BusinessObjects Contract Job Trends in the City of London

SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BO, BOBJ)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring BusinessObjects skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 122 152
Rank change year-on-year +5 +30 +38
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 5 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.24% 0.099%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.24% 1.12% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £552 £259
25th Percentile - £571 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £628 £409
Median % change year-on-year -12.35% +53.52% -31.88%
75th Percentile - £671 £513
90th Percentile - £681 £569
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £409
% change year-on-year -12.00% +52.91% -31.88%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

BusinessObjects falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 403 447 638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.91% 21.60% 20.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 319 421
10th Percentile £400 £405 £400
25th Percentile £438 £489 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +0.42%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £713
90th Percentile £800 £825 £790
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £25.80 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.25 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -12.50% -22.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile £78.25 - £51.05
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £38.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% -12.50% -22.12%

BusinessObjects
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing BusinessObjects as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for BusinessObjects in the City of London

BusinessObjects
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BusinessObjects.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BusinessObjects

BusinessObjects
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BusinessObjects.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing BusinessObjects

BusinessObjects
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Convergent Charging
1 1 (20.00%) SAP CRM
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (60.00%) Power BI
3 2 (40.00%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (40.00%) Tableau
4 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI Developer
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (20.00%) ABAP Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) CRM Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Legal Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) SAP CRM Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) SAP BSP
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Convergent Charging
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lineage
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) Order Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) ABAP
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Aderant