BusinessObjects Contracts in the Midlands

SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BO, BOBJ)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 106 122 149
Rank change year-on-year +16 +27 -6
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 5 11 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.40% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.77% 2.64% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 16
10th Percentile - £433 £294
25th Percentile £425 £464 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £519 £438
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% +18.57% -18.98%
75th Percentile £475 £550 £559
90th Percentile - - £599
England median daily rate £535 £541 £525
% change year-on-year -1.06% +3.00% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
England median hourly rate £22.27 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -72.16% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 283 416 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.79% 15.09% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 308 412
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £655 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 6
10th Percentile £16.31 - £21.53
25th Percentile £17.00 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £18.20 £14.00 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -45.87% -26.10%
75th Percentile £19.25 £27.49 £32.93
90th Percentile £20.90 £40.50 £47.54
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

BusinessObjects
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for BusinessObjects in the Midlands

BusinessObjects
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for BusinessObjects in the Midlands

BusinessObjects
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for BusinessObjects in the Midlands

BusinessObjects
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessObjects within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +10 4 £450 -18.18% 10
East Midlands +8 1 - -
BusinessObjects
England

BusinessObjects
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Pentaho
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Law
3 1 (20.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Automation Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) CMDB
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Robotic Process Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Coaching
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Blue Prism
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) SAP