BusinessObjects Contracts in England

SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BO, BOBJ)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring BusinessObjects skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BusinessObjects over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 477 507
Rank change year-on-year +41 +30 +59
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 49 65 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.17% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.06% 1.04% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 38 111
10th Percentile £338 £425 £350
25th Percentile £424 £481 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £541 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.06% +3.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £603 £582 £601
90th Percentile £649 £653 £650
UK median daily rate £529 £494 £526
% change year-on-year +7.04% -6.13% +5.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile - £66.00 -
25th Percentile - £71.25 -
Median hourly rate £22.27 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -72.16% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £22.71 - -
UK median hourly rate £22.27 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -72.16% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,625 6,230 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.75% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,477 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 130 166
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.61 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

BusinessObjects
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing BusinessObjects as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for BusinessObjects in England

BusinessObjects
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BusinessObjects in England.

Daily rate trend for BusinessObjects in England

BusinessObjects
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BusinessObjects in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BusinessObjects in England

BusinessObjects
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BusinessObjects in England.

Hourly rate trend for BusinessObjects in England

BusinessObjects
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessObjects within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +42 36 £515 -11.21% 26
South East +39 6 £588 +20.51% 17
Midlands +16 5 £450 -13.25% 11
West Midlands +10 4 £450 -18.18% 10
South West +46 1 £375 -23.08% 8
North of England +16 1 £700 +43.59% 5
North West +16 1 £700 +43.59%
East Midlands +8 1 - -
BusinessObjects
UK

BusinessObjects
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.04%) CMS
2 1 (2.04%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (12.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (10.20%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (8.16%) iTrent
4 2 (4.08%) Exchequer
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (4.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (2.04%) SAP ERP
5 1 (2.04%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 26 (53.06%) Power Platform
2 8 (16.33%) Azure
3 6 (12.24%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (8.16%) Google Workspace
5 4 (8.16%) Snowflake
6 3 (6.12%) Fivetran
7 1 (2.04%) AWS
7 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.04%) Collibra
7 1 (2.04%) GCP
7 1 (2.04%) GitHub
7 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (53.06%) Power BI
2 14 (28.57%) Tableau
3 11 (22.45%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (20.41%) SQL Server
5 8 (16.33%) Relational Database
6 7 (14.29%) Crystal Reports
7 6 (12.24%) SAP Data Services
7 6 (12.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (10.20%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 4 (8.16%) MS Access
9 4 (8.16%) NoSQL
9 4 (8.16%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (8.16%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
10 3 (6.12%) SAP BW
11 2 (4.08%) Metadata
11 2 (4.08%) Pentaho
11 2 (4.08%) Tableau Server
12 1 (2.04%) Delta Lake
12 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) GitLab
1 3 (6.12%) Liquibase
2 2 (4.08%) ERwin
2 2 (4.08%) Git
3 1 (2.04%) Postman
3 1 (2.04%) Selenium
General
1 15 (30.61%) Finance
2 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.29%) Local Government
4 5 (10.20%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (8.16%) Banking
5 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.08%) Retail
8 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.04%) Law
8 1 (2.04%) Legal
8 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) Analyst
2 13 (26.53%) Developer
3 10 (20.41%) Architect
4 7 (14.29%) Power BI Developer
5 6 (12.24%) Data Architect
6 5 (10.20%) Financial Analyst
6 5 (10.20%) Senior
7 4 (8.16%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 4 (8.16%) Data Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Power BI Analyst
7 4 (8.16%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
8 3 (6.12%) Analyst Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Business Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (6.12%) SAP Analyst
8 3 (6.12%) SAP Architect
8 3 (6.12%) SAP BI Analyst
8 3 (6.12%) SAP BusinessObjects Analyst (SAP BO Analyst)
8 3 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.12%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) Web Services
2 1 (2.04%) Pandas
2 1 (2.04%) PySpark
2 1 (2.04%) pytest
2 1 (2.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.16%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.04%) CMDB
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.04%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.90%) Business Intelligence
2 18 (36.73%) Visualisation
3 12 (24.49%) Analytics
4 11 (22.45%) Data Analysis
5 10 (20.41%) Data Modelling
5 10 (20.41%) Data Transformation
6 9 (18.37%) Migration
6 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (18.37%) Requirements Gathering
7 8 (16.33%) Agile
7 8 (16.33%) ETL
7 8 (16.33%) Workshop Facilitation
8 7 (14.29%) Business Analysis
8 7 (14.29%) Data Analytics
8 7 (14.29%) Data Architecture
8 7 (14.29%) Data Integration
8 7 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
8 7 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 7 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (12.24%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) SQL
2 4 (8.16%) Python
3 3 (6.12%) ABAP
3 3 (6.12%) PL/SQL
4 2 (4.08%) R
5 1 (2.04%) C#
5 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.20%) AAT
1 5 (10.20%) CCAB
2 4 (8.16%) Degree
3 3 (6.12%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.08%) CIPFA
5 1 (2.04%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.12%) GDPR
2 3 (6.12%) QA
3 2 (4.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (4.08%) SLA
4 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 25 (51.02%) SAP
2 13 (26.53%) Microsoft
3 12 (24.49%) Oracle
4 5 (10.20%) ServiceNow
5 4 (8.16%) Informatica
6 3 (6.12%) Talend
7 2 (4.08%) Blue Prism
7 2 (4.08%) Sparx
8 1 (2.04%) Aderant
8 1 (2.04%) Ariba
8 1 (2.04%) Databricks
8 1 (2.04%) Google