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 Manchester 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 Manchester 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 144 160 90
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -70
Permanent jobs citing Business Objects 50 15 86
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 1.232% 0.414% 2.179%
As % of the Vendors category 2.710% 0.915% 4.374%
Number of salaries quoted 36 11 77
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,354 £20,000 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,000 £52,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+5.88% -
All Vendors
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1845 1640 1966
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 45.47% 45.23% 49.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1544 1404 1769
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% -2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £24,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Business Objects
North West

Business Objects
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Business Objects Salary Trend

Business Objects
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Business Objects across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester Business Objects Salary Histogram

Business Objects
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Objects within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Altrincham - 1 - -
Oldham - 1 £41,750 -
Business Objects
North West

Business Objects
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 63 (75.90%) Business Intelligence
2 46 (55.42%) BusinessObjects
3 44 (53.01%) SAP
4 43 (51.81%) ETL
5 35 (42.17%) Teradata
6 34 (40.96%) SQL Server
7 33 (39.76%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (38.55%) MicroStrategy
9 28 (33.73%) Microsoft
9 28 (33.73%) SAS
10 27 (32.53%) Cognos
11 23 (27.71%) Oracle
11 23 (27.71%) Analytics
12 22 (26.51%) SQL
13 20 (24.10%) OLAP
13 20 (24.10%) Data Modelling
13 20 (24.10%) QlikView
14 19 (22.89%) Oracle BI EE
14 19 (22.89%) Retail
14 19 (22.89%) Netezza
14 19 (22.89%) DataStage
15 17 (20.48%) Ab Initio
15 17 (20.48%) Informatica
15 17 (20.48%) IBM
15 17 (20.48%) Data Mining
15 17 (20.48%) MS Excel
15 17 (20.48%) Oracle OLAP
15 17 (20.48%) DataFlux
15 17 (20.48%) IBM InfoSphere
16 16 (19.28%) Master Data Management

Business Objects
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 6 (7.229%) .NET
2 4 (4.819%) XML
3 3 (3.614%) ASP.NET
3 3 (3.614%) Web Services
4 2 (2.410%) BAPI
5 1 (1.205%) HTML5
5 1 (1.205%) XHTML
5 1 (1.205%) ASP
5 1 (1.205%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 28 (33.73%) SAS
2 2 (2.410%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (2.410%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.205%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (20.48%) MS Excel
2 16 (19.28%) SPSS
3 3 (3.614%) MS Office
4 1 (1.205%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 13 (15.66%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.205%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.205%) Cognos Planning
2 1 (1.205%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (1.205%) Hyperion Planning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.205%) SMTP
1 1 (1.205%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (55.42%) BusinessObjects
2 34 (40.96%) SQL Server
3 33 (39.76%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (24.10%) OLAP
4 20 (24.10%) QlikView
5 19 (22.89%) Oracle BI EE
5 19 (22.89%) DataStage
6 17 (20.48%) Data Mining
6 17 (20.48%) Oracle OLAP
6 17 (20.48%) IBM InfoSphere
7 16 (19.28%) Spotfire
7 16 (19.28%) Big Data
7 16 (19.28%) Pentaho
7 16 (19.28%) Hadoop
8 11 (13.25%) SAP BI
8 11 (13.25%) SAP BW
9 8 (9.639%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (7.229%) SAP Data Services
11 5 (6.024%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (6.024%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.614%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.410%) LSMW
3 1 (1.205%) Oracle Forms
General
1 19 (22.89%) Retail
2 14 (16.87%) Advertising
3 11 (13.25%) Finance
4 5 (6.024%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.614%) Publishing
6 2 (2.410%) Banking
6 2 (2.410%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.205%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.205%) Electronics
7 1 (1.205%) Billing
7 1 (1.205%) Local Government
7 1 (1.205%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (36.14%) Consultant
2 19 (22.89%) Analyst
3 17 (20.48%) Developer
3 17 (20.48%) Business Intelligence Consultant
4 14 (16.87%) Technical Designer
4 14 (16.87%) Designer
5 11 (13.25%) Business Consultant
6 8 (9.639%) MI Analyst
7 7 (8.434%) Data Consultant
7 7 (8.434%) SAP BW Developer
7 7 (8.434%) SAP Developer
8 6 (7.229%) SAP Consultant
9 5 (6.024%) Business Developer
10 4 (4.819%) SAP BW Consultant
10 4 (4.819%) Data Analytics Consultant
11 3 (3.614%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 3 (3.614%) Team Leader
11 3 (3.614%) IT Manager
11 3 (3.614%) Support Analyst
12 2 (2.410%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) Management Information System
2 7 (8.434%) Data Conversion
3 6 (7.229%) Data Integration
4 2 (2.410%) FMCG
4 2 (2.410%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.205%) Mathematics
5 1 (1.205%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.205%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.205%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.87%) UNIX
2 4 (4.819%) Linux
3 3 (3.614%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (75.90%) Business Intelligence
2 43 (51.81%) ETL
3 23 (27.71%) Analytics
4 20 (24.10%) Data Modelling
5 16 (19.28%) Data Management
5 16 (19.28%) Master Data Management
6 15 (18.07%) Incident Management
7 12 (14.46%) Data Cleansing
8 10 (12.05%) Information Management
9 9 (10.84%) Project Management
10 7 (8.434%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (7.229%) ITIL
11 6 (7.229%) Migration
11 6 (7.229%) Business Development
11 6 (7.229%) Data Architecture
12 4 (4.819%) Data Analytics
12 4 (4.819%) Knowledge Management
12 4 (4.819%) User Acceptance Testing
12 4 (4.819%) Quality Management
13 3 (3.614%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 22 (26.51%) SQL
2 13 (15.66%) ABAP
3 4 (4.819%) VB
3 4 (4.819%) T-SQL
3 4 (4.819%) C
4 3 (3.614%) Java
4 3 (3.614%) VB.NET
4 3 (3.614%) VBA
5 1 (1.205%) PowerHouse
5 1 (1.205%) VB6
5 1 (1.205%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.205%) Perl
5 1 (1.205%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.205%) C#
5 1 (1.205%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (10.84%) SAP Certification
2 4 (4.819%) Degree
3 2 (2.410%) MCITP
4 1 (1.205%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.205%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.205%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.410%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.410%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 44 (53.01%) SAP
2 35 (42.17%) Teradata
3 32 (38.55%) MicroStrategy
4 28 (33.73%) Microsoft
5 27 (32.53%) Cognos
6 23 (27.71%) Oracle
7 19 (22.89%) Netezza
8 17 (20.48%) DataFlux
8 17 (20.48%) Informatica
8 17 (20.48%) IBM
8 17 (20.48%) Ab Initio
9 16 (19.28%) Tableau
10 2 (2.410%) VMware
11 1 (1.205%) Citrix
11 1 (1.205%) Hyperion
11 1 (1.205%) Trillium
11 1 (1.205%) Infor
11 1 (1.205%) Northgate
11 1 (1.205%) Civica
11 1 (1.205%) Orchard
Manchester, North West
The Company This organisation truly is a Global giant and they are currently looking to enhance their team by taking on an experienced Business Objects Business Analyst... The...
Interquest Group PLC
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Maximising the use of the SAP Business Objects BI4 toolset, providing all of the reporting and analysis needs of the business. Responsibilities - Development of the group wide business...
Clearchoice Careers
Salary: £40k - 45k per year + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Thorough business intelligence & SAP Business Objects, strong knowledge of BI4 - Admin & Security, WebIntelligence, Dashboards, BI Explorer, BI Mobile, Crystal Reports Enterprise & Universe design, strong database knowledge specifically SQL...
NES Global Talent
Salary: Excellent Salary
Posted: 15 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Business Objects Xi 3.1 Universe Designer. Business Objects Web Intelligence Xi 3.1 Reporting. SQL Server 2008 SSIS, DTS, ETL, T-SQL... Knowledge of data warehouse concepts.....
The Guinness Partnership
Salary: £33,370 p.a. rising to £35,547
Posted: 8 May 2013
Sale, Cheshire
Knowledge of Data Warehousing technologies and principles - Previous experience of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition in a functional super-user or technical role - Experience of using other BI...
GE Capital
Posted: 26 April 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Typical technologies used are BusinessObjects, SQL Server and Oracle to offer clients sophisticated information solutions that help address challenges such as Service Line Management, Commissioning and Enterprise Information...
Sanderson
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + Car + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Manchester, North West
The Company This organisation truly is a Global giant and they are currently looking to enhance their team by taking on an experienced Business Objects Developer / Analyst... The...
Interquest Group PLC
Salary: £3000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus, Pension + Health
Posted: 18 May 2013
Oldham, North West
Job Title: Business Intelligence Manager, Oldham, £40,000 - £43,500My client have recently reviewed their Service Improvement and Management Information strategy and are looking for professionals to join...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000.00 - £43500.00 per annum + benefits
Posted: 4 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Urgently seeking an experienced MI professional with an expert knowledge of business objects to join my clients large business intelligence team... Utilising their Business Objects Enterprise platform and...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Business Objects)... Proven experience of system and application development, support and maintenance, of either Oracle (PL/SQL, TOAD) or Microsoft (SQL, .NET etc) based applications... Microsoft and/or...
The Guinness Partnership
Salary: £29,797 + Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Significant experience with Teradata, UNIX, MicroStrategy, Business Objects. Responsible for database incident management and technical troubleshooting... Working knowledge of Data Warehouse in Retail environment... 'The Co-operative Group...
The Co-operative Group
Salary: £32500 - £40000 per annum + benefits and excellent pension
Posted: 30 April 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Favoured Technical Skills: OLAP and Reporting : SAP BusinessObjects, Cognos, Microstrategy, OBIEE, SAS, Microsoft, Qlikview, Tableau, Spotfire, Pentaho... ETL and Data Cleansing : Informatica, IBM InfoSphere DataStage , AbInitio, Oracle, DataFlux,...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £40,000 to £65,000 per annum with a number of fantastic additiona
Posted: 14 May 2013