The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Business Objects products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Objects over the 3 months to 17 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 Guildford region.

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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Objects
Rank 83 77 45
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -32
Permanent jobs citing Business Objects 4 7 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 0.449% 0.971% 2.466%
As % of the Vendors category 1.120% 2.846% 6.875%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 11
Average salary £40,500 £39,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.84% +4.00%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+5.88% -
All Vendors
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
357 246 160
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 40.07% 34.12% 35.87%
Number of salaries quoted 296 235 144
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £22,500 £24,250
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Business Objects
Surrey

Business Objects
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford Business Objects Jobs Demand Trend

Business Objects
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Business Objects across the Guildford region.

Guildford Business Objects Salary Trend

Business Objects
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Business Objects.

1 12 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (75.00%) Finance
3 8 (66.67%) MS Excel
4 7 (58.33%) Cognos
4 7 (58.33%) SAS
5 5 (41.67%) Retail
5 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
5 5 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (33.33%) SOA
6 4 (33.33%) VPN
6 4 (33.33%) Blackberry
6 4 (33.33%) Cisco
6 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
6 4 (33.33%) Sun
6 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
6 4 (33.33%) Citrix
6 4 (33.33%) SAN
6 4 (33.33%) IIS
6 4 (33.33%) Web Services
6 4 (33.33%) .NET
6 4 (33.33%) Oracle
6 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
6 4 (33.33%) IP Telephony
6 4 (33.33%) GIS
6 4 (33.33%) Migration
6 4 (33.33%) SUSE
6 4 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
6 4 (33.33%) Clustering
6 4 (33.33%) PKI
6 4 (33.33%) SCCM

Business Objects
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Business Objects. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
1 4 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) XML
2 2 (16.67%) Application Packaging
3 1 (8.333%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 7 (58.33%) SAS
2 4 (33.33%) IIS
2 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (33.33%) Lync
3 2 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 8 (66.67%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) VPN
1 4 (33.33%) SAN
1 4 (33.33%) IP Telephony
1 4 (33.33%) NAS
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco IPT
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) WAN
2 2 (16.67%) DHCP
2 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
1 5 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (33.33%) GIS
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (8.333%) BusinessObjects XI
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Retail
3 1 (8.333%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Analyst
1 7 (58.33%) MI Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Technical Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Blackberry
1 4 (33.33%) Clustering
1 4 (33.33%) PKI
2 2 (16.67%) Fat Client
2 2 (16.67%) IVR
2 2 (16.67%) Thin Client
2 2 (16.67%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
1 4 (33.33%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) SOA
1 4 (33.33%) Migration
1 4 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
2 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (16.67%) Project Management
2 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (8.333%) ITIL
3 1 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (8.333%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) CITP
2 2 (16.67%) BC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) SCCM
1 4 (33.33%) SCOM
2 2 (16.67%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Cognos
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Sun
2 4 (33.33%) Citrix
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint