 (8.848 %) PL/SQL 3 323 (6.120 %) VBA 4 301 (5.703 %) C# 5 289 (5.476 %) VB 6 276 (5.229 %) Java 7 268 (5.078 %) Transact-SQL 8 155 (2.937 %) C 9 106 (2.008 %) JavaScript 10 102 (1.933 %) VB.NET 11 75 (1.421 %) Shell Script 12 70 (1.326 %) C++ 13 55 (1.042 %) VBScript 14 44 (0.834 %) ABAP 15 33 (0.625 %) VB6 16 22 (0.417 %) SAS Macro 16 22 (0.417 %) PHP 17 19 (0.360 %) Perl 18 18 (0.341 %) COBOL 19 17 (0.322 %) Python	Qualifications 1 526 (9.966 %) Degree 2 46 (0.872 %) ACCA 3 40 (0.758 %) CIMA 4 35 (0.663 %) Microsoft Certification 5 28 (0.531 %) ITIL Certification 6 25 (0.474 %) ISEB 7 20 (0.379 %) MCDBA 8 19 (0.360 %) MCTS 9 17 (0.322 %) Oracle Certification 10 15 (0.284 %) OCP 11 11 (0.208 %) PRINCE2 Certification 12 10 (0.189 %) MCSE 13 9 (0.171 %) MCSD 14 8 (0.152 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 15 7 (0.133 %) ISTQB 15 7 (0.133 %) MCSA 15 7 (0.133 %) SAP Certification 16 6 (0.114 %) MCITP 17 5 (0.095 %) MCAD 18 3 (0.057 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 70 (1.326 %) QA 2 44 (0.834 %) SLA 3 27 (0.512 %) ISO27001 4 18 (0.341 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 17 (0.322 %) Basel II 6 13 (0.246 %) GxP 7 8 (0.152 %) ISO9001 8 4 (0.076 %) 21 CFR Part 11 8 4 (0.076 %) CDISC 8 4 (0.076 %) BS25999 9 2 (0.038 %) COBIT	System Software 1 62 (1.175 %) Active Directory 2 22 (0.417 %) NetBackup 2 22 (0.417 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 11 (0.208 %) Oracle RAC 3 11 (0.208 %) MetaFrame 4 4 (0.076 %) Backup Exec 5 3 (0.057 %) Oracle RMAN 5 3 (0.057 %) MSMQ 6 1 (0.019 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 26 (0.493 %) MOM 2 24 (0.455 %) OpenView 3 11 (0.208 %) AutoSys 4 4 (0.076 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 4 (0.076 %) SCOM 5 3 (0.057 %) Tivoli 5 3 (0.057 %) OVSD 6 1 (0.019 %) Netcool/Webtop 6 1 (0.019 %) Netcool 6 1 (0.019 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 6 1 (0.019 %) BMC PATROL 6 1 (0.019 %) Legato	Vendors 1 5278 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 1918 (36.34 %) Oracle 3 1289 (24.42 %) Cognos 4 660 (12.50 %) Microsoft 5 520 (9.852 %) Hyperion 6 471 (8.924 %) Informatica 7 400 (7.579 %) SAP 8 310 (5.873 %) Ab Initio 9 213 (4.036 %) Teradata 10 152 (2.880 %) Sybase 11 133 (2.520 %) MicroStrategy 12 126 (2.387 %) Siebel 13 97 (1.838 %) Ascential 14 91 (1.724 %) IBM 15 88 (1.667 %) PeopleSoft 16 87 (1.648 %) Kalido 17 86 (1.629 %) BEA 18 70 (1.326 %) OutlookSoft 19 64 (1.213 %) HP 20 61 (1.156 %) ProClarity