BusinessObjects Contract Job Trends in the South East

SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BO, BOBJ)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring BusinessObjects skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 170 209
Rank change year-on-year 0 +39 +29
Contract jobs citing BusinessObjects 4 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.10% 0.049% 0.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.78% 0.34% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £239 - £318
25th Percentile £250 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £268 - £450
75th Percentile £347 - £638
90th Percentile £394 - -
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +5.26%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 513 597 746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.00% 14.56% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 392 539
10th Percentile £205 £255 £305
25th Percentile £335 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £636
90th Percentile £631 £662 £680
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 37
10th Percentile £16.33 £21.58 £21.00
25th Percentile £20.94 £30.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £45.34 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.42% -9.32% +127.27%
75th Percentile £52.52 £60.36 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.06 £64.73 £76.53
England median hourly rate £45.00 £33.93 £47.50
% change year-on-year +32.63% -28.57% +4.40%

BusinessObjects
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

BusinessObjects job vacancy trend in the South East

BusinessObjects
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BusinessObjects.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BusinessObjects

BusinessObjects
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BusinessObjects in the South East over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BusinessObjects in the South East

BusinessObjects
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BusinessObjects.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BusinessObjects

BusinessObjects
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessObjects within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 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
Thames Valley +10 3 £268 - 3
Buckinghamshire +8 3 £268 - 2
BusinessObjects
England

BusinessObjects
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (25.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) iTrent
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (50.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Tableau
2 2 (50.00%) Tableau Desktop
2 2 (50.00%) Tableau Server
3 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) SAP Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) HR Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) HR Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Server Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP