BusinessObjects Contract Job Trends in the North West

SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BO, BOBJ)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring BusinessObjects skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 115 134
Rank change year-on-year -26 +19 -
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 2 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.084% 0.086% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.58% 0.70% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £395
25th Percentile - - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile - - £525
90th Percentile - - £588
England median daily rate £475 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.50 -
England median hourly rate £30.58 £66.50 -
% change year-on-year -54.02% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 343 287 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.35% 12.31% 15.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 175 317
10th Percentile £313 £313 £265
25th Percentile £360 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £519 £571 £582
90th Percentile £613 £638 £675
England median daily rate £507 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.91% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 14
10th Percentile £21.02 £28.50 £33.30
25th Percentile £35.26 £37.81 £46.18
Median hourly rate £69.38 £56.25 £49.34
Median % change year-on-year +23.34% +14.00% -28.74%
75th Percentile £82.38 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.30 £67.38 £64.40
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £48.45
% change year-on-year +24.29% -27.76% -7.72%

BusinessObjects
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BusinessObjects relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

BusinessObjects job vacancy trend in the North West

BusinessObjects
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing BusinessObjects.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing BusinessObjects

BusinessObjects
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing BusinessObjects.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing BusinessObjects

BusinessObjects
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessObjects within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Manchester -8 2 £500 - 4
BusinessObjects
England

BusinessObjects
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (50.00%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) IP Telephony
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Discoverer
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (50.00%) SAP BW
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (50.00%) SAP HANA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Basis
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Apple
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SAP