Midlands BusinessObjects Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO) skills within the Midlands 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Objects BusinessObjects (BO)
Location Aberdeen Amersham Aylesbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Coventry Crewe Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Dunfermline East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Exmouth Farnborough Fife Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenock Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hull Inverclyde Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lutterworth Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Market Harborough Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Powys Preston Reading Rotherham Runcorn Salford 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 Surrey Swansea Swindon Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	28
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching permanent IT job ads	32	73
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	14.75 %	17.72 %
Salaries quoted	28	56
Average minimum salary	£43,393	£35,661
Average salary	£51,696	£43,643
% change on same period last year	+18.45 %
Average maximum salary	£60,000	£51,625
UK excluding London average salary	£41,119	£45,076
% change on same period last year	-8.77 %
Database & Business Intelligence Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	217	412
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.118 %	0.173 %
Salaries quoted	158	320
Average minimum salary	£41,266	£38,200
Average salary	£46,619	£43,803
% change on same period last year	+6.42 %
Average maximum salary	£51,972	£49,407
UK excluding London average salary	£37,241	£38,310
% change on same period last year	-2.79 %
BusinessObjects England

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BusinessObjects across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 90 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 66 (73.33 %) Business Intelligence 3 53 (58.89 %) Datawarehouse 4 45 (50.00 %) Cognos 4 45 (50.00 %) ETL 5 42 (46.67 %) BODI 6 36 (40.00 %) Informatica 7 34 (37.78 %) Ab Initio 8 33 (36.67 %) Data Management 8 33 (36.67 %) Ascential 8 33 (36.67 %) ERwin 8 33 (36.67 %) Oracle 9 19 (21.11 %) Data Modelling 10 18 (20.00 %) DB2 10 18 (20.00 %) WebSphere

11 15 (16.67 %) BusinessObjects XI 12 10 (11.11 %) Finance 12 10 (11.11 %) Microsoft 13 9 (10.00 %) Migration 14 7 (7.778 %) SQL Server 14 7 (7.778 %) SQL 15 6 (6.667 %) Oracle 10g 15 6 (6.667 %) Performance Management 16 5 (5.556 %) Hyperion 16 5 (5.556 %) Management Information System 16 5 (5.556 %) MS Excel 17 4 (4.444 %) ERP 17 4 (4.444 %) SAS 17 4 (4.444 %) Alterian 17 4 (4.444 %) Data Cleansing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 18 (20.00 %) WebSphere 2 1 (1.111 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 4 (4.444 %) SAS 2 1 (1.111 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 5 (5.556 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (2.222 %) HFM 1 2 (2.222 %) Hyperion Enterprise 1 2 (2.222 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 1 2 (2.222 %) Hyperion Planning 2 1 (1.111 %) ProfileStage 2 1 (1.111 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.111 %) BSS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 53 (58.89 %) Datawarehouse 2 45 (50.00 %) ETL 3 42 (46.67 %) BODI 4 18 (20.00 %) DB2 5 15 (16.67 %) BusinessObjects XI 6 7 (7.778 %) SQL Server 7 6 (6.667 %) Oracle 10g 8 4 (4.444 %) Data Cleansing 9 3 (3.333 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 3 (3.333 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 9 3 (3.333 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 3 (3.333 %) Star Schema 9 3 (3.333 %) DataStage 9 3 (3.333 %) Oracle Reports 10 2 (2.222 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 2 (2.222 %) Crystal Reports 10 2 (2.222 %) Ingres 10 2 (2.222 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 10 2 (2.222 %) SAP BW 10 2 (2.222 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 33 (36.67 %) ERwin 2 2 (2.222 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 10 (11.11 %) Finance 2 4 (4.444 %) Marketing 3 3 (3.333 %) Telecoms 3 3 (3.333 %) Pensions 3 3 (3.333 %) Health 3 3 (3.333 %) Manufacturing 4 2 (2.222 %) Billing 4 2 (2.222 %) Insurance 5 1 (1.111 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 31 (34.44 %) Developer 2 25 (27.78 %) Business Developer 3 24 (26.67 %) Analyst 4 22 (24.44 %) Business Analyst 4 22 (24.44 %) Business Intelligence Analyst 5 19 (21.11 %) Architect 6 17 (18.89 %) Solutions Architect 6 17 (18.89 %) Business Architect 7 16 (17.78 %) Data Analyst 7 16 (17.78 %) Developer Analyst 7 16 (17.78 %) Business Intelligence Developer 7 16 (17.78 %) Business Data Analyst 8 11 (12.22 %) Business Objects Developer 9 9 (10.00 %) Consultant 10 5 (5.556 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 10 5 (5.556 %) Business Consultant 11 3 (3.333 %) ETL Developer 11 3 (3.333 %) Business Objects Consultant 12 2 (2.222 %) Business Objects Analyst 12 2 (2.222 %) Team Leader	Miscellaneous 1 5 (5.556 %) Management Information System 2 2 (2.222 %) Data Integration 3 1 (1.111 %) AS400 3 1 (1.111 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 2 (2.222 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 66 (73.33 %) Business Intelligence 2 33 (36.67 %) Data Management 3 19 (21.11 %) Data Modelling 4 9 (10.00 %) Migration 5 6 (6.667 %) Performance Management 6 4 (4.444 %) ERP 7 3 (3.333 %) Unit Testing 8 2 (2.222 %) Direct Marketing 9 1 (1.111 %) Business Performance Management 9 1 (1.111 %) Data Migration 9 1 (1.111 %) SC Cleared 9 1 (1.111 %) Security Cleared 9 1 (1.111 %) SOA 9 1 (1.111 %) ITIL 9 1 (1.111 %) UML 9 1 (1.111 %) CRM 9 1 (1.111 %) Content Management 9 1 (1.111 %) eTOM 9 1 (1.111 %) Incident Management
Programming Languages 1 7 (7.778 %) SQL 2 2 (2.222 %) ABAP 2 2 (2.222 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (1.111 %) Degree
Systems Management 1 1 (1.111 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 90 (100.00 %) Business Objects 2 45 (50.00 %) Cognos 3 36 (40.00 %) Informatica 4 34 (37.78 %) Ab Initio 5 33 (36.67 %) Oracle 5 33 (36.67 %) Ascential 6 10 (11.11 %) Microsoft 7 5 (5.556 %) Hyperion 8 4 (4.444 %) Alterian 9 3 (3.333 %) Northgate 9 3 (3.333 %) SAP 10 1 (1.111 %) Trillium 10 1 (1.111 %) IBM 10 1 (1.111 %) HP 10 1 (1.111 %) Remedy 10 1 (1.111 %) Cramer